Jewish History and Culture of East Central Europe in the 19th-20th Centuries
July 2-27, 2012
Center for Urban History, Lviv
The summer school strived to encourage interest in Ukraine's multi-cultural past, research in Jewish studies, and the formation of a group of young Ukrainian scholars united by common research interests. The school offered an excellent opportunity for deepening knowledge about Jewish history and culture of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, learning about the latest research, meeting and consulting with specialists from the leading circles of Jewish studies in Ukraine, Israel, and Poland.
Twenty applicants were accepted to the summer school (advanced students, graduate students, young researchers and teachers, museum curators, guides, and also journalists) from various cities throughout Ukraine.
Over four weeks the participants took three courses in the history of East Central European Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries, courses in traditional and modern Jewish culture, and a separate course on the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine. A 40-hour introductory language course in Yiddish gave participants a solid basis on which they can continue study of the language (in Yiddish programs offered throughout the world), as well as begin their own research in Jewish studies, which requires working with Yiddish-language archival sources.
Participants visited places connected with the history of the Jewish community and its heritage in Lviv, Brody, Zhovkva and other towns of western Ukraine. Also they visited Judaica collection at the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion, existing synagogues in Lviv, and film presentations.
- Курси лекцій та семінарів
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Dr. Vladimir Levin
Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - From Tradition to Modernity: The Jews of the Russian Empire in the 'Long' 19th Century ukrainian version
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Dr. Vasyl Rasevych
Senior Research Fellow, Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - Legal Emancipation of the Jews in the Habsburg Empire 1772-1914 ukrainian version
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Dr. Semion Goldin
Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - The Jews of East Central Europe: Modernization and Nationalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries ukrainian version
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Dr. Joanna Lisek
Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw - Traditional Jewish Culture: People, Customs, Practises ukrainian version
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Dr. Joanna Lisek
Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw - Modern Yiddish Culture ukrainian version
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Dr. Joanna Lisek
Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw - Yiddish course
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Prof. Maksym Gon
Rivne State Humanitarian University - Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Galicia and Volhynia between World Wars I and II ukrainian version
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Mykhailo Tyaglyy
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies - The Holocaust in Ukraine ukrainian version
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Upon successful completion of the summer school participants received certificates of the courses in Jewish History and Culture; upon passing an examination, certificates of successful completion of the 40-hour Yiddish language course (basic level).
Credits
Сover Image: Josef Eder. Synagogue of progressive movement on Staryi Rynok square, 1863. Lviv Historical Museum / Urban media archive