Conference on Polish - Jewish Relations
An international congress will take place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem entitled "Between Coesistence and Divorce" - 25 years of research on the history of Polish Jewry and Polish - Jewish Relations. The congress will be held from March 17 to 19, 2009. We publish here the program.
Day I:
10:00- 11:00 Greetings
11:00 - 11:45 Keynote Address
Chairman: Edward D?browa (Jagiellonian University)
Antony Polonsky (Brandies University)
Polish-Jewish Studies: Twenty-five Years since the Oxford Conference
11:45 - 12:15 Discussion
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Panel 1: Jews in Polish Society and Economy to the late Eighteenth Century
Respondent: Moshe Rosman (Bar-Ilan University)
Hanna W?grzynek (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)
Medical Practices and their Influence on the Origin of Blood Libel Accusations in the 16th-17th Centuries
Cornelia Aust (University of Pennsylvania)
Polish Jews and Their Transnational Commercial Networks
Yvonne Kleinmann (Leipzig University)
A Case Study of the Anthropology of Law in Poland-Lithuania: Legal Forms and Decision Making on the Multi-Religious Rzeszów Estate
Ewa Geller (Warsaw University)
An Anthropological and Linguistic Portrait of Early 17th Century Polish Jewry in an Eastern-Yiddish Remedy Book
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 17:00 Panel 2: Jews in Polish Society from the late Ninetieth Century to 1939
Respondent: Marcin Wodzi?ski (Wroc?aw University)
Scott Ury (Tel Aviv University)
Death and the City: Jewish Narratives of Modernity at the Turn of the Century
Marcos Silber (Haifa University)
Ambivalent Citizenship - The Construction of Jewish Citizenship in Emergent Poland (1915-1918)
Katrin Steffen (University of Halle-Wirttenberg)
"Jewish Polishness" - Tragic Delusion or Workable Design? Jakób Appenszlak and the Polish-Jewish Press in the Interwar Period and its Aftermath
Hanna Kozinska-Witt (Simon-Dubnow Institute)
The "Jewish Question" and Communal Politics regarding Jewish Inhabitants in the Polish Municipal Councils in the Interwar Period (1918-1939): The Cases of Kraków and Pozna?
17:00-17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:45 Panel 3: The Church in Poland and the Jewish Question
Respondent: Stanis?aw Obirek (University of ?ód?)
Judith Kalik (Hebrew University)
Relations between the Catholic Church and the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th Centuries
Anna Motyczka (Jagiellonian University)
The Polish Roman Catholic Church and the Jews, 1945-1965: An Anthropological Approach
Bo?ena Szaynok (Wroc?aw University)
The Catholic Church and the Jewish Issue, 1967-1989
18:45 -20:00 Reception
20:00 Dinner
Day II:
9:00 - 10:45 Panel 4: Jews and Their Literary Agendas
Respondent: Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska (Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Lublin)
Nathan Cohen (Bar-Ilan University)
Polish Reading among Jews in Interwar Poland
Shoshana Ronen (Warsaw University)
Hebrew Periodicals in Warsaw at the end of the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 20th Century
Alexandra Geller (Warsaw University)
The Twin Weeklies - Literarishe Bleter and Wiadomo?ci Literackie
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Jagiellonian University)
Polish-Jewish Literary Studies: New Perspectives
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:10 - 13:00 Panel 5: Polish Jews as Reflected in Contemporary Polish Literature and the Arts
Respondent: Henryk Grynberg
Ma?gorzata Domagalska (University of ?ód?)
In Search of the Jew. The Image of the Assimilated Jews in Polish Anti-Semitic Novels at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Rachel Brenner (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
The "Poor" Polish Writers Look at the Ghetto: A Struggle with Self and History
Izabela Kowalczyk (Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun)
Tracing Polish Anti-Semitism using Contemporary Art
Edyta Gawron (Jagiellonian University)
The Contemporary History of Jews in Poland (1945-2005) as Depicted in Film
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Panel 6: Interfaith Relations: From Encounter and Dialogue to Suspicion and Hostility
Respondent: Micha? Galas (Jagiellonian University)
Maria Cie?la (Polish Academy of Sciences)
The Jews of 17th-Century S?uck: Between Protestantism, Orthodoxy and Catholicism
Adam Ka?mierczyk (Jagiellonian University)
Conversion in the 17th-18th Centuries: Is the Problem Serious or Not?
Anna Majdanik-?ysiak (ThePontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków)
Rabbinic and Contemporary Judaism in the Writings of Polish Catholic Theologians, 1918-1939
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:45 Panel 7: Polish Antisemitism: Its Roots and Manifestations
Respondent: Theodore R. Weeks (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Grzegosz Krzywiec (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Redemptive Antisemitism in Polish Political tradition? The Case of Roman Dmowski
Sara Bender (Haifa University)
From Jedwabne to Kielce - Violence and Antisemitism toward Jews, 1918-1946
Irenusz Krzemi?ski (Warsaw University)
Freedom and Tradition: Antisemitism as a Symbol of Nationalism
18:00- 20:00 Special round table:
Victims and Victimizers: Jews, Poles, and the 20th Century Memory of Genocide and Totalitarianism
Moderator: XXX
Location: Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Konstanty Gebert (Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza)
Jan T. Gross (Princeton University)
Stanis?aw Krajewski (Warsaw University)
Henryk Grynberg
20:00 Diner at Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Day III:
9:00 - 11:00 Panel 8: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust
Respondent: Daniel Blatman (Hebrew University)
Klaus-Peter Friedrich (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich)
Relations between Jews and Poles under Nazi Rule: The Crucial Period 1939-1941
Joshua Zimmerman (Yeshiva University)
The Polish Underground Resistance (AK) and the Jews during the Second World War
Havi Dreifuss (Ben- Sasson) (Hebrew University)
Rescue of Jews in Poland during the Holocaust: Old and New Trends in Historiography
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 13:15 Panel 9: Jews and the Post World War II PolishState and Society
Respondent: Jerzy Tomaszewski (Warsaw University)
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj (European University Institute, Florence)
Pogroms in Kraków and Topolcany (Slovakia) - Property Restitution and Anti-Jewish Violence in 1945
Ewa Ko?mi?ska-Frejlak (Warsaw University)
Homeland or Foreign Land? The Image of Poland in the Polish-Language Jewish Press in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Audrey Kichelewski (Paris-I Sorbonne)
The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1945-1968
Michael Meng (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Rethinking Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust in the Wake of 1968
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:45 Panel 10: Historiography of Polish Jewry
Respondent: David Engel (New York University)
Adam Teller (Haifa University)
From Polish-Jewish Relations to Polish-Jewish Culture in the Early Modern Period: Some Historiographical Trends
Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College)
Setting the Record Straight: Polish Jewish Historians and Local History
Rachel Manekin (University of Maryland)
The Galician Roots of the Historiography of Polish Jewry
15:45-16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Panel 11: The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto? - Memorializing the Jews in Early Twenty-First-Century Poland
Respondent: Yfaat Weiss (Hebrew University)
Joanna B. Michlic (Lehigh University)
"The Past That Does Not Want To Go Away": The Polish Historical Debate about Jan T. Gross's Fear
Sarunas Liekis (Vilnius University)
Koniuchy in the "New" and "Old" Polish and Jewish Memory
Geneviéve Zubarzcki (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
From O?wi?cim to Jedwabne:Collective Memory, Narrative Shock, and National Identity in Poland
Erica Lehrer (Concordia University)
Polish Jewish 'Heritage' as Polish-Jewish Relations: Toward a new Milieu de Memoire
18:00 Closing remarks:
Israel Bartal (Hebrew University)
The Pope Expresses His Closeness to the Suffering Israelis and Palestinians
Cardinal Parolin Visits Israeli Embassy to Holy See
Bishops of Poland Express Their Solidarity with Israel
Vicar's Call for a Prayer for Peace
Mayor of New York City in Jerusalem Meets Religious Leaders
Israeli President Reaffirms Commitment to Defend Religious Freedom
Revealing History: A Fresh Perspective on Catholics and Jews in WW2