Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow of Jewish - Polish Relations
| Dates: | 30 November 2015 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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All are welcome to attend a half-day workshop: ‘Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow of Jewish - Polish Relations’. The workshop is part of a programme promoting a new exhibition entitled 'Righteous Among the Nations: Help of Polish People for the Jewish Population 1939-1945', which will be exhibited at the Whitworth Hall. Please find the details of the workshop below.
The event is FREE and open to all but due to space constraints registration is required.
Please register at: manchester@msz.gov.pl
Place and Time: Monday, 30 November 2015, 1.00 - 4.00 pm, Whitworth Hall, Oxford Road, Manchester
Programme:
13:00 - 13:20 Dr Yakoov Wise (University of Huddersfield), “When Poland was the centre of the Jewish world: 1569-1939”
Session One
Moderator: Dr Ewa Ochman (The University of Manchester)
13:20 - 13:40 Dr Joanna Michlic (University of Bristol), “What we do not talk about when we talk about rescuers of Jews.”
13:40 - 14:00 Dr Katarzyna Zechenter (University College London), “Saving not just life but human dignity: Polish Righteous among the Nations”
14:00 - 14:20 Panel discussion
Session Two
Moderator: Dr Piotr Goldstein (The University of Manchester)
14:50 - 15:10 Magdalena Rubenfeld Koralewska (Beit Kraków - Jewish Progressive Community), “The phenomenon of progressive Judaism in Poland (200 years)”
15:10 - 15:30 Jan Gryta (The University of Manchester), “Remembering Jewish Kraków after the fall of communism”
15:30 - 16:00 Panel discussion
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Whitworth Hall
Manchester
