...And Facing the Future?
Jewish History and Stories in the GDR – A Scholarly Conference Accompanying the Exhibition Another Country. Jewish in the GDR (in German)
The three-day conference examines the expectations and disappointments, as well as the involvement and experiences of Jews in the GDR. What motivated them to stay in or return to the GDR? What personal and political hopes and opportunities were tied to the new political community? To what extent did returning also mean immigrating to a socialist utopia? And how was antisemitism, both the occasionally obvious and the subtle, experienced in the GDR?
Past event
Where
Potsdam Museum – Forum für Kunst und Geschichte &
Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building, level 2, Great Hall
Am Neuen Markt 8, 14467 Potsdam
and Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
These and other questions will guide the examination and discussion of the history of Jews in the GDR from political, cultural and everyday historical perspectives.
A conference of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (Potsdam) and the Jewish Museum Berlin.
The conference is sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and will take place as part of the accompanying program for the exhibition Another Country. Jewish in the GDR. The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States.
