Ego Documents in Jewish Historical Research
Monday 27 May 2019
09:00-0930 Gathering
09:30-10:00 Greetings
10:00-10:15 Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College – Opening remarks
Session 1: Under Islam – 10:30-12:15. Chair: Nadav Kashtan, Western Galilee College
10:30-10:55 Gad Freudenthal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France – Why Translate? Views from Within. EgoDocuments by Arabic/Latin-into-Hebrew Translators (12th—14th Centuries)
10:55-11:20 Abraham Rubin, Post Doc. Hebrew University – Apostasy, Autobiography and Modern Jewish Identity in the Writings of WesternJewish Converts to Islam
11:20-11:45 Michael Laskier , Western Galilee College – The Self-Praise of the Emissaries of the Jewish Agency’s Immigration Department in Morocco and Tunisia about Organizing Aliyah to Israel
11:45-12:15 Discussion
12:15-13:00 Lunch
Session 2: Gender and Youth – 13:00-15:00. Chair: Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee
College
13:00-13:25 Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg – Gendered Communication. On Immigrants Letters to the German-Jewish Absorption Apparatus and their Consequences for Historiography
13:25-13:50 Tali Berner, Tel Aviv University – Youth, letter writing and Emotions, The Fano and Carmi Family correspondence
13:50-14:15 Angy (Ángeles) Cohen, Post doc. Tel Aviv University – Rachel’s Notebooks: A resource of resistance for a Moroccan immigrant in Israel
14:15-14:45 Verena Buser, Fachhochschule Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany – Diaries from Breesen, Germany 1938-1941
14:45-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
Session 3: Letters and Memoirs – 15:15-17:00. Chair: Ronen Yitzhak, Western Galilee
College
15:15-15:40 Gil Ribak, Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona – “My Young Life Was Constantly in Danger”: Yiddish Memoirists and the Reimagining of the Eastern European Jewish Experience in Postwar America
15:40-16:05 Davide Mano, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris France – Isacche Vita Servi’s memoir of the year 1799. An ego-document for the collective history of Jews and Christians in Pitigliano
16:05-16:30 Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College – Immigration issues as reflected in Immigrants correspondence with Jewish aid organizations, 1890-1914
16:30-17:00 Discussion
Tuesday 28 May 2019
09:30-10:00 Gathering
Session 1: Holocaust and aftermath – 10:00-12:10, Chair: Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College
10:00-10:25 Joana Michlic, University College of London – Ego Documents as an Important Source in Uncovering the History of Rescue of Jews: the Case of Poland.
10:25-10:50 Amy Simon, William and Audrey Farber Family Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History, Michigan State University, James Madison College – Reading and Understanding
Emotions in Holocaust Diaries
10:50-11:15 Stephen Naron, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Yale University – The Thing to Forget: Holocaust Testimony as Documentation of Survivors in Pre and Early State of Israel
11:15-11:40 Agata Lagiewka, National University of Ireland, Galway at the School of Literatures & Languages – Ruth Kluger: A Life Story Remembering the Past to be Present as Historical Witness
11:40-12:00 Discussion
12:00- 12:30 Children of War, Holocaust, Genocide site Launch event. Sponsored by the Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College.
Host: Boaz Cohen
12:30-13:15 Lunch
Session 2: Changing Conceptions – 13:15-15:00. Chairperson : Berl Lerner, Western
Galilee College
13:15-13:40 Orly Meron, Bar Ilan University- The Usage of Ego-documents in Holocaust research: the Case of Jewish-Greek business survivals 13:40-14:05 Emma Zohar, Western Galilee College – The Private and the Public: The reflection of the Kalisz CYSZO School in Egodocuments and in the Kalisz Yizkor Book
14:15-14:30 Kalousova Eva, Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies, OLOMOUC – “Bad Dream” – Diary of a Theresienstadt Survivor
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
Session 3: Summary – 15:15-16:0
