Generations and Genealogies
The 4th Annual Polish Jewish Studies Workshop
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Events held in the Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University unless otherwise noted
Sunday, April 2
| 5:00-6:30 pm | Reading and Conversation | |
| Agata Tuszynska, author | ||
| Family History of Fear: A Memoir | ||
| Michigan Room, Michigan League, 911 N. University |
Monday, April 3
| 8:15-8:30 am | Opening Remarks | |
| Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan | ||
| 8:30-10:00 am | I. Genealogies of Polish Jewish Studies: The Historiographic Making of a Field | |
| Chair: Karen Underhill, University of Illinois, Chicago | ||
| Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University/POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews | ||
| Disputed Issues in Polish-Jewish Historiography | ||
| Piotr Wrobel, University of Toronto | ||
| Jewish Historians from Habsburg Galicia and the Holocaust | ||
| Gershon Bacon, Bar-Ilan University | ||
| Transitional Generation: On the Trajectories of Polish Jewish Studies over the Past Half Century | ||
| 10:30 am-12:00 pm | II. Generational Turning Points | |
| Chair: Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan | ||
| Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University | ||
| The First Generations of Ashkenazic Polish Jews | ||
| Karen Auerbach, University of North Carolina | ||
| Generational History and Religious Change: A Jewish Publisher’s Family in Fin-de-siecle Warsaw | ||
| Ela Bauer, Tel Aviv University/Kibbutzim College | ||
| Between Mickiewicz and Bar Kokhba: The Young Jewish Generation in Lwow at the End of the 19th Century | ||
| Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | ||
| Generation and Suicide in the Lodz Ghetto | ||
| 1:30-3:00 pm | III. Diasporic Generations | |
| Chair: Shachar Pinkser, University of Michigan | ||
| Kamil Kijek, University of Wrocław | ||
| Facing Ashes and Rubble: Western Jewish/Polish Jewish Encounters and Transnationalism of Polish Jewry, 1945-50 | ||
| Kamila Dabrowska, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews | ||
| The Mnemonic Community of the March ’68 Emigrants and Their Attitudes toward Poland | ||
| Jagoda Budzik, Adam Mickiewicz University | ||
| Third-Generation Polish-Jewish Israeli Authors and Their Identity Struggles | ||
| 3:30-5:00 pm | IV. The Jewish Story in the New Generation of Polish Museums | |
| Chair: Erica Lehrer, Concordia University | ||
| Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warsaw | ||
| The Jewish Story in the New Generation of Museums in Poland: Revised? Repeated? Concealed? | ||
| Karolina Koprowska, Jagiellonian University | ||
| Tag Plaszow: The Curatorial Collective as a New Generation of Museology in Poland | ||
| Anna Muller, University of Michigan-Dearborn | ||
| Situating the Holocaust in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk | ||
| 5:30-7:00 pm | Annual Copernicus Lecture | |
| Adam Michnik, historian and editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza | ||
| The Glory and Poverty of the ’68 Generation | ||
| Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State |
Tuesday, April 4
| 8:30-10:15 am | V. Generational and Genealogical Memory and Non-Memory | |
| Chair: Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Princeton University/Polish Academy of Science | ||
| Michal Bilewicz, University of Warsaw | ||
| From Competitive Memories to Local Identity: Changing Perceptions of Jews and the Holocaust in the Young Generation of Poles | ||
| Alicja Podbielska, Clark University | ||
| Genealogical Memory of the Righteous in Poland | ||
| Olga Kaczmarek, University of Warsaw | ||
| A Genealogy of Diverging Narratives on Wartime Polish-Jewish Relations in Polish Public Discourse | ||
| Marcin Napiorkowski, University of Warsaw | ||
| Tracing the Genealogy of Competitive Martyrdom: The Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising | ||
| 10:45 am-12:00 pm | VI. The Discovery and Recovery of Jewishness: Narratives and Experiences | |
| Chair: Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan | ||
| Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan | ||
| Genera through Generations: On the Evolution of How We Read Concentration Camp Literature | ||
| Joanna Trzeciak Huss, Kent State University | ||
| Tertium Datur: Rozewicz’s Final Act | ||
| 1:30-3:00 pm | VII. Generational Cultural Practices and Forms | |
| Chair: Shana Penn, Jagiellonian University | ||
| Rachel Merrill Moss, Northwestern University | ||
| Exploring Jewish Theater as a Performative Link between Pre- and Post-War Generations in Poland | ||
| Pawel Dobrosielski, University of Warsaw | ||
| “The Jew with a Coin” as Transgenerational Vernacular Practice with New Meaning | ||
| Slawomir Jacek Zurek, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin | ||
| The Newest Generation of Polish Writers and Holocaust (Post)Memory | ||
| 3:30-5:00 pm | VIII. Roundtable: The Jewish Revival Seen from Within and Without | |
| Moderator: Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan | ||
| Jonathan Ornstein, Jewish Community Center Krakow | ||
| The Rebirth of Jewish Life in Poland | ||
| Ruth Ellen Gruber, author and independent scholar | ||
| Life after Life: Virtually Jewish 15 Years On | ||
| Chuck Fishman, photographer | ||
| Roots, Resilience, Renewal: A Portrait of Polish-Jewish Generations, Lost and Found | ||
| Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska, George Washington University/Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland | ||
| “In Search of More than One Truth”: Mi Dor Le Dor Program’s Transmission of Polish Jewish Heritage |
