This 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. 

YOUR REGISTRATION HERE IS FOR THE ONLINE SESSIONS ONLY. PLEASE EMAIL s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk IF YOU WOULD LIKE A SEPARATE INVITATION TO THE EVENING IN-PERSON EVENT
The two online panels will be organized chronologically: 1) Polish, German, Jewish Cultural Encounters in War and Peace and 2) The Holocaust and its Aftermath (see programme below). The face-to-face panel will consist of a general introduction to the volume by its editors, followed by a keynote address and reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.

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. Contributors to the volume will present papers at the conference.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE ONLINE PART OF THE CONFERENCE. It is free of charge and you are welcome to join all or any part of it.  Everyone who registers will be sent the zoom link before the event.

 

Organized 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.