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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 . 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 [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 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 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 : 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 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 : Traces and Simulations 1:15-2:45 Guided tour of POLIN Museum led by Marcin Wodziński

2:00-3:00 Lunch