International Colloquium on Polish Jewish History as Reflected in Education in Poland and Israel - video sessions
Greetings and Opening Remarks
Dariusz Stola, Director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Arieh J. Kochavi, Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Project; Head of the Strochlitz Institute
for Holocaust Research, University of Haifa
Keynote Speech: Why We Should Teach about the Holocaust (in Poland and in Europe)
Zdzisław Mach, UNESCO Chair for Holocaust Education, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Session 1a: Jews in Poland, Poles in Israel, 1264–2016
Chair: Jolanta Żyndul, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
• Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Polani, Galitsianer, Litvak, Yeke, Ashkenazi? Changing Narratives in Israeli Collective Memory, 1882-2017
• Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University: Poland as a Topic in Israeli History Studies: Curriculum, Textbooks, Extracurricular Activities
• Hanna Węgrzynek, POLIN Museum: Coincidence or Intentional Policy? How the Holocaust Became Part of Polish Curricula
Session 1b: Jews in Poland, Poles in Israel, 1264–2016
Chair: Zdzisław Mach, UNESCO Chair for Holocaust Education, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
• Benjamin Brown, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Poland of Yesterday in the Eyes of the Hasidim of Today
• Kamila Dąbrowska, POLIN Museum: Narratives of Expulsion: Polish Jews in Israel After the Polish Anti-Semitic Campaign of 1968
Session 2a: Regional and Local History: A Comparative Discussion
Chair: Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Anthony Polonsky, Brandeis University: The History of Galician Jews in the General Polish Context
• Moti Zalkin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev: East European (Jewry)? What do they have in common?
• Sam Kassow, Trinity College: Regional Aspects of Polish Jewish History: The Case of Vilna and Galicia
Session 2b: Regional and Local History: A Comparative Discussion
Chair: Jolanta Ambrosewicz – Jacobs, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
• Michał Bilewicz, University of Warsaw, Teaching Polish Students About Jewish History and the Holocaust: Chances and Risks
• Maya Pinchas Shabbat, Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Project, University of Haifa: From Within and Without; Local vs. Regional – Criticism of the Polish Rabbinic Educational System: The Views of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Abraham Poznański and Rabbi Dr. Simon Bernfeld
• Marta Kubiszyn, Center for Jewish Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin: Memory – Place – Participation: Holocaust Education in Selected Projects of The State Museum in Majdanek in Lublin
Session 3: Embedded Poland: Signs, Views and Memory in Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jewry
Chair: Piotr Kowalik, POLIN Museum
• Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz, ‘Ad Hena’: The Institute for the Rabbinic Heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry (RGB), Herzog Academic College: Relics of Polish Jewry in Israeli Life – Symbols and Customs
• Yisrael Malkiel, `Ad Hena’: The Institute for the Rabbinic Heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry (RGB), Herzog Academic College: In These (Polish) Regions: The Blurred Geographical Borders of Contemporary Israeli Halakhic Writing
Session 4: Memory of the Jewish Past in Poland and in Israel
Chair: Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University
• Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jagiellonian University, Krakow: Memory Conflicts in Poland Related to Jewish Past and the Holocaust
• Idit Gil, The Open University of Israel: The Burning Shtetl in the Israeli Collective Memory
Session 5: Museums and Educational Initiatives and the Presentation of Jewish and Polish History
Round Table 1: Educational Initiatives
Chair: Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University
• Shtetl Portal of POLIN Museum – Krzysztof Bielawski
• City Gate Theater NN in Lublin – Joanna Zętar
• Borderlands from Sejny – Weronika Czyżewska
• The Polish Institute in Tel Aviv – Tadeusz Woleński
• Ariel University – Nitza Davidovich
• Polish-Israeli programs of POLIN Museum – Nili Amit
Round Table 2 - Museum Representatives
Chair: Antony Polonsky
• Beit Hatfusot – Orit Shaham Gover
• USHMM – Krista Hegburg
• Yad Vashem – Orit Margaliot
• Ghetto Fighters’ House – Anat Bratman
• POLIN Museum – Łucja Koch / Sonia Ruszkowska
• Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian
University – Edyta Gawron
