The 15th International Youth Conference on Jewish Studies opens today in Moscow as part of the Jewish Studies Summer School. The conference is being held by the "Sepher" center, which is part of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) with the aid of the charity fund "AVI CHAI" and the Genesis Philanthropy Group (the CAF-Russia program "Jewish Communities"). The director of the center, Victoria Mochalova, is a member of the EAJC General Council. The program of the conference includes the following sections: Jewish thought, Jewish art and literature, Jewish languages, Jewish history in antiquity, sources and historiograhy, Jews in the early modern period, Jews in the XX centure, Israel today, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, ethnography and sociology.
Over 80 people aged under 35 and hailing from different regions of many FSU countries will take part in the conference. The conference is to last two days, up to the 11th of July.
The Moscow Jewish Studies Summer School is over of the several academic educational seminars planned by "Sepher" for this summer. These seminars give students, grad students, and young postgrads the unique opportunity to listen to miniature courses on different aspects of Jewish studies as read by the leading scholars of the best universities of Israel, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as participate in research work in field schools. This year, field research schools and school-tours are planned in Western Ukraine, as well as in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.