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Presentation of the books: “In the Shadow of Empires: Synagogue Architecture in East Central Europe”, by Sergey Kravtsov, with preface by Ilia Rodov (Weimar: Grünberg Verlag, 2018) and “Ukrainian and Jewish Artists of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust” Sergey R. Kravtsov, Ilia Rodov and Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia eds. (Weimar: Grünberg Verlag, 2019).

Categories: book launch Tags: Ukraine

Feb

Tue

Legacy of the Shtetl: Investigating Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands @ Online Zoom event

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Feb 23 @ 18:00 – 19:00

The Legacy of the Shtetl: Investigating Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands
with Dr Magdalena Waligórska, and Dr Natalia Romik, respondent, and with Prof François Guesnet, Chair

Co-organized by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies

Magdalena Waligórska takes us on a journey to the post-1945 Polish-Ukrainian-Belorusian borderlands where she explores small towns which had a predominantly Jewish population before the Second World War and the Holocaust. Here, Jewish property both entirely fell under the control of the new ethnic majority and remained a “disinherited heritage” that continues to cause dissonance and psychological discomfort to its current “heirs.”

The unsettling presence of Jewish ruins, resurfacing human remains, walled-in objects, collapsing cellars, and the recycled tombstones constitutes an “intrusion of the past into the present” that, decades after the war, still demands action and results in different local responses.

The respondent, Natalia Romik, is an artist, urban historian, and architect from Warsaw who has undertaken similar but different explorations of the Jewish heritage in small Polish towns.

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Categories: Panel discussion Webinar Tags: Belarus Poland Ukraine

Jul

Mon

British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies conference @ King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College, London

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Jul 11 @ 09:00 – Jul 13 @ 17:00

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.

Mon 11 July 9.15-10.45: Jewish Heritage in the UK Context I

Alan Benstock, Connecting Jewish Collections with Jewish Communities: A Case Study of Leeds City Museum

Eva Frojmovic, Paradoxes of Jewish Heritage in Solomon A. Hart’s Album

of Sketches (Leeds University Library)

David Newman, The Preservation of Closed Synagogues and Their

Artefacts (Including Windows)

Mon 11 July 11.30-13.00: Jewish Heritage in the UK Context II

Anna Douglas, Shirley Baker’s ‘Jewish Heritage’

Rebecca Tritschler, Langside (Glasgow) as Heritage

Shannon Kirschner, Clifford’s Tower – Heritage Reshaped

Monday 11 July 14.00-15.30

Miranda Crowdus, Frozen in Time? Contemporary European Jewish Cultural Heritage Displays and Construction of Jewish Temporal Stasis

Tuesday 12 July 9.00-10.30: Jewish Country Houses in Pan-European Perspective

Chair: Abigail Green

Colette Bellingham, Reading The Red Book: Ferdinand de Rothschild and the Country House Album

Silvia Davoli, A little known salonnière Juive: Ernesta Stern (1854–

1926)

Sietske Van der Veen, A Rothschild Legacy in Utrecht: Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt–de Rothschild and the Rebuilding of De Haar Castle

Cyril Grange, The expropriation of the castle and winery of Moncontour and the integration of its Jewish seigneur in the locality

Discussant: Laura Leibman

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)

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