The first day of the New Realities of Jewish Heritage conference, marking the 10th anniversary of Jewish Heritage Europe, took place June 26. Held at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, it was live-streamed on the museum’s YouTube channel.
You can watch it here:
The sessions include:
1. WELCOMING REMARKS
Jakub Nowakowski, Helise Lieberman, Ruth Ellen Gruber
2. OPENING SESSION
A conversation with JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber looking back at more than three decades of her involvement in the Jewish heritage field, also noting the anniversaries of her ground- breaking books Jewish Heritage Travel, first edition 1992, and Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe, 2002.
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Edward Serotta, Prof. Jonathan Webber
3. UPDATE FROM UKRAINE
Moderated by Jason Francisco, in conversation with Sofia Dyak of the Lviv Center for Urban History, and Vira Baldyniuk
4. OLD CHALLENGES. NEW SOLUTIONS
From technology to crowd-funding to digital reconstruction — and more.
Moderator: Victor Sorenssen
Panelists: Jakub Nowakowski, Anna Szentgyorgyi, Samuel D. Gruber