"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: synagogen[at]tu-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.