Someone’s or Shared: Who Owns Heritage
28.7.2015, 19:00
Ratusha Restaurant (Rynok Sq. 1), Lviv
A researcher of Jewish history from New York Natalia Aleksyun and researcher from Wroclaw Dr. Joanna Lisek will start "Jewish Days at the City Hall" with a talk about who owns heritage. Is the history of a particular community important for understanding the history of a whole city? Who is responsible for maintaining the "foreign" heritage – only direct descendants or absolutely all citizens of the city? In what way does forgotten or unforgotten history of our "yesterday" affect the state of our "today"? Particular attention will be given to the examples of three cities: Wroclaw, Warsaw, and Vilnius.
is a professor of modern Jewish history at Touro College Graduate School of Jewish Studies (New York), and also worked at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Lecturer at the Jewish Summer School at the Center for Urban History. is a professor, teaches history at the Jewish Theological Seminary, director of the Judaica Project, a joint project with the Russian Humanitarian University in Moscow, was editor of the YIVO-Bleter, scholarly publications in Yiddish, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Ph.D, teacher of Hebrew literature and Yiddish Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw. Joanna’s research interests are Yiddish literature and the activity Jewish creative environments of the first half of the twentieth century. The author of the book Jung Wilne – żydowska grupa artystyczna.
Moderator: Iryna Magdysh.
Natalia Aleksyun
David Fishman
Joanna Lisek
Event was a part of the program "Jewish Days at the City Hall: Common Heritage and Responsibility".
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Сover Image: Rynok square, Wroclaw