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CZERNOWITZ YIDDISH LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL CENTENARY CONFERENCE |
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Center for Studies of the History and Culture of East European Jews at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Maimonides State Classical Academy (Moscow) Fedkovych Chernivtsi State University
Sponsors: Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Beit Shalom Aleichem (Tel Aviv), Chernivtsi Municipality
Held at the same venue as the historical 1908 First Yiddish Language Conference and accompanied with a Week of Yiddish Cultural Events, the 100th Anniversary International Yiddish Language Conference is also connected with the festivities of the 600 anniversary of Chernivtsi and the inauguration of the Jewish Museum. |
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Sunday, August 17 |
Hotel "Bukovyna" (Holovna Str. 141) |
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Entire day. Reception and registration.
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Monday, August 18 |
Chernivtsi State University (former Residenz) Blue and Marble Halls |
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15:00 Sightseeing tour of the city 18:00 Festive Opening of the Conference in the Presence of the Governor of Bukovyna and the Mayor of Chernivtsi Reception
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Tuesday, August 19 |
Ukrainian National House (Ukrainska Str.) |
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9:00 - 9:45 Session 1: KEYNOTE REPORT Joshua (Shikl) Fishman (New York, USA) The 100th Anniversary of the Czernowitz Language Conference. To What it Obliges Us The Oath of 2008 in Honor and in Memory of Czernowitz 1908
9:45 - 11:30 Session 2: YIDDISH IN 1908 – HISTORICAL CONTEXT Chair: Avrom Novershtern (Jerusalem, Israel) Jess Olson (New York, USA) From Politics to Peoplehood: Nathan Birnbaum, Politics and Culture Reconsidered in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference Armin Eidherr (Salzburg, Austria) Czernowitz as a Point d'Initial of the Cultural Upswing in Galicia and Bukovina Markus Bauer (London, UK) After the Conference – Yiddish Life in Czernowitz Prior to World War II Discussion
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:30 Session 3: JEWISH LIFE IN CZERNOWITZ - 1908 AND BEYOND Chair: Baruch Podolsky (Tel Aviv, Israel) Mykola Kushnir (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) The Forming of Jewish Identity in Bukovina (End of 19th-Beginning of 20th century) Maria Nykyrsa (Chernivtsi, Ukraine) The History of Czernowitz Jews in the Documents of the State Archive of the Chernivtsi Region Sara Hall (London, UK) 21 years after the Yiddish Language Conference.”Tshernovitser bleter” and its Role in Yiddish Culture in Bukovina Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 -16:30 Session 4: YIDDISH IN THE CHANGING WORLD – YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW Chair: Steffen Krogh (Aarhus, Denmark) Iosif Vaisman (Bethesda, USA) World and Shtetl: Yiddish on the Internet Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow Cyril Aslanoff (Jerusalem, Israel) Wikipedia – Yiddish: Last Chance or Dead End? Maria Kaspina (Moscow, Russia) Yiddish Folklore in Chernivtsi Today (Recordings of 2004-2008) Elvira Groezinger (Potsdam, Germany) The Silenced Voice of the Jewish People. The Significance of the Recording of the Yiddish Folksongs from the Collections of M. Beregovski and S. Magid Discussion
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 - 18:30 Session 5: PAGES OF HISTORY Chair: Ewa Geller (Warsaw, Poland) Ellen Kellman (Waltham,USA) The (Brief) Afterlife of the Kultur-lige in Interwar Poland Tamara Zhuk (Kyiv, Ukraine) Archives of Yiddish Writers in Kyivan Collections Dmitri Sheveliov (Minsk, Belarussia) Jewish Documents in Minsk Archives Discussion
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Wednesday, August 20 |
The Chernivtsi Philharmonic Society Hall (former Musikverein), Philharmonic Square, 10 |
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10:00 - 11:45 Session 6: STATUS OF YIDDISH THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY Chair: Armin Eidherr (Salzburg, Austria) Avrom Novershtern (Jerusalem, Israel) The Image of Yiddish in the Yiddish Literature. Changes during a Century Mikhail Chlenov (Moscow, Russia) Jargon versus Language of the Nation: An Attempt to Periodize Yiddish Rachel Rojanski (Haifa, Israel) From an Immigrant Press to an Israeli Subculture: The Yiddish Press in Israel 1948-2008 Discussion
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30 Session 7: YIDDISH IN THE 21ST CENTURY Chair: Jess Olson (New York, USA) Steffen Krogh (Aarhus, Denmark) Yiddish in the 21 Century. Grammatical Differences between Standard Yiddish and the Yiddish of the Khareydim in New York Asya Vaisman (Cambridge, USA) Yiddish Language Productions and Performances in Contemporary Hasidic Girls' Schools Isabelle Barriere (New York, USA) The Vitality of Yiddish among Hasidic Infants and Toddlers in a Low SES Preschool in Brooklyn Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:30 Session 8: YIDDISH AROUND THE WORLD Chair: Maria Kaspina (Moscow, Russia) Astride Starck-Adler (Mulhouse, France) Yiddish in Alsace Today Sebastian Shulman (Chisinau, Moldova) Di Goldene Pave as a Jewish Phoenix: Contemporary Observations of Yiddish in Chisinau and Minsk Anatoly Kerzhner (Kiev, Ukraine) The Situation of Yiddish in Ukraine Today Discussion
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 - 18:30 Session 9: CZERNOWITZ YIDDISH WRITERS Chair: Astrid Starck-Adler (Mulhouse, France) Aminadav Dykman (Jerusalem, Israel) Itsik Manger in Hebrew – a Survey and an Appreciation Lidia Kamen (Tel Aviv, Israel) Problems of Translating I. Manger into Russian Beruriah Wiegand (Oxford, UK) Kabbalah and Hasidism in the Poetry of Yakov Friedman Discussion
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Thursday, August 21 |
Chernivtsi Municipal Palace of Culture (former Juedisches Nationalhaus), Teatral'na Square, 5 |
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9:00 - 11:00 Session 10: YIDDISH LINGUISTICS AND LEXICOGRAPHY Chair: Mikhail Chlenov (Moscow, Russia) Wolf Moskovich (Jerusalem, Israel) Tasks of Modern Yiddish Lexicography Barukh Podolsky (Tel Aviv, Israel) Some Problems of Yiddish Lexicography Ewa Geller (Warsaw, Poland) Polish Yiddish after the Czernowitz Conference - a Path towards Language Shift? Eve Jochnowitz (New York, USA) The Recipe: a Yiddish Literary Genre Discussion
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00 Session 11: CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE Chairs: Avrom Novershtern (Jerusalem, Israel), Wolf Moskovich (Jerusalem, Israel) Concluding Discussion
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Friday and Saturday, August 22 and 23 |
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Guided tours of Jewish sights in Bukovyna and Galicia
Program Committee: Wolf Moskovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Leonid Finberg (The Institute of Judaic Studies, Kiev), Michael Chlenov (Maimonides Academy, Moscow) Working languages at the conference: Yiddish, English, Ukrainian, and Russian. |
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Program art by Alexander Vaisman (www.vaisman.org); program design - Shura Vaisman |
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