Academic Council

The Academic Council of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center is called upon to assist the administration and staff in formulating a strategy, as well as in solving practical problems of the museum’s development.

The functions of the council are advisory. The most important issues to be discussed: the development of a permanent exhibition, the organization of temporary exhibitions, the implementation of scientific work, the implementation of educational activities. The council includes famous scientists, directors of the most important archives, museums and libraries, exhibition organizers, and computer technology specialists. The composition of the council allows for establishing connections between the museum and related institutions, organizing joint exhibitions and conferences. The international relations of the museum are strengthened by the presence on the council of prominent scientists from Europe, the USA and Israel, whose activities are related to museum affairs. General meetings of the academic council are held once a year, but throughout this period, council members form expert groups or help the museum individually.

The composition of the council allows for establishing connections between the museum and related institutions, organizing joint exhibitions and conferences. The international relations of the museum are strengthened by the presence on the council of prominent scientists from Europe, the USA and Israel, whose activities are related to museum affairs. General meetings of the academic council are held once a year, but throughout this period, council members form expert groups or help the museum individually.

Composition of the council

Georgy Altman

Marketer, art dealer, producer, author of art projects in the field of contemporary art

Alexander Arkhangelsky

PhD. Professor of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design / School of Media at National Research University Higher School of Economics, writer, TV host

Oleg Budnitskii

Doctor of Sciences. Director of the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Member of the Academy of Europe

Dmitry Frolov

Head of the Department of Arabic philology at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University, member of Russian Academy of Sciences

Mikhail Gnedovsky

Director of the Cultural Policy Institute in Moscow

Boruch Gorin

Chair of the Board of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow

Anatoly Golubovsky

PhD. Researcher and museum consultant

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek

PhD. Curator, university lecturer, researcher and museum consultant. She works as xhibit.at in cooperation with Michaela Feurstein-Prasser

Joseph Kaplan

PhD. Professor emeritus of Hebrew University, Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences

Cilly Kugelmann

Deputy Director and Director of Program the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Naum Kleiman

Historian of Cinema, Russian film critic, former manager of the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum, Eisenstein-Centre director, actor and filmmaker

Arkady Kovelman

Doctor of Sciences. Head of the Department for Jewish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow

Ada Kolganova

PhD. Director of the Russian State Art Library

Mikhail Krutikov

PhD. Professor, Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Michigan

Alexei Lidov

PhD. Art Historian and Byzantinist, Member of the Russian Academy of Arts

Pavel Lungin

Film director. People’s Artist of Russia

Victoria Mochalova

PhD. Director of Sefer — the Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Head of the Center for Slavic-Judaic Studies of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences

Benjamin Nathans

PhD. Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History at University of Pennsylvania

Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper

Designer and entrepreneur

Nikolay Svanidze

PhD. TV and radio host and member of the Public Chamber of Russia

David Stern

Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University

Zelphira Tregulova

Director General of the State Tretyakov Gallery