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

International workshop, December 4, 2014 - Metropolin Hotel, Tel Aviv

Lecture 1: Mrs. Jolanta Kruszniewska, PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Jewish Studies, Cracow.

Changes in the Process of Assimilation of Galician Jews in 80’s and 90’s of 19th Century. The Case of Jewish Intelligence of Lviv

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Lecture 2: Dr. Tehilah van Luit

Galicia: an early case of intra-European colonialism in the 'East' (1772-1790). Habsburg ambivalence about Galician Jews and the question who is a useful Jewish subject? 

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Lecture 3: Dr. Dirk Sadowski, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig

The German schools for Jewish Children in Galicia, 1782–1806: Moral instruction and school reality

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