More about David Shneer

Shared with the History Department by泭David's Family.泭

Donations in Davids Memory

Davids family invites Davids colleagues, friends, and students to make tax-deductible contributions in support of his intellectual home and community, the 勛圖厙 of Colorado, Boulder.泭His family has proposed several options:

  • David's family plans to install a bench on the CU campus in his memory and encourages donations toward that goal. To donate, use this link:泭泭

Be sure to click yes for in honor/memory of and enter David Shneer bench" in the in memory of space. You can leave the next of kin contact info blank. The development office will track these gifts and notify the family when the fundraising goal has been met and will provide a list of contributors.

  • Davids family also encourages donations in his memory directly to the CU Boulder History Department (/history/giving) and CUs Program in Jewish Studies (/jewishstudies/giving).
  • Finally, the family is seeking to increase the endowment for the James and Diane Shneer Endowed Fellowship Fund to support research in the泭Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive泭at the 勛圖厙 of Colorado, Boulder. David helped found the archive and the fund was originally created in honor of Davids parents on the occasion of Dianes 70th birthday. Davids parents plan to rename the fund in Davids honor. To donate, use this link:

For those who prefer to send a physical check toward a bench on campus or to the Shneer Endowed Fellowship Fund, those can be sent to the attention of:

Susan Furst
Parent Giving and Boulder Advancement Programs
勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder
2055 Regent Drive, Suite 206
UCB 59
Boulder泭CO泭80309
susan.furst@colorado.edu
303-492-3440

Davids Research, Scholarship and Public Life

For those who might not know the full extent of Davids public work as a scholar, teacher, writer and community leader, I泭invite you to browse through his personal web site:泭

, here he泭is with his music collaborator and dear friend, Jewlia Eisenberg, singing Dem Milner's Trern (The Millers Tears) in Yiddish (lyrics in comments). This is part of Jewlia and David's "Art Is My Weapon" project, about the radical musical life of Lin Jaldati, a Dutch Jewish cabaret performer and Holocaust survivor who migrated to East Berlin after WWII and became the "Yiddish diva of the Communist world.

More on the "Art Is My Weapon" project can be found here:泭