Day 1, 29 November 2018
10.00 am Opening session
Dariusz Stola, Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò
10.15 am -12.00 pm Roundtable I
Polish Independence, Jewish Questions and the Neighbors
Chair: Michał Trębacz
Panelists Christhardt Henschel, Stephan Stach, Darius Staliunas, Andrei Zamoiski
12.00 – 12.30 pm Coffee break
12.30 – 2.30 pm Session I: Hopes
Chair: Kamil Kijek
Natalia Aleksiun
Jews in Galicia Imagine Independent Poland
Joshua Zimmerman
A Black Spot in Polish-Jewish Relations that Won't Go Away: the 1920 Internment Camp for Jewish Soldiers at Jabłonna
Marcos Silber
November Hopes for Genuine Equality: Citizenship, Nationalism and national autonomy
Commentary: David Engel
2.30 - 3.30 pm Break
3.30 - 5.30 pm Session II: Fears
Chair: Jerzy Kochanowski
Piotr J. Wróbel
Jewish-German Relations in the Polish Narratives of 1914-1918
Theodore R. Weeks
Jews between Poland and Lithuania: Wilno, "Middle Lithuania" and Modern Nationalisms, 1918-1922
Michał Trębacz
Great Fears of a Great War. Lodz Jews on the Eve of Polish Independence
Commentary: Antony Polonsky
5.30 – 6.00 pm Coffee break
6.00 - 7.30 pm Keynote lecture: David Engel
Independence for Whom? Jews and the New Political Order in Eastern Europe after the First World War
Day 2, 30 November 2018
10.00 am – 12.00 pm Session III: Realities
Chair: Dariusz Stola
Konrad Zieliński
Jewish Population on the Polish Lands on the Eve of Poland’s Independence
Robert Blobaum
The Specter of Judeo-Polonia and the Politics of Containment: 1918 and Beyond/
Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
1918: Institutions of Jewish Culture on the Eve of Poland’s Independence
Commentary: Jochen Böhler
12.00 - 12.30 pm Coffee break
12.30 – 2.30 pm Roundtable II
Jews and Polish Independence. 100 Years Later
Chair: Antony Polonsky
Panelists: David Engel, Jochen Böhler, Piotr Wróbel, Jolanta Żyndul
2.30 - 3.30 pm Break
3.30 – 5.00 pm Jews and Polish Independence: core exhibition and temporary exhibition tour, guide: Tamara Sztyma