Sunday, February 27, 2022, via zoom
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Department of History at Penn State and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Delaware.
WELCOME AND FIRST PANEL
8:30–9:30 a.m. EST
Memorial Books as Objects
Chair: Margalit Schindler, University of Delaware
Jennifer Rich, Rowan University, “Salvaged: Yizker Bikher as Sacred Objects”
Amy L. Hubbell, The University of Queensland, “Crowding Out the Algerian War in French Memorial Books”
Kinga Frojimovics, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, “A Second Generation (Hungarian) Yizkor Book from 2018”
SECOND PANEL
9:40–11:10 a.m. EST
Historiography, Genre, Writing Traditions, and Narrative in Memorial Books
Chair: Ran Zwigenberg, Penn State
Marianne Windsperger, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, “The Afterlife of Yizker Bikher in Contemporary Jewish Writing”
Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware, “Through a Lens Darkly: World War I as Depicted in Jewish Memorial Books”
Gail Drucker Bar-Am, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Narrating Bygone Places: Memorial Books and the Post-WWII Jewish Quest for Collective Identity"
THIRD PANEL
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. EST
Memory as an Act of Reconstruction
Chair: Börries Kuzmany, Universität Wien
Vahé Tachjian, Houshamdyan Website, Berlin, “To Remember and Write, to Remember and Draw: When Restoring the Past Becomes the Meaning of Life”
Susan Slyomovics, UCLA, “ In the wake of Memorializing French Algeria’s Agricultural Schools”
Aviad Moreno and Haim Bitton, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “The Moroccan Yizkor Book: Reconstructing Jewish Community Space in a Post–Colonial Context”
FOURTH PANEL
1:10–3:00 p.m. EST
Memorial ‘Books’ in the Digital Age
Chair: András Riedlmayer, Harvard University
Alexandra Zaremba, American University, “Our Yugoslavias: Ethics, Outcomes, and Opportunities in Reconstructing Everyday Yugoslav Life in the Nationalist and Digital Present”
Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, “Palestinian Village Books from Print to Internet”
Eliyana R. Adler, Penn State, “The Ethics of Representation in Crowdsourced Translations of Yizker-Bikher”