International workshop: The Jews of Galicia and Bukovina in the 18-19th centuries - December 19, 2012, Haifa
The workshop's main objective was to expose Israeli scholars to young scholars abroad, who conduct their research on Galicia and Bukovina Jewry in leading universities, and to establish cooperative connections between the Israeli and foreign scholars.
workshop plan:
First lecture
Anna Borejsza-Wysock, Brown University
An Identity in Flux: The Life and Work of Wilhelm Feldman in fin-de-siecle Urban Galicia.
Commentator: Dr. Ella Bauer, Kibutzim college
Second lecture
Boerries Kuzmany, Central European University
Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century
Commentator: Dr. Haim Cohen, Galician and Bukovina
Hertzel Institute, University of Haifa
Third lecture
Alicja Maślak - Maciejewska – Jagiellonian university, Cracow
The problem of the development of progressive circles in Krakow - 1840-1897
Commentator: Dr. Ella Bauer, Kibutzim college
Fourth lecture
Ofer Dynes – Harvard University
The Establishment of the Habsburg Secret Police and the Rise of Modern Jewish Prose in Galicia, 1815-1839
Commentator: Dr. Nathan Shifris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
