Monday, 22 June 2015
4.00 PM Tobias Grill: Welcome Address
4.30 – 6.00 PM
Panel I: First Encounters: Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Chair: Michael Brenner (Munich/Washington)
Shaul Stampfer (Jerusalem): Migration of Jews to Eastern Europe
Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv): Community Incorporated: The Cracow Regulations of 1595 and the Origins of Urban Jewish Life in Poland

Tuesday, 23 June 2015
9.30 – 11.00 AM
Panel II: Mutual Perceptions of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
Chair: Shaul Stampfer (Jerusalem)
Christian Lübke (Leipzig): Mobility, Migration, and Modernization – Interactions and Interdependencies of Jews and Germans as Elements of Colonization in the Middle Ages
Jürgen Heyde (Leipzig/Munich): Jews in Poland during the Middle Ages – Perceptions and Practices

11.00 – 11.30 AM Coffee Break

11.30 AM – 1.00 PM
Panel III: Interdependencies of German and Jewish Enlightenment in Eastern Europe
Chair: Martina Niedhammer (Munich)
Rachel Manekin (College Park/Maryland): From Johann Pezzl to Joseph Perl: Galician Haskalah and the Austrian Enlightenment
Marie Schumacher-Brunhes (Lille/Brussels): The Figure of the daytsh in Yiddish Literature

1.00 – 2.00 PM Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 PM
Panel IV: The Relationship of Yiddish and German in Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Chair: Evita Wiecki (Munich)
Steffen Krogh (Aarhus): „Dos iz eyne vahre geshikhte …“. On the Germanization of Eastern Yiddish in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Martina Niedhammer (Munich): Codified Traditions? YIVO's filologishe sektsye in Vilna and its Relationship to German Academia

3.30 – 4.00 PM Coffee Break

4.00 – 5.30 PM
Panel V: Together or Apart? Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe during the First World War
Chair: Jürgen Heyde (Leipzig/Munich)
Tobias Grill (Munich): „Pioneers of Germanness in the East“? German and German-Jewish Policy towards Eastern European Jewry during the First World War
Evita Wiecki (Munich): The German "Support" for the muter-shprakh – Yiddish Education during the First World War

Wednesday, 24 June 2015
9.00 – 10.30 AM
Panel VI: Paths of Ethnicization: Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe during the Interwar Period
Chair: Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg)
Felix Heinert (Marburg): Riga and the Invention of German Jewry
Mariana Hausleitner (Berlin): Transformations in the Relationship between Jews and Germans in the Bucovina 1920–1940

10.30 – 11.00 AM Coffee Break

11.00 AM – 12.30 PM
Panel VII: Of Victims and Perpetrators: Jews and Germans during the Second World War
Chair: Philipp Lenhard (Munich)
Delphine Bechtel (Paris): Representations of Jews in War Photography in the First and the Second World Wars
Hannah Maischein (Munich): Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders: Jews and Germans in Polish Holocaust Memory

12.30 – 1.30 PM Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 PM
Panel VIII: Between Expulsion and Resettlement: Jews and Germans in Postwar Eastern Europe
Chair: Daniel Mahla (Munich)
Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg): Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe after 1945 between Trauma, Violence, Everyday Life, and New Orders
Kamil Kijek (Wroclaw/New York): Jews in the Lands of Piast. German Expulsions, the Polonization of Lower Silesia and its Jewish Community in the Years 1945–1950

3.00 – 3.30 PM Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks