"Synagogue and Museum" - 3rd International Congress on Jewish Architecture

Organized by the Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture (Technische Universität Braunschweig/ Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Hochschule für jüdische Studien Heidelberg,
in cooperation with the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig, and the Israel Jacobson Netzwerk für jüdische Kultur und Geschichte e.V.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Monday, November 21st
13:00 – 14:30
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Alexander von Kienlin, Braunschweig

Greetings
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hesselbach, President of the TU Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Johannes Heil, Rektor of the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg (requested)
Dr. Heike Pöppelmann, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum
Prof. Dr. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem
Prof. Dr. Jochen Litterst, Braunschweig

Keynote
Prof. Dr. Annette Weber, Heidelberg

Introduction
PD Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke, Braunschweig

14:30 – 15:00
Coffee-break

15:00 – 16:30
Panel 1
Displaying synagogues – a History of Transfers and Transformations
Introduction and chair: Prof. Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York

Dr. Sabine Offe, Bremen
Synagogues as Traces

Dr. Ilia Rodov, Bar Ilan
Synagogue as Museum: Ritual and Exposition

Naomi Simhony, Jerusalem
Synagogue Exhibitions in National Museums in the State of Israel

16:45- 18:15
Panel 2
Synagogues as Sources for Research and Education
Introduction and Chair: Jutta Dick, Halberstadt

Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik, Braunschweig
The Hornburg Synagogue and its Furnishing

Prof. Dr. Renato Athias, Pernambuco/Brazil
Memory and Architectural Preservation of the First Synagogue in the Americas

Dr. Marc Grellert, Darmstadt
Synagogues Destroyed in Germany. 20 Years of Virtual Reconstructions in Museums

Tuesday, November 22nd

9:00 – 10:30
Panel 3
Collecting Contexts – Objects From Synagogues in Jewish and Non-Jewish Collections
Introduction and chair: Dr. Chana C. Schütz, Berlin

Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Wien
The Judaica-Collection at the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum and its Presentation(s)

Dr. Sergey Kravtsov, Jerusalem
The Jewish Museum in Lviv: genius loci and Realpolitik

Dr. Miranda Crowdus, Hannover
Synagogue Music-Objects as Metonyms: Ethics and Dissonances in the Material Representation/Display of Jewish Practice

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee-break

11:00 – 12:30
Panel 4
Objects and Sites of Jewish Material Culture
Introduction and chair: Prof. Dr. Alexander von Kienlin, Braunschweig

Dr. Svetlana Tarkhanova, Moscow
The Chorazin Synagogue (4th-6th cent.) at the Archaeological Site and in the Museum Space

Prof. Dr. Askold Ivantchik, Bordeaux
Archeological and Epigraphical Traces of an Early Diaspora Community in Tanais, Russia

Hans-Christof Haas, Bamberg
The Sukkah of Mendel Rosenbaum in Zell /Lower Franconia. Tradition – Research – Presentation

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch-break

13:30 – 14:15
Poster-presentation

14:15 – 15:45
Panel 5
Synagoguges as Museums – New Concepts of Display and Education
Introduction and chair: Dr. Samuel Gruber, Syracuse NY

Dr. Ron Epstein, Zurich
Re-Used Synagogues in Switzerland

Dr. Martha Keil, St. Pölten/Wien
„Who is in need of a Judentempel?” The former Synagogue of St. Pölten (Lower Austria) and its cultural location

Prof. Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York
The Example of the Wooden Synagogue in the Polin-Museum, Warsaw

16:30 – 17:30
Visit of the Jüdisches Museum des Braunschweigischen Landesmuseums

18:00 – 19:00
Reception by the Lord Mayor of the City of Braunschweig, Altstadtrathaus

19:00
Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ismar Schorsch, New York
Leopold Zunz und die Wissenschaft des Judentums

Wednesday, November 23rd

9:00 – 10:30
Panel 6
Reconstruction, Re-contextualization – Synagogue-Museums and their Environments
Introduction and chair: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Klein, Budapest

Dr. Anselm Hartinger, Erfurt
The Museum Old Synagogue

Gabi Rudolf M.A., Würzburg
Synagogue Arnstein – Visual Fragment of an Invisible History

Prof. Dr. Givi Gambashidze, Tbilisi
Museum as a Space of Peace

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee-break

11:00 – 12:30
Panel 7
The Future of Synagogues in/ as Museums
Introduction and chair: Dr. Vladimir Levin, Jerusalem

Dr. Eszter Gantner, Marburg
Synagogue as Space of Conflicts: The Formal Synagogue of Esztergom, Hungary

Dr. Heike Pöppelmann, Dr. Hans Jürgen Derda, Braunschweig
The Museum of Religions in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum

Dr. Benigna Schönhagen, Augsburg
The Example of Augsburg

Dr. Christiane Twiehaus, Dr. Sebastian Ristow, Cologne
The Findings, Reconstruction, and Museum Presentation of the Cologne Medieval Synagogue and the Jewish Quarter

12:30 – 13:00
Final discussion, conclusion

For registration and any questions, please, contact us via E-Mail: synagogentu-bs.de; registration should be done until November, 7, 2016.
A congress fee of 50,- Euro is payable directly at the registration desk; it includes coffee breaks and refreshments, the visit of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum Hinter Aegidien and the evening events on Tuesday, Nov. 22nd.

Concept and Organisation
Prof. Dr. Alexander von Kienlin, Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Annette Weber, Heidelberg
Dr. Heike Pöppelmann, Braunschweig
Dr.-Ing. Katrin Keßler, Braunschweig
PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrich Knufinke, Braunschweig

Academic Board
Prof. Dr. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Jerusalem
Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Wien
Dr. Samuel Gruber, Syracuse, NY
Prof. Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York
Dr. Vladimir Levin, Jerusalem
Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, New York
Prof. Dr. Nathanael Riemer, Potsdam
Dr. Chana C. Schütz, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Harmen H. Thies, Braunschweig

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrich Knufinke
Dr.-Ing. Katrin Keßler
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