The Moscow center “Sefer,” a part of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), has announced the Winter Jewish Studies School, organized jointly with the Chase Center for Jewish Studies in Russian (of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem), and with the support of the Avi Chai foundation and the Genesis Philanthropy Group (as past of the Charities Aid Foundation program “Jewish Communities”).
The Winter School invites students, post-grad students, and young scholars (up to 35 years of age), who are interested in Bible Studies, the history of Jewish in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Jewish thought, and the relationship between Jews and surrounding peoples.
The program of the School will consist of mini-courses (3 lectures each, and each participant will be able to take 3 mini-courses), plenary lectures (S. Shtampfer), open lectures, workshops, and a social programme. The participants of the school will be able to listen to lectures given by Eugenia Smagina, Leonid Cogan, Mihail Seleznev, Uri Gershovich, Konstantin Burmistrov, Igor Turov, Ilya Lurie, Semen Goldin, Arkady Seltzer, Syril Aslanov, Victor Shnirelman, and Alexander Lvov.