Conference program

4.00 – 6.00 pm // Opening

The Narcissism of Small Differences? Reflections on Jewish Studies and Jewish Area Studies

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6.00 – 6.30 pm // Break

6.30 – 8.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 1

1. Narratives of Conversion and Belonging in Jewish and Polish History
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Israel Bartal
     • Karen Auerbach, "Alienation, Belonging, and Gender: Coming of Age between Catholic and Jewish in Fin-de-Siecle Warsaw"
     • Hanna Kozinska-Witt, "Female Jewish Converts in Krakow's Public Sphere: The Case of the Baruch Family During the Second Half of the 19th Century"
     • Kalman Weiser, "A Yiddishist 'Ba’al Tshuvah': Max Weinreich in Vilna"
2. New Paradigms, Methodologies, and Sources for the History of Hasidism
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Ora Wiskind-Elper
     • Glenn Dynner, "Polish Hasidism as a ‘Culture of Resistance’"
     • Elly Moseson, "Holy Writings: The Manuscript in Hasidism and in its Historical Reconstruction"
     • Wojciech Tworek, "Hasidic Yeshivas in Interwar Poland from a Quantitative Perspective: The Case of Chabad-Lubavitch"
3. Historians of Societies in Turmoil: Cultural Memory and Politics of Memory
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Jeffrey Veidlinger
     • Omer Bartov, "Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle"
     • Dalia Ofer, "History and Memory: A Challenge for Israeli Historians. A Personal Account"
     • Monika Rice, "What Went Wrong After "Neighbors," and Can We Still Talk to One Another?"

8.00 - 10.00 pm // PhD Candidate Poster Session

4.00 – 6.00 pm // Exploring Jewish History in the Digital Age

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6.00 – 6.30 pm // Break

6.30 – 8.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 2

4. Between Memory and Education: Challenging Holocaust Transmission and the Fight against Antisemitism
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Omer Bartov
     • Delphine Barré, "Communicating the Holocaust: Educators' Dilemmas in the Age of Social Media"
     • Philippe Boukara, "Pedagogy in Direct Confrontation with Antisemitism"
     • Hubert Strouk, "Antisemitism and Social Networks: Permanence and Mutations"
5. Exhibiting Loss: Discovering New Museum Possibilities
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Galit Hasan-Rokem
     • Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, "On the Search of Lost Time and Space: The Virtual Shabbat Room by Isidor Kaufmann and Maya Zack"
     • Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman, "On Ephemeral Homes: Reflections on Sukkot, Museums and Contemporaneity"
     • Jeffrey Shandler, "YIVO’s Lost Museum of the Homes of the Past"
6. Inside the Eruv: Inclusive Approaches to Haredi Language, Religion, and Culture
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Samuel Heilman
     • Ayala Fader, "Anthropology and Jewish Studies: Ultra-Orthodox Doubt, Ethics, and Obligation"
     • Lily Kahn and Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, "Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish"
     • Naomi Seidman, "Whatever Happened to Bais Yaakov Yiddish?"

8.00 – 8.30 pm // Break

8.30 – 10.00 pm // Roundtable

Creating a Legacy: The Impact of Philanthropy on Jewish Studies in Poland

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4.00 – 6.00 pm // Beyond Traditional Methods: What is New and What is Next in Jewish Studies – Five Thoughts

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6.00 – 6.30 pm // Break

6.30 – 8.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block Block 3

7. The Corporeal Turn: Cookbooks, Food, and Embodied Memory
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Jarosław Dumanowski
     • Susanne Belovari, "The Unknown Ingredient: Viennese Cuisine Before Hitler"
     • Kinga Júlia Király, "Recipes for a New Beginning: Transylvanian Jewish Stories of Life, Hunger, and Hope"
     • András Koerner, "How to Read a Cookbook"
8. Reconsidering the Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies: A Relational Approach
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Cecile Kuznitz
     • Susanne Korbel, "A Jewish Urban Space? Non-Jews in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt"
     • Maja Hultman, "Reconstructing the Swedish Ostjude: Deep Mapping, GIS, and Urban Space"
9. Multilingual Jewish Popular Culture from the end of the 19th Century until 1939: Routes to Modernity
    

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   • Chair/Respondent: Gennady Estraikh
     • Ela Bauer, "Hebrew Literature Should Descend to the Streets of the Shoemakers, the Tailors, the Washerwomen, and the Cooks: Responses in Warsaw at the End of the 19th Century to the Development of Popular Hebrew Literature"
     • Nathan Cohen, "Popular Yiddish Reading: “Bibliotekn” for Lay Yiddish Readers"
     • Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, "Interwar Polish-Jewish Novels in Installments as a Medium of Memory and History"

8.00 – 8.30 pm // Break

8.30 – 10.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 4

10. Focusing on Families: What Does Polish Jewish History Have to Gain?
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Ori Yehudai
      • Sarah Cramsey, "“It Was Easier with a Child than Without”: Creating and Raising Polish Jewish Families in Wartime Soviet Union, 1939–1946"
      • Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Acquiring Information: Polish Jewish Families in Postwar Displacement"
      • Joanna Michlic, "Postwar Reconstructions of Family through the Eyes of Polish Jewish Child Survivors"
11. New Interactive Internet Approaches to Studying Eastern European Jewish Music
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Judah Cohen
      • Eléonore Biezunski, "Acknowledging the Archives as a Living Space"
      • Christina Crowder, "The Crowdsourced Digital Archive"
      • Mark Slobin, "Yiddishfolksong.com: Integrating Approaches to a Neglected Treasure House"
12. Approaches to Jewish Architecture: From Nationalism to Post-Modernism
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Saskia Coenen Snyder
      • Vladimir Levin, "Synagogues in 19th-Century Eastern Europe and What May be Learned from Them"
      • Ulrich Knufinke, "Synagogues and Jewish Community Centers in Germany as Architecture of Remembrance and Jewish Empowerment after the Holocaust"
      • Sergey Kravtsov, "Temple Iconography in 19th- and Early 20th- Century Synagogue Architecture"

4.00 – 6.00 pm // What's Next in Jewish Studies: Prospects and Challenges  

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6.00 – 6.30 pm // Break

6.30 - 8.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 5

13. City, School, and Family: Exploring New Sources for the History of Galician Jews
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Daniel Unowsky
      • Hanna Kozińska-Witt, "Municipal Records and the History of Kraków’s Jewish Community, 1866–1914"
      • Rachel Manekin, "Voices of Young Jewish Women in Official Records"
      • Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, "Exhortations” for Jewish Youth"
14. Ilanot: Kabbalistic Iconotexts and New Frontiers of Digital Humanities
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Moshe Idel
      • J.H. (Yossi) Chajes, "The Kabbalistic Tree: Challenges and Opportunities in the Research of a “New” Genre"
      • Hanna Gentili, "Modeling the Worlds of Ilanot: The Ontology of Maps of God"
      • Uri Safrai and Eliezer Baumgarten, "A Virtual Voyage Between Spheres and Sefirot: The Venetian Parchment and its Sources"
15. Looking At, Looking Away: The Testimonial Agency of Holocaust Photography
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Antony Polonsky
      • Dorota Glowacka, "(Re)framing Gender: Representations of Female Bodies in Holocaust Photographs"
      • Valerie Hébert, "Silent Witnesses: The Šķēde Execution Photographs"
      • Wendy Lower and John K. Roth, "Holocaust Atrocity Photography as Testimony and Resistance"

8.00 – 8.30 pm // Break

8.30 – 10.00 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 6

16. Fin-de-Siècle Łódź: Jews, Patrons, and the Art of Samuel Hirszenberg
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Renata Piątkowska
      • Richard I. Cohen, "The Artist and His Patrons: The Case of Samuel Hirszenberg (1865–1908)"
      • Ruthie Kaplan, "Expanding the Borders: The Jewish District in Łódź between 1862 and 1914"
      • Mirjam Rajner, "Samuel Hirszenberg: A Polish Jewish Artist in Fin-de-siècle Łódź"
17. Transregionalism, Local Identities, and Jewish Geography in Early Modern Ashkenaz
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Nancy Sinkoff
      • Andrea Schatz, "Cities, Lands, and Narrated Geographies in Early Modern Jewish Historical Writing"
      • Pavel Sládek and Milan Žonca, "Transregionalism and Jewish “Mental Geographies’ in Early Modern East-Central Europe"
      • Tamás Visi, "The Value of the Ketubbah in 17th-Century Moravia"
18. Jews and Conversion in Eastern Europe: New Approaches, Methodologies, Sources
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Paweł Maciejko
      • Victoria Gerasimova, "Jewish Conversion Narratives and Personalizing the Margins of the Early Modern Jewish Community in Eastern Europe"
      • Agnieszka Jagodzińska, " How Jewish is the History of Jewish Converts?"
      • Ellie Schainker, "Narratives of Violence: Jews and Conversion in the Imperial Russian Borderlands"

4.00 – 5.30 pm // Concurrent Sessions Block 7

19. Polish Jews: Towards a New Past
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Natan Meir
      • Ofer Dynes, "The Eastern European Archival Imaginary: Past, Present, and Future"
      • Kamil Kijek, "The Transnational and Archival Turn: Rethinking Post-1945 Polish Jewish History"
      • Agnieszka Wierzcholska, "The Microhistory of Polish-Jewish Interaction in Urban Space"
20. The Network of Inns in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th century: A Spatial Humanities Approach to Jewish Socio-Economic Activities in Early Modern History
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Moshe Rosman
      • Alberto Giordano and Jurgita Verbickienė, "Identifying and Reconstructing the Network by Jewish Rented Inns along the Border of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania"
      • Aivaras Poška, "The Inn by the Water Road: Supplementary River Trade Infrastructure and its Modus Operandi during the Second Half of the 18th Century"
      • Shaul Stampfer, "A New Look at Jews as Sellers of Alcoholic Beverages"
21. Mobility and Migration in German-Jewish Photography during the National Socialist Era
     

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    • Chair/Respondent: Maiken Umbach
      • Rebekka Grossmann, "A Camera and a Map: Independent Travel and Mobility in German-Jewish Vernacular Photography"
      • Shira Miron, "The Actual History of the Last Image: Documentation, Narration, and Remembrance in German-Jewish Photography of Departure"
      • Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Between Escape and Escapism: How Vacation Photography Informed Visions of Emigration"

5.30 – 6.00 pm // Break

6.00 – 7.30 pm // Roundtable: The Future of Museum Architecture  

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7.30 – 8.00 pm // Break

8.00 – 9.00 pm // Conclusion

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