JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

In cooperation with:

Sunday 12.06

16:30 – 19:00  Opening Session

Chair: Gershon Hundert (McGill University)

Greetings
David Wallach (Weizmann Institute of Science; Chair of Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization)
Eli Lederhandler (Chair of  Leonid Nevzlin Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Keynote Addresses

Larry Wolff (New York University)
Galicia after Galicia: The Fantasies and Phantoms of the Galician Legacy

Israel Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Agnon's Complaint: Lushn ashkenaz, Imperial Language, and the Jews of halbasien (1772-1939)