Eastern Jews-Western Jews: World War I and the Transformation of the Jewish Experience

Sunday, March 30, 2014 | 2pm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Leo Baeck Institute
Roundtable Discussion
Steven Aschheim, Hebrew University
Hasia Diner, NYU
David Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University (Moderator)
World War I was a cataclysmic event. Its upheaval also led to new encounters between Eastern and Western European Jews, narrowing, exacerbating and complicating the historical divide between these two communities at the same time as anti-Semitism swelled. This roundtable examines the consequences of these encounters and the complex and changing dynamics of the Jewish East-West relationship.
This program is presented by YIVO and the Leo Baeck Institute.