Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighbourhood

04.09.2019 do 05.09.2019

Centrum Badań Historycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk zaprasza serdecznie na konferencję

Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighbourhood

 

Konferencji towarzyszyć będzie projekcja filmu Ziemia Obiecana w reżyserii Andrzeja Wandy, na którą zapraszamy wszystkich zainteresowanych 4 września o godzinie 18.00.

Prezentacja filmu została zorganizowana we współpracy z Polskim Instytutem w Berlinie.

 

Konferencja jest otwarta dla wszystkich zainteresowanych.

 

Referaty i dyskusje prowadzone będą w j. angielskim. 

 

Program

 

4 September

9.00 Conference opening and welcome

Igor Kąkolewski (Center for Historical Research Polish Academy of Sciences), 
Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia (Center for Historical Research Polish Academy of Sciences)

9.15

Igor Kąkolewski (Center for Historical Research Polish Academy of Sciences),
Ha-mekomot. Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighborhood

9.30 Key-note lecture

Gertrud Pickhan (Freie Universität Berlin), "I am small, but important". The Reception of Janusz Korczak in the GDR

10. 30 Coffee break

11. 00 ASHKENAZ - BETWEEN POLAND AND GERMANY

Chair: Jeanette Hoffmann

Madeleine Cohen(Yiddish Book Center, Amherst), Doikayt and the Politics of Place in Modern Yiddish Culture

Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia (Center for Historical Research PAN, Berlin), The image of the Ostjude in the art

Johannes Czakai (Freie Universität, Berlin), Jewish Family Names in Polish and German Memory

Małgorzata A. Quinkenstein, The Kitchena meeting place and realm of memory. Longue durée of Ashkenazi cuisine in Polish and German traditions

12.30 Discussion

12.45 Lunch

14.00 ICONS AND ANTIHEROES

Chair: Alina Bothe

Martina Steer (University of Vienna), The First German Jew or Żyd-Niemiec. The Afterlives of Moses Mendelssohn

Elena Hoffenberg (University of Haifa), Galitsye, Galicja, Galizien: Locating Polish- and German-Speaking Galicia in Jewish Memory Literature

Lisa Haberkern (Silesian University in Katowice), The Bad Jew? Memories of Salomon Morel among Upper Silesians in Poland and Germany

15.00 Discussion

15.15 Coffee Break

16.00 MAPPING THE REALMS OF MEMORY

Chair:Madeleine Cohen

Soonim Shin (Vienna), A memory capsule of Lodz, Jerusalem on Polish soil: Israel J. Singers novel Brothers Ashkenasi

Agnieszka W. Wierzcholska (Freie Universität Berlin), ארנעט– Tarnów – Tarnow: a Polish-Jewish Town of Encounters

Magdalena Chmiel (Jagiellonian University, Cracow),Tangled memories. In the search of Jewish-Polish-German roots

17.00 Discussion

18.00 Open event co-organized with the Polish Institute Berlin: FilmThe Promised Land, directed by Andrzej Wajda, 1975.  Introduction: Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia

 

 

5 September

10.00 REALMS OF MEMORY IN EDUCATION

Chair: Lidia Zessin-Jurek

Jeanette Hoffmann(TU Dresden), Remembering Jewish-Polish-German History while Reading and Talking about Contemporary Historical Young-Adult Literature in Classrooms in Germany and in Poland

Jacek Konik (The Warsaw Family Alliance Institute of Higher Education), Historyof Jews in Polish memory. Problems with teacher’s education.

10.45 Discussion

11.00 SHOAH - HOLOCAUST ZAGŁADA. THE MEMORY SHARED AND DIVIDED

Chair: Gertrud Pickhan

Alina Bothe (Freie Universität Berlin), Interrupted Neighbourhood. The forced eviction of PolishJews in the Polenaktion

Lidia Zessin-Jurek (The Czech Academy of Sciences), Gulag as a Jewish, Polish and German lieux de memoire

Paweł Michna (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), "Rumkowski wanted to tell history that he was our guardian and father." On visual documents from the Łódź ghetto as collective memory prosthesis and their postwar omission

12.00 Discussion

12.15 Coffee Break

13.00 BETWEEN LIEUX DE MEMOIRS AND COMMEMOMARION

Chair: Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia

Magdalena Waligórska(Bremen University), Klezmer as a Site of Polish-Jewish-German Memory

Liat Steir-Livny (Sapir College and the Open University, Israel),Where Did All the Jews Go? Jewish Commemoration and Holocaust Oblivion in Wrocław’s City Museum

13.45 Discussion

14.00Lunch

15.30 Final discussion, closing remarks , plans

 

          

Partner of the conference: Polish Institute in Berlin