Program
Thursday 8 May 2025
City Campus University of Antwerp, building D, room D.013, Grote Kauwenberg 18, 2000 Antwerpen.
Study day in English. Free entrance. Register via email: ijs@uantwerpen.be.
- 10 am - Registration and coffee
- 10:15 - Welcome and opening remarks (Vivian Liska, Karin Hofmeester and Veerle Vanden Daelen)
- 10:30 - 12:00: Panel 1 Rules, Customs and Testaments: The Amsterdam Communities in Global Perspective (Moderator: Jessica Roitman)
Michal Aziza Ohana, Bine’ot Deshe by R. Shlomo Adahan: Knowledge Transfers Between the Maghreb and Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, The Diaspora and the Testaments of the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries)
Ronny Reshef, The Ashkenazi Jewish Meat Hall in Amsterdam - 12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch (speakers only)
- 13:00 - 14:30: Panel 2 Postwar Compensation and Remembrance in the Low Countries (Moderator: Nico Wouters)
Linda Graul, Jewish Dispossession in Luxembourg: The Merits and Pitfalls of the Primary Sources
Jana Susanne Müller, Dispossession, Persecution, and War Damages: Working with Post-World War II Compensation Case Files in Luxembourg
Senske de Vries, Lezecher, In Remembrance: The Addition of the National Holocaust Names. Memorial to Dutch Commemorative Culture - 14:30 - 15:30: Panel 3 “Holocaust Testimonies in Historical Context” - Belgian Contributions to the Critical Editions Series of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Moderator: Stephen Naron, TBC)
Dorien Styven, Frédéric Crahay & Sarah Timperman will speak on the testimonies of Paul Halter and Joseph Blitz - 15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break
- 16:00 - 17:30 - Round table on Association of Jewish Studies in Belgium (Moderator: Theodor Dunkelgrün)
- 17:30 - Conclusions and wrapping up (Karin Hofmeester and Veerle Vanden Daelen)
(followed by informal drinks & dinner at own expense)
Abstracts
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Call for Papers (closed)
CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp
Thursday 8 May 2025
The Institute of Jewish Studies organises for the seventeenth time an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Antwerp concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate contacts between researchers working within this area of study. We especially encourage young researchers to participate in the workshop. We also hope for contributions from more established researchers, in order to create a positive exchange between different research generations. We particularly invite papers and/or sessions that are explicitly comparative in character, and welcome themes and disciplines within Jewish Studies concerning the Low Countries. Proposals need not be limited to a specific historical period and presentations may include work in progress. Both individual and panel proposals are possible. The conference language is English. Please note that the conference organisers cannot provide financial support to cover travel and accommodation of presenters or participants.
Please submit an abstract of maximally 400 words and a short CV by 15 December 2024.
For further information please contact:
Karin Hofmeester: kho@iisg.nl
Veerle Vanden Daelen: veerle.vandendaelen@kazernedossin.eu