With concerns still high as the war in Ukraine continues to rage, we want to point out a hybrid online (and in person) event on Jewish heritage in Ukraine that will take place in the context of the British and Irish Jewish Studies Association conference.
Registration is free:
Jewish Heritage in Ukraine: Buildings, Monuments, Museums and Libraries
A round-table introducing the rich field of Jewish heritage in Ukraine: buildings, monuments, museums, artefacts, and library treasures.
July 12
15:15 – 16:45 BST (16:15-17:45 CET)
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Program:
Jewish Heritage in Independent Ukraine: Discovery, Study, Preservation and Presentation – Thirty Years of Experience and Challenges
Eugeny Kotlyar (Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts)
Jewish Heritage and Diversity in Lviv
Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv)
Judaica in Lviv: Underestimated Heritage
Maksym Martyn (Lviv Museum of the History of Religion)
Ukraine’s Hebraica Collections in International Perspective
Vitaly Chernoivanenko (Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine; President, Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies)
Judaica Objects in Ukrainian Museums
Nadia Ufimtseva (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
Interlocutors: Mia Spiro (University of Glasgow) and Eva Frojmovic (University of Leeds)
Chair: Eva Frojmovic