MONDAY, MAY 8, 2023
9.30 - 10.00 Registration & Coffee | Galicja Jewish Museum
10.00 - 10.15 Greetings
10.15 - 11.30 Keynote Address
Dr. Agnieszka Bryc, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Polish-Israeli Relations; Prospects Ahead
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.30 SESSION I
Krystian Propola, University of Rzeszów
The Fate of Jews in the Soviet Union and on the Eastern Front During World War II in Light of Israeli and Jewish Russian-language Media
Tom Eshed, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Jerusalem or Babylon”: Israel and the Universalization of Holocaust Memory during the 1980s
13.30 - 14.45 Lunch break
14.45 - 16.30 SESSION II
Roi Irani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sexuality as a Practice” in Historical Research as a Theoretical Opportunity: A Case Study from the State of Israel’s Formative Era
Magdalena Wawoczny, Kraków University of Economics
National culture and the perception of risk in tourist behavior on the example of residents of Poland and Israel
Jakub Katulski, Jagiellonian University
Perception of Israel and Jewish National Identity among the Polish Jewish Diaspora after 1991
16.30 - 18.30 Guided tour in Kazimierz Jewish quarter
18.30 Dinner, Ptaszyl restaurant
TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2023
9.30 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 11:15 SESSION III
Agnieszka Jeż, The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Music and Dance in Zionist youth movements in interwar Poland in the light of Publications and Archival Material
Ziv Slama, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Grappling with Westernness
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11.45 – 13:30 SESSION IV
Tal Chenya, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mind The Gap: Local Jewish Communities in Transition Between Empires
Maya Kreiner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Palestine in the British Empire: The Legislative Council as a Case Study
Katarzyna Kipek, Kraków University of Economics
The Role of Israeli NGOs in the Transformation of the Peace Movement in Israel
13.30 – 14.45 Lunch Break
14.45 – 15.45 Roundtable
Roundtable discussion following Rita Felski’s article “Context Stinks!” (New Literary History, 2011)
15:45 Closing Remarks
16.30-18.30 Guided tour in the Royal Wawel Castle and the Old City of Krakow
Abstracts and bios of the participants in the attached file here
Organizing Institutions
Jagiellonian University, Institute of Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
With the Kind Support and Assistance of:
Theodore Herzl and Ozjasz Thon Center of Research on Contemporary Israel and Polish-Israeli Relations, Jagiellonian University; The Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel; The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry; Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków
Academic Committee
Ewa Wegrzyn, Jagiellonian University; Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Daniel Blatman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Assaf Shelleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Organizing Committee
Ewa Węgrzyn; Assaf Shelleg
Source; Israel State Archive, Haifa 1956, Yehuda Eisenstark collection