Program 15th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low CountriesInstitute of Jewish Studies – University of AntwerpTuesday 23 May 2023
Hof van Liere – Prentenkabinet, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen
10:15 am – 10:30 am: Registration and welcome coffee
10:30 am – 10:45 am: Welcome and opening of the contact day
Vivian Liska, Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Session I: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Delft, Brazil and beyond: Jewish Culture and Economy in Context (chair: Jessica Roitman)
José Alberto R. Silva Tavim: Between Amsterdam and Brussels: the versions of the manuscripts ‘Relações, Cantigas, Adivinhaçõens…’ from the British Library and from KBR
Erik Odegard: Brazil, Barbados and Beyond: Sephardic merchant networks in the Atlantic world, 1654-1674
Max Farasat: A Place to Call Home: Reading Jewish Belonging and Identity in the Material Culture of Jewish Architecture in the Netherlands
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch with book presentation by David Wertheim: Waar gaat het over als het over Joden gaat?
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Session II: The Shoah and the Local Perspective: Jewish Choices and Municipal Involvement (chair: Frédéric Crahay)
Jan Maes: How a German member of the Association of Jews in Belgium (AJB/VJB)
portrayed the head of the Sipo-SD department IV (also known as the “Gestapo”) in Brussels as a “Righteous Rescuer”
Maarten-Jan Vos: Municipal involvement in the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1950
2.30 pm – 2.45 pm – Coffee break
2.45 pm – 4:45 pm Session III: Jewish Migrations, Identities and Elites (chair: David Wertheim)
Joris Kok: Next Year in Antwerp: Labour migration of Jewish diamond workers to Antwerp, 1894-1940
Sietske van der Veen: Defining ‘the Jewish Dutch Elite(s)’, 1870-1940
Channa Zaccai: The first Israelis in the Netherlands: A case study of diaspora, Jewish identity and integration
Hilde Greefs & Anne Winter: Eastern-European newcomers in Antwerp at the turn of the twentieth century: the Jewish dimension?
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Closing remarks
Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen
8pm: public evening lecture (in Dutch)
Over de ‘ambassadeur van de Joden’ en ‘de Heren van de Kabbalah’. Opkomst en ondergang van de Joodse zaak als Nederlands politiek instrument
David Wertheim (Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, Amsterdam)
Evening lecture in room R.013, Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen.
Contact day in English, evening lecture in Dutch – free entrance.Registration required: ijs@uantwerpen.be