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