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Program Here [Pdf] Organizers: The event is organized within the framework of the Global Education Outreach Program. GEOP INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WORKSHOP Building Culture and Community: The program is made possible thanks to the support to Taube Philanthropies, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. Jewish Architecture and Urbanism in Poland 29-31 May 2019, POLIN Museum POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews 6 Anielewicza St. 00-157 Warsaw [email protected] www.polin.pl/en On the cover: View of the Luxembourg Gallery and the Grand Hotel in Warsaw – Postcard/ POLIN Museum. DAY 1, 29 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM A 3:00-4:00 Session III: Case Studies of Jewish Builders and Buildings 5:30-6:00 Registration and informal greetings Chair: Ruth Leiserowitz, German Historical Institute Barbara Zbroja, National Archives, Krakow – They Also Built Krakow: The Role 6:00-7:30 Keynote lecture by Rudolf Klein, Szent István University, of Jewish Architects Budapest – Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe Cecile Kuznitz, Bard College – Jewish Architecture as an Expression of Doikeyt [“Hereness”]: Examples from Vilna and Lublin 7:30 Dinner 4:00-4:30 Coffee break DAY 2, 30 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM B 4:30-6:00 Session IV: Perceptions and Roles of Urban Space 10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks Chair: Renata Piątkowska, POLIN Museum 10:30-12:00 Session I: Spaces of Religious and Communal Life Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan – Polish and Jewish Urban Space Chair: Eleanora Bergman, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in the Interwar Yiddish Novel: Shtarke un shvakhe by Alter Kacyzne and Di mishpokhe Mashber by Der Nister Anna Majewska, University of Łódź – Told by Space, Told by Things: Stories of Jewish Communities Recorded in Cemeteries and in Matzevot Located Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan – Coffeehouses in Poland as Urban Outside of Houses of Eternity Spaces of Modern Jewish Culture Sergey Kravtsov, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 6:00 Dinner – Domed Synagogues in Ruthenia, Podolia, and Volhynia: Space, Decoration, Meaning DAY 3, 31 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM B Vladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – A Town within a Town? Synagogue Compounds in Eastern Europe 9:30-10:30 Session V: Public History and Memory 12:00-12:30 Coffee break Chair: Felix Ackermann, German Historical Institute 12:30-2:00 Session II: The Architecture of Shtetlekh and Towns Grace Mahoney, University of Michigan – Above-ground Archaeology: Excavating Jewish and Polish Legacies through Visual Markers and Architectures Chair: Marcin Wodziński, University of Wrocław in Contemporary Kyiv and Lviv Kathryn Ciancia, University of Wisconsin – The Acceptable (and Unacceptable) Magdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen – Belarus’s Difficult Jewish Heritage Faces of Urban Jewry: Perceptions of Jewish Architecture in Interwar Volhynia and the Challenges of Public History: A Community Building Project in Halshany Alla Marchenko, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences – Jewish Architecture in Two Hasidic Destinations: A Sociological 10:30-12:00 Concluding session View 12:00-1:00 Lunch Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Jagiellonian University – Architecture of the Galician Shtetl: Traces and Simulations 1:15-2:45 Guided tour of POLIN Museum led by Marcin Wodziński 2:00-3:00 Lunch.
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