"Jewish Topographies". 5th International Conference on Jewish Architecture

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"Jewish Topographies". 5th International Conference on Jewish Architecture

Veranstalter
Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe
Veranstaltungsort
virtual/online
Gefördert durch
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
PLZ
38106
Ort
Braunschweig
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.03.2022 - 31.03.2022
Website
http://www.bet-tfila.org
Von
Mirko Przystawik, Bet Tfila – Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe organizes the 5th International Conference on Jewish Architecture that will be held virtually. It will focus on "Jewish Topographies".

"Jewish Topographies". 5th International Conference on Jewish Architecture

Jewish residential areas and settlements, facilities of Jewish communities (such as synagogues, cemeteries, schools, or hospitals), or locations of companies and shops can form significant topographical networks in cities and landscapes. These “Jewish Topographies” stand in a spatial and social context with corresponding places of the non-Jewish population, in which different cultural, religious or ethnic groups find their own spaces. Conflicts and cooperations, exclusions and limitations emerge in the spatial relationships between these locations and their respective urban and architectural design reflect the possibilities and expectations of the respective and related groups.

The conference aims at examining different levels of “Jewish Topographies”: the spectrum of contributions ranges from macro studies to cross-region networks of Jewish communities or Jewish institutions and people (e. g., commercial networks), to locations and facilities of the individual communities (e. g., Judengassen ( Jews’ Lanes), eruvim, DP-Camps), to micro studies of residential areas or individual facilities and buildings. Topographies of forced housing (such as ghettoes, concentration camps, and Judenhäuser (Jewish houses)) will also be discussed.

The conference offers different methodologic approaches to the subject, such as religious and profane places and objects, synchronous and diachronic perspectives. The focus of the conference is on developments after the Middle Ages. It also asks for symbolic, religious, and literary topographies and for ideas on how Jewish topographies can be appropriately researched, represented and later conveyed.

Academic Board:

- Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke
- Dr.-Ing. Katrin Keßler
- Prof. Dr. Annette Weber
- Dr. Jerzy Kos
- Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross
- Dr. Alexandra Klei
- Dr. Eleonora Bergman

Organizers:

- Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke
- Dr.-Ing. Katrin Keßler
- Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik

Please register at ja5@bet-tfila.org for information and updates on the conference program. The conference will be held virtually: https://tu-braunschweig.webex.com/tu-braunschweig/j.php?MTID=m04cd710997bcb9d2d595febd01fb1adc.

Programm

March 28, 2022

05:30–06:30 p. m. (CET) / Opening

Dr.-Ing. Christina Krafczyk (President of the Nds. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (NLD)), Prof. Dr. Urike Fauerbach (Acting Director of Bet Tfila/Chair in Building History, TU Braunschweig): Greetings

PD Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke (Bet Tfila/Nds. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (NLD)): Introduction to the Conference

Keynote

Prof. Dr. Annette Weber (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg): The Influence of Rituals on the Topography of Ashkenazic Communities of the Middle Ages and Beyond

Break

Panel 1: Mapping Jewish Topographies

07:00–08:30 p.m. (CET) / Chair: Prof. Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton)

Dr. Dr. Federico Dal Bo (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg): The Eruv of Venice. From Fragmentation to Unity. On Ben Schachter’s Eruv Maps and its Talmudic-Philosophical Value

Birgit Nelissen (Nds. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege): Jewish Cemeteries in Lower-Saxony

Samuel D. Gruber PhD (Syracuse, New York): The City as Memorial Landscape

March 29, 2022

Panel 2: Jewish Places. Micro-Studies

05:00–06:30 p.m. (CET) / Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander von Kienlin (Chair of Building History, Build. Archaeology and Conservation TU Munich)

PD Dr.-Ing. Barbara Perlich (TU Berlin): The Topography of the Erfurt Jewish Community. Methods and Findings

Mirko Przystawik (Bet Tfila/Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg): Hornburg. Topography of a Rural Jewish Community

Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Ulmer-Otto, Edgar Bönisch PhD, and Birgit Seemann PhD (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt/Main): A Jewish Space in the Eastend of Frankfurt am Main.

Break

Panel 3: Jewish Places. Micro-Studies

07:00–08:30 p.m. (CET) / Chair: Dr. Kim Wünschmann (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Klein (Szent Istvan University, Budapest): Jewish Topography of Oradea and Subotica. Architectural Consequences

Hagit Hadaya (Ottawa): Jewish Quarters in Canada. The Main in Montreal

Pergabriele Mancuso PhD (Florence): Archival Research, Virtual Reality and 3D-Modelling. Strategies and Tools to Reconstruct the Economic-demographic and Architectural Features of the Florentine Ghetto

March 30, 2022

Panel 4: Jewish Places and NS-Terror

05:00–06:30 p.m. (CET) / The Case of Breslau (Wrocław) / Chair: Dr. Eleonora Bergman (Warsaw)

Daniel Ljunggren (Malmö/TU Dresden): Jewish Architecture in Breslau During Nazi Reign. The Example of the Brothers Hadda

Dr. Annelies Augustyns (Univ. of Antwerp/Vrije Univ. Brussel): Jewish Topographies in Autobiographical Literature from Breslau

Maria Luft (TU Dresden): “Judenhäuser” in Breslau – Topographies of Forced Housing

Break

Panel 5: Jewish Landscapes

07:00–09:00 p.m. (CET) / Chair: PD Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke (Bet Tfila/NLD)

Dr. Anna Berezin (Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem): Jewish Siberia

Brett L. Levi (New York University): Between Enchantment and Estrangement. Haredi Tourism and the Construction of Jewish Space in the Swiss and Austrian Alps

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Piotr Kuroczyński, Karolina Jara (University of Applied Sciences, Mainz): New Synagogue Breslau in the Light of the Semantic Web – Construction of Digital Memorial Landscapes

Dr.-Ing. Katrin Keßler (Bet Tfila/Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg): 300 Years of Relocation and Continuity. The Jewish Topography of Berlin

March 31, 2022

Panel 6: Jewish Art and Its Topographies

05:00–06:30 p.m. (CET) / Chair: Dr. Vladimir Levin (Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem)

William Katin PhD (California State Univ. San Bernardino): Jewish West Meets Judaic East. The Confluence of Berlin

Lectures & Kaunas Theater in Memel’s Inclusive Topographies of the 1920s

Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Hubka (University of Oregon): The Central Ukrainian Heartland of a Jewish Liturgical Art. The Wall-Paintings of the East European Synagogues

MC Koch PhD (State University of New York at Buffalo): Isaachar Ber Ryback’s and Marc Chagall’s Synagogues. Transfiguring Jewish Topographies in Avant-Garde Art and Theater (1916–1921)

Break

Panel 7: Jewish Topogr. in Non-Christian Surroundings

07:00–08:30 p.m. (CET) / Chair: PD Dr. Andreas Brämer (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg)

Tobiáš Smolík (Prague, National Heritage Institute (NPÚ), Czech Republic): South. Morocco Between Folklore and Fakelore. Dislocated and Imagined Jewish Communities in Draa-Tafilalet Region

Narciss M. Sohrabi PhD (Paris Nanterre University): The Question of the Tehran Synagogue. The Problem of Architecture and Socio-Historical Typology

Dr. Rivka Geron Schild (Vienna): The Jewish Topography of Istanbul. A Conservation Challenge

08:30–09:00 p. m. (CET) / Conclusion / Chair: Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke

Kontakt

Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Pockelsstr. 4
38106 Braunschweig
Germany

Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik
E-Mail: ja5@bet-tfila.org

http://www.bet-tfila.org