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13th Contact Day – Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. Thursday 20 May 2021

February 15, 2021 by EAJS Administrator

13th Contact Day – Jewish Studies on the Low Countries

Thursday 20 May 2021

Online: please register via ijs@uantwerpen.be and you will receive a Zoom link

PROGRAM

14.00-14.10 Welcome by Vivian Liska (Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp), Karin Hofmeester (IISG/University of Antwerp) & Veerle Vanden Daelen (Kazerne Dossin/University of Antwerp)

14.10-14.55 Panel 1: Jewish social mobility, economy and diamonds

Chair: Karin Hofmeester

Sietske van der Veen (Huygens ING Institute), Upward social mobility strategies of Jewish Dutch in the Dutch Biography Portal (1880-1940)

Joris Kok (IISG), Social Mobility of Jewish Diamond Workers in Pre-war Amsterdam

Donald Weber (AMSAB ISG), A World of Diamond: Diamond Workers in Belgium, the Netherlands and France (1895-2000)

14.55-15.25 Panel 2: Non-European Jews in Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond

Chair: Veerle Vanden Daelen

Thomas Verbruggen (University of Antwerp), Non-European Jewish itinerant traders in Belgium and beyond (1880-1930)

Amal Ihkan(University of Antwerp), The identity of Moroccan Jews living in Belgium and The Netherlands

15.25-15.35 Break

15.35-16.00 Short book presentations

Chair: Jan Morrens (Institute for Jewish Studies, Antwerp)

Karin Hofmeester (ed.), Een Schitterende erfenis. 125 nalatenschap van de Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond

Veerle Vanden Daelen, Kazerne Dossin. Holocaust en mensenrechten

Herman van Rens en Annelies Wilms, Joodse mannen uit West-Europa naar dwangarbeiderskampen in Silezië, 1942-1945

Jan Maes, De ster en het kruis. De Gereformeerde Jodenzending in Antwerpen en Brussel (1931 -1948)

16.00-16.30 Panel 3: Manuscript production in the context of Empire

Chair: Veerle Vanden Daelen

Dagmara Budzioch (Hebrew University, Jerusalem/T. Taube Department for Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw), Selected issues of decorated Esther scrolls production in the 17th- and 18th-century Amsterdam

Juan Lorenzo Castro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Sephardim of Antwerp; financial connectors of the Hispanic Monarchy XVI-XVII centuries

16.30-16.40 Break

16.40-17.25 Panel 4: Life stories of Jews in Antwerp and Brussels during the Second World War

Chair: Karin Hofmeester

Wolfgang Schellenbacher (Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), Vienna), Mapping Transnational Data on Austrian Refugees in Antwerp prior to Deportation

Dorien Styven (Kazerne Dossin), Left Behind in Antwerp: Jewish Families affected by the Forced Labour, 1942-1944

Jan Maes (Kazerne Dossin/ Stichting voor de Eigentijdse Herinnering),  The German Greiferin Helga Zweig, alias Marion Dubois. The story of a Jewish Jew Hunter at work at the Brussels Sipo-SD

17.25-17.30 Wrapping up (Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen)

Participants to the Contact Day are kindly invited to the evening lecture (in Dutch):

Dr. Herman van Rens en Annelies Wilms, Tussenstation Cosel. Joodse mannen uit West-Europa naar dwangarbeiderskampen in Silezië, 1942-1945

Starting at 8 pm

Online: please register via ijs@uantwerpen.be and you will receive a Zoom link

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