Kresge Auditorium

8:00 p.m. Two Love Stories, One Dybbuk, and a Reception

Keith Michael Baker, Introductory Remarks

A Vilna Legend (1924/1933, Warsaw/New York, Zygmunt Turkow/George

Roland)

The Dybbuk (1937, Warsaw, Michal Waszynski)

Cubberley Auditorium

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Steven J. Zipperstein: Why Revisit Ansky?

David Roskies: "Ansky's Russian Book of Jewish Symbols"

Sylvie Anne Goldberg: "Paradigmatic Times: Ansky's Two Worlds" (NOTE SPEAKER CHANGE)

Chair: Gabriella Safran

1:15-2:45 p.m. The Dybbuk

Michael Steinlauf: "Transmigrations: Dybbuks in Poland"

Carmit Gai-Shaltiel: "The Dybbuk in Palestine"

Vladislav Ivanov: "Evgeny Vakhtangov's Production of The Dybbuk at the Habima Theater"

Chair: Vera Szabo

3:00-4:15 p.m. Rewriting Ansky for the Twenty-First Century

Rebecca Goldstein: "Ansky, Mazel, and Creative Borrowing"

Joachim Neugroschel: "The Lighter Side of Ansky: Selections from his Satires"

Kresge Auditorium

4:30-5:30 p.m. Ansky's Musical Legacy: A Concert of Yiddish Song from the Ansky Expeditions by Michael Alpert

Kresge Auditorium

8:00 p.m. Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

Seth Wolitz, Inscribing Ansky's Dybbuk in Russian and Jewish Letters (NOTE SPEAKER CHANGE)

Oak Lounge, Tressider Union

8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Biographical Influences and Echoes

Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman: "S. Ansky and Pinkhes Graubard: Passing the Torch to the Polish Yiddish Folklorists"

Cecile Kuznitz: "Ansky's Legacy: The Historic-Ethnographic Society and the Study of Folklore in Vilna"

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern: "’We Are Too Late’: Ansky's Drama of Return"

Ruth Rischin: "Odessa's Jewish Cemetery: The Moscow Art Theater and Semyon Yushkevich's Miserere (1910)"

Chair: Zachary Baker

10:45-12:45 Ansky as a Folklorist

Jack Kugelmass, "Two Worlds: Ethnographic Methodology and the Present Study of Culture"

Nathaniel Deutsch: "Tracing the Maiden: Ansky and the Maiden of Ludmir"

Valery Dymshits: "Ansky and Propp, or What's "Jewish" about the Jewish Folktale?"

Chair: Izaly Zemtsovsky

Green Library, Bing Wing, Second Floor

2:00 -2:45

Remarks by Zachary Baker

Oak Lounge, Tressider Union

3:00-4:45 Ansky as a Writer of Fiction

Mikhail Krutikov: "The Russian Jew as a Modern Hero: Identity Construction in Ansky's Writings"

Jonathan Frankel: "Youth in Revolt: Ansky's "In Shtrom" and the Instant Fictionalization of 1905"

Brian Horowitz: "Ansky's Russia"

Gabriella Safran: "The Education of an Ethnographer: The Pioneers and The First Breach"

Chair: Gregory Freidin

5:00-6:30 Ansky as a Collector

Benjamin Lukin: "Ansky as a Jewish Museologist"

Irina Serheyeva; "Semyon Ansky: A Life and Work in Documents (on the Ansky collection in the Vernadsky Library )"

John Ellis Bowlt, "Ethnic Loyalty and International Modernism: The Ansky Expeditions and the Russian Avant-Garde"

Chair: Nanette Stahl

Closing Remarks: Steven J. Zipperstein and Gabriella Safran