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Article on the commemorative year 1700 years of Jewish Life in Germany: “Der ‘gojnormative’ Blick – 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland?”

In issue 32 of Medaon – Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education – the two project leaders of the priority program’s research project Knowledge Architectures – Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross – published an article in the Miscella section on the commemorative year that celebrates 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany.

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“Jüdisches Kulturerbe” versus “Jewish heritage”: The socio-political significance jüdisches Kulturerbe and the discontents of Jewish (cultural) heritage in Germany

Within the context of the priority program’s sub-project Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational, and academic levels in post-1945 Europe, Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Ross and Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz published an article in which they take a closer look at the concept Jewish cultural heritage and its diverse meanings.
It has been published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and can be read here (only available in German).

Call for Papers: Jewish or Common Heritage? (Dis-)appropriation of Synagogue Architecture in East-Central Europe since 1945, Deadline 31th January 2023

The conference is a cooperation of Bet Tfila-Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe at TU Braunschweig, GHI Warsaw and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It takes place within the framework of the ‘DFG Priority Program 2357: Jewish Cultural Heritage’, which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The conference will take place on 12-14 September 2023 at the POLIN Museum for the History of Polish Jews and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Submissions will be accepted from any discipline as long as the topic relates to this broad theme.

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Announcement: Kick-Off-Meeting

On 05.07.2022, the kick-off event for the priority program “Jewish Cultural Heritage” will take place at Villa Seligmann from 10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m. The projects of the first funding phase and the priority program will be presented.