Promised Lands: Jews, Poland, and the Land of Israel

Institute for Polish Jewish Studies

An in-depth investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and political development

Embassy Of The Republic Of Poland

Aa conference to launch Polin 35, an in-depth and multifaceted investigation of how Polish Jews, Polish Zionism, and Polish culture influenced Israel’s cultural and political development, as well as of how the Zionist project influenced Jewish life in Poland. From its inception as a political movement, Zionism had as its main goal the creation of a ‘New Jew’ who could contribute to building a Jewish state, preferably in the historic homeland of the Jewish people, where Jews would free themselves from the negative characteristics which, in the view of the ideologues of Zionism, had developed in the diaspora. Yet, inevitably, those who settled in Palestine brought with them considerable cultural baggage. A substantial proportion of them came from the Polish lands, and their presence significantly affected the political and cultural life of the Yishuv, and later the State of Israel. In this volume, scholars from Israel, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, and North America explore different aspects of this influence, as well as the continuing relationship between Israel and Poland, up to the present day.<a href="https://liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/uclhsb0_ucl_ac_uk/EUH307oMVyVHpdvLh2_20tcBY9xZkKhVlHBIPARFv1oeuw?e=vTHnWq" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (Please view the most up to date programme here) </a>9.30am 	Registration10.00am	Welcome	Ms Agnieszka Kowalska, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Poland	Mr Vivian Wineman, President of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies10.15am 	Panel 1: Introduction to the volumeProfessor (Emeritus) Israel Bartal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Professor François Guesnet (UCL), 	 Professor Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University/UCL), Dr. Scott Ury (Tel Aviv University)11.00am 	Coffee break11.30am Panel 2: Jews, Poles, and the Land of Israel: Religious and Cultural Perspectives 	Uriel Gellman (Bar Ilan University): 	The Hasidic kolelim in Palestine	Wiesiek Powaga (London): 	Ksawery Pruszyński and Mojżesz Pomeranz: missed links in the emergence of the State of Israel 12.30pm 	Lunch (provided)1.30pm Panel 3: Between Poland and Israel	 Hanna Lerner (Tel Aviv University): Henryk Hechtkopf: Art and Society between 	 	 Poland and IsraelMonika Adamczyk-Garbowska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin): Mordecai Tsanin: Fighting for Yiddish in the State of Israel	 Jagoda Budzik (Wroclaw University): 	Third post-Holocaust Generation’s 		Journeys to Poland and their challenge to Israeli Discourse	3.30pm Tea break4.00pm Concluding discussion: Poland and Israel Today Introductory remarks by Yifat Gutman (Ben Gurion University, Ber Sheva) on the legacies of Polish-Israeli relations, in conversation with the volume editors and the audience. 5.00pm Conference ends

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