אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, ש סטפן רוט"בשיתוף המכון לחקר האנטישמיות והגזענות בת זמננו ע

2015-2016ל "כנס חוקרים צעירים בלימודי מזרח אירופה לשנה

קבלת פנים וכיבוד קל \ 08:45-09:00

ברכות \ 09:00-09:15

ר ועדת ההיגוי של השותפות הבין אוניברסיטאית בלימודי מזרח אירופה " יו-מוטי זלקין' פרופ גוריון בנגב- אוניברסיטת בן, ראש המחלקה לתולדות ישראל

אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, ראש בית הספר להיסטוריה- אביעד קליינברג' פרופ

09:15-10:30 | First session: Literature, Religion and Art: Inter-Cultural Influences in Russia and Poland-Lithuania

אלימות : טראומה וזיכרון, מלחמה- פאנל שלישי | 12:15-13:30

המונית והשלכותיה החברתיות

The lectures will be given in English

Chair- Motti Zalkin, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev

Magdalena Luszczynska, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anabaptist Conversion to Catholicism in 16th century Poland- Lithuania Lilia Dashevski, Haifa University Byzantine Influence on Mikhail Vrubel’s Art

Nicholas Dreyer, Ph.D University of St. Andrews Jewish Historical Novels in Late Nineteenth- Century Russian Maskilic Literature

אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, דינה מויאל- ר"יו

אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, רז סגלאלימות המונית והתפרקות חברתית , מלחמה: יהודים עומדים מנגד

באזורי הגבול של הונגריה במלחמת העולם השנייה

אוניברסיטת חיפה, חיליק ויצמןשאלת הבעלות על אתרי המורשת היהודית בפולין אחרי מלחמת

העולם השנייה

אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, דמיטרי סקולסקיהמקרה של המוזיאון לדיכוי פוליטי : על אנדרטאות שלא מנציחות

פטריוטי-בטומסק כמקום של זיכרון לא

הפסקת קפה | 10:30-10:45

הפסקת צהריים | 13:30-14:45

מחשבה : 20-במאה ה' אדם חדש'יצירת - פאנל שני | 10:45-12:00 תודעה לאומית ועיצוב חברתי, מדעית

סובייטי היום-רוסיה והמרחב הפוסט- פאנל רביעי | 14:45-16:00

אילן-אוניברסיטת בר, אוריאל גלמן- ר"יו

אביב-אוניברסיטת תל ,ורה קפלן- ר"יו

האוניברסיטה העברית, אלי למדןפסיכולוגי של אלכסנדר - עלייתו ונפילתו של פרויקט המחקר האתנו

לוריא

אוניברסיטת בר אילן, יורי טפר האמנה החברתית החדשה כגורם : הכהונה השלישית של פוטין

בקביעת מדיניות החוץ של הקרמלין

האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, רונה יונה תנועת החלוץ בין רוסיה ופולין: גבולות חדשים לאחר מלחמת העולם

אוניברסיטת בר אילן, בן ציון טלפוס שימוש בנושא לחיזוק - מלחמה בסמים במדיניות החוץ והפנים הרוסית

משטר פוטין ומעמד רוסיה בעולם

האוניברסיטה העברית, אמה זהרצעירים יהודים מעורבים פוליטית בפולין בין שתי מלחמות העולם

האוניברסיטה העברית, דמיטרי קורטיוקוב קומוניסטית- הפוליטיקה של הרפורמה האלקטורלית באירופה הפוסט

הפסקת קפה |16:00-16:15 הפסקת קפה |12:00-12:15לאחריה הנכם מוזמנים לפגישת סוף שנה של הסמינר הבין

458אוניברסיטאי בחדר

יום ראשון, 2016 ביוני 5 אביב-אוניברסיטת תל, בניין גילמן, 449אולם

NEIGHBORS?JEWS AND NON-JEWS IN URBAN SPACESAN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP | JANUARY 13-14, 2016

| Wednesday, January 13, 2016

DAY 1 | OPENING EVENTRoza Luxemburg Foundation, Rothschild Blvd. 11, Floor B

17:30 | RECEPTION

17:45-19:30 | TOGETHER AND APART

Chair: Tali Konas, Luxemburg Foundation

Introductions: Tsafrir Cohen, Luxemburg Foundation Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University

Jonathan Karp, Binghamton UniversityJewish-Owned Venues for Black Music in Twentieth-Century New York

Daniel Monterescu, Central European University, BudapestJaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence and Binational Urbanism in Israel/Palestine

| Thursday, January 14, 2016

DAY 2 | WORKSHOPTel Aviv University, Trubowicz Building, Law Faculty, Room 103

09:45-10:00 | RECEPTION

10:00-11:30 | CONNECTING THE DOTS: SPATIAL AND COMMUNAL BOUNDARIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Chair: Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv University

Debra Kaplan, Bar Ilan University, Ramat GanAutonomous Jewish Communal Spaces? Examples fromEarly Modern Germany

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities | The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Tel Aviv | The Polish Institute, Tel Aviv

Adam Teller, Brown University, ProvidenceTaking Control of the Town: Jews’ Urban Strategies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

11:45-13:15 | URBA-NATION: THE NATIONALIZATION OF URBAN SPACE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair: Daniel Monterescu, Central European University, Budapest

Elia Etkin, Tel Aviv UniversityJerusalem’s Bayit Va-Gan Neighborhood: Local Ethnic Relations and the Formation of a Jewish National Space

Kamil Kijek, University of WrocławJews and Poles in a German Space: Reichenbach/Dzierżoniów and the Resettlement of Lower Silesia, 1945-1950

13:15-14:30 | LUNCH

14:30-16:00 | LANDSCAPES IN THE SAND: THE MODERN CITY AS A LABORATORY FOR INTER-GROUP CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION

Chair: Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Merav Kaddar, PECLAB, Tel Aviv UniversityMicro-Geographies of Recognition: Urban Planning and Transitional Justice in Contested Societies

Naama Meishar, Tel Aviv UniversityUp/Rooting: Breaching Landscape Sign-Systems in the Public Debates and Design of Jaffa’s Slope Park

16:00-16:30 | CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

Chair: Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University

Image: Mary Lou Williams playing piano at the first racially integrated jazz club, a Jewish-owned venue Cafe Society, New York, 1944. Photograph by Albert Freeman

Wednesday, December 16, Rosenberg Bldg. Rm. 00215:30 / Reception: Coffee & Cake

16:00 / Greetings:Raanan Rein, Vice President of Tel Aviv UniversityEyal Nave, Chair of the History Department, Tel Aviv University

16:30-17:30 / Keynote Lecture: Amir Weiner, Stanford University The Making of the Killing Fields: The Soviet Western Frontier before and during WWII

17:30-18:00 / Coffee Break

18:00-19:30 / Panel I: Warfare, Gender and IdentityChair: Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv UniversityOleg Budnitskii, National Research University Higher School of Economics, MoscowWomen in the Red Army, 1941-45Michal Shapira, Tel Aviv UniversityFrom Shell Shock to Wartime Anxiety: Men and Women during the Blitz

Seventy Years since World War II:Seven Decades of Shifting Boundaries in Eastern EuropeDecember 16-17, 2015 / Tel Aviv University

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The Inter-University Partnership in Russian and East European Studies / The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies / The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Thursday, December 17, Trubowitz Bldg. Rm.10310:00-11:30 / Panel II: Boundaries and State Power: Territory and Population Management after WWIIChair: Sagi Schaefer, Tel Aviv UniversityThomas Lindenberger, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam The Dictatorship of Limits: Sovereignty and Frontier Making in Communist East Germany Raz Segal, IUAP – Tel Aviv University From ‘Greater Hungary’ to Soviet Ukraine: State Violence and State Building in the Carpathians, 1938-1953 Ruth Ginio, Ben Gurion UniversityHow to Save an Empire? The French Army and Its African Soldiers after World War II

11:30-12:00 / Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 / Panel III: The Jewish Population and the Changing Map of Eastern EuropeChair: Motti Zalkin, Ben Gurion UniversityYuri Radchenko, V. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkrainian Police, Self-Government and the Holocaust in Ukrainian-Russian BorderlandAnat Plocker, Haifa University“The End and the Beginning”: rebuilding community in postwar PolandAgnieszka Ilwicka, University of WroclawBirth, Rise and Fall of the Lower Silesian Jews in 1945-1968

13:30-14:30 / Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 / Panel IV: Victims and Victimizers Chair: Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv UniversityRafi Vago, Tel Aviv UniversityThe fate of Transylvania between Hungary and Romania 1944-1947: Post-war Soviet policiesBastiaan Willems, University of EdinburghFrom Konigsberg to Kaliningrad: German civilians in Eastern Prussia 1944-1946Iris Nahum, Tel Aviv UniversityThe Sudeten German Compensation Demands: The History of a Discourse

The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Minerva Center for Human RightsThe Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities

Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and RacismS. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies

Are pleased to announce the opening event in the lecture series

HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL LAW,AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGNTY

Prof. Ariela GrossGould School of Law, University of Southern California

The “New Abolitionism,” International Law, and the Memory of Slavery

Chair: Prof. Leora BilskyDirector, Minerva Center for Human Rights

The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University

The lecture will take place on Monday, 29 February, 14:00

Elga Cegla Conference Room (021), The Buchmann Faculty of Law

Please register by emailing Minerva@post.tau.ac.il

Prof. Horowitz treats the writer, activist and folklorist, Semyon An-sky, in the period from 1905-1920. Horowitz contests the idea that after 1905, An-sky left the revolutionary movement and became a Jewish nationalist. He discovers that An-sky's Jewish writings formed a dialogue with his revolutionary activity and that expressions of aggression and passivity in An-sky's writings reflect An-sky’s dual role as a Jewish nationalist and Russian revolutionary

March 17, 2016, 12:00 – 14:00;

Gilman building, room 458

The lecture will be held in English**

Tel Aviv University אוניברסיטת תל אביב

The Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East-European Studies

השותפות הבין אוניברסיטאית מזרח אירופה -ללימודי רוסיה ומרכז

The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies

מכון קמינגס לחקר רוסיה ומזרח אירופה

The Department of History החוג להיסטוריה כללית

The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

המכון לחקר האנטישמיות והגזענות ש סטפן רוט"בת זמננו ע

Prof. Horowitz specializes in East European Jewish Literature and History. He is the author of Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia, (2009); Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russia (2009) and The Myth of A. S. Pushkin in Russia's Silver Age (1996). His current research focuses on the Russian intelligentsia in late czarist Russia.

Prof. Brian Horowitz

S. An-sky- Between Jews and Russians

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities | The Department of Jewish History | The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of

Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Prof. David Engel New York University

פרופ׳ דוד אנגלאוניברסיטת ניו יורק

ההתנקשות בסימון פטליורה ומשפט המתנקש שלום

שוורצברד בראי הפוליטיקה האוקראינית, 1927-1926

The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the

Trial of the Assassin Sholom Schwartzbard in

Light of Ukrainian Politics, 1926-1927

אוניברסיטת תל אביב בניין קרטר, חדר 203

Tel Aviv UniversityCarter BuildingRoom 203

30 דצמבר, 201514:00

December 30, 201514:00

ההרצאה תתקיים בעברית | יוגש כיבוד קלThe Lecture will be Held in HebrewLight Refreshments will be served

הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע״ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין | החוג להיסטוריה של עם ישראל | המכון לחקר האנטישמיות והגזענות בימינו ע״ש סטפן רוט

Image: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

יו”ר: פרופ׳ דוד אסף, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Chair: Prof. David Assaf, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Derek Penslar University of Toronto and Oxford University

Theodor Herzl: Between Antisemitism, Race, and Empire

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities The Department of Jewish History • The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism

Chair: Dr. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 14:00 Carter Building | Room 203 | Tel Aviv University

Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 13:45

Herzl’s visit to Palestine on board the Russian Ship ‘Imperator Nikolai II’, 26.10.1898 (Herzl Center)

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The I-CORE Center for the Study of Conversion & Inter-Religious Encounters / The Stephen Roth Institute

for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Light refreshments will be served

Prof. Elisheva CarlebachColumbia University

Images of Jews in the Early Age of Print

Chair: Prof. Miriam Eliav-FeldonTel Aviv University and Chair of the Historical Society of Israel

January 10, 2016 / 18:00-19:30Tel Aviv University / Gilman Building / Room 281

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Violence as a concept long framed the relation of the Russian state and imperial subjects to conversion as a boundary-crossing during

the long nineteenth century. Many Jews narrated conversion as Christian violence against vulnerable Jewish children; and conversions

for many converts and their clerical and administrative allies were often understood as endangered by the violence of Jewish family and

community who sought to physically repress deviant behavior. The popular press and jurists mediated this conversation in the late

imperial period to mark Jews as both religious and social “fanatics,” whose violent intolerance toward apostate kin rendered them

undeserving of imperial toleration. In particular ,conservative voices in the late-imperial press linked stories of conversion-inspired

violence to the medieval ritual murder accusation to generate a new blood libel myth in which Jews ritually sacrificed their converted

family members.

April 3, 2016, 18:00 – 20:00;

Gilman building, room 262

The lecture will be held in English**

Tel Aviv University אוניברסיטת תל אביב

The Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East-European Studies

-השותפות הבין אוניברסיטאית ללימודי רוסיה ומרכז מזרח אירופה

The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies מכון קמינגס לחקר רוסיה ומזרח אירופה

The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

ש סטפן רוט"המכון לחקר האנטישמיות והגזענות ע

Ellie Schainker is Arthur Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2010). She specializes in East European Jewish History; Modern European Jewish History; Imperial Russian history and religious conversions and confessional politics in Russia’s western borderlands.

Ellie Schainker's current book project is “Jewish Conversion in an Imperial Context: Confessional "Choice and Multiple Baptisms in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Ellie Schainker, Emory University

“Killing Converts: A New Ritual Murder Accusation in Late-Imperial Russia”

Prof. Hillel Kieval Washington University in St. Louis

Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder

in Fin de Siècle Europe

Wednesday | April 13, 2016 | 14:00 Carter Building | Room 203 | Tel Aviv University

Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 13:45

Postcard of Unknown Origin Distributed in Poland showing the “Ritual Murder” at Polna,1899

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities • The Department of Jewish History • The Stephen

Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism • The

Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East-

European Studies

Prof. Johannes Becke Center for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg

The Whitening

of Israel:

Occidentalism and

Self-Occidentalization

on the Israeli Left

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism

Chair:

Dr. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 12:00

Gilman Building | Room 458 | Tel Aviv University

Light refreshments will be served before the lecture

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Respondents:

Dr. Hanan Harif, Tel Aviv University Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University

THE STEPHEN ROTH INSTITUTEFOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM AND RACISM

Newsletter 2017

Jews and Muslims Through The Agesיהודים ומוסלמים במהלך הדורות

Lecture Series 2015-2016 סדרת הרצאות

הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע"ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין / מרכז משה דיין ללימודי המזרח התיכון ואפריקה / המכון לחקר The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The Moshe האנטישמיות והגזענות ע"ש רוט / Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies / The Stephen Roth Institute for the

Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Gilman Building, Room 281 בניין גילמן, חדר

יום א’ / 6 בדצמבר / 16:00

בימי הבינייםדברי פתיחה: עוזי רבי, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

יו”ר: נאסר בסל, אוניברסיטת תל אביביוסף שוורץ, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

אוריאל סימונסון, אוניברסיטת חיפהמאירה פוליאק, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

יום א’ / 20 במרץ / 16:00

בעת המודרניתיו”ר: גלילי שחר, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

ירון צור, אוניברסיטת תל אביבנח גרבר, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

יום א’ / 22 במאי / 16:30

בזמננויו”ר: סקוט אורי, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

אסתי וובמן, אוניברסיטת תל אביבהלל כהן, האוניברסיטה העבריתשי לביא, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Sunday / December 6 / 16:00

MedievalOpening Comments: Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv UniversityChair: Nasir Basal, Tel Aviv UniversityYossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv UniversityUriel Simonsohn, University of HaifaMeira Polliack, Tel Aviv University

Sunday / March 20 / 16:00

ModernChair: Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv UniversityYaron Tsur, Tel Aviv UniversityNoah Gerber, Tel Aviv University

Sunday / May 22 / 16:30

ContemporaryChair: Scott Ury, Tel Aviv UniversityEsti Webman, Tel Aviv UniversityHillel Cohen, Hebrew University of JerusalemShai Lavi, Tel Aviv University

All Lectures Will Be Given In Hebrewההרצאות יתקיימו בעברית

Ziomania Website :תמונה

FROM THE DIRECTOR

RECENT EVENTS AT THE ROTH INSTITUTE

Print,” the Roth Institute also hosted a presentation by Prof. Hillel Kieval of Washington University, St. Louis, on blood libel trials in the turn of the century Central Europe, a seminar by Prof. Derek Penslar of the University of Oxford and the University of Toronto on the place of race in Theodor Herzl’s journalistic pieces, and numerous other events.

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These and other presentations organized by the Roth Institute not only introduce scholars and students at TAU to cutting-edge research in today’s academic world, but also help promote scholarly discussion and exchange regarding antisemitism and racism among a wide variety of students, researchers and community members in Israel.

Recent events have demonstrated that antisemitism and racism continue to be serious social and political problems that plague a wide range of societies.

As one of the world’s leading academic centers for the study of antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice, Tel Aviv University’s Stephen Roth Institute is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the historical sources, contemporary expressions and potential ameliora-tion of these and related phenomena.

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities | The Department

of Jewish History | The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of

Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Prof. David Engel New York University

אוניברסיטת ניו יורקפרופ׳ דוד אנגל

האוקראינית, 1927-1926 שוורצברד בראי הפוליטיקה ומשפט המתנקש שלום ההתנקשות בסימון פטליורה

The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of the Assassin Sholom Schwartzbard in Light of Ukrainian Politics, 1926-1927

בניין קרטר, חדר 203אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Tel Aviv UniversityCarter BuildingRoom 203

3014:00 דצמבר, 2015

December 30, 201514:00

ההרצאה תתקיים בעברית | יוגש כיבוד קל

The Lecture will be Held in HebrewLight Refreshments will be served

הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע״ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין | החוג להיסטוריה של עם ישראל

| המכון לחקר האנטישמיות והגזענות בימינו ע״ש סטפן רוט

Image: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

יו”ר: פרופ׳ דוד אסף, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Chair: Prof. David Assaf, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Derek Penslar

University of Toronto and Oxford University

Theodor Herzl: Between Antisemitism, Race, and Empire

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities

The Department of Jewish History • The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism

Chair: Dr. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 14:00

Carter Building | Room 203 | Tel Aviv University Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 13:45

Herzl’s visit to Palestine on board the Russian Ship ‘Imperator Nikolai II’, 26.10.1898 (Herzl Center)

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The I-CORE Center for the

Study of Conversion & Inter-Religious Encounters / The Stephen Roth Institute

for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Light refreshments will be served

Prof. Elisheva CarlebachColumbia University

Images of Jews in the Early Age of PrintChair: Prof. Miriam Eliav-Feldon

Tel Aviv University and Chair of the Historical Society of IsraelJanuary 10, 2016 / 18:00-19:30Tel Aviv University / Gilman Building / Room 281

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Prof. Hillel Kieval Washington University in St. Louis

Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Fin de Siècle Europe

Wednesday | April 13, 2016 | 14:00 Carter Building | Room 203 | Tel Aviv University Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 13:45

Postcard of Unknown Origin Distributed in Poland showing the “Ritual Murder” at Polna,1899

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities • The Department of Jewish History • The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of

Antisemitism and Racism • The Inter-University Academic

Partnership in Russian and East-European Studies

Towards that goal, the Roth Institute supports academic research by faculty and graduate students at Tel Aviv University, organizes international workshops and conferences, hosts scholarly visits and exchanges, and cooperates with universities in Israel and abroad on a range of academic projects dedicated to the study of antisemitism, prejudice and racism.

These and related activities not only advance our understanding of these critical problems but the

ongoing study and discussion of these issues in Tel Aviv, in Israel and abroad contribute to our efforts to ensure the types of values and societies that will, ultimately, serve as the most effective antidotes to antisemitism, racism and other forms of prejudice.

Dr. Scott UryDirector, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

Over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year, the Roth Institute hosted a number of presentations and seminars by scholars from leading institutions in North America and Europe.

In addition to a public lecture by Prof. Elisheva Carlebach of Columbia University on “The Image of the the Jew in Early Modern

RECENT LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES HOSTED BY THE ROTH INSTITUTE AT TAU

JEWS AND MUSLIMS THROUGH THE AGES

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nJews and Muslims Through The AgesLecture Series | 2015-2016

nSeventy Years since World War II: Seven Decades of Shifting Boundaries in Eastern Europe

International Conference | December 16-17, 2015nProf. David Engel, NYU

The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of the Assassin Sholom Schwartzbard in Light of Ukrainian Politics, 1926-1927 | December 30, 2015

nProf. Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia UniversityImages of Jews in the Early Days of Print | January 10, 2016

nNeighbors? Jews and Non-Jews in Urban SpacesInternational Workshop | January 13-14, 2016

nProf. Ariela Gross, The University of Southern CaliforniaThe ‘New Abolitionism’, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery | February 29, 2016

nProf. Derek Penslar, The University of Toronto and Oxford UniversityTheodor Herzl: Between Antisemitism, Race, and Empire | March 16, 2016

nProf. Ellie Shainker, Emory UniversityKilling Converts: A New Ritual Murder Accusation in Late-Imperial Russia | April 3, 2016

nProf. Hillel Kieval, Washington University, St. LouisBlood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Fin de Siécle Europe | April 13, 2016

nProf. Johannes Becke, Center for Jewish Studies, HeidelbergThe Whitening of Israel: Occidentalism and Self-Occidentalism on the Israeli Left | June 2, 2016

As part of its efforts to promote research and discussion on the relationship between antisemitism and other forms of racism, the Roth Instituted co-organized a series of symposia on Jewish-Muslim relations over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year. Organized in cooperation with TAU’s Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, each symposium brought together a range of speakers from TAU and other institutions in Israel to discuss various aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.

speakers also addressed the impact of colonial rule on relations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North Africa, the experiences of Jews and Muslims in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, and representations of members of both groups in contemporary public and political debates in America, Europe and Israel.

Attended by a wide range of students, scholars and community members, these symposia sparked much discussion regarding the long and fascinating history of relations between Jews and Muslims.

Jews and Muslims Through The Ages

יהודים ומוסלמים במהלך הדורות

Lecture Series 2015-2016 סדרת הרצאות

הפקולטה למדעי הרוח ע"ש לסטר וסאלי אנטין / מרכז משה דיין ללימודי המזרח התיכון ואפריקה / המכון לחקר

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The Moshe האנטישמיות והגזענות ע"ש רוט /

Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies / The Stephen Roth Institute for the

Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Gilman Building, Room 281 בניין גילמן, חדרבימי הבינייםיום א’ / 6 בדצמבר / 16:00

דברי פתיחה: עוזי רבי, אוניברסיטת תל אביביו”ר: נאסר בסל, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

יוסף שוורץ, אוניברסיטת תל אביבאוריאל סימונסון, אוניברסיטת חיפה

מאירה פוליאק, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

נח גרבר, אוניברסיטת תל אביבירון צור, אוניברסיטת תל אביביו”ר: גלילי שחר, אוניברסיטת תל אביבבעת המודרניתיום א’ / 20 במרץ / 16:00

יום א’ / 22 במאי / 16:30יו”ר: סקוט אורי, אוניברסיטת תל אביבבזמננו

שי לביא, אוניברסיטת תל אביבהלל כהן, האוניברסיטה העבריתאסתי וובמן, אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Sunday / December 6 / 16:00MedievalOpening Comments: Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University

Chair: Nasir Basal, Tel Aviv UniversityYossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv UniversityUriel Simonsohn, University of HaifaMeira Polliack, Tel Aviv University

Sunday / March 20 / 16:00ModernChair: Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv UniversityYaron Tsur, Tel Aviv UniversityNoah Gerber, Tel Aviv University

Sunday / May 22 / 16:30ContemporaryChair: Scott Ury, Tel Aviv UniversityEsti Webman, Tel Aviv UniversityHillel Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv UniversityAll Lectures Will Be Given In Hebrew

ההרצאות יתקיימו בעברית

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Wednesday, December 16, Rosenberg Bldg. Rm. 002

15:30 / Reception: Coffee & Cake16:00 / Greetings:Raanan Rein, Vice President of Tel Aviv University

Eyal Nave, Chair of the History Department, Tel Aviv University

16:30-17:30 / Keynote Lecture: Amir Weiner, Stanford University The Making of the Killing Fields: The Soviet Western Frontier before and

during WWII17:30-18:00 / Coffee Break18:00-19:30 / Panel I: Warfare, Gender and Identity

Chair: Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv UniversityOleg Budnitskii, National Research University Higher School of Economics,

MoscowWomen in the Red Army, 1941-45Michal Shapira, Tel Aviv UniversityFrom Shell Shock to Wartime Anxiety: Men and Women during the Blitz

Seventy Years since World War II:Seven Decades of Shifting Boundaries in Eastern Europe

December 16-17, 2015 / Tel Aviv University

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities / The Inter-University Partnership in Russian and East

European Studies / The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies / The Stephen Roth

Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

Thursday, December 17, Trubowitz Bldg. Rm.103

10:00-11:30 / Panel II: Boundaries and State Power: Territory and

Population Management after WWIIChair: Sagi Schaefer, Tel Aviv UniversityThomas Lindenberger, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam

The Dictatorship of Limits: Sovereignty and Frontier Making in Communist

East Germany Raz Segal, IUAP – Tel Aviv University From ‘Greater Hungary’ to Soviet Ukraine: State Violence and State

Building in the Carpathians, 1938-1953 Ruth Ginio, Ben Gurion UniversityHow to Save an Empire? The French Army and Its African Soldiers after

World War II 11:30-12:00 / Coffee Break12:00-13:30 / Panel III: The Jewish Population and the Changing Map of

Eastern EuropeChair: Motti Zalkin, Ben Gurion UniversityYuri Radchenko, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Ukrainian Police, Self-Government and the Holocaust in Ukrainian-Russian

BorderlandAnat Plocker, Haifa University“The End and the Beginning”: rebuilding community in postwar Poland

Agnieszka Ilwicka, University of WroclawBirth, Rise and Fall of the Lower Silesian Jews in 1945-1968

13:30-14:30 / Lunch Break14:30-16:00 / Panel IV: Victims and Victimizers

Chair: Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv UniversityRafi Vago, Tel Aviv UniversityThe fate of Transylvania between Hungary and Romania 1944-1947:

Post-war Soviet policiesBastiaan Willems, University of EdinburghFrom Konigsberg to Kaliningrad: German civilians in Eastern Prussia

1944-1946Iris Nahum, Tel Aviv UniversityThe Sudeten German Compensation Demands: The History of a Discourse

Prof. Johannes Becke Center for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg The Whitening

of Israel: Occidentalism and Self-Occidentalization on the Israeli Left

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities

The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism

Chair: Dr. Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 12:00

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Dr. Hanan Harif, Tel Aviv University Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University

In addition to discussions regarding relations between Jews and Muslims in medieval times,

INTERNATIONAL BOARDSir Peter Roth, ChairBaroness Ruth DeechProf. Menachem FischProf. Sir Jeffrey JowellProf. Eyal NavehMr. Martin PaisnerProf. Robert SchwarczEx-Officio: Prof. Leo Corry

ACADEMIC COMMITTEEProf. David AssafProf. Yishai BlankProf. Havi DreifussDr. Barbara MeyerDr. Yael SternhellDr. Scott UryProf. Hana Wirth-Nesher

INSTITUTE STAFFDr. Scott UryDirector, Roth InstituteDr. Esther WebmanHead, Project on Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle EastRiva ManeAdministrative DirectorYarden Ben-DorResearch AssistantEitan RomResearch Assistant

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THE ROTH INSTITUTE PROJECT ON TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year, TAU’s Project for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East continued its work monitoring Arab-language media for expressions and manifestations of antisemitic attitudes and opinions as well as discussions of Muslim-Jewish relations.

Under the direction of Dr. Esther (Esti) Webman, one of the world’s leading experts in the field, the dedicated staff identify, catalogue and analyze a wide range of print, visual and social media sources from across the Arab world.

Relevant items are then summarized in English and entered into TAU’s Database on Antisemitism and Racism, where they are available and accessible to scholars, students and community members via TAU’s central library system.

THE ROTH INSTITUTE RESEARCH GROUP ON INTER-GROUP RELATIONS

Through the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Tel Aviv and Berlin, the Roth Institute sponsored a two-year Research Group on inter-group relations in urban environments.

Starting in early 2015, the research group offered five TAU graduate students from a number of departments and faculties a

regular forum in which they were able to gain exposure to the latest studies in different fields, advance their own MA or PhD projects, and meet with leading scholars.

In January, 2016, members of the group presented their research as part of an international workshop hosted by the Roth Institute on the topic of “Neighbors? Jews and Non-Jews in Urban Spaces.” Other workshop participants included scholars from Brown University, Central European University in Budapest, SUNY Binghamton, and the University of Wrocław in Poland.

IN MEMORIUMThe Roth Institute mourns

the passing of longtime board member and leading scholar of human rights, Prof. Sir Nigel Rodley, and notes his many contributions to the Roth Institute's academic activities and research projects.

NEIGHBORS?JEWS AND NON-JEWS IN URBAN SPACES

AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP | JANUARY 13-14, 2016

| Wednesday, January 13, 2016DAY 1 | OPENING EVENTRoza Luxemburg Foundation, Rothschild Blvd. 11, Floor B

17:30 | RECEPTION17:45-19:30 | TOGETHER AND APART

Chair: Tali Konas, Luxemburg FoundationIntroductions: Tsafrir Cohen, Luxemburg Foundation

Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University

Jonathan Karp, Binghamton UniversityJewish-Owned Venues for Black Music in Twentieth-Century New York

Daniel Monterescu, Central European University, Budapest

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence and Binational

Urbanism in Israel/Palestine| Thursday, January 14, 2016DAY 2 | WORKSHOPTel Aviv University, Trubowicz Building, Law Faculty, Room 103

09:45-10:00 | RECEPTION10:00-11:30 | CONNECTING THE DOTS: SPATIAL AND COMMUNAL

BOUNDARIES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Chair: Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv UniversityDebra Kaplan, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan

Autonomous Jewish Communal Spaces? Examples from

Early Modern Germany

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities | The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and

Racism | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Tel Aviv | The Polish Institute, Tel Aviv

Adam Teller, Brown University, Providence

Taking Control of the Town: Jews’ Urban Strategies in the

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth11:45-13:15 | URBA-NATION: THE NATIONALIZATION OF URBAN

SPACE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chair: Daniel Monterescu, Central European University, Budapest

Elia Etkin, Tel Aviv UniversityJerusalem’s Bayit Va-Gan Neighborhood: Local Ethnic Relations

and the Formation of a Jewish National SpaceKamil Kijek, University of WrocławJews and Poles in a German Space: Reichenbach/Dzierżoniów and the

Resettlement of Lower Silesia, 1945-195013:15-14:30 | LUNCH14:30-16:00 | LANDSCAPES IN THE SAND: THE MODERN CITY AS A

LABORATORY FOR INTER-GROUP CONFLICT AND

RECONCILIATIONChair: Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Merav Kaddar, PECLAB, Tel Aviv University

Micro-Geographies of Recognition: Urban Planning and Transitional

Justice in Contested Societies Naama Meishar, Tel Aviv UniversityUp/Rooting: Breaching Landscape Sign-Systems in the Public Debates

and Design of Jaffa’s Slope Park16:00-16:30 | CONCLUDING DISCUSSIONChair: Scott Ury, Tel Aviv University

Image: Mary Lou Williams playing piano at the first racially integrated jazz club, a Jewish-owned venue Cafe Society, New York, 1944. Photograph by Albert Freeman