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The programme of the cycle (September 2007)
"History of the Jews in Ukraine" (1900-1944)
This cycle of lectures, screenings, readings and concerts evokes the political and cultural history before 1941 of the regions located today on the territory of Ukraine: Ukraine land of pogroms, of famines, massacres in the 1920s and 1930s is also the place where an intense political (Zionism, Bund, agricultural communities) and cultural (cinema, literature) life developed in the Jewish community. From 1941, the arrival of Nazi troops seals the fate of the Jewish populations who still reside there.
Monday 22 and Thursday 25 October 2007
14:30
Round table
Political culture and society in the Jewish world in Ukraine before World War II.
In the presence of Delphine Bechtel, historian, University of Paris IV – Sorbonne and Georges Bensoussan, historian, editor-in-chief of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah.
5 PM
Projection
La Dernière Lettre
Anna Semyonova lived in the Berditchev ghetto in 1941 and a few days before she was killed, she wrote one last letter.
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7 PM
Projection
Famous musical adapted from the novels of Scholem Aleichem. Tevye, the dairyman, has a hard time marrying off his five daughters, who do as they please. Faced with the pogroms, they are forced to leave for the roads of exile.
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5:30 pm
Projection
Les Révolutionnaires du Yiddishland
In 1897, the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers from Lithuania, Poland and Russia) was founded within Yiddishland. Its role was major on the cultural and social level in Eastern Europe.
8 p.m.
Conference
The Bund in Ukraine – General Union of Jewish Workers from Lithuania, Poland and Russia
By Henri Minczeles, historian, journalist, specialist of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
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Projections
2 PM
Benya Krik
Benya and his gang roam the underworld of Odessa... until they are incorporated into a revolutionary regiment.
In the presence of Natacha Laurent, film historian, general delegate of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.
4 PM
Jewish Luck
One of the first Soviet Yiddish films shown in the United States in the 1920s, according to Scholem Aleichem’s short stories.
In the presence of Natacha Laurent.
6 PM
Laughter through Tears
From the short stories of Sholem Aleichem: a portrait, between pathos and humor, of pre-revolutionary life in the shtetels.
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7 PM
Conference
Russian Jewish literature: affirmation of an identity or assimilation?
By Boris Czerny, senior lecturer in Russian languages and civilization, department of Slavic studies, university of Caen Basse-Normandie and Ariel Sion, head of the library of the Mémorial de la Shoah / CDJC.
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19:30
Conference
Ukraine, land of famines and massacres in the 1930s
By Nicolas Werth, historian, director of research at the CNRS – Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP).
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7 PM
Projection-conference
Appeal to the Jews of the World
In 1941, the greatest Soviet Jewish artists and writers, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish and Sergei Eisenstein, launched an "Appeal to Jews around the world" to engage with the Soviet people "in a sacred war against fascism". Moreover, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee recorded in a black book the atrocities committed by the Germans on the Jewish population of the USSR. In 1945, this book was brought to the attention of the Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial and then published in the United States.
The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Black Book
By Alexandre Adler, historian, specialist of the former USSR and contemporary questions of international geopolitics.
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Monday 22 and Thursday 25 October 2007
8:30 pm
Concert
Yiddish blues
Talila, song
Teddy Lasry, piano
Pierre Mortarelli, double bass
Joseph Fartoukh, percussion
Talila’s voice and the notes of her musicians make it possible to hear current events, the presence of Yiddish, and to feel its laughter and wounds.
2 PM
Projections
Jews on the earth
by Viktor Chklovski and Abram Room (documentary, 1926, with the collaboration of Vladimir Mayakovsky, USSR)
This documentary, dedicated to the Crimean Jewish colonies, initiated in 1924 by the Soviet power and supported by American philanthropic associations, is one of the most convincing proposals of the "poetry cinema" that Chklovski called for.
The work of the Agro-Joint for the establishment of Jews on land in the USSR
Three years later, the Agro-Joint made another film on Jewish colonization in Crimea: in this documentary feature-length film, the role of the Americans, the means invested, and the districts concerned by colonization are widely shown, with maps, diagrams, and figures to support them.
In the presence of Valérie Pozner, director of the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in Moscow and Sophie Nagiscarde, head of cultural activities at the Shoah Memorial.
6 PM
Conference
By Oleg Budnitsky, professor at the State Pedagogical University in Rostov, Russia.
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6 PM
Projection
Transnistria: the Hell
This documentary retraces the fate of some 250,000 Romanian Jews in Transdniestria, a region south of Ukraine along the Romanian border. Among the survivors of the Romanian concentration camps: the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfed.
7 PM
Conference
Romania and the Holocaust
By Radu Ioanid, director of the international archives program at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum, Serge Klarsfeld, lawyer, historian, president of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees in France, and Claude Singer, historian, head of the educational department at the Shoah Memorial.
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6 PM
Projection
Mein Krieg
Incorporated into the German army in 1941, six German operators film the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. They are now going back over these images and the context of this shoot.
8 p.m.
Conference
How German troops in the East perceived local populations. The practices of extreme violence
By Christian Ingrao, historian, deputy director of the IHTP-CNRS and Christian Delage, historian, professor at the University of Paris VIII and at the EHESS.
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6 PM
Projection
Nazi’s Secrets Killing Squads
The film features an interview by historian Christopher Browning with Benjamin Ferencz, a former chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947-1948, as well as archival footage of the trial and killings.
8 p.m.
Conference
The Nazi attitude and the vision of the future Ukraine. Einsatzgruppe D
By Andrej Angrick, historian, professor at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Wendy Lower, historian, professor at Towson University, USA. Led by Pierre Ayçoberry, historian and professor at the University of Strasbourg.
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2 PM
Projection
Heinrich Himmler: the executor
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), at the head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, was, after Hitler, the most powerful figure in Nazi Germany.
3 PM
Conference
Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Erich von Manstein: their role within the Nazi power and in the process of implementing the genocide of the Jews.
By Rita Thalmann, historian, emeritus professor at the University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot.
4:30 PM
Projection
Le règne d'Heydrich (Heydrichs Platz)
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) was in charge of the Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo ("security police" comprising the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, secret service of the SS, the Gestapo, and the Kripo, anti-crime police).
6 PM
Projection
Manstein – The Strategist (Manstein – Der Stratege)
Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein (1887-1973) was the leader of the 11th Army on the Eastern Front, to which Einsatzgruppe D was attached.
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Projections
6 PM
Ladies tailor
Kiev, 29 September 1941. The last hours of life for an old Jewish tailor and his family before their execution in the ravine of Babi Yar.
8 p.m.
Spell Your Name
On 29 and 30 September 1941, 33,771 Jews were shot at Babi Yar by the Nazi extermination commandos. In the following months, some 100,000 people – Jews, Gypsies, resistance fighters, prisoners of the Red Army – were murdered there. While the survivors speak, the director scrutinizes the reactions of today’s Ukrainians who take knowledge of these testimonies, of their history.
With producer Mark Edwards, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
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8 p.m.
Reading
Histoire d'une vie
How can a child who has lost everything survive several years alone in the dark Ukrainian forests? Aharon Appelfeld was ten years old when he escaped from the camp. His long wandering led him, four years later, to Palestine. Plunged into silence since the beginning of the war, he learns a new language. He will now use it to try to connect the different strata of his life with their lost roots. By Francis Huster, actor.
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19:30
Projection
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan, a young American Jew, travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather during the Nazi invasion. This journey, begun in the hope of reconstructing a family’s history, will be marked by the weight and perils of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, the meaning of friendship and love.
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7 PM
Conference
Les Voisins
The collective massacre of the Jedwabne Jews by the Poles in the summer of 1941 reopened the historiography of relations between Poles and Jews during the Second World War. By Jan T. Gross, historian, professor at Princeton University and Annette Becker, professor at Paris X – Nanterre University.