IPJS’s programme of events for the academic year 2021-2022

Źródło: Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies POLIN

Cycle of lectures, the annual conference and a workshop focuses on Jewish culture in the Polish lands, Yiddish, the Holocaust and antisemitism, genealogy and legacy, and the history of Zionism. Most of the lectures will be presented online, and in cooperation with the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies.

On 1 February 2022, the IPJS will host its annual conference in co-operation with Embassy of the Republic of Poland, the Polish Cultural Institute, London, and the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies to celebrate the publication of the new volume of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry. Volume 34 is dedicated to the history of Jewish Self-government in the Polish Lands, edited by François Guesnet and Antony Polonsky, and the conference, planned in the traditional format of an in-person event, will feature several of the authors of this pioneering volume.

Further information about registration for these and will be sent out through mailing list.

Please do consider supporting the activities of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, including the publication of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry, through our support scheme.

Since 1986, the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies is dedicated to improving the mutual understanding of Jews and Poles, a key component of the multi-cultural legacy of eastern central Europe. It does so through support for academic research and publications, and for education through public events. It is best know for publishing the internationally leading academic yearbook Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry in cooperation with the Littman Library for Jewish Civilization and Liverpool University Press. Over the decades, it has been able to pursue these activities through generous support from the public. The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies is entirely independent, a registered UK Charity, and does not receive institutional support from any side.

To contribute to the long-term financial viability of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, its Council is launching a new Institute support scheme. Through a contribution, you can help the Institute continue promoting the history of Jewish life in the Polish lands and eastern Europe. In return, you can claim a paperback (Member of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Friend of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies) or hardback/e-book (Supporter of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies) copy of the yearbook Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry as well as complimentary access to the annual conference launching the new issue of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry (for Friends and Supporters of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies) with internationally renowned speakers.

There are three contribution levels:

IPJS’s programme of events for the academic year 2021-2022

19 October 2021

Zoom, in cooperation with the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies (UCL IJS).
Marek Tuszewicki (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): The Frog under the Tongue. Polish-Jewish medical traditions
Chair and response: François Guesnet

4 November 2021

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS and the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Sonia Gollance: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity.
Chair: François Guesnet

16 November 2021

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS.
Marc Caplan: Weimar and Now: Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin.
Respondent: Uilleam Blacker (UCL SSEES, IPJS)
Chair: François Guesnet

7 December 2021

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS.
Natalia Aleksiun: Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians Before the Holocaust.
Chair: Antony Polonsky

18 January 2022

Hybrid event, in cooperation with UCL IJS and the Wiener Holocaust Library
Michael Fleming: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice.
Respondent: Dan Plesch
Chair: Antony Polonsky

1 February 2022

In cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, the Polish Cultural Institute, London, the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies
Conference launching Polin vol. 34: Jewish Self-government in the Polish Lands.

1 March 2022

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS Eliyana Adler, Survival on the Margins. Polish Jewish survival in the wartime Soviet Union (Harvard UP 2020).
Respondent: Markus Nesselrodt, Berlin.
Author of: Dem Holocaust entkommen. Polnische Juden in der Sowjetunion, 1939-1944 (de Gruyter 2019)
Chair: Antony Polonsky

8 March 2022

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS
Roni Mazal: Yiddish in South Africa
Respondent: Shirli Gilbert (UCL)
Chair: François Guesnet / Antony Polonsky

15 March 2022

Zoom, in cooperation with UCL IJS
Jan Rybak: Everyday Zionism in Eastern Central Europe. Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920.
Chair: François Guesnet
Respondent: tbc

March 2022 (date to be confirmed)

Book presentation with Nadia Ragozhina, author of Worlds Apart: The Journeys of My Jewish Family in Twentieth-Century Europe. An in-person workshop about the history of two brothers from Warsaw separated during the war, one surviving in the Soviet Union, one in Switzerland, with their off-spring reunited only a few years ago. The workshop will address the history of Jewish families torn apart by war and persecution, and recovering their memory.

Registration: Registration for all events is free via Eventbrite. Details about how to register will be provided prior to each event.