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Conference "Poland and Judaism Today"
13.02.2007 12:00:04 - Dodane przez:admin
Conference Poland and Judaism Today: Understanding a New Era in Polish-Jewish and Polish-Israeli Relations
The Conference gathered together renowned speakers from Poland, USA and Israel. It focused on the historical background of Polish - Jewish relations and advanced into a debate on contemporary cooperation between these two nations and states.
Program of the conference
9.00 Opening Remarks
Prof. Jacques Berlinerblau, Director, Program for Jewish Civilization
Prof. James O'Donnell, Provost, Georgetown University
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland 1995-2005
9.15 Poland and Israel: Assessing a Healthy Relation Between Two Sovereign Nation-States
Guy Billauer, American Jewish Committee
Amb. David Peleg, Israeli Ambassador to Poland
Joanna Hoffman, Counselor, Embassy of Poland to the US
Moderator: Dr. Jacques Berlinerblau
11.15 Confronting the Past: The Debate over Jedwabne and its Implications for Poland and Her Jews
Prof. Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
Professor Piotr Wrobel, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, University of Toronto
Prof. Jonathan Weber, UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies, University of Birmingham
Respondents:
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Dr. Eugene Fisher, US Conference on Catholic Bishops
Moderator: Dr. Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University; former Director, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
2.15 Jews in Poland: Rebuilding Comunities
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland
Konstanty Gebert, Director of the Taube Foundation's Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland
Janusz Makuch, President and Founder, Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Author
Shanna Penn, Author
Moderator: Rabbi Harold White, Senior Jewish Chaplain, Georgetown University
4.15 Closin Remarks
Aleksander Kwaśniewski