4th International Summer School Prague – Szczecin 2015: Jews in East Central Europe: History and Commemoration

Program Part 1: Prague Sunday, 13/9 18.00 Introduction into the topic of the Summer School (Prof. Dr. Jörg Hackmann, Szczecin, Dr. Torsten Lorenz, Prague) Monday, 14/9 9.00-9.30 Official opening of the Summer School 9.30-11.00 Keynote speech: There was no „Minor Literature“ in Prague! Kafka, Prague German Literature and the Diversity of Jewishness (Prof. Dr. Manfred Weinberg, Charles University Prague) 11.15-12.00 Constitution of the student working groups 13.30-15.00 Yiddish, the Language of the Diaspora (Dr. Petr Jan Vinš, Charles University Prague) 15.15-18.00 Tour through Prague Tuesday, 15/9 9.00-11.00 Visit of the Center for Visual History Malach. Presentation and talk about the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation (Jakub Mlynář, MA, Charles University Prague) 11.30-12.30 The Jews in Czech memory culture since 1989: Development and examples (Karolina Heroldová, BA, Charles University Prague) 13.30-15.00 Student working groups Wednesday, 16/9 9.00-17.30 Study trip to Theresienstadt / Terezín Thursday, 17/9 9.15-10.45 Student working groups 11.00-12.30 From the Countryside to the City. The (Trans-)Regional Migration of Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the 19th and early 20th Century (Dr. Ines Koeltzsch, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague) 14.00-16.00 Visit of the Jewish Museum (Zuzana Pavlovská, Jewish Museum, Prague) 16.15-17.00 Evaluation of the Prague program Evening Train to Warsaw (departure: 23:08, arrival: 07:20, trains R 443 / R 406) Part 2: Warsaw Friday, 18/9 7.30 Arrival in Warsaw 11.00 Opening of the program in Poland Welcome address from the DAAD Maria Szrajber, DAAD Warsaw Office Jews in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries (Dr. Jürgen Hensel, Warszawa) 14.00 The POLIN. History and Mission. An introduction by Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, POLIN 14.45 Meeting with Marian Turski, chairman of POLIN’s Museum Council 16.00 Material and immaterial collections of the POLIN (Albert Stankowski, POLIN) Saturday, 19/9 11.00 Guided tour through the permanent exhibition at POLIN (Ewa Małkowska-Bieniek, curator of the exhibition) 14.00 Working groups at the POLIN 17.00 Guided tour through the area of the ghetto (Dr. Kathrin Stoll, Warsaw) Sunday, 20/9 12.00 Guided tour through the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising (Dr. Paweł Brudek, Museum of the Warsaw Uprising) 16.00 Guided tour through the Jewish cemetery (Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, Warsaw) Monday, 21/9 9.30 Working groups 10.30 Jews in the collective memory of Poles and Germans (Dr. Małgorzata Pakier, POLIN) 12.00 Evaluation of the Warsaw program 16.55 train transfer from Warszawa Centralna to Szczecin Główny 22.12 arrival in Szczecin Part 3: Szczecin Tuesday, 22/9 10.00 opening of the Szczecin program Prof. Dr. Edward Włodarczyk, rector of Szczecin University (tbc) Jews in Szczecin until the deportation in 1940. Some introductory remarks (Jörg Hackmann, Szczecin) 10.45 Jews in Szczecin after WWII (Achim Wörn, Berlin) 14.00 March 68. Jews and anti-Semitism in Szczecin (Dr. Eryk Krasucki, Szczecin) 16.00 guided tour through Szczecin, including Niebuszewo, the Jewish quarter after 1945 Wednesday, 23/9 9.00 Materials on Jews in Szczecin in the State Archive, Szczecin 11.00 Materials on Jews in Szczecin in the Pomeranian Library 14.00-18.00 Working groups in the Pomeranian Library and the State Archive 19.00 Film: An Apartment in Berlin (2014, Alice Agneskirchner) Thursday, 24/9 9.00-17.00 Working groups on Jews in Szczecin in the Pomeranian Library and the State Archive 18.00 Meeting with the Jewish Cultural Society, Stettin Friday, 25/9 9.00-13.00 Working groups on Jews in Szczecin in the Pomeranian Library and the State Archive 16.00 Public presentation of the working groups Saturday, 26/9 8.00 Excursion focussing on Jewish history in Western Pomerania with stops in Wolin, Kamien Pomorski, Trzebiatów 16.00 Final discussion in Kulice 21.30 Return to Szczecin