Organizer: Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies
Venue: Uzhhorod National University, Archeological Museum (Rectorate Building, 1st floor) 3 Narodna Sq.
PROGRAMME
JUNE 24
11:00 Registration
11:30 Opening remarks
Vitaly Chernoivanenko (UAJS, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)
Javier Castaño (European Association for Jewish Studies, UK/Spain)
Carol Mann (FemAid, University of Paris 8, France)
Anna Furman (Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Ukraine)
Pavlo Khudish (Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine)
12:00–14:00 Panel 1
Chair: Vitaly Chernoivanenko
Joel Swanson (Sarah Lawrence College, United States)
Love, Socialism, and Religious Ecstasy: Affect and Interiority in Anna Kuliscioff’s Marxist Feminism
Thomas Chopard (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France) Two Jewish Sisters in Revolutions: Activism and Resistance in Poland, Spain,
Belgium, and Back to Poland
Alina Marincean (Elie Wiesel Heritage Museum, Romania)
The Alternatives of Liberation for Jewish Women in Maramureș�:
Woman of Valor, Yiddishe Mamme, or Communist Comrade?
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Keynote lecture I
Eliyana R. Adler (Binghamton University, United States)
Revisiting Schools for Jewish Girls and the Russian Empire
16:00–17:30 Panel 2
Chair: Tamás Stark
Joanna Bakoń (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Instrumentalizing Education for Jewish Orthodox Women’s Agency:
The Bais Yaakov School Network in Interwar Poland
Ethell Gershengorin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
Building a Nation Through Medicalized Motherhood: OZE’s Maternal and Infant Care Programs and Literature in Interwar Eastern Europe
17:30 Coffee break
18:00–19:30 Panel 3
Chair: Carol Mann
Tamás Stark (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
The Story of an Upper-Сlass Hungarian Jewish Woman in the Twentieth Century
Judith Kalik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Jewish Landlords in Austrian Galicia and Peasant Women
JUNE 25
11:00 Keynote lecture II
Carol Mann (University of Paris 8, France)
From Tradition to Revolution: Jewish Pasionarias of the Pale of Settlement
12:00 Coffee break
12:30–14:30 Panel 4
Chair: Judith Kalik
Alla Marchenko (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Following the Tzaddik: Pilgrimage and Devotion in Memoirs of Women from Hasidic Families in the Early 20th Century
Irina Rabinovich (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel)
Wilhelmina Wittigschlager’s Minna: A Jewish Rebel’s Struggle for Freedom
and Identity in the Transformative Era of Eastern European Jewry
Haim Sperber (Western Galilee College, Israel)
Agunot in Eastern Europe, 1851–1914
Tomasz M. Jankowski (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
In-Law Equality. Gender and Family Arrangements of Ashkenazi Jewry
14:30 Lunch
15:30–17:30 Panel 5
Chair: Joel Swanson
Tetiana Nepypenko (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
Zun iber alts: Sun, Silence, and Desire in Modernist Yiddish Women’s Poetry
Oleksandra Uralova (Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies, Ukraine)
Gender, Body, and Marginality in the Hasidic Stories of I. L. Peretz
Khrystyna Semeryn (independent scholar, Ukraine)
Between Gender and Ethnicity: The Portrayal of a Jewish Woman in Ukrainian Writings at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
17:30 Coffee break
18:00–19:00 Seminar: Prospects for the Study of Sex and Gender in Jewish Studies Across Europe
Chair: Carol Mann and Vitaly Chernoivanenko
Speakers: All participants are welcome to speak