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Wednesday, 27 March 2019/ 1.10 pm -2.00 pm
Windsor Building, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham campus, Room 1-05.
David Shnneer will be delivering his talk as the featured speaker of the Persistent Archive of Grief, An exploratory symposium on images of loss, mourning and dispossession. This symposium is about images of loss, dispossession and violence in photography by the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. Building on his prize winning book, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Rutgers UP, 2011), his new book, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph (Oxford UP, 2020) examines the life history of a single World War II photograph and the photographer who made it to de-parochialize and de-nationalize the Holocaust.
For more information click here.
Wednesday, February 27th
On February 27th, 5pm at Western Washington University, Shneer will be delivering an AJS Distinguished Lecture, “The Memorial to the Nazi Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians: Who And What Are We Remembering?” hosted by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.
Presentation Sponsors: WWU Department of History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity; The Diversity Fund
5- 6:30 pm / Fraser Hall 101
For more information click here.
Thursday, February 6th
Shneer will be leading a talkback on Thursday, February 6th at the Denver JCC Jewish Film Festival’s Colorado premiere showing of Sobibor, Russia’s entry for the 2019 best foreign feature for the Academy Awards.
Wolf Theater, 350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver CO
https://www.jewishcolorado.org/event/denver-jewish-film-festival-presents-sobibor/
On February 27th, 5pm at Western Washington University, Shneer will be delivering an AJS Distinguished Lecture, “The Memorial to the Nazi Persecution of Gay Men and Lesbians: Who And What Are We Remembering?” hosted by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights.
Presentation Sponsors: WWU Department of History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity; The Diversity Fund
5- 6:30 pm / Fraser Hall 101
For more information click here.
Thursday, February 6th
Shneer will be leading a talkback on Thursday, February 6th at the Denver JCC Jewish Film Festival’s Colorado premiere showing of Sobibor, Russia’s entry for the 2019 best foreign feature for the Academy Awards.
Wolf Theater, 350 S. Dahlia Street, Denver CO
https://www.jewishcolorado.org/event/denver-jewish-film-festival-presents-sobibor/
Art Is My Weapon: The Radical Musical Life of Lin Jaldati
Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 7 PM – 9 PM EST
Public Hosted by College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
Performance by Jewlia Eisenberg and David Shneer, open to public
Sunday, Nov. 18th, 1 pm, talk at the American Academy of Religion, Colorado Convention Center: A18-228. Open to conference attendees.
Jewish Anti-Fascist Pilgrimages: Touring Sites of the Holocaust before March of the Living
Monday, Dec. 17th, 5-6:30 pm, Association for Jewish Studies, Russian Jewish Diaspora seminar. Open to conference attendees.
From Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved by Them
"David Shneer will share his research on the wealthy post-Soviet Jews who are now serving as some of the leading funders of global Jewish life and remaking it in a post-Soviet image."
Place: Sheraton Boston, Gardner
Jewish Anti-Fascist Pilgrimages: Touring Sites of the Holocaust before March of the Living
Monday, Dec. 17th, 5-6:30 pm, Association for Jewish Studies, Russian Jewish Diaspora seminar. Open to conference attendees.
From Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved by Them
"David Shneer will share his research on the wealthy post-Soviet Jews who are now serving as some of the leading funders of global Jewish life and remaking it in a post-Soviet image."
Place: Sheraton Boston, Gardner
2019 Archive Transformed, Public Events:
The Beregovski Archive
with Alicia Svigals, Dr. Yonatan Malin, and Uli Geissendorfer
Sunday, May 19th, 7 pm,
College of Music, University of Colorado Boulder
Public Workshop of Collaborative projects
Thursday, May 23, 2019, 5-7pm
Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder CO
The Beregovski Archive
with Alicia Svigals, Dr. Yonatan Malin, and Uli Geissendorfer
Sunday, May 19th, 7 pm,
College of Music, University of Colorado Boulder
Public Workshop of Collaborative projects
Thursday, May 23, 2019, 5-7pm
Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder CO
PERFORMANCES/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
May 13, 2018, Archive Transformed, Art is My Weapon, Old Main Theater, CU Boulder, 7:00pm
May 13, 2018, Archive Transformed, Art is My Weapon, Old Main Theater, CU Boulder, 7:00pm
Past News
In April, Shneer performed in New York City at the Center for Jewish History's Laughing at Power workshop. He also gave a presentation for J Street called the Jerusalem Light Rail: Testing the Limits of the Two State Solution.
In March, Shneer gave two public talks about his next book, Grief, one at Vanderbilt University and the other at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
In February, Shneer gave three performances of Art is My Weapon: two in Los Angeles and one as the Solotkin Lecture, which served as the keynote for the conference at Indiana University, "Jewish Storytelling."
On December 4, Shneer and two of his students, Maura Smith and Mark Joseph, presented Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Winner, Moral Authority, Political Activist at the Boulder Bookstore.
On November 6, 2017, at the University of Toronto, Shneer and Jewlia Eisenberg performed Art is My Weapon: The Radical Musical Life of Lin Jaldati to a packed house as part of Holocaust Education Week. See the presentation here.
September 21, 6pm, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, McNicholls Building, "Case Studies: 1939," where Shneer will be teaching the audience to sing a Yiddish song that in 1939 served a role in fighting fascism.
September 16, 4pm, Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, Jaiphur Literary Festival: Shneer participated in the Jaiphur Literary Festival in conversation with Barbara Engel about the Bolshevik Revolution, 100 years later.
September 15, 8pm, The Dairy, Boulder: Shneer participated in a roundtable following the regional premiere of Alicia Svigals’ musical project, The Yellow Ticket, a rare 1918 silent film with original music by the Svigals (klezmer violinist, founding member of the Klezmatics). The film is about a young Jewish woman who is forced to lead a double life as a prostitute while studying medicine in St. Petersburg—because of the restrictions on Jews in Tsarist Russia.
September 14, 2017 at 7pm at the University of Kentucky's Hillary Boone Center, he served as the lead-off speaker on the theme, “The Future of Jewish Studies” with his talk "From Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved By Them."
September 3, Shneer gave the keynote address at the European Day of Jewish Culture, at the Oslo Jewish Museum, whose theme for 2017 was diaspora. It was included in the Oslo Tourism Bureau's Things to Do site.
Shneer led a series of workshops for Yiddishkayt's Helix Program in Los Angeles, July 7-9 to prepare the group for its journey to Belarus and Poland.
Shneer was in Prague presenting a paper on Jews in the GDR and their transnational relationships with other Jewish communities at the Institute of Contemporary History's "New Approaches to Jews Under Communism," which took place May 23-25, 2017.
Shneer organized the Festival of Contemporary Russian Jewish Culture, a joint project between East European Jewish Affairs, the Center for Jewish History, and the American Jewish Historical Society. The day long event was covered in Haaretz, the Forward, and the Jewish Week.
In the most recent edition of Jewish Renaissance, Shneer published "When Moyshe Met Lenin," about the photographic encounter between the leader of the Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, and portrait photographer, Moyshe (Moisei) Nappelbaum.
In January Shneer began teaching the Global History of Holocaust and Genocide, a 150-student lecture course on global history of mass violence.
In March, Shneer gave two public talks about his next book, Grief, one at Vanderbilt University and the other at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
In February, Shneer gave three performances of Art is My Weapon: two in Los Angeles and one as the Solotkin Lecture, which served as the keynote for the conference at Indiana University, "Jewish Storytelling."
On December 4, Shneer and two of his students, Maura Smith and Mark Joseph, presented Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Winner, Moral Authority, Political Activist at the Boulder Bookstore.
On November 6, 2017, at the University of Toronto, Shneer and Jewlia Eisenberg performed Art is My Weapon: The Radical Musical Life of Lin Jaldati to a packed house as part of Holocaust Education Week. See the presentation here.
September 21, 6pm, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, McNicholls Building, "Case Studies: 1939," where Shneer will be teaching the audience to sing a Yiddish song that in 1939 served a role in fighting fascism.
September 16, 4pm, Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, Jaiphur Literary Festival: Shneer participated in the Jaiphur Literary Festival in conversation with Barbara Engel about the Bolshevik Revolution, 100 years later.
September 15, 8pm, The Dairy, Boulder: Shneer participated in a roundtable following the regional premiere of Alicia Svigals’ musical project, The Yellow Ticket, a rare 1918 silent film with original music by the Svigals (klezmer violinist, founding member of the Klezmatics). The film is about a young Jewish woman who is forced to lead a double life as a prostitute while studying medicine in St. Petersburg—because of the restrictions on Jews in Tsarist Russia.
September 14, 2017 at 7pm at the University of Kentucky's Hillary Boone Center, he served as the lead-off speaker on the theme, “The Future of Jewish Studies” with his talk "From Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved By Them."
September 3, Shneer gave the keynote address at the European Day of Jewish Culture, at the Oslo Jewish Museum, whose theme for 2017 was diaspora. It was included in the Oslo Tourism Bureau's Things to Do site.
Shneer led a series of workshops for Yiddishkayt's Helix Program in Los Angeles, July 7-9 to prepare the group for its journey to Belarus and Poland.
Shneer was in Prague presenting a paper on Jews in the GDR and their transnational relationships with other Jewish communities at the Institute of Contemporary History's "New Approaches to Jews Under Communism," which took place May 23-25, 2017.
Shneer organized the Festival of Contemporary Russian Jewish Culture, a joint project between East European Jewish Affairs, the Center for Jewish History, and the American Jewish Historical Society. The day long event was covered in Haaretz, the Forward, and the Jewish Week.
In the most recent edition of Jewish Renaissance, Shneer published "When Moyshe Met Lenin," about the photographic encounter between the leader of the Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, and portrait photographer, Moyshe (Moisei) Nappelbaum.
In January Shneer began teaching the Global History of Holocaust and Genocide, a 150-student lecture course on global history of mass violence.