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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:37 PM To: H-NET Jewish Studies List Subject: CFP: Conference on Jewishness in National Cultures - European, North American, and Israeli Conference: Jewishness in National Cultures - European, North American, and Israeli: Perceptions, Interactions, and Memories Tuesday, November 12 – Thursday, November 14, 2013 Warsaw, SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities The conference pursues the theme of Jewish identity and diversity started at the May 2011 conference (“Jewishness in Contemporary Culture: European and American Perspectives”), and explored in the book Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture (published 2012). This time the loci of attention are Professor Rachel Feldhay Brenner’s book The Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw 1939-1945 and the theme of interactions between Jews and non-Jews, in the present time as well as in the historical perspective. The timing of the Conference corresponds to the planned opening of the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw. The Museum offers an illuminating example of how to transcend the insistence of the Holocaust as the shaping event of Jewish identity. While the Museum’s mission is to pay respect to the Jewish culture and tradition that flourished in the course of nearly a millennium in Poland, scholars’ responsibility is – among other things – to discuss post-Holocaust ethics and relations between Jews and non-Jews. Conference will include a symposium on Prof. Rachel Feldhay Brenner’s book The Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw 1939-1945 [forthcoming] and a guided visit to the Warsaw Museum of the History of Polish Jews and other places connected with Jewish Warsaw. Papers from conference participants should refer to the following areas: (1) representations of Jewish identity in literature and culture (North American, especially US, Israeli, European), in the context of the theme of “Perceptions, Interactions and Memories”; (2) Polish-Jewish Memory; (3) Holocaust in research, literature and visual arts; the digitization of Holocaust testimonies, documents, photos of artifacts and information; Send paper proposals and questions to conferencenov2013@swps.edu.pl. Deadline for paper proposals is June 30, 2013. The cost of the conference, including registration, two lunches, coffee breaks, one dinner and the planned sightseeing and visit to the site of the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews: PLN 400/US $150/ Euro 120. Participants arrange their own travel and accommodation. Conference organizer: Prof. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pêdich, SWPS/University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Cultural Studies and Languages Jody Myers California State University, Northridge --
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