Baden bei Wien – Baden by Vienna – was long a popular spa and summer guests were originally attracted by the glamorous presence of the Imperial Court.
Many of these families who spent their summers in Baden had Jewish roots. They built villas in a variety of styles – historicist, art nouveau and modernist – a fascinating mixture and shaped summer life in Baden until 1938.
This exhibition is dedicated to ten families and their villas.
Click here for an interactive map with the villas
“Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide”
Organized by: Central European University (CEU) Jewish Studies Program, in cooperation with the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI)
Organizers: Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität Berlin), Daniel Véri (CEU/KEMKI)
Keynotes:
Samantha Baskind (Cleveland State University)
Rachel Perry (University of Haifa)
Anda Rottenberg (independent curator)
The conferences focuses on artworks created during the Holocaust and in its aftermath, up until 1989, on both sides of the East/West divide.
Representations of the Holocaust in visual arts have been the subject of numerous studies from the fields of art history and visual culture. However, these often focus on the end of the 20th century, the period of the so-called “memory boom” and furthermore concern primarily artistic practices originating from the United States or Western Europe. As a consequence, the question of representing the Holocaust before 1989 in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc remains underdeveloped.
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A symposium connected with the reopening of the Kobersdorf synagogue after its restoration as a cultural venue
The program will be posted here: http://www.forschungsgesellschaft.at/synagoge/index.html
The photo shows the synagogue before restoration
A special exhibit marking the 20th anniversary of the underground complex designed by the architect Martin Kvasnica containing remnants of Bratislava’s Old Jewish Cemetery, which was destroyed in 1944, — 23 graves surrounding the Chatam Sofer’s tomb.
Rabbi Moshe Schreiber, known as the Chatam Sofer (or Chasam Sofer), was a renowned rabbi and scholar who was born in Frankfurt am Main on 26 September 1762 (7 Tishrei 5523).
Open
Friday 10:00 – 16:00
Sunday 10:00 – 16:00
A symposium connected with the reopening of the Kobersdorf synagogue after its restoration as a cultural venue
The program will be posted here: http://www.forschungsgesellschaft.at/synagoge/index.html
The photo shows the synagogue before restoration
An international conference held to mark the 10th anniversary of Jewish Heritage Europe.
Hosted by the Galicia Jewish Museum, it is organized by the museum, the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning, and JHE, in association with the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, and in partnership with the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ).
Click here to see the draft program
A National Library of Israel online event marking the 10th anniversary of Jewish Heritage Europe
Like the recent JHE conference held in Krakow, it’s called New Realities of Jewish Heritage — and features an hour-long conversation with JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber and Samuel D. Gruber, the president of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM) — one of the rare times that the sister and brother will have appeared together in such a forum.
Looking back on their more than 30 years’ involvement in the field, they will explore a range of issues regarding Jewish heritage sites and monuments — from their destruction during and after the Holocaust to the “Jewish archaeology” of their documentation and rediscovery; to the multiple challenges and strategies for their preservation and future use: for religious purposes, education, tourism, culture, commemoration, and more.
Click here to register (for free)
BIAJS Conference 2022: “Unfolding Time: Texts – Practices – Politics”
There’s quite a bit of material on Jewish (built) heritage at this year’s conference of the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies.
12 July 2022, 15.15-16.45 The state of Jewish tangible heritage in Ukraine: Buildings, monuments, museums and libraries
organised by: Eva Frojmovic (Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds, clsef@leeds.ac.uk)
EUGENY KOTLYAR (Associate Professor at Department of Art History of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, eugeny.kotlyar@gmail.com):
Jewish Heritage in Independent Ukraine: Discovery, Study, Preservation and Presentation. Thirty Years of Experience and Challenges
SOFIA DYAK (Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, website:www.lvivcenter.org, E-mail: s.dyak@lvivcenter.org):
Jewish Urban Heritage and Diversity in Lviv
TETYANA BATANOVA (Research Fellow, Acting Head of the Judaica Department of Institute of Manuscripts, V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, taniabatanova@gmail.com )
The Judaica Department at V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: Revival, Study, and Preservation
VITALY CHERNOIVANENKO (Senior research fellow, Judaica Department; Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine; President, Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies; Chief editor, Judaica Ukrainica; E-mail: chernoivanenko@gmail.com and president@uajs.org.ua; Website: uajs.org.ua):
Ukraine’s Hebraica collections in international perspective
NADIA UFIMTSEVA (Department of History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,nadia.ufimtseva@gmail.com)
Title: the Jewish printed books collection in the Kamianets-Podilskyi state museum and Judaica objects in Ukrainian museums.
MIA SPIRO (Glasgow) and EVA FROJMOVIC (Leeds)
Click here to see full conference program
To register securely, please visit: https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-theology-and-religious-studies/biajs-conference-unfolding-time-texts-practices-politics
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