Bukovina History Conference - at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Thank you Irene Fishler for supplying a Hebrew language brochure (below) describing the conference coming up on March 15, 2016. The organizer's contact information may be found a the bottom of this page:

Dr. Ronit Fischer
Center for Jewish History

 



 

We are honored to invite you to a convention entitled:

Society and History of Bukovina
The "Multi-Kulti" district of Rumania
on
March 15, 2016
Room 15, Meyersdorf building
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem

9:00-9:30 coming together and refreshments
9:30-10:00 greetings

• Professor Uzi Rebhun, Director of the Center for Research on Romanian Jewry


• Mrs. Andreea PăstârnacAmbasador of Rumania in Israel


• Professor Dror Wahrman, Dean of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


• Mr. Micha Harish, Chairman of the AMIR organization.


• Dr. Sa'ar Pauker, representative of the Pauker family.

10:00-11:15 First Session
Bukovina as a Symbol for Multi-Culturalism
Chairman: Professor Daniel Blattman Hebrew University

• The Jews of Bukovina as a symbol for Romanian heterogeneity in the inter-war period
  Dr. Ronit Fischer, Hebrew and Haifa Universities.


• To describe and imagine Czernowitz - Professor Ya'avetz and his town.
  Dr. Rafael Vago, Tel Aviv University


• Back to Czernowitz, a paradox of memory and nostalgia - a historic-anthropologic approach.
  Dr. Florence Heyman, The French Research Center in Jerusalem. (CNRS-NAE).

11:45 - 13:30 Second Session
A Small District - Many Worlds of Multi-Cultural Creativity
Chairman: Dr. Amos Goldberg Hebrew University

• What happens to the multicultural character of Bukovina after the holocaust? Paul Celan Dan Pagis, and Aharon Appelfeld. Sidra de Koven-Ezrahi, The Hebrew University.


• The Jewish theater of Czernowitz during the transition between Romania and the Soviet Union.
  Ms. Dafne Dolinko The Hebrew University and Yad Va'Shem.


• "My Bukowiner". The writer Nava Semel returns to the lives of her grand parents and to the place where her family originated.

Organizer: Dr. Ronit Fischer