Alexander Walther, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Montag, 22. November 2021
19:30 Uhr Welcome address by: Zygmunt Stępiński (POLIN)
Welcome address by workshop organizers: Miriam Schulz (University of Toronto), Alexander Walther (Jena University)
20:00 Uhr
Opening Night (aus Jena): YIDDISH IN EAST BERLIN – A TRIBUTE TO DAVID SHNEER
Konzert: Jalda Rebling mit Tobias Morgenstern (Akkordion) und Daniel Weltlinger (Violine)
https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/66041024631
Meeting-ID: 660 4102 4631
Code: 047438
Dienstag, 23. November 2021
15:00–16:00 Uhr PANEL I: DIS/CONTINUITIES OF YIDDISH IN SOCIALIST COUNTRIES
Sabine Koller (University of Regensburg) – Yiddish in the Soviet Union – Dovid Hofshteyn’s Literary (Re)invention in (Post)-War Times
Kamil Kijek (University of Wroclaw) – Yiddish in Poland in the Late 1940s
Binyamin Hunyadi (Hebrew University) – „Di lebedike mesim” – The Walking Dead: Volf Tambur and Romanian Post-WWII Yiddish Prose
16:15–17:45 Uhr PANEL II: YIDDISHLAND AND TRANSNATIONALITY
Jan Schwarz (Lund University) – Chava Rosenfarb's Life-Writing: Transnational Yiddish from a Woman's Perspective
Rachelle Grossmann (Harvard University) – Postwar Yiddish between East and West
Miriam Schulz (University of Toronto) – Soviet Yiddish and Third World Solidarity
Diego Rotman (Hebrew University) – Reconstructing Dzigan and Shumacher Poetics in Post-Holocaust Poland (An Artistic-Research Approach)
18:30–19:30 Uhr PANEL III: PERFORMATIVE YIDDISH
Katharina Friedla (Warsaw) – „Bist a Yid? Can’t you speak to me in Yiddish?“ Yiddish as an Identity marker among Polish Jews in the Soviet Union
Jeffrey Shandler (Rutgers University) – Yiddish as Postvernacularism between East and West
Corina Petrescu (University of Mississippi) – The Penetrable Iron Curtain: The Jewish State Theater in Bucharest on Tour in Israel (1968)
Mittwoch, 24. November 2021
16:00–17:30 Uhr PANEL IV: YIDDISH AND SOCIALIST MEMORY CULTURES OF THE HOLOCAUST
Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) – Zygmunt Klukowski's Diary and its Publication in Bleter far Geshikhte
Agnieszka Żółkiewska (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw) – Michal M. Borwicz: Pioneer and Founder of Polish-Jewish Holocaust Historiography
Alexander Walther (Jena University) – Yiddish and Holocaust Remembrance in the GDR
Arkadi Zeltser (Yad Vashem) – Yiddish on Holocaust Monuments in the USSR
17:45–18:45 Uhr CONCLUDING FORUM
20:00–21:30 Uhr
Abschlusskonzert: Weltpremiere, live aus Toronto:
ANNA SHTERNSHIS & PSOY KOROLENKO – FIGHTING WITH MUSIC: Yiddish Songs of World War II from Central Asia and Chuvashia
Lecture-concert followed by Q&A
Sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Council for the Arts
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88658911696?pwd=VlZGc3pNODdrQVJVYUhiUG51N0tXdz09