UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE RECTOR MAGNIFICUS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
Professor Marcin Pałys
FACULTY OF “ARTES LIBERALES”
UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW
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ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE
D’ÉTUDES DU SUD-EST EUROPÉEN (AIESEE)
POLISH COMMISSION OF BALKAN CULTURE AND HISTORY
2nd Warsaw AIESEE International Workshop
The Balkan Jews & the Minority Issue in South-Eastern Europe
7th – 9th November 2016
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Dobra 72, Warsaw
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MONDAY 7 NOVEMBER
- 8:30 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
- 9:00 – 10:30
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Robert A. Sucharski (Dean of the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”)
Răzvan Theodorescu (Secretary General of AIESEE)
Jolanta Sujecka (Chair of the Polish Commission of Balkan Culture and History)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Răzvan Theodorescu (Secretary General of AIESEE) Herzl’s dream. European Jewry between East and West
Dragi Gjorgiev (Institute of National History, Republic of Macedonia) Non-Muslims in ottoman society: Ottoman Jews in the Balkan
- 10:30 – 11:45 SESSION I
MODERATOR: RĂZVAN THEODORESCU
Benedetto Ligorio (Sapienza University of Rome), Connecting cultures, cross-cultural trade networks of Ragusan Sephardim in 16th and 17th centuries
Wojciech Sajkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), The image of the Balkan Jews in French travelogues in 19th century
Kujtim Nuro (Turkish and Ottoman Studies Association, Toronto), Jewish population in Albanian territories according to Ottoman yearbooks (1870 – 1912)
Miloš M. Damjanović (University in Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica), The status of Jews in Kosovo and Metohija and Relations towards other Peoples in the Final Decades of the Ottoman Occupation (1876-1912)
Paweł Michalak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), The Jews and the so-called “Jewish question” in the interwar Yugoslavia according to the newspaper “Politika”
- 11:45 – 12:05 DISCUSSION
- 12:05 – 12:20 COFFEE BREAK
- 12:20 – 13:20 SESSION II
MODERATOR: RẰZVAN THEODORESCU
Bouroutis Andreas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), ”From a thriving community to a minority”. The Jewish commu nity of Thessaloniki and the incorporation of the city to the Greek state
Shaban Sinani (The Academy of Sciences of Albania), Quelque actes internationaux atténuant l’entrée des juifs en Albanie pendant les deux guerres mondiales/ Some international acts that facilitated the emigration of Jews to Albania in the period between the two World Wars
Artan Puto (European University Institute, Florence), The League of Nations projects on Jewish settlements in Albania (1934-1935)
Irina Lyubomirova Ognyanova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Jewry-related Discourse in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period
- 13:20- 13:40 DISCUSSION
- 13:40 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
- 15:00 – 15:45 SESSION III
MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
AMIKAM NACHMANI
Amikam Nachmani (Bar Ilan University), Greeks, Jews, Greece, Israel: The 1940s Greek Civil War as a Microcosm
Olimpia Dragouni (Humboldt University of Berlin), The narratives on Jews: Bosnian Muslims between SS Handżar and Sarajevo Resolution
Jonna Rock (Humboldt University of Berlin), A Sephardic Story from Sarajevo
- 15:45 – 16:00 DISCUSSION
- 16:00 – 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
- 16:15 – 17:00 SESSION IV
MODERATOR: JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ
AMIKAM NACHMANI
Guido Franzinetti (University of Eastern Piedmont), Albanian Jews in Communist Albania and after: a historical overview
Alexander Novik (Russian Academy of Sciences), Jewish population in Albania in the 20th century: historical presence and modern situation
Natalia Golant (Russian Academy of Sciences), Mutual Influences in the Family Rites of Moldavian Jews and Their Neighbors (According to the Materials of Fieldwork in the Republic of Moldova)
- 17:00- 17:10 DISCUSSION
- 17:10- 18:30 SESSION V
ROUND TABLE
MODERATOR: JONNA ROCK
MARZENA MACIULEWICZ
Tullia Catalan (University of Trieste), The Jewish Philanthropic Associations of Western Europe and the Question of Serbian And Romanian Jews (1878-1920)
Emanuela Constantini (University of Perugia), Compromise or denial? Bucharest Jews in the Romanian nation-state.
Bojan Mitrović (University of Trieste), The Struggle for Social Recognition of Belgrade Jews after 1878: Life and Works of Haim S. Davičo (1854-1916) and David Albala (1886-1942) in a Comparative Context
Aleksandar Kadijević (University of Belgrade), Between national style and modern reform: Jewish civil engineers and architects in Serbia (1900-1941)
- 18:30-19:15 RACHEL KESSELMAN (PRESIDENT-FOUNDER OF ‘YIDDELE MEMORY’), PRESENTATION OF RADOMSKO, THE FIRST JEWISH OPEN AIR MUSEUM IN EUROPE
TUESDAY 8 NOVEMBER
- 9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Agnieszka August-Zarębska (University of Wrocław), Language and Literature of Sephardic Jews. The Balkan Context
- 10:00 – 11:30 SESSION VI
MODERATOR: AGNIESZKA AUGUST-ZARĘBSKA
Agata Grzybowska (University of Warsaw), Hecataeus of Abdera and the first Greek-Jewish Literary Encounters in the Hellenistic Period
Magdalena Matuszewska (University of Warsaw), Jewish Sacred Poetry in the Ottoman Empire on the Basis of Manuscript from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
Michael Halévy (The Institute for the History of the German Jews, IGDJ), A Sefardi kina (endecha) from Karnobat, Bulgaria
Floresha Dado (The Academy of Sciences of Albania), The Pretty Jevrenija and Qyste Jahudia in the Albanian Epos of the Warriors
Krzysztof Usakiewicz (University of Warsaw), The Image of a Jew in Karaghiozis Greek Shadow Theatre
Aleksandra Twardowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), The Status of Judeo-Spanish in Yugoslavia until 1941
- 11:30 – 11:45 DISCUSSION
- 11:45 – 12:00 COFFEE BREAK
- 12:00 – 13:00 SESSION VII
MODERATOR: KRINKA VIDAKOVIĆ-PETROV
ALEKSANDRA TWARDOWSKA
Katarzyna Taczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “I had a turbulent past…”: Jewish issues in Ženi Lebl’s au tobiographical prose
Przemysław Kordos (University of Warsaw), The Jews of Ioannina in the Dimitris Chatzis’s prose
Magdalena Koch (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), ‘The Sephardic Woman in Bosnia’: Intercultural Survival Strategies (Laura Papo Bohoreta – Muhamed Nezirovi ć – Gordana Kuić)
Ljiljana Dobrovšak (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar), The Croatian Zionist magazine “Židov” and Bosnian Sephardic
- 13:00 – 13:20 DISCUSSION
- 13:20 – 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
- 15:00 – 16:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nadége Ragaru (Sciences PO CERI, Paris), Judging Anti-Jewish Crimes before Nuremberg: The Case of the Bulgarian People’s Court (1944-1945)
- 16:00 – 16:45 SESSION VIII
MODERATOR: NADÉGE RAGARU
Pedro Badenas (Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean, Madrid), The Taboo on collaboration and Indifference during the Holocaust in Greece
Bojan Aleksov (School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL), Jewish Refugees in the Balkans: Entangled Perspectives on Second World War and the Holocaust
Vladimir Iliescu (University Aachen), The rescue of a third of the Jewish Population of Cernăuţi (Romania) from the deportation to Transnistria
- 16:45 – 17:00 DISCUSSION
- 17:00 – 17:15 COFFEE BREAK
- 17:15 – 18:00 SESSION IX
MODERATOR: NADÉGE RAGARU
Marco Clementi (University of Calabria), The Rhodes Jewish Community under the Italian Rule. From Control to Deportation.
Jolanta Mindak-Zawadzka (University of Warsaw), Jews and Albanians. Prolegomena.
Kateřina Králová (Charles University in Prague), Greeks or Jews? The Problem of Jewish Identity and Citizenship in Post-War Greece
- 18:00 – 18:20 DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER
- 9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Konstanty Gebert (Gazeta Wyborcza), Wars and Jews in the Balkans: Some Reflections of an Onlooker
- 10:00 – 11:15 SESSION X
MODERATOR: KONSTANTY GEBERT
Tijana Zebić (University of Belgrade), Jewish community in Pirot: Public and religious identity in the Balkan Ottoman town from the Tansimat reforms period to the WWI
Mateusz Maleszka (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), Acculturation of Galician Jews in Bosnia
Krinka Vidaković-Petrov (University of Belgrade), Jewish Identity in Yugoslavia Before and After the Shoah
Kyrillos Nikolaou (Paris-Sorbonne University), Changing geopolitics and the Migrations in the eve of the 20th century: Balkan Jews, Balkan Greeks
Răzvan Mitu (University of Craiova), Ethnic-Political Relationships in Post-Communist Bulgaria.
- 11:15 – 11:30 DISCUSSION
- 11:30 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK
- 11:45 – 13:00 SESSION XI
MODERATOR: KONSTANTY GEBERT
Yorgos Christidis (University of Macedonia), The Jewish community in post-Communist Bulgaria. State policy and community evolution.
Denis S. Ermolin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Jewish Cemeteries in Pristina (Kosovo) as Places of Memory
Ivana Manić & Miloš Manić (University of Niš), The case of Jewish cemetery in Niš
Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska (Jagiellonian University), Ethnic policy of Slovenia in the face of European regulations on minorities
Dzmitry Shavialiou (Belarusian State University), Jews of Moldova in the post-Soviet era
- 13:00 – 13:15 DISCUSSION
- 13:15 – 13:40 CLOSING REMARKS
- 13:40 – 16:00 LUNCH BREAK
- 17:00 – 20:00 POLIN – VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS
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INFORMATION
Dear Participants,
We kindly remind you that you have 15 minutes for your lecture.
We intend to print the materials in the 6th number of “Colloquia Balkanica”.
The standardized text in English, up to 15 pages in MS WORD .doc or .docx format, should be sent to the organizers by 30th of January 2017 at the address given below:
jolanta.sujecka@al.uw.edu.pl
m.maciulewicz@student.uw.edu.pl
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