EVENT: Workshop: Neighbors and Strangers: Muslims, Jews and other Minorities in Central Asia and the Caucasus in the 19th and 20th centuries (February 1)

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 20^th 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 20^th 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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