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History conference

Exceptional Estonia:

Jewish Academic Life and Cultural Autonomy
in the Republic of Estonia between the two World Wars (1918-1940)

10 April 2014
Beit Hatfutzot, Tel Aviv University Campus

"Documents pertaining to Jewish Cultural Autonomy in the Republic of Estonia between the two world wars"

(Silver Loit - The Estonian Embassy in Tel-Aviv)

Some pictures from the conference.

Opening of the conference by the Ambassador of Estonia Mrs Malle Talvet-Mustonen.

Greetings from Talia Avnon-Benveniste - Beit HaTfuzot, Israel

Greetings from Arkadi Zeltser - Yad Vashem, Israel
I. Levin

Isidor Levin "L. Gulkowitsch and his Chair of Jewish Studies at the Tartu University".

In German. The English translation will be added later.

Toomas Hiio "Jewish student fraternities at the University of Tartu: a part of Baltic student tradition"

Presentation Text T. Hiio 1998 article "Jewish educational heritage at Tartu university" can be read here

If you don't have PowerPoint, the presentation can be viewed with PowerPoint Viewer that can be downloaded from here

Anu Põldsam "Jewish Studies in Estonia - past and present"

Andres Kasekamp "Minorities in the Baltic states, 1918 – 1940"

The table about the number of minorities in Baltic states is here

Imbi Paju "Estonian Jews: active contributors to Estonian civil society between the two World Wars"

Excerpts from I. Paju's documentary "Sisters across the Gulf of Finland" were shown. The full film can be seen here

Mark Rybak "Estonian Jews and their contribution to the State of Israel"

A big PowerPoint presentation. Please wait for the complete download. If you don't have PowerPoint, the presentation can be viewed with PowerPoint Viewer that can be downloaded from here. Please view in SHOW mode, otherwise you will not see video clips.