The 11th International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry
Wrocław, July 3-7, 2022
Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław
Św. Jadwigi 3/4. 50-266, Wrocław
first floor, the Prof. Jerzy Woronczak lecture hall, room 115
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Schedule of Activities
July 3, Sunday
15:45 Meeting in the Taube Department Building, 2nd floor, assembly hall/main lecture hall. Św. Jadwigi 3/4, Wrocław
16:00 – 16:30 Orientation at the University of Wrocław. Greetings and technical clarifications.
16:30 – 17:30 Brief introductions by Forum participants. Presentation: Jewish studies at the University of Wrocław.
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 - 19:30 Research presentations (Group A).
20:00 Dinner
July 4, Monday
09:00 – 10:30 Research presentations (Group B).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Workshop: Grants Strategies: From Research to Post-Doc
12:30- 14:00 Lunch
14:00 -15:30 Workshop: Seeking Employment and Preparing for Job Talks
15:30 Tour: “Wrocław Past and Present”. Free evening.
July 5, Tuesday
09:00 – 10:30 Research presentations (Group C).
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 -13.00 Workshops: Organizing Workshops and Conferences: Conceptualization, Making it Happen, Outcomes. Presenting Effectively at Academic Conferences.
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Consultations with senior scholars (in small groups).
16:30 Facing History in Making: War and the Refugee Crisis in Ukraine and Poland – visit the refugees center in Wrocław.
Free evening
July 6, Wednesday
9:00 – 10:30 Research presentations (Group D)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Workshop: Academic Teaching Skills
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:30 Tour: Wrocław Old Jewish Cemetery
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Research presentations by young scholars (Group E)
19:00 Dinner
July7, Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Research presentations (Group F)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Workshop: Publishing Strategies – When, What and How?
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 -15:30 Discussion: Common Grounds of Scholarship on Jewish and non-Jewish Soviet/Communist – Post-Soviet/ Post- Communist History
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 Closing session (feedback, remarks, looking ahead, etc.).
19:00 Concluding dinner
Participants of the Forum:
| # | Name | Surname | Affiliation | Research topic |
| 1 | Paula | Ansaldo | University of Buenos Aires | Yiddish theatre in South America, 1930-1960 |
| 2 | Mariann | Farkas | Tel Aviv University | Hungarian Jewish Artists Confronting the Holocaust, Communism and Integration into Israeli Society |
| 3 | Sam | Finkelman | University of Pennsylvania | Ghetto, Gulag, Geulah: Jewish National Revival, Inter-Ethnic Encounters, and Collective Memory of Catastrophe in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1954-1982 |
| 4 | Samuel | Glauber-Zimra | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Occultism and the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, ca. 1900–1939” |
| 5 | Rachelle | Grossman | Harvard University |
Transformation of Yiddish literature in response to the destruction and upheaval of the Holocaust. |
| 6 | Sylvia | Hershcovitz | Bar-Ilan University | Zionist Activity Of Jewish Women In Romania In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century |
| 7 | Aleksandra | Jakubczak | Columbia University | Protecting the Jewish Daughters: The Jewish Economics of Sex Work and Mobility Between 1870 and 1939 |
| 8 | Lana | Kupiec | ERLIS-University of Caen, Normandy | Representing and Remembering Jewish Towns in Russian-language Literature, from 1917 to the beginning of the 1990s |
| 9 | Dorota | Kurek | University of Szczecin |
The Jewish community in German Stettin in the years 1871 - 1940. Précis of current research |
| 10 | Ekaterina | Oleshkevich | Bar-Ilan University | History, Culture and the Experience of Jewish Childhood in Late Imperial Russia |
| 11 | Norman | Salusa | Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies at Humboldt University Berlin |
Memories of a New Generation: Jews in the Red Army, 1939-1941 |
| 12 | Andrey | Shlyakhter | Kennan Institute, Wilson Center | Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932 |
| 13 | Jakob | Stürmann | Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow | The World Tour of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee: A Case Study on the Concept of Jewish Unity |
| 14 | Iulia-Maria | Ticărău | ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu | The Microsystem of the Jewish-Romanian Literature in the First Half of the 20th Century |
| 15 | Thomas | Varkonyi | Universität Wien | “Galicia” in Hungarian Language and Society. Cultural history of a Pejorative Imagination |
| 16 | Brett | Winestock | Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Semion Dubnow |
“The Murdered Poets: A Collective Biography": Peretz Markish, Dovid Hofshteyn, Itsik Fefer, Leyb Kvitko, and Dovid Bergelson |
| 17 | Franciszek | Zakrzewski | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales | Living Together and Apart in Lubartów: a Microhistory of a Small Town in Poland |
Senior scholars:
| Prof. | Natalia | Aleksiun | University of Florida |
| Dr. | Elisabeth | Gallas | Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow |
| Dr. | Semion | Goldin | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Dr. | Kamil | Kijek | University of Wrocław |
| Prof. | Rebecca | Kobrin | Columbia University |
| Prof. | Eli | Lederhendler | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Prof. | Anna | Sternshis | University of Toronto |
| Prof. | Marcin | Wodziński | University of Wrocław |