David Shneer

 

Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado

Telephone: 303-492-7145

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Shneer is associate professor of history and director of Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He writes and teaches about modern Jewish history and culture, and his books include Queer Jews, New Jews, and Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture. He is currently writing a book on Soviet Jewish photographers, who photographed the Holocaust. He was the education director of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in San Francisco.

Return of the Tsars?: Jewish Life in Contemporary Russia

Gideon Lichfield, David Shneer, Nadya Strizhevskaya

After a bout of post-Soviet freedom, Russia has returned to normal: authoritarianism, corruption, and suspicion of anyone foreign. And yet the Jewish community is thriving. Join an ex Moscow correspondent and a professor of Russian Jewish history to learn whether the bad days for Russia's Jews are over, or whether anti-Semitism will rear its head again.

Refusenik, The Film

The Movement to Save Soviet Jewry

Kathryn Bernheimer, David Shneer

REFUSENIK is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike.

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