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Jul
3
Wed
How to Speak & Write about Jewish Places @ Center for Jewish Culture
Jul 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

I’m taking part in this panel discussion at the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

Jewish places in Poland, almost moribund after the war, have become increasingly popular among tourists over the last two decades, and their past is becoming meaningful to their present residents. Their visage is highly differentiated, from fields of rubble built over with new structures as at the site of the former Jewish district in Warsaw, through extant streets with hardly any Jews in them, as in the case of Kazimierz in Krakow. In the first case there is a danger that the new identity of a place will replace the old, and in the second that the old will be transformed into a Disneyland fantasy. How to speak about these identities, and how to present them to residents and visitors?

The issue will be discussed by:

Jewish. Jewish? “Jewish” Jewish! @ Jewish Community Centre
Jul 3 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

 

I’ll be taking part in a wide-ranging discussion with the anthropologist Annamaria Orla Bukowska, during the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival.

 

Sep
30
Mon
Conference: Jewish Life and anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe @ Parliament Building
Sep 30 – Oct 2 all-day

I’ll be speaking on

Dec
11
Thu
Jewish. Jewish! “Jewish” Jewish? New Definitions, New Authenticities in Jewish Europe @ Jewish Museum Berlin
Dec 11 @ 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm

 

presentation on a panel at the conference: