Jewish History online seminars, 20th Feb 2024 – 7th May 2024
The Centre for the Study of East European Jewish History at the Vilnius University Department of History together with The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University, Department of Jewish Studies at Wroclaw University, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Lviv Catholic University invites to the series of Graduate and PhD students’ online Seminars dedicated to Jewish history, culture, heritage and memory in Eastern Europe. Each seminar will be followed by discussion and the presentation of archival sources from YIVO and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Judaica Centre.
PROGRAM
20th February, Tuesday, 5 PM East European Time
Alisa Miller (Vilnius University), Role of Judenrat: comparing narratives upon Vilnius and Kaunas Ghetto Jewish Councils
Joslyn Jasmine-Maria Felicijan (University of Bologna), Contested Memories: Holocaust Narratives in Cinema, Memory Laws, and Disapora Communities
Link to a meeting: https://zoom.us/j/96112784894?pwd=YWFqckFCMGNTRHFLUTZPZ3lreERiZz09
19th March, Tuesday, 5 PM East European Time
Vincent Hoyer (The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe), Politicized Pleasure? Entertainment Culture and Jewishness in Fin-de-Siècle Warsaw, Poznan, and Lviv
Julijana Andriejauskienė (Lithuanian Institute of History), Kaunas Jews in Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940): Between Acculturation, Integration and Segregation
Gary Blumsohn (Yeshiva university), The Emigration of Jews From Lithuania
Link to a meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95155456600?pwd=SytacjF2Q2RQbUhacEx1VGM5SXBSdz09
9th April, Tuesday, 5 PM East European Time
Laura Clarissa Loew (Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen) Interaction between the Polish and Jewish Workers’ Movement in Interwar Vilnius
Peter Buchmüller (Central European University) Jews in the Bar Association Inclusion and Exclusion from The Legal Profession in Budapest (1867-1945)
Link to a meeting: https://zoom.us/j/97278739107?pwd=aTFtWjY3SG1XNzRQMFFwcGJwZlB1Zz09
7th May, Tuesday, 5 PM East European Time
Emilia Hruszowiec (University of Wrocław), Polish anti-Jewish literature in an attempt to shape social attitudes towards Jews (1697-1772)
Józef Markiewicz (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), Autobiographical narratives of Polish Jews. Oral history as the subjectivity practice
Link to a meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95525402794?pwd=ckJ1S2ppdU9VL3p0WDk5OHRnSjNiZz09