Examining Jewish History as an Integral Part of Modern East Central European History: An Interdisciplinary Advanced Student and Scholar Workshop

 

With the organization and collaboration of:

 

The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations

 

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University

 

The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University

 

Haifa Interdisciplinary Unit for Polish Studies

 

Yad Vashem – The Internatioal Institute for Holocaust Research

 

University of Wrocław

 

Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Wednesday, May 15

 

10:00-11:45: Opening panel

 

Chair: Prof. Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University

 

Greetings: Dr. Amir Teicher, Academic Head of the Wiener Library

 

Dr. Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences: Questioning the Narratives of World War II: Czechoslovak Jews and Roma Demand Recognition of Their Wartime Suffering

 

Dr. Kamil Kijek, University of Wrocław: Peripheral Modernization, Violence and the Holocaust in Provincial Central Poland

 

Dr. Kateřina Čapková, ERC project presentation: Inclusive History of East-Central Europe (19-20th Centuries)

 

12.00-13:45: Panel I

Chair: David Silberklang, Yad Vashem

 

Dr. Marc Volovici, University of Haifa: Evacuation/Exodus/Escape: Interwar Antisemitism and the Politics of Jewish Migration from Poland

 

Osher Leiser, MA student, University of Haifa: Continuity and Transformation in Café Culture in Interwar and WWII Warsaw

 

Dr. Arkadi Zeltser, Yad Vashem: Regional Peculiarities of the Holocaust in the USSR as Arise in Yad Vashem’s “Untold Stories” Project

 

15:00 – 16:45: Panel II

 

Chair: Prof. Marcos Silber, Univrsity of Haifa

 

Moshe Vered, PhD student, Tel Aviv University: The Public Debate about the Combat Service of Hungarian-Jewish Soldiers in World War I

 

Masha Rozenberg, PhD student, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Yad Vashem: “Who Can Remain Indifferent to Such Sights – Worse than the Days of Nero…": An Analysis of non-Jewish Reactions to anti-Jewish Policy in the Crimean Peninsula

 

 

 

Thursday, May 16

 

10:00-11:45: Panel III

 

Chair: Dr. Kamil Kijek, University of Wrocław

Dr. Marta Marzańska-Mishani, Yad Vashem: Yad Vashem's Research Project on Deportations: The Cases of Zamość and Chełm Counties

 

Aharon Leshem, PhD student, Tel Aviv University: The Challenges of the Jewish Leadership in Mińsk Mazowiecki County Shtetls, 1935-1943

 

Eliahu Klein, PhD student, Tel Aviv University: In the Shadow of the Partisans: The Villages Around Parczew Forests and Persecuted Jews, 1942-1944

 

 

13:00 – 14:45: Panel IV

 

Chair: Dr. Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

 

Dr. Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University: Private Revenge in Post-Holocaust Poland, Ukraine and Belarus: A Comparison

 

Dr. Tom Navon, Haifa University: Otto Heller (1897-1945): A Transnational Jewish-Communist European Biography

 

Yael Paulina Robinson Gottfeld, PhD student, Tel Aviv University: Experiences of Mixed Polish-Jewish Families in Poland, 1944-1950: Breaking Chronological, Geographical and Thematic Borders?

 

15:00 – 15:30: Concluding remarks