Wednesday, 26 October 2016 18:00
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Welcome Nanette Jacomijn Snoep (GRASSI Ethnological Museum, Leipzig)
09:30
Introduction Raphael Gross (Leipzig) William H. Weitzer (New York)
Grußwort Staatsministerin Dr. Eva-Maria Stange (Saxon State Ministry of Sciences and the Arts, Dresden)
09:45
Chair: William H. Weitzer (New York)
Greetings William H. Weitzer (Leo Baeck Institute New York/Berlin)
Keynote Lecture
Thursday, 27 October 2016 15:00
Michal Frankl (Prague) Escape into the No Man’s Land − Expulsions of Jews along the Moving Borders of 1938 East-Central Europe
Frank Mecklenburg (New York) Personal Testimonies in the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute: Correspondence, Memoirs, Diaries 10:45
Coffee Break
11:15
Discussion I Chair: Alina Bothe (Berlin)
Chair: Raphael Gross (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
David Jünger (Berlin) Beyond Flight and Rescue. The Complexity of Jewish Emigration before 1938
Debórah Dwork (Clark University, Worcester, Mass.)
Katharina Friedla (Warsaw) The Expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany 1938. Experiences of Refuge in Transnational Perspective
Life as a Refugee Displaced Jews during the Nazi Years
Discussion II Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig)
Marija Vulesica (Berlin) Yugoslavia as a Hub for Jewish Migration in 1938? The Efforts and the Perception of the Local Zionist Networks Susanne Heim (Berlin) The Failure of “Orderly Emigration.” Jewish Refugees from Germany after the Conference of Évian 17:15
Coffee Break
17:30
Concluding Remarks Debórah Dwork (Worcester, Mass.) Raphael Gross (Leipzig) William H. Weitzer (New York)
Martin Jost (Leipzig) A New History of the Évian Conference. Jewish Perspectives and Expectations in 1938 13:30
Venue: GRASSI Museum – Zimeliensaal, Johannisplatz 5, 04103 Leipzig
Lunch
Venue: Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Goldschmidtstraße 28, 04103 Leipzig
Topic Central to the workshop is the year 1938 as a crucial point in the history of migration and flight for Central and Eastern European Jews alike. In 1938, Jewish emigration from Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria increased exponentially after the “Anschluss” of Austria in March, the Munich Pact and the occupation of the Sudetenland, the “JuniAktion,” as well as the “Polenaktion” in October and finally the “Novemberpogrom.” Likewise, the situation for Jews in Eastern Europe was deteriorating during the 1930s. While migration was a goal for many due to ongoing ethnic discrimination and economic boycott, it was even more difficult for Jews to leave Eastern Europe than it was for German and Austrian emigrants. The workshop seeks to re-evaluate the dynamics of the events in 1938 by taking a non-teleological perspective and by focusing on the Jewish experience in Central and Eastern Europe as a whole: How is one of its central events, the Évian Conference, to be reappraised in its contemporary context? How did Jewish and non-Jewish emigration patterns change in the course of 1938? Based on which experiences did Central and Eastern European Jews create plans for their uncertain future and how did their actions change in the context of the “catastrophe before the catastrophe”? Considering current debates on mass flight and migration, the workshop will further devote attention to differences and similarities between 1938 and the present migration crisis in Europe.
Participants Dr. des. Alina Bothe, Zentrum Jüdische Studien, BerlinBrandenburg | Julie Dawson, Leo Baeck Institute, New York/ Berlin | Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig | Prof. Dr. Debórah Dwork, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. | Dr. Michal Frankl, Prague | Dr. Katharina Friedla, POLIN Museum/Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw | Dr. Elisabeth Gallas, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig | Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig | PD Dr. Susanne Heim, Institute of Contemporary History Munich – Berlin | Martin Jost, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig | Dr. David Jünger, Zentrum Jüdische Studien, Berlin-Brandenburg | Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute New York/ Berlin | Nanette Jacomijn Snoep, GRASSI Ethnological Museum, Leipzig | Dr. Ronald B. Sobel, Leo Baeck Institute, New York/Berlin | Dr. Marija Vulesica, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin | Dr. William H. Weitzer, Leo Baeck Institute, New York/Berlin
CONTACT Elisabeth Gallas Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture Goldschmidtstraße 28, 04103 Leipzig Phone 0341 21735-63 | Fax 0341 21735-55
[email protected] www.dubnow.de | www.lbi.org | www.mvl-grassimuseum.de Cover Illustration: Information brochure of the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (photomontage), ca. 1935. © Leo Baeck Institute, New York. funded by
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International Workshop
26 –27 October 2016
1938 Forced Migration and Flight