The conference took place at the initiative of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, in cooperation with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II.
The Conference in the media:
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Interview with Prof. Dina Porat
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Conference Program
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Keynote
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Chair: Motti Golani, Tel Aviv University |
Derek J. Penslar, University of Oxford; University of Toronto World War II as a "Jewish War" |
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Partisans
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Resistance
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Chair: Derek J. Penslar, University of Oxford; University of Toronto |
Oto Luthar, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Rab Brigade and its Jewish Battalion as an Autonomous Yugoslav Partisan Unit |
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Tsilla Hershco, Bar-Ilan University The Jewish Resistance in France during World War II: Dilemmas, Ambiguities and Impact on the Historical Memory |
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Françoise S. Ouzan, Tel Aviv University From the Jewish Resistance in France to the Jewish State: Intersecting Roads |
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Literature
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Correspondence as Historical Source
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Chair: Haim Fireberg, Tel Aviv University
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Leonid Smilovitsky, Tel Aviv University Creation of a collection of Wartime Correspondence in the Diaspora Research Centre at Tel Aviv University
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Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University Captives and Captivity: The Hebrew Soldier in World War II and the Cultures of War
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Raquel Stepak, Tel Aviv University Different Approaches towards the Involvement of Authors in the Land of Israel in the War Effort
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Personal Stories |
Chair: Zvi Kan-Tor, The Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, Latrun |
Peter Usher, Retired Geographer, Independent Scholar, Canada Honour and Survival: A Canadian Jewish Airman in World War II
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Lea Prais, Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Studies Children and Youth at the Jewish Family Camps in the Forests of Western Belorussia |
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Benny Michelsohn, The Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, Latrun Commandant Victor Mirkin – Hero of the French Army |
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Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army
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Chair: Haim Saadoun, The Open University of Israel; The Documentation Center of North African Jewry during WWII, The Ben-Zvi Institute
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Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan Why They Fought: Soviet and Other Jewish Soldiers in World War II |
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Aya Ruzycki, Humboldt University in Berlin The Unsung Heroines: Four Jewish Women in the Soviet Army in the Second World War |
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Kiril Feferman, Russian Holocaust Center, Moscow Not Quite Comrades: The Recruitment of “Western” Jews into the Red Army, 1940-1942 |
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The Middle East Arena |
Chair: Françoise S. Ouzan, Tel Aviv University |
Haim Saadoun, The Open University of Israel; The Documentation Center of North African Jewry during WWII, The Ben-Zvi Institute The Encounter between Jewish Soldiers and Jewish North African Communities |
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Anat Granit Hacohen, Independent Scholar, Tel Aviv Hebrew Women Join (the) Forces: Jewish Women from Palestine in the British Forces during World War II |
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The Image of WWII Jewish Fighters in Israeli Documentary Films
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Haim Fireberg, Tel Aviv University |
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| Zvi Kan-Tor, The Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, Latrun | |||
| Concluding Lecture | Chair: Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University |
Tamar Ketko, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts, Tel Aviv The Ethics of Educated Memory |
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