GEOP INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WORKSHOP Building Culture and Community: Jewish Architecture and Urbanism in Poland29-31 May 2019, POLIN Museum

The program is made possible thanks to the support to Taube Philanthropies, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

On the cover: View of the Luxembourg Gallery and the Grand Hotel in Warsaw – Postcard/ POLIN Museum.

The event is organized within the framework of the Global Education Outreach Program.

Organizers:

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews6 Anielewicza St.00-157 Warsawgeopworkshops@polin.pl www.polin.pl/en

DAY 1, 29 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM A

5:30-6:00 Registration and informal greetings

6:00-7:30 Keynote lecture by Rudolf Klein, Szent István University, Budapest – Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe

7:30 Dinner DAY 2, 30 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM B

10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks

10:30-12:00 Session I: Spaces of Religious and Communal LifeChair: Eleanora Bergman, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical InstituteAnna Majewska, University of Łódź – Told by Space, Told by Things: Stories of Jewish Communities Recorded in Cemeteries and in Matzevot Located Outside of Houses of EternitySergey Kravtsov, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Domed Synagogues in Ruthenia, Podolia, and Volhynia: Space, Decoration, MeaningVladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – A Town within a Town? Synagogue Compounds in Eastern Europe12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-2:00 Session II: The Architecture of Shtetlekh and Towns

Chair: Marcin Wodziński, University of WrocławKathryn Ciancia, University of Wisconsin – The Acceptable (and Unacceptable) Faces of Urban Jewry: Perceptions of Jewish Architecture in Interwar VolhyniaAlla Marchenko, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences – Jewish Architecture in Two Hasidic Destinations: A Sociological ViewEugenia Prokop-Janiec, Jagiellonian University – Architecture of the Galician Shtetl: Traces and Simulations

2:00-3:00 Lunch

3:00-4:00 Session III: Case Studies of Jewish Builders and Buildings

Chair: Ruth Leiserowitz, German Historical InstituteBarbara Zbroja, National Archives, Krakow – They Also Built Krakow: The Role of Jewish ArchitectsCecile Kuznitz, Bard College – Jewish Architecture as an Expression of Doikeyt [“Hereness”]: Examples from Vilna and Lublin

4:00-4:30 Coffee break

4:30-6:00 Session IV: Perceptions and Roles of Urban Space

Chair: Renata Piątkowska, POLIN MuseumMikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan – Polish and Jewish Urban Space in the Interwar Yiddish Novel: Shtarke un shvakhe by Alter Kacyzne and Di mishpokhe Mashber by Der NisterShachar Pinsker, University of Michigan – Coffeehouses in Poland as Urban Spaces of Modern Jewish Culture

6:00 Dinner

DAY 3, 31 MAY / CONFERENCE ROOM B

9:30-10:30 Session V: Public History and Memory

Chair: Felix Ackermann, German Historical Institute

Grace Mahoney, University of Michigan – Above-ground Archaeology: Excavating Jewish and Polish Legacies through Visual Markers and Architectures in Contemporary Kyiv and LvivMagdalena Waligórska, University of Bremen – Belarus’s Difficult Jewish Heritage and the Challenges of Public History: A Community Building Project in Halshany

10:30-12:00 Concluding session12:00-1:00 Lunch1:15-2:45 Guided tour of POLIN Museum led by Marcin Wodziński