"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.