YIVO’s Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar to Deliver Keynote at International Conference in Budapest

Steven J. Zipperstein, Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University and currently Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at YIVO, will deliver a keynote address on June 16 in Budapest at the Central European University's international conference "Narratives of Violence."  Professor Zipperstein's lecture, drawn from research he has conducted while at YIVO this spring, is "Inside Kishinev's Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt, and the Burdens of Truth."

The conference will compare narratives of anti-Jewish violence with those of other communities that have been the targets of violence. Among its organizers are Scott Ury, Michael Miller, and Francois Guesnet, contributing authors to The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.