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), Do’ikayt 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 Kitchen–a 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. Singer’s 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 “Polish”Jews 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