The painted ceiling of the Chodorow synagogue (17th c., reconstruction  of Bet ha-Tefutzot).The Temple of Lwow. Postcard, early 20th c.Maurycy Gottlieb.  Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, 1878

Session2b

Warsaw

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