Open Lecture # 1 "Yiddish Culture – Key Questions"
December 7, Thursday at 19:00 – UKRAINE time, ZOOM
Dr. Karolina Szymaniak will speak on twentieth-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish
literary criticism and Yiddish-Polish literary encounters and their
discontents. Dr. Szymaniak’s monograph on Rachel Auerbach was awarded the 2016
Polityka Prize for outstanding books on history. Her publications in leading
academic journals focus on the Yiddish avant-garde, Yiddish literary criticism,
and more. Dr. Szymaniak has taught extensively at numerous Yiddish language and
culture programmes throughout the world.
Open Lecture # 2 "Social History and
Jewish-Christian Relations in the XX century - Key Questions" December
13, Wednesday at 19:00 - UKRAINE time, ZOOM
Dr. Kamil Kijek will talk about the political
history of Polish Jews in the second half of the 19th and in the 20th century
while collapsing the usual boundaries applied to this period by integrating
pre-1939, Holocaust and post-Holocaust periods and focusing on the problems of
continuity and discontinuity in modern Polish Jewish history. Dr. Kamil Kijek
is a leading social and political historian of Polish Jewry who was involved in
the creation of the exhibition in the Polin Museum in Warsaw. The English
translation of his enthusiastically received monograph Children of Modernism
is currently being prepared for publication.
Open Lecture # 3 "Hasidism
– Key Questions" December 20, Wednesday at 19:00 – UKRAINE time, ZOOM
Prof. Marcin Wodziński will lecture on the social
and cultural history of a major Jewish popular mystical movement that
originated in Eastern Europe and saw its heyday in nineteenth-century Poland. Prof.
Wodziński will look at Hasidism, Hasidic-Haskalah encounters, and Hasidism and
Digital Humanities. His research integrates social history, demography, and
geography to break new ground in Hasidic and Haskalah studies. Prof. Wodziński’s Historical Atlas of
Hasidism received the Jewish Book Award in 2019.
The Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland invites you to an online KEY QUESTIONS Open Lectures series to promote our new International MA Programme in Eastern European Jewish Studies.
The KEY QUESTIONS series is scheduled for three consecutive weeks on 7, 13, and 20 December at 18:00 [CET – Warsaw time] and 19:00 – UKRAINE time, ZOOM.
The focus will be on the three main pillars of our three-semester MA programme in English. The speakers are all faculty members at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies.
