The LBI London, in cooperation with LBI New York and with the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, is holding a workshop at the Center for Jewish History, New York, 24 August 2017.
1.00-2.45: First Session (Chair: David Rechter, University of Oxford)
Andrea Sinn, Elon University Redefining Home: Jews and the Politics of Rebuilding Post-War Germany Margarete Feinstein, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Ohne Heimat: German Jews as Displaced Persons in Post-War Germany Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague On the Margins of Communities. German-speaking Christian-Jewish Couples in Post-War Czechoslovakia 2.45-3.15 – Coffee Break
3.15-5.00: Second Session ( Chair: Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)
Katharina Friedla, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Experiences of Stigmatization, Discrimination and Exclusion – German-Jewish Survivors in Wrocław and Lower Silesia, 1945–1946 Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College The Galician Paradigm? Postwar Experiences of German-Speaking Polish Jewish Survivors Gaelle Fisher, University of Augsburg, Germany Between Liberation and Emigration: Bukovina Jews in Post-War Romania
5.15-6.00: Concluding discussion Commentator: Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
Organisers: Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences David Rechter, University of Oxford Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York
For more information, please refer to our leaflet here.
