Tuesday, March 6, 2018 ** WORKING DRAFT of Program, may change **
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-11:00 PANEL 4: EMBODIMENTS AND SPACES
Chair: Barbara Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Kathryn Ciancia, “Civilizing Peripheries: Polishness, Jewishness, and “Modern” Urban Spaces in Interwar Eastern Poland”
Sonia Gollance, “Dance as a Tool of Pleasure and Humiliation in I. J. Singer’s The Brothers Ashkenazi”
Cecile Kuznitz, “Neighborhood as a Marker of Lublin’s Jewish Geography”
Interlocutors: Jagoda Wierzejska, Uriel Gellman, Marcos Silber
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-1:15 PANEL 5: HIGH AND LOW CULTURES
Chair: Karen Auerbach (University of North Carolina)
Presenters: Marcos Silber, “Popular and Mass Culture in Poland: Reassessing the Acculturation Paradigm”
Agnieszka Legutko, “The Dybbuk in Popular Polish Imagination”
Zehavit Stern, “The Folksy Avant-garde? Moyshe Broderzon and the Ararat Cabaret Theater”
Ela Bauer, “In the Periphery and in the Center, in the Shtetls and in the Cities: Jews are Going to the Movies”
Interlocutors: Natan Meir, Michael Steinlauf, Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, Sonia Gollance
2:45-4:45 PANEL 6: AUDIENCES
Chair: Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia)
Presenters: Naomi Seidman, “The Theatrics of Bais Yaakov Schools”
Sarah Zarrow, “The Uses of Traditional Crafts in Girls’ Technical Education in Lwów”
Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka, “The Musical Tastes of Jewish Audiences in Interwar Kraków”
Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, “Jews for the Poles: The Monument of Casimir the Great and the Integrationist Strategies of the Progressive Jews in Kraków”
Interlocutors: Jack Kugelmass, Karen Underhill, Samuel Zerin, Zehavit Stern, Magdalena Kozłowska
4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks
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