International Conference
Jewish Dissidents in the Eastern Bloc
14-15 April 2021
Organisers:
Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester); Sander Gilman (Emory University); Monika Schärtl (Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg)
Please register by 12 April 2021:
April 14
09.00-09.30 EDT / 14.00-14.30 BST / 15.00-15.30 MESZ / CEST
Welcome:
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Selma Stern Center)
Keynote:
Thomas Krüger (German Federal Agency for Civic Education)
09.30-10.30 EDT / 14.30-15.30 BST / 15.30-16.30 MESZ / CEST
Chair:
Norman Salusa (Selma Stern Center)
Panel 1:
Sander Gilman (Emory): Opposition/Dissident/Collaborator/Victim/’Magic Jew’? Jurek Becker in the GDR
Anna Shternshis (Toronto): How (not) to Say Gulag in Yiddish: Soviet Yiddish Intellectuals and the early Days of Thaw
10.30-11.00 EDT / 15.30-16.00 BST / 16.30-17.00 MESZ / CEST
Break
11.00-12.00 EDT / 16.00-17.00 BST / 17.00-18.00 MESZ / CEST
Chair:
Stephen Parker (Cardiff / Manchester)
Panel 2:
Mario Keßler (Leibniz Center for Contemporary History): Alfred Kantorowicz between East and West
Janek Gryta (Bristol): Navigating the Communist Reality of Poland. Regional Jewish Leaders and the Memory of the Holocaust in the 1950s and 1960s
April 15
09.00-10.00 EDT / 14.00-15.00 BST / 15.00-16.00 MESZ / CEST
Chair:
Katja Stürzenhofecker (Manchester)
Panel 3:
Ion Popa (Manchester): Jewish Dissidence in Romania: Definition, Chronology and Particularities
Susan Suleiman (Harvard): Forms of Intellectual Dissidence in Communist Hungary
10.00-10.30 EDT / 15.00-15.30 BST / 16.00-16.30 MESZ / CEST
Break
10.30-11.30 EDT / 15.30-16.30 BST / 16.30-17.30 MESZ / CEST
Chair:
Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic (Manchester)
Reading:
Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston): The Refusenik Legacy: A Reading and A Discussion
11.30-12.30 EDT / 16.30-17.30 BST / 17.30-18.30 MESZ / CEST
Chair:
Irmela von der Lühe (Selma Stern Center)
Concluding comments:
Cathy Gelbin (Manchester): What is Jewish Dissidence?
Followed by roundtable discussion with public Q&A