Department of Culture of European
Judaism
at the AMU Institute of European
Culture in Gniezno
Mr. Tomasz Budasz, Mayor of the
City of Gniezno
Embassy of Israel in Poland
VI International Scientific
Conference
22 – 23.01. 2018
ISRAEL – FROM
A DREAM TO A DREAM COME TRUE
Main Building of Institute of European
Culture
5-7, Kostrzewskiego Street, Gniezno, Poland
Monday, January the 22nd 2018
8.00 – Conference Registration (Ground Floor)
8.00-8.45 – Breakfast (Second Floor, Room
No. 2.01)
Aula
9.00
– Opening Ceremony
Anthems of Israel and of the Republic of
Poland
Gąsawa Wind Orchestra „Pałuki”
Opening address
Rev. prof. UAM dr hab. Waldemar
Szczerbiński, Head of the Department of Culture of European Judaism, AMU Institute
of European Culture
Welcome
address to the Honorable Guests and the Conference’s Participants
Prof. dr
hab. Leszek Mrozewicz, Director, AMU Institute of European Culture
Presentation
of letters of recognition and Institute of European Culture medals
Prof. dr
hab. Leszek Mrozewicz, Director, AMU Institute of European Culture
Speeches by
invited guests
Most Rev.
Wojciech Polak, Archbishop of Gniezno, Primate of Poland
Michael
Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland
Prof. UAM dr
hab. Andrzej Lesicki, Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Tomasz
Budasz, Mayor of the City of Gniezno
Alicja
Kobus, Vice President, The Union of Jewish Communities in Poland
9.30-10.15 –
Ceremony in Honour of the Righteous Among the Nations
Hosted by
Emil Rene
Jeżowski, Righteous Among the Nations Department, Embassy of Israel in Poland
Official
address
Ruth
Cohen-Dar, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel in Poland
Laudations
Award of the
Righteous Among the Nations Medals
Ruth
Cohen-Dar, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel in Poland
10.15-10.30
– Coffee Break
10.30-11.30 – Chair: Avisar Ilan (Tel Aviv University –
Israel)
Gideon
Greif, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Israel: The most dramatic and traumatic
affairs in the first decade of young Israel: “The Kasztner Affair”, “The Lavon
Affair”, “The German-Nazi Rocket Experts Affair”
Natali
Levun, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland: Basic Laws in the State of
Israel: a Suitable Alternative to a Constitution
11.30-11.45 –
Discussion
11.45 –
12.45 – Chair: Avisar Ilan (Tel Aviv University – Israel)
Batya
Brutin, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel: Message, Meaning and Form in
Holocaust Monuments in Israel
Lea Ganor,
Mashmaout Center Kiryat Motzkin, Israel: “From Rebirth to the Skies” – The
Untold Story: Meanings and Memories in Life Stories of Air Crews-Holocaust
Survivors
Ruth Dorot,
Ariel University, Israel: Where There is a Will, There is a Way!
12.45 –
13.00 : Discussion
13.00 –
14.00: Lunch Break (Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)
14.00-15.30
– Chair: Ruth Dorot
Nitza
Davidovich, Ariel University, Israel: Jerusalem – The Heart of Jewish People in
Poetry and Songs throughout the Ages
Hana Oren,
Mashmaout Center Kiryat Motzkin, Haifa University, Israel: “We Dream in One
Language and Speak in Another One”. Vision and Reality in Daily Life of Jewish
Immigrants from Poland in the State of Israel
Amichai
Pardo, The Orna Porat Theater for Children, Israel: From Krakow to Jerusalem.
Does Art can be a Tool to Tell a Polish-Jewish Family History?
Ewa Węgrzyn,
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: The Immigration of Polish Jews after
the Second World War and Cultivating Polishness in the New Homeland
15.30 –
15.45: Discussion
15.45 –
16.15: Coffee Break
16.15 –
17.30 – Chair: Batya Brutin
Orit
Haller-Hayon, The Open University of Israel: From Drying Swamps to Startup
Nation
Maria
Piekarska, University of Warsaw, Poland: Representing National Myths in Israeli
Landscape – the Case of Commemorative Paths
17.30 –
17.45: Discussion
18.00 –
18.45: Dinner (Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)
Room No.
1.34 (Parallel Session)
14.00 –
15.30 – Moderator: Marcin Składanowski
Piotr
Czerkawski, University of Wroclaw, Poland: Gaza Blues. Obraz Izraela w
twórczości Etgara Kereta
Rafał
Soroczyński, College of Education and Administration in Poznan, Poland: Państwo
żydowskie w projektach podziału Palestyny w latach 1937-1947
Michał
Harkot, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, Mosad – istota
oraz specyfika funkcjonowania
15.30 -15.45:
Discussion
15.45 –
16.15: Coffee Break
16.15 –
17.15 – Moderator: Waldemar Szczerbiński
Marcin
Składanowski, John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland: Państwo
Izrael jako forpoczta europejskiej Moderny w refleksji Aleksandra G. Dugina
Kamil
Pietrasik, Badacz niezależny/ Independent Scholar, Poland: Relacje Arabii
Saudyjskiej z Izraelem do 1953 roku
Magdalena
Ogniewska-Małecka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland: Osobowość
polskiego kibucnika na podstawie badań narracyjnych
17.15 –
17.30: Discussion
18.00 –
18.45: Dinner (Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)
Municipal
Centre for Culture in Gniezno (11, Łubienskiego Street )
18.45 – Departure
to the venue – meeting point at the car park in front of the IEC main building.
Transport by
cab will be provided.
19.00 –
22.00 – Concert of Jewish Music: Negev featuring Agnieszka Bielanik-Witomska
Tuesday, January the 23rd
2018
8.00-8.45 – Breakfast (Second Floor, Room No.
2.01)
Aula
9.00-10.00 –
Chair: Nitza Davidovitch
Shiri
Rosenberg, Levinsky College of Education, The Ministry of Education, Israel: To
be a Teacher in Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
Karolina Zielińska,
University of Warsaw, Poland: Israel as a Soft Power: Towards a New Image?
Inbal Raz, PhD
Student, Haifa University and Mashmaout Center Kiryat Motzkin, Israel: Women in
Herzel’s “Altneuland”: Utopia Vs. Reality
10.00-10.15:
Discussion
10.15-10.30:
Coffee Break
10.30-11.30
– Chair: Lea Ganor
Zvi Orgad,
Bar-Ilan University, Israel: Heaven to Earth: Replacement of the Zodiac by the
Twelve Tribes in Synagogue Decorations as a Sign of National Redemption
Hanna-Anita
Hacohen, Israel: State Ceremonies in Israel Today
Jakub
Bajorek, kpr. pchor., Tadeusz Kosciuszko Land Forces Military Academy in
Wroclaw, Poland: Miecz Dawida- Siły Obronne Izraela wczoraj i dziś
11.
30-11.45: Discussion
11.45-12.45
– Chair: Orit Haller-Hayon
Marek Kaźmierczak, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poland: The History of Shame. The Status of Israel in
the Articles Published in „People’s Tribune”
Jakub Isański, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland: Social Life in Inhuman Times
12.45-13.00:
Discussion
13.00-14.00:
Lunch Break (Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)
14.00-15.30
– Chair: Marek Kaźmierczak
Rafał Kałwa,
University of Wroclaw, Poland: Konfrontacje marzeń: Izrael i jego wpływ na
przemiany na Bliskim Wschodzie
Piotr
Sawczyński, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: Święty język urzędowy?
Filozoficzna refleksja o statusie hebrajszczyzny w kontekście powstania państwa
Izrael
Maciej
Zaborski, University of Opole, Poland: Szabat, Pesach, Szawuot i inne
najważniejsze święta judaizmu oraz ich rola w jednoczeniu państwa Izrael w 70.
rocznicę powołania
15.30-15.45:
Discussion
15.45-16.15:
Coffee Break
16.15-17.30
– Chair: Waldemar Szczerbiński
Andrzej
Piotr Kluczyński, Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw, Poland: Od marzenia
do rzeczywistości i od rzeczywistości do marzenia. Państwo Izrael jako
przedmiot rozważań teologicznych protestantyzmu ewangelikalnego
Paweł
Podeszwa, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland: Państwo Izrael w
nauczaniu Jana Pawła II
Sergiusz
Anoszko, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland: Nowe ruchy
religijne w państwie
Izrael: Bnei
Baruch kabałą dla pragmatyków?
17.30-17.45:
Discussion
18.00:
Dinner (Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)
Room No. 1.34 (Parallel Session)
9.00-10.30 –
Moderator: Paweł Podeszwa
Jerzy
Ochman, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: Feminizm w syjonizmie
Dorota
Brylla, University of Zielona Gora, Poland: Duchowość zorientowana na
Stwórcy/Bogu-ziemi/naturze jako korelatywna ideałowi powrotu z wygnania do
państwa Izrael oraz mechanizm konstruowania tożsamości „żydowskiej” na przykładzie kabały Bnei Baruch
Paweł Mazur, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland:
Sąd Najwyższy Izraela a kształtowanie
standardów moralności politycznej
10.30-10.45:
Discussion
10.45-10.30:
Coffee Break
10.30-12.00
– Moderator: Artur Kamczycki
Łukasz Andrzejewski, University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław, Poland, Ziemia
obiecana onkologii? Trzy uwagi o fenomenie walki z rakiem w Izraelu
Antoni
Lewczuk, University of Warsaw, Poland, Limnologiczne dzieje jeziora Kinneret.
Przegląd badań
Maciej
Kędzierski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland: Izrael: miejsce
rozwoju utopijnych koncepcji urbanistycznych
12.
00-12.15: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
(Second Floor, Room No. 2.01)