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Conference "700 Years
of Jewish Presence in Cracow"
September 26, 2005 Monday
taking part in the conference are
outstanding experts and
historians from Poland, Israel, Great Britain, Germany
and the
USA.
The history of the Jewish community in Cracow, from
the Middle
Ages up to the present day are discussed by historians
at an
international conference "700 Years of Jewish Presence
in Cracow"
which started in Cracow on Monday.
The event is co-organised by the Polish Academy of
Arts and
Sciences (PAU.)
Professor Jerzy Wyrozumski, PAU Secretary General stressed
that after the 40 years of a deliberate silence on the
coexistence of Poles and Jews on the Polish lands the
issue has
become the subject of ever greater number of dissertations
and
scientific conferences.
Numerous publications prove then growing interest in
the
theme of Jewish presence in Poland and Jews' contribution
to the
Polish history, Wyrozumski pointed out.
The history of Polish Jews shows that for many centuries
the Jewish community was the most important and the
strongest
in the Republic of Poland. The oldest mention of a Jewish
street in Cracow found in municipal books indicates
that the
street might have existed already in the 11th century,
Wyrozumski
believes.
Professor Jozef Gierowski, the founder of an
interdepartmental Institute of the History and Culture
of Jews in
Poland at the Jagiellonian University claims that thanks
to its history
Cracow is one of few cities in Poland which has preserved
continuity of Polish-Jewish relations through centuries
up to the
WW2.
Taking part in the conference are outstanding experts
and
historians from Poland, Israel, Great Britain, Germany
and the
USA.
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Department of Jewish Studies
Jagiellonian University
The International Conference:
"700 Years of Jewish Presence in Kraków"
26-28 September 2005
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kraków, 17 Sławkowska Street
The Conference Program
September
26 (Monday)
10.30 -Opening
Ceremony:
Prof. Jerzy Wyrozumski Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Prof. Jacek Majchrowski The Mayor of the City of Kraków
Prof. Józef Gierowski Jagiellonian University
11.00 - Prof. Hanna Zaremska (Polish Academy of Sciences):
Why Kraków?
11.30-12.00 - coffee break
12.00 - Prof. Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University):
Rema's Yeshiva in Kraków.
12.30 - Prof. Stefan Schreiner (University of Tübingen):
R. Moses Isserles on Karaites – Some
Remarks on His Halakhic Regulations and Their Implementation.
13.00 - Prof. Jacob Elbaum (The Hebrew University):
Two Types of Bible Exegesis: Rema (Kraków 1530-
1572) and Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi (Venice [?] 1513 -
Kraków 1586) on Esther.
13.30-15.00 - lunch break
15.00 - Prof. Moshe Rosman (Bar Ilan University): The
Material Aspects of Jewish Marriage in Kraków
in the Early Modern Period.
15.30 - Prof. Karl Groezinger (University of Potsdam):
Jewish Legends from Kraków.
16.00 - Mrs. Anna Jakimyszyn (Jagiellonian University):
From Birth to Death - Analysis of the
Jewish Customs Based on the Kraków Community Charter
of 5355 (1595).
16.30 - Prof. Adam KaĽmierczyk (Jagiellonian University):
Jewish Converts in Kraków (1650-1750).
September 27 (Tuesday)
9.00 - Prof. Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College
London): “Radical Eglaitarianism” in the “Ma’or va-
Shemesh” Kalonymos Kalman Epstein Re-Visited.
9.30 - Dr. Haim Gertner (The Hebrew University/Yad Vashem):
“Holy Gravestones”: The Old Jewish
Cemetery in Krakow and the Beginning of Orthodox Historical
Writing in the mid 19th Century.
10.00 - Dr. Rachel Manekin (The Hebrew University):
Between Acculturation and Assimilation: Young
Jewish Women in Fin-de-si`ecle Krakow.
10.30 - Dr. Naftali Loewenthal (University College London):
Jewish Spirituality versus Modernity
and Oppression in the 20th Century Krakow
11.00 - 11.30 - coffee break
11.30 - Prof. David Assaf (Tel Aviv University): Dr.
Emanuel Melzer and His Contribution to the
Development of Research on the History of Jews in Poland.
Awarding of the Distinction of the Polish Academy of
Arts and Sciences to Dr. Emanuel Melzer.
12.00- Dr. Emanuel Melzer (Tel Aviv University): Zionism
and Its Influence on the Social and Cultural
Life of Kraków Jewry in the Interwar Period (1919–1939).
12.30 - Prof. Eugenia Prokop Janiec (Jagiellonian University):
Jewish Assimilation in Krakow: the Case
of Salomon Spitzer.
13.00 - Prof. Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University):
The Political Career of Adolf Gross.
13.30 - 15.00 - lunch break
15.00 - Dr. Hanna Kozińska-Witt (University of Leipzig):
Jewish Participation in the Municipal Selfgovernment
in the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939). Outlines
of a Project.
15.30 - Prof. Czesław Brzoza (Jagiellonian University):
Competing for an Authority in Kraków Jewish Community
in the Interwar Period.
16.00 - Dr. Sean Martin (University of Phoenix, Cleveland):
Future Generations: Children’s Aid in Kraków,
1918-1939.
September 28 (Wednesday)
9.30 - Dr. Elvira Groezinger (University of Potsdam):
Jewish-Christian Relations in the Yiddish Songs
of Mordechaj Gebirtig.
10.00 - Prof. John Klier (University College London):
Replanting a Ruined Garden: Polish-Jewish Studies
in the English-Speaking World after 1945.
10.30-11.00 - coffee break
11.00 - Dr. Edyta Gawron (Jagiellonian University):
The Role of Social and Religious Jewish
Organizations in Kraków during the Period of Polish
People’s Republic (1945–1989).
11.30 - Prof. Jonathan Weber (University of Birmingham):
Jewish Krakow – Real and Imagined:
Notes on the Sociology of Memory.
12.00 - Summing up of the conference – a panel discussion.
Honorary patronage:
Mayor of the City of Kraków Professor Jacek Majchrowski
Co-organizers:
The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland
Relations, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
The Center for Research on the History and Culture of
Polish Jews,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London,
Great Britain.
Kollegium Jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Supporting Institutions:
Hanadiv Charitable Foundation
City Office of Kraków
Jewish Community in Kraków
Galicia Jewish Museum
Klezmer Hois
Publishing House "Austeria"
Organizers:
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
31-016 Kraków, ul. Sławkowska 17
www.pau.krakow.pl
Department of Jewish Studies
Jagiellonian University
31-135 Kraków, ul. Batorego12
www.uj.edu.pl/judaistyka
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