Michael C. Steinlauf, Ph.D. - is associate professor of history at Gratz College. He writes and teaches about Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe and about Polish-Jewish relations. Steinlauf holds a master’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia University and a doctorate in Judaic studies from Brandeis University. Fluent in Yiddish and Polish, he has been to Poland as a Fulbright fellow and as project director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition, he has been a senior research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Steinlauf is the editor of volume 16 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (2003), which is devoted to Jewish popular culture in Poland and its afterlife. He also is the author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust(1997). His articles on Jewish theater and culture in Eastern Europe have been translated into Hebrew, Polish, German and Italian. Currently, he is editing the section on theater of the forthcoming YIVO Encyclopedia of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe and serves as senior historical consultant for the Warsaw’s planned Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Seminar - Musicians' Raft 2010
Nov. 10, 2011, 1:42 p.m.
One element of The Musicians’ Raft remains unchanged since its beginnings: it is the reference to the civilizational background without which it would be impossible to understand the cultural context and sources of even the most innovative explorations in the domain of the new Jewish music. It will constitute a seminar devoted to the Yiddish culture in Central and Eastern Europe, conducted by the irreplaceable Prof. Michael Steinlauf from Philadelphia.