Program 17th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Institute of Jewish Studies – University of Antwerp
Thursday 8 May 2025
Room s.D.013, Grote Kauwenberg 18, 2000 Antwerpen.
10 am – Registration and coffee
10:15 – Welcome and opening remarks (Vivian Liska, Karin Hofmeester and Veerle Vanden Daelen)
10:30 – 12:00: Panel 1 Rules, customs and testaments: the Amsterdam communities in global perspective (Moderator: Jessica Roitman)
- Michal Aziza Ohana, Bine’ot Deshe by R. Shlomo Adahan: Knowledge Transfers Between the Maghreb and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period
- José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, The Diaspora and the Testaments of the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries)
- Ronny Reshef, The Ashkenazi Jewish meat hall in Amsterdam
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch
13:00 – 15:00: Panel 2 Postwar compensation and remembrance in the Low Countries (moderator: Nico Wouters)
- Linda Graul, Jewish Dispossession in Luxembourg: The Merits and Pitfalls of the Primary Sources
- Jana Susanne Müller, Dispossession, Persecution, and War Damages: Working with Post-World War II Compensation Case Files in Luxembourg
- Senske de Vries, Lezecher, In Remembrance: The Addition of the National Holocaust Names. Memorial to Dutch Commemorative Culture
- Anastasia Kallish Holocaust Education & Excursions amongst Schools in the Greater Amsterdam Area
15:00 – 16:00 – Panel 3 “Holocaust Testimonies in Historical Context” – Belgian contributions to the Critical Editions Series of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (moderator: Stephen Naron)
- Dorien Styven and Frédéric Crahay & Sarah Timperman will speak on the testimonies of Paul Halter and Joseph Blitz
16:00 – 16:15 – Coffee break
16:15 – 17:30 – Round table on Association of Jewish Studies in Belgium (moderator: Theodor Dunkelgrün, participants: Veerle Vanden Daelen, Dorien Styven, Frédéric Crahay, Janiv Stamberger, Stefan Goltzberg, Aaron Kachuck, Thomas Gergely)
17:30 – Conclusions and wrapping up (Karin Hofmeester and Veerle Vanden Daelen
(followed by informal drinks & dinner at own expense)
Free entrance but registration is required: ijs@uantwerpen.be