Jews Along the Silk Road

Welcome and Introduction

Hetty Berg (Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin)
Alina Gromova (Jewish Museum Berlin)
Tsypylma Darieva (Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin)
Darja Klingenberg (Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder)

Keynote (in English)

Atina Grossmann (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York): Globalizing Holocaust Memory. Survival, Flight and Evacuation in Soviet Central Asia and Other Colonial Spaces
In conversation with Alina Gromova (Jewish Museum Berlin) and Darja Klingenberg (Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder)

Coffee Break

Panel 1: Routes and Encounters along the Silk Road (in English)

Ariane Sadjed (Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna):
Before the Nation: Connections and Divergences among Persianate Jews
Zeev Levin (Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem):
Religious, National or Cultural? Transforming Frameworks of Jewish Education in Central Asia
Thomas Loy (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague):
Bukharan Jews in Europe Lifeworld and Memory far from the Silk Roads
Boris Chukhovich (Observatory of Central Asian Cultural Heritage, Montreal): 
Jewish Architects in Soviet Uzbekistan: Between Radical Modernism and a Regional Approach (1960s–1980s)
Chair: Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Lecture Performance (in German)

Ina Holev (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and Jüdisch und Intersektional – Initiative für kritische Bildungsarbeit)
Miriam Yosef (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and Jüdisch und Intersektional – Initiative für kritische Bildungsarbeit):
Doppelte Verflechtungen – eine Auseinandersetzung mit innerjüdischen Verbindungen und Differenzen / Double Entanglements – an Examination of Intra-Jewish Connections and Differences

Reception

Panel 2: Shared Neigbourhoods (in English)

Narciss M.Sohrabi (Paris Nanterre University):
Representation of Jewish Neighborhoods in Tehran during 20th Century
Florian Mühlfried (Ilia State University, Tbilisi):
Jewish-Christian Conviviality in the Racha Province of Georgia
Natalie Belsky (University of Minnesota Duluth):
From Nightgowns to Prayerbooks: the Role of Material Culture in Negotiating Relations on the Soviet Home Front 
Gabriele Anderl (Austrian Society for Exile Research):
The Emergence of the Bukharian Community in Vienna an Unforeseen Outcome of the Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union
Chair: Alina Gromova (Jewish Museum Berlin)

Coffee Break

Panel 3: In-Between Positions. Jewish and Other Biographies (in German and English)

Valerij Gretchko (Tokyo University):
The Baazov Family and the Transformation of Georgian Jewry in the 20th Century
Miriam Goldmann (Jewish Museum Berlin):
Presenting Jewish Entrepreneurial Migrants in the Museum
Alexander Kartosia (Tbilisi State University):
Fremd- und Selbstbezeichnungen und -wahrnehmungen der georgischen Juden im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts: Gerzel Baazovs Judenbilder
Chair: Signe Rossbach (Jewish Museum Berlin)

Coffee Break

Exploring Diverse Diasporas – Presentation of Research Projects by Students of Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder
Diverse Diasporas erzählen – Forschungsprojekt von Master Studierenden der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder (in German)

Cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin, Object Days. Jewish Migration to Germany after 1945:
Darja Klingenberg (Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder)
Theresia Ziehe (Jewish Museum Berlin)
Students of Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder

End of the day 2

Panel Discussion: Jews from the Caucasus and Central Asia in Germany and Austria / Podiumsgespräch: Jüdinnen und Juden aus dem Kaukasus und Asien in Deutschland und Österreich (in German)

Sevil Huseynova (Center for Independent Social Research (CISR), Berlin)
Yuval Katz (Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna) 
German Djanatliev (Board of Directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany)
Chair: Anastassia Pletoukhina (Independent Sociologist, Berlin)

Panel 4: Migration Routes and Entangled Spaces (in English)

Karen Körber (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg):
“The Persian Carpet”. Iranian Jews and the German Economic Miracle
Varvara Redmond (University of Warsaw):
Digital Multinational Communities of the Mountain Jews
Chen Bram (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Academic College):
Immigration and Intergroup Relations: Jewish-Muslim Relations in Central Eurasia, Israel, and U.S.
Chair: Tsypylma Darieva (Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin)

Coffee Break

Panel 5: Shared Memories: Experiences of Exclusion and Inclusion (in English)

Yulia Oreshina (Georgian American University, Tbilisi):
“26 Centuries of Friendship”: Georgian-Jewish Relations in Georgian Cultural and Communicative Memory 
Eliyana R. Adler (Penn State University):
Memory of Migrations: Integrating Tales of Central Asia in Memorial Books 
Anna P. Ronell (Independent Scholar, Boston):
Dina Rubina: Growing Up Jewish In Tashkent
Chair: Irina Bondas (Berlin)

Final Remarks

Coffee Break

ZOiS Forum. 30 Years of Post-Soviet Migration in Germany
A Life Between Worlds (in German)

Author Event with Olga Grjasnowa (Berlin)
Discussant: Britta Schneider (Viadrina European University in Frankfurt Oder)
Chair: Tsypylma Darieva (Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin)
 

Reception

End of the conference