18:00 – 20:00    Opening Session

Greetings             Marcelo Dascal
                           Dean, Faculty of Humanities
                           Tel Aviv University

                           Shulamit Volkov 
                           Head, School of History
                           Tel Aviv University

                           His Excellency
                           Wolfgang Paul
                           Ambassador of Austria
 

Introductions        Dan Diner
                           Head, Institute for German History
                           Tel Aviv University
 
                           Gotthart Wunberg
                           Director, Internationales Forschungszentrum
                           Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna

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Monday, November 22
at the Wiener Library/Tel Aviv University

9:00 – 12:00      Session II: Heterogeneity and Ethnicity
Break included

Chair                   John Bunzl, Vienna
 
                           Wolfgang Hoepken, Leipzig
                           Multiethnizitaet in der Provinz:
                           Varna als Exempel

                           Mariana Hausleitner, Berlin
                           Vielfalt: Die politischen Parteien
                           in der Bukowina vor 1918

                           Wolf Moskovich, Jerusalem
                           Specificities: Interethnic Relations in Czernowitz

                           Hannelore Burger, Vienna
                           Polyphonie: Mehrsprachigkeit und
                           Unterrichtswesen in der Bukowina

12:00 – 14:00    Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:30    Session III: Language and Identity
Break included

Chair                    Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jerusalem

                            Margarete Grandner, Vienna
                            Die Universitaet Czernowitz: Deutsche
                            Gelehrsamkeit in einer multiethnischen Region

                            Gerald Stourzh, Vienna
                            Recognizing Yiddish: Max Diamant and his
                            Struggle for Jewish Rights in Imperial Austria

                            Walter Schmitz, Dresden
                            Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Zur Mediengeschichte
                            deutsch-juedischer Kulturen

                            Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Jassy/Paris
                            “Jerusalem am Pruth”: Betrachtungen
                            zum Czernowitzer “Meridian”
 
 

Tuesday, November 23
at the Wiener Library/Tel Aviv University

9:30 – 12:00       Session IV: Politics and Homogeneity
Break included

Chair                    Moshe Zimmermann, Jerusalem
 
                            Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv
                            From “homo bucovinensis” to “civis Romaniae”:
                            Inventing Romanian Nationalism

                            David Shaary, Jerusalem
                            “Jewish Politics”: The Jewish
                            National Council 1918/19

                            Florence Heymann, Jerusalem
                            Crepuscules: nationalisme et
                            antisemitisme 1922-1945

                             Zvi Yavetz, Tel Aviv
                             Reflections: Hitler’s Seizure of Power
                             in the German-Jewish Press

12:00 – 14:00     Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:30    Session V: Culture and Memory
Break included

Chair                    Lutz Musner, Vienna

                            Verena Dohrn, Hannover
                            Grenzueberschreitungen: Jiddische und
                            deutsch-juedische Kulturen in Czernowitz

                           Albert Lichtblau, Salzburg
                            Die Bukowina: Eine Erinnerungslandschaft

                            Marianne Hirsch/Leo Spitzer, Hanover, New Hampshire
                            “Auf welchen Umwegen”: Place, Memory and Nostalgia
 

Conference languages: English and German (simultaneous translation)