STOCKHOLM, JULY 30 - AUGUST 8 participants CATALOGUE S T Greetings 2-3 EN T About Paideia 4 About the PI 5 International participation 6-7 Participant profiles 10-25 Staff profiles 26-31 TABLE OF CON TABLE Schedule 32-33 Thank You 34 S G Welcome! IN Dear participant in this, the 8th annual Paideia Project-Incubator. T We are thrilled to have you with us for ten intensive summer days in Stockholm. You are the change makers who are redrawing the map of Jewish Europe, not only in your own settings but also by creating a landscape that is on its way to becoming an integrated, pan-European Jewish community. It is our great hope that you will find program rewarding to you personally and that it will not only move your project to the next phase, but also that you will come out of GREE here with new inspiration, new friends and new knowledge. As much as we hope that you will learn from our experienced staff, we hope that you will be learning from each other. We have no doubt that we will be learning a great deal from you. You will be joining a community of over 400 activists who have gone through Paideia’s Barbara Lerner Spectre, Erik Gribbe program. We are certain that in the future, you will be able to draw from that resource, Founding Director of Paideia Director, Paideia Project-Incubator as well as contribute to it. Together, you form a movement of social change that is taking place all over the continent. We are happy indeed that you have chosen to come Paideia this August, and proud to be able to welcome you to our community. Again: Welcome! 2 3 Paideia was created in 2000 through foundational The Paideia Project-Incubator is a program designed I grants from the Swedish Government and the Marcus for activists for European Jewish culture. It gathers and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation, as a non- innovative minds from all over the continent, denominational and pluralistic institute focusing empowering them in their process of creative on academic excellence and on social innovation. development, with a focus on concretizing ideas, building skills and exchanging thoughts. Its mission is to actively promote the renewal and PAIDEIA flourishing of European Jewish cultural and intellectual The program was initiated in 2006, as an answer to life, to support cross-cultural dialogue and to promote requests from the graduates of Paideia’s One-Year Jewish T a positive paradigm of minority culture within Studies Program, who wanted a program where they European societies. could convert the extensive knowledge they had acquired at Paideia into action. It has since become a reference Paideia works towards these goals through running program for European Jewish innovation, tutoring more P HE PAIDEIA BOU intensive, high-calibre programs for the academic study of projects than any other organization. T A text and for social entrepreneurship: the Paideia One-Year T Jewish Studies Program, the Project-Incubator, and the The program consists of workshops, networking sessions, Paradigm Program among others. skills seminars, Jewish content and inspiration, individual tutoring, peer review and interaction with foundational The programs typically accept participants from 14- professionals. Participants represent a range of projects, BOU 16 different countries, making it a truly pan-European from those connected to established institutions and institute. Together, these programs have graduated over communities, to new grassroots initiatives. Since the A 400 highly active individuals in 40 countries, who are part inception, the program has tutored over 140 projects of creating a new paradigm of European Jewish culture. across Europe, and has graduates running projects in over Paideia graduates are active in every field of Jewish life: 20 different countries. from academia to community life and interreligious work, from the arts to journalism and cultural festivals, adding The 2013 Paideia Project-Incubator is generously funded substance, innovation and enthusiasm to Jewish life and by the European Jewish Fund (as part of the EJF Leadership culture throughout Europe. Program at Paideia) and Natan. 4 5 ION T A Alisa Zilbershtein // Russia P Aya Noah // Israel USA Sweden Israel I Fargana Sarmas Azad // Azerbaijan C I Liliya Vendrova // Ukraine T Symi Rom-Rymer // USA Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina // Ukraine AR Bence Tordai // Hungary Azerbaijan Germany Moldova P Iegor Muratov // Ukraine Jared Gimbel // Germany Jon Goldberg // Austria Jonna Rock // Sweden Austria Russia Hungary Marik Shtern // Israel IONAL IONAL Judit Mandl // Hungary T Mirey Cukurel // Turkey Réka Eszter Bodó // Hungary Roman Odesschii // Moldova Ukraine Turkey ERNA T N I 6 7 the ALISA ZILBERSHTEIN ANNA MARIYA BASAURI ZIUZINA Country Russia Country Kiev Occupation MA student at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg Occupation Lecturer at NPU and head of the Judaic Research Center, YASR Alisa is a student in the joint MA program Name of project Anna Mariya was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Name of project “Jewish Civilizations” at the Hochschule Paideia FSU She graduated from the Kiev National The Judaic Teachers’ Training Seminar für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, after Linguistic University as an Italian and FieLDS in which the project is to BE reaLIZED FieLDS in which the project is to BE reaLIZED graduating from the Paideia One-Year English interpreter. During her student time, Education Education, Intercultural work, Self-development Jewish Studies Program in 2012 as an she was very active in Hillel, giving classes Isaiah Berlin Fellow. She is currently Project status on Judaism and then as the educational Project status researching different aspects of Soviet Idea Stage coordinator for Hillel programs in Kiev. Idea stage history concerning Jews - more precisely ABout the project She then got her second degree from the ABout the project the history and structure of communist Paideia FSU is a one-month educational seminar for Jewish Religious studies department at the Taras The Judaic Teachers’ Training Seminar is a unique party government and Jewish and non-Jewish youngsters from the age of 21 from Russian- Shevchenko National University of Kiev. collaborative effort between the Youth Association for the participation in it; Stalin’s national speaking countries based on the experience of Paideia – the She is currently writing her PhD thesis Study of Religions together with the National Pedagogical politics; anti-Semitism in the USSR and European Institute for Jewish studies in Stockholm. on the historic transformation of Jewish University, providing impartial knowledge about Judaism post USSR. She is currently working in Paideia is a pan-European institute that praises the values theological education at the National to future Ukrainian teachers. The goal of the project is to various volunteer educational projects of free education, knowledge sharing and cross-cultural Pedagogical Dragomanov University cultivate an environment of tolerance and understanding on the subjects of tolerance and anti- experience, which has run successfully for more than 10 (NPU). Since 2006, she is a member of the within Ukrainian society. The Judaic Teachers’ Training fascism in Russia, in cooperation with the years, and unites close to 300 graduates and dozens of Youth Association for the Study of Religions Seminar is the only teacher’s training program that provides “Russia for all” foundation and others. teachers from all over the world. Students from the Former (YASR), where she has organized and knowledge about Judaism together with Jewishly rooted Soviet Union participate actively in the program and conducted three Judaic International Youth teaching methods (Hevruta) to future teachers. constitute a big portion of the Paideia alumni. Schools (2007, 2010 and 2011). She is now the head of the Judaic Research Center at Our trainers have PhD degrees in Jewish Studies and in Although the Russian Jewish community plays a significant YASR and lecturer at NPU. She is married education, and are experienced in combining both academic role in European Jewish revival, the language barrier with two children. learning and curriculum development skills. Over the course prevents many more Russian-speaking Jewish activists from of the 10-day program, 30 high-school teacher trainees of integration into the studying process in European countries. the humanities will attend academic lectures on Judaism, The Paideia Alumni Association feels a great need for an learn and experiment with new teaching methods, visit educational program that will allow Russian-speaking Jews Jewish communities and meet with Jewish leaders. When and non-Jews to receive the knowledge heritage of Paideia they take over their own classrooms, these teachers can and will provide a platform for the realization of diverse diminish negative stereotypes about Jews, while transmitting projects developed by Paideia Alumni of the past 10 years. their new positive and confident understanding of Judaism and Jews to approximately 4,500 students annually. We are convinced that by educating new generations of Ukrainians to understand Jews, the destructive problem of anti- Semitism can be overcome. 10 11 AYA NOAH BENCE TORDAI Country Germany Country Hungary Occupation CEO of Hamakom Occupation Educational program coordinator, Haver Foundation Website www.haver.hu Aya was born in Israel and has been Name of project Bence has been involved in informal Name of project living in Berlin since November 2010, Hamakom Jewish education since 2003, attending Haver Talks where she has worked on widening her the Szarvas International Jewish Youth FieLDS in which the project is to BE reaLIZED FieLDS in which the project is to BE reaLIZED knowledge of politics and the practice Camp first as a chanich and later, until Education, Cultural production, Community work Education, Intercultural work of sustainability. She holds a B.A in 2009, as a madrich. In 2008, Bence started Geography and Middle Eastern Studies, an Project status to volunteer as an informal educator at Project status M.A.