Rewriting the Jewish History of the Holocaust: March 17-19, 2012 The University of Florida, Gainesville Florida.

The conference assembles scholars of the Holocaust from North America, Europe, and Israel to discuss recent research as well as problems regarding methods, sources, and narrative.

The conference will be of interest to scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish history, and German and European history.

The program is as follows:

REWRITING THE JEWISH HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA

MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH:

A special gift by Norman and Irma Braman with additional funds from the Braman Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Harry Rich Endowment at the Center for Jewish Studies. ALL SESSIONS ARE AT HILLEL, ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
University of Florida Hillel
Norman H Lipoff Hall
2020 W. University Ave

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

SATURDAY MARCH 17 8:00 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DAN MICHMAN (Bar-Ilan University & Yad Vashem) “The Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust in Dire Straits: Current Challenges of Interpretation & Scope” SUNDAY MARCH 18 8:30 - 10:30 am PANEL 1: UNDERSTANDING MAJOR GHETTOS PRESENTERS: GORDON HORWITZ (Illinois Wesleyan University) “An Overwhelming Presence: Reflections on Chaim Rumkowski and His Place in Our Understanding of the Łódź Ghetto” SARA BENDER (University of Haifa) “Daily Life in the Kielce and Białystok Ghettos: A Comparative Study” SAMUEL KASSOW (Trinity University) “Documenting Catastrophe: The Ringelblum Archive and the Warsaw Ghetto” COMMENT: DAN MICHMAN (Bar-Ilan University & Yad Vashem) 10:45 am - 12:45 pm PANEL 2: CAMPS, SHTETLAKH, AND SURVIVOR TESTIMONY PRESENTERS: DANIEL BLATMAN (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The Death March Experience in Survivor Testimony and Memoirs” CHRISTOPHER BROWNING (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Survivor Testimony From Starachowice and the Dynamics of the Slave Labor Camp Prisoner Community” ALEXANDRA GARBARINI (Williams College) “Diaries and Multi-Perspectival Narratives” OMER BARTOV (Brown University) “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town” Comments from the audience 2:30 - 4:30 pm PANEL 3: APPROACHES TO RESISTANCE AND ESCAPE PRESENTERS: RENÉE POZNANSKI (Ben-Gurion University) “Jewish Communists in France During World War II: Resistance and Identity” BOB MOORE (University of Sheffield) “Integrating Self-Help Into the History of Jewish Survival in Western Europe” STEVEN BOWMAN (University of Cincinnati) “Freedom and Death: The Jews and the Greek Andartiko” NECHAMA TEC (University of Connecticut) “Couriers” Comments from the audience 5:00 pm SPECIAL PRESENTATION: OLGA GERSHENSON (University of Massachussetts at Amherst) “The Missing Pieces: The Holocaust on Soviet Screens” MONDAY MARCH 19 8:30 - 10:30 am PANEL 4: INTERNATIONAL JEWISH REACTION DURING AND AFTER THE HOLOCAUST PRESENTERS: RICHARD BREITMAN (American University) “James G. McDonald, Jewish Elites and the Refugee Crisis” ARIEH KOCHAVI (University of Haifa) “Powerless to Influence: Jewish Organizations vs. American and British Administrations” MICHAEL MENG (Clemson University) “Engaging with a Vanished World: Jewish Encounters with Postwar Europe” COMMENT: GERHARD L. WEINBERG (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 10:45 - 12:45 pm PANEL 5: PROBLEMS IN JEWISH NARRATIVE PRESENTERS: SARA HOROWITZ (York University) “‘If He Knows to Make a Child...’: Memories of Birth and Baby-Killing in Jewish Testimony Narratives” TUVIA FRILING (Ben-Gurion University) “Contested Memory: The Story of a Kapo in Auschwitz—History, Memory & Politics” MANUELA CONSONNI (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Being There, Writing Here: Survival and Witnessing” COMMENT: DAVID ENGEL (New York University)