Workshop: Neighbors and Strangers: Muslims, Jews and other Minorities in Central Asia and the Caucasus in the 19th and 20th centuries
Feb. 1, 2023 – The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem
10.00 - OPPENING
Yaniv Mezuman, Yad Ben-Zvi CEO
Assaf Tamari, Deputy Director, The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem
Zeev Levin, The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem
10.15 – 11.15 – THE IMPERIAL ERA
Imperial Borderlands, Anti-Semitism, and the Struggle for ‘Justice’ and ‘Legality’. Blood Libel in a Georgian Village, 1878-80.
Stefan B. Kirmse, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
Afghanistan – Central Asia – Iran & Beyond: Mapping Mobility - Central Asian Jewish trader families and family stories (in the early 20th century)
Ariane Sadjed, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Thomas Loy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
11.15-11.30 – COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 13.15 – SOVIET ERA
Multi-Ethnic Experts, Women, Refugees and Children as “Modern Soviet” Labor at Archeological Expeditions and Big Chuj Channel Irrigation System Building
Kunduz Niiazova. Tel-Aviv University
Old schools and new kolkhozes – Tajik and Judeo-Tajik literatures in the 1930s
Thomas Loy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Interactions of Deported Meskethian Turks with other minorities in Uzbekistan
Fahri Türk and Dolunay Yusuf Baltürk, Trakya University, Turkey
Uzbek-Jewish Relations in WWII: Evacuation as a Testing Ground for the “Friendship of the Peoples”
Leora Eisenberg, Harvard University
13.15 – 14.00 - LUNCH
14.00 – 15.45 POST COLONIAL ERA
Local identity and ‘Soft’ Resistance: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in Late Soviet Era
Chen Bram, Hadassah Academic College and Truman Institute
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia
Yulia Oreshina, American University, Tbilisi
Colonial and post-Colonial Cultural adaptations: a case study of Muslim and Jewish Cemeteries in Central Asia
Zeev Levin, The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem
Jewish and non-Jewish Demographical performances in the 20th century censuses
Vecheslav Konstantinov, JDC, Jerusalem
15.45- 16.00 – COFFEE BREAK
16.00 – 17.00 ROUND TABLE
Neighbors and Strangers parallels, similarities and unique cases through different regions and periods Workshop Participants
17.00 – CONCLUDING REMARKS
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