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Think you know traditional Russian music and dance? Here's your chance to participate in a workshop of traditional Russian folklore, with the colorful and pular musicians of Zolotoy Plyos, a professional Russian folk troupe. Learn traditional dance moves, singing tricks, and tips for playing traditional instruments!

7:00 - 8:30 pm

Join us for a highly entertaining, educational, and interactive concert by Zolotoy Plyos! This professional group from the ancient Russian city of Saratov performs folk music in Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Gypsy and Yiddish using 27 different kinds of instruments. This event was also made possible by the generous contributions of the Brandeis University Department of German, Russian and Asian Language and Literature: Russian and East European Studies Program, Cultural Productions Program, and Wellesley College Department of Russian.

For questions or more information, please contact Svitlana Malykhina at malykhin@brandeis.edu or (781) 736-3199.

After Weimar Russia? Post-Soviet Landscape of Xenophobia

A Lecture by Professor Sergey Glebov

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Pearlman Lounge
7 - 8:30 p.m.

Smith College, Five Colleges Jewish Studies Department Professor Sergey Glebov, will talk about the growing sense of ethnic and religious intolerance in the Russian Federation, and discuss its roots throughout the region. Professor Glebov is an assistant professor of history at Smith College and the Five Colleges. He is the editor of "Ab Imperio: Studies in Nationalism and Empire in the Post-Soviet Space." There will be time for questions afterward.

For questions or more information, please contact Svitlana Malykhina at malykhin@brandeis.edu or (781) 736-3199.

Durak Tournament

Friday April 9, 2010
Levine-Ross, Hassenfeld Conference Center
8 - 10 p.m.

Join us for an exciting evening of playing a traditional Russian card game: If you do not know how to play, we will teach you! If you already know how to play, show off your skills for the chance to win a grand prize. Regardless of your luck and abilities, you will be able to enjoy traditional Russian cuisine.

For questions or more information, please contact Julia Rabkin at jrabkin@brandeis.edu

Russian Ball

Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lurias, Hassenfeld Conference Center
9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Traditional Russian desserts will be served

Pachanga may be over, but the dancing doesn't have to stop. Help us close Brandeis University's Russian Culture Week 2010 with an authentic Russian dance party! Featuring DJ Belo from Bentley University, spinning the latest and greatest Russian hits, as well as some of your Top 40 favorites. Semi-formal attire is required.

For questions or more information, please contact Julia Rabkin at jrabkin@brandeis.edu

Sponsored by the Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry, Brandeis Russian Club and
Brandeis Russian Studies Department.

JEWISH FILM.2010

The National Center for Jewish Film's 13th Annual Film Festival

April 7 - April 18

YOM HASHOAH EVENT

Sunday, April 11

12:00 pm @ Brandeis University

EINSATZGRUPPEN:
THE DEATH BRIGADES
Les Commandos de la Mort

PREMIERE: 2ND USA SCREENING

In June 1941, Nazi mobile killing squads led by highly educated officers known as the Einsatzgruppen were dispatched throughout Eastern Europe. By the spring of 1943, the 3000 members of the Einsatzgruppen-aided by local collaborators in each country-had systematically murdered 1.5 million Jews, Roma, handicapped, partisans and Soviets. Prazan's definitive masterwork is one of the essential films documenting the Holocaust and features a powerful array of never-seen-before film and photographs, along with interviews with Holocaust survivors, perpetrators and historians. Part I: Mass Graves (1941-42); Part II: Funeral Pyres (1942-45). One intermission.

CO-PRESENTED BY Center for German & European Studies; Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry; Geothe-Institut Boston
SPONSORS Student Holocaust Remembrance Committee; Facing History and Ourselves

Tickets: General Admission: $10 Senior (65+)/ Student: $8
PLUS $1 FEE PER TICKET

USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia entry on the Einsatzgruppen

PICTURES OF RESISTANCE:

The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman

"Some say the Jews went like sheep to the slaughter. This is not true. I was a Jewish partisan. I lived two and a half years in the woods in Nazi occupied territory. I was a photographer. I have
pictures. I have proof." - Faye Schulman, partisan photographer

Please join us for a reception and viewing of these remarkable photographs including a special multimedia presentation by Zvi Bielski, son of Zus Bielski of the famous Bielski brigade portrayed by the film, Defiance.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2009
Multipurpose Room, Shapiro Campus Center 2nd floor
Brandeis University campus
Park in H or T lots.

5:00 PM Exhibit opening
5:30 PM Presentation by Zvi Bielski
6:30 PM Q & A

Free and open to the public.

Light Kosher refreshments will be served.

The exhibit was produced by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) and curated by Jill Vexler, Ph.D. It is made possible through the generous contributions of The Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry and The Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program in partnership with JPEF, Brandeis Chabad, Thomas and Johanna Baruch, the Epstein/Routh Foundation, the Purjes Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, the Holocaust Council of MetroWest, and Diane and Howard Wohl. (JPEF, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is the only organization in the world that is solely focused on developing educational material on Jewish partisans and their life lessons.)

For additional information please call 781-736-2990 or visit Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program

- Faye Schulman, partisan photographer

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation.

PAINTING THE FACE OF RUSSIAN JEWRY:

The Art and Journey of Marc Klionsky

Featured Julian Olidort '11, Professor Antony Polonsky, Professor Nancy Scott, and a guest appearance by the artist. Event photographs below.

Sunday April 18, 2010
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
7:00 p.m. Reception
7:30 p.m. Program
Light refreshments will be served.

Free and open to the public

The work of Marc Klionsky can be described as "Jewish political art" in the context of post-Second World War Soviet Union. To date only a handful of collections of Jewish artwork focuses on the social struggle in the former Soviet Union. This genre is rooted in the experience of Soviet citizens caught between the desperation of World War II and the dreams of Jewish nationhood arising from ashes. These dreams of solidarity mobilized an awakening of Jewish self-consciousness around the world, including the Soviet Union.

Klionsky's works mediate upon two themes in Soviet Jewry, which he experienced first-hand. The first is the struggle of realizing Jewishness in the hostile conditions of the Soviet Union. The second is facing the challenge of migrating to a new world and adapting to a new free home- in Klionsky's case, the New York City of the 1970s.

This body of work also addresses the profound personal dimensions surrounding how an artist who has once represented the expression of suffering in the former Soviet Union must confront a new world of religious and social liberation.

This event will serve as an exposition of Klionsky's work through a few periods, all representing an interaction with the struggle for social and religious freedom--The struggle as seen through the lens of the Soviet Union, the transition from the Soviet Union, and a New York retrospective on survival.

For more information:
781-736-8410
www.brandeis.edu/bgi/events

Sponsored by the Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry
Cosponsored by European Cultural Studies, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Russian Studies, and the Brandeis Russian Club.

Event photographs

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