With the City of Wrocław we invites you to MORESHET – Jewish Heritage Network Seminar in Wrocław
9-11 February 2020
‘Jewish heritage and local community engagement’
Monday, 10 February 2020, venue: The White Stork Synagogue
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome address by Jacek Sutryk, Mayor of Wrocław and BenteKahan, President of the Bente Kahan Foundation
9:10 – 9:30 Address by Piotr Puchta, director of the Foundation for thePreservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland
9:30 – 10:30 Introduction: ‘History of Jewish Wrocław’, Dr. Maciej Łagiewski, Director of Museum of Wrocław
10:30 – 12.00 Presentation of The White Stork Synagogue in historic context: Jewish Community in Wrocław (Rabbi David Basok); presentation of the activities of the Center for Jewish Culture and Education (Bente Kahan)
12:00 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 15:00 Jewish heritage as identity building factor of local communities
‘How to build new society on the ruins of a “reclaimed” city’, Aleksander Gleichgewicht, former president of the Jewish Community in Wrocław
Case studies from Polish cities:
Namysłów – pastor Mariusz Antoszczuk, Pentecostal congregation Kanaan Namysłów; Tomasz Soja, history teacher at Agricultural School Complex in Namysłów;
Zagórów – Łukasz Parus, director of the Local Culture Center in Zagórów;
Wińsko – Bogodar Zielnica, lecturer at WSB University in Wrocław; Natalia Bartczak, 2019 POLIN Award laureate
15:00 – 17:00 Actors, role, synergies and obstacles
Culture – Bente Kahan
Education – Ewa Skrzywanek, educator and teaching consultant at Wrocław Teacher Development Center Jewish studies – Dr. Anna Kałużna, Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław; Monika Jaremków, librarian at Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław
City – Adam Grehl, former deputy mayor of Wrocław, Katarzyna Hawrylak-Brzezowska, former city Historic Preservation Officer in Wrocław
NGOs and volunteers – Agnieszka Imiela-Sikora, director of projects coordination at Bente Kahan Foundation
Tuesday , 11 February 2020
11:00 – 12:30 Final debate – conclusions and reflections
12:30 – 13.30 Lunch, wrap-up and good-bye
