Jewish Roots Workshop

Programme

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30am Registration

10:00am Welcome

Susan Storring, IPJS Joint Conference Secretary

Opening Remarks

Dr. François Guesnet, Reader in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL, and IPJS Chairman

Morning Session 1

10:15am Sima Velkovich

“The fate of Holocaust Victims in Yad Vashem’s documentation and projects.”

11:00am Q&A

11:30am Coffee break

Morning Session 2

11:45am Sima Beeri

“Lost and Found”. How a chance visit to Yad Vashem led to the amazing discovery of a family previously hidden during the Soviet times.

12:15pm Q&A

12:30 2pm Lunch (provided), with time for mingling and data-base searching.

NB. Please do not bring food into JW3 unless is it certified and sealed as kosher. Thank you
for your co-operation.

Afternoon Session 1

2:00pm Michael Tobias

“Jewish Genealogical research using online searchable databases”

2:45 Q&A (30 min.)

Coffee or tea in between… (15 min.)

Afternoon Session 2

3:15pm Asya Gefter

“Stories of Not Asking and Not Telling”: an artist and researcher’s journey into the recovery of her ancestors’ lives, disappearances, ideologies, and migrations. Asya’s findings reflect on the erasures and intersections of family and national memories in the Russian- and English-speaking worlds.

3:45 Q&A

4:00pm Tea break

Afternoon Session 3

4:15pm “A Town called Brzostek” (2014, Dir. Simon Target, 50 min.)

Prof Jonathan Webber’s story of the restoration of an abandoned Jewish cemetery in his ancestral hometown, and of Jewish-Polish reconciliation.

Introduced by Prof Antony Polonsky (10 min.)

5:15pm Discussion chaired by Dr Guesnet (15 min.)

Afternoon Session 4

5:30pm Concluding Discussion and chance to talk with presenters and experts.

6:00pm Close of Workshop – Good bye! and hope to see you next year.

Jewish Roots Workshop

Sunday 22 September 2019