Jews in Polish and German Lands: Encounters, Interactions, Inspirations
- A CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH
- VOL. 37 OF POLIN: STUDIES IN POLISH JEWRY
- Wednesday 12nd February 2025
- 1pm – 8.00pm
- ONLINE VIA ZOOM
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.
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.
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.