Upcoming events
Jews in Polish and German Lands: Encounters, Interactions, Inspirations
Organised by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies and the Polin Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in co-operation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex.
The conference will consist of two online panels in the afternoon, and an evening face-to-face panel at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, 47 Portland Place, London W1B 1JH.
International contributors to the volume will present papers at the conference.
About the conference volume
Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solely within national boundaries, thereby ignoring the interactions that have shaped Jewish cultural life. Geographical proximity has meant that Jews from both countries have been linked through kinship ties as well as shared economic, cultural, and linguistic realities. The complexity of this relationship and its consequences have been only partially reflected in scholarship. This volume takes a different approach, shifting the focus away from the nationally distinct to investigate instead mutual influences and interactions. Moving beyond the traditional paradigms that characterize Polish Jewry as ‘authentic’ and German Jewry as ‘modernizing’, it challenges the sharp historiographic division between these two communities and opens up a nuanced understanding of modern European Jewish history.
Online Session Booking and Information
Click the following link to see the full programme and register here for the online sessions only.
https://buytickets.at/uclinstituteofjewishstudies/1498039
The zoom link will be sent after registering. You can join for all or any part of the afternoon.
In Person Booking and Information
If you would like to register your interest in joining the evening in-person event, please write to s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk
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Last updated: Wednesday, 8 January 2025