International Conference
June 12 - 14, 2022
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem
Sunday 12.06
Opening Session
Chair: Gershon Hundert (McGill University)
Greetings
David Wallach (Weizmann Institute of Science; Chair of Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization)
Eli Lederhandler (Chair of Leonid Nevzlin Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Keynote Addresses
Larry Wolff (New York University) Galicia after Galicia: The Fantasies and Phantoms of the Galician Legacy
Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Agnon's Complaint: Lushn ashkenaz, Imperial Language, and the Jews of halbasien (1772-1939)
Monday 13.06
Facing Modernity: The Jewish Dimension
Chair: Haim Gertner (Yad Vashem)
Joshua Shanes (The College of Charleston) Political Modernization among Galician Jews
Rachel Manekin (The University of Maryland) Modernization and Galician Jewry: A Gendered Perspective
Discussants: Vladyslava Moskalets (The Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv), Andriy Zayarnyuk (University of Winnipeg)
Geopolitical Boundaries and Changing Identities
Chair: Joshua Shanes (The College of Charleston)
François Guesnet (University College London) Between Communal Mandate and Political Opportunity: Jewish Intercession in Early Modern and 19th-century Europe
Discussants: Gershon Hundert (McGill University), Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Mosaic of Cultures
Chair: Maciej Janowski (Central European University)
Dirk Sadowski (Leibniz Institute for Educational Media,| Georg Eckert Institute) “There is hardly any school in Galicia where the teacher doesn’t have a noticeable Jewish accent…” – Habsburg’s Language Policy towards Galician Jewry, 1782–1806
Gershon Hundert (McGill University) Portents of Change in the Writings of Dov Ber Birkenthal
Omer Bartov (Brown University) Tales from the Borderlands and the Fictions of History
Andriy Zayarnyuk (University of Winnipeg) Galicia's Contribution to the Formation of Modern Ukrainian Culture: A Reconsideration
Roundtable - open discussion:
Revisiting Perspectives: Historians' Galicia
Moderator: Paul Robert Magocsi (The University of Toronto)
Maciej Janowski (Central European University)
Michael Silber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Larry Wolff (New York University)
Tuesday 14.06
Literature and Society
Chair: Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv) The Galician Triangle in the Galician Literature: Case of the 1884 Boryslav War
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Polish Literature in Galicia
Ofer Dynes (Columbia University) Galicia and/or Ukraine in the Yiddish Mind
Discussion
"Meorei Galicia": Jewish Learning, 16th-20th Centuries
Chair: David Assaf (Tel Aviv University)
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg (Harvard University) Rabbi Moshe Isserles and the Transformation of Ashkenazic Halakha in Poland
Roee Goldschmidt (The Open University of Israel) Trends in the Development and Study of Kabbalah in Galicia
Benjamin Brown (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ta'amei Haminhagim Umekorei Hadinim: The book, its Directions, and its Place in the Development of Halakhah and of Hasidism
Iris Brown (Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) Between Hasidism and Neo-Orthodoxy: Sara Schenirer between Two Worlds
Roundtable - open discussion:
Religion and Society
Moderator: Adam Teller (Brown University)
Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Gershon Hundert (McGill University)
Andriy Zayarnyuk (University of Winnipeg)
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