Theological Contemplations and Debates vis-à-vis the Holocaust in Real Time
Monday, 9 July – Thursday, 12 July 2012
The proceedings will be in English
Lecture Hall (Room 223)
Main Administration and Research Building
Yad Vashem, Mount of Remembrance
Jerusalem, Israel
With the generous support of the Gutwirth Family Fund
MONDAY, 9 JULY 2012
| 08:30-09:00 |
Coffee |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Opening Address
Dan Michman
Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem; Bar-Ilan University |
| 9:15-11:15 |
Session 1
Chair: Iael Nidam Orvieto
Editor-in-Chief Yad Vashem Publications; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Suzanne Brown-Fleming
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“Love Thy Neighbor”: Catholic Responses to the First Anti-Jewish Laws, April 1933?
Discussion
Tommaso Dell’Era
Tuscia University of Viterbo
Vatican Theological and Doctrinal Analysis of Racism and Antisemitism
Discussion |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30-13:30 |
Session 2
Chair: Joel Zisenwine
Head of the Deportation Project, the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Valeria Galimi
University of Siena
The Philo-Semitic Catholic Thought in France Between the 1930s and the Holocaust
Discussion
Alexandre Guilherme
Liverpool Hope University
Martin Buber and Gandhi – A Polemical Exchange of Letters on the Jewish Problem
Discussion |
TUESDAY, 10 JULY 2012
| 09:00-11:00 |
Session 3
Chair: Ron Margolin
Tel Aviv University
Yehuda Bauer
Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Schneerson, Wasserman, Teichthal
Discussion
Erin Leib Smokler
University of Chicago
Narrative Nuance: The Use of the Aggadah in the Evolving Theology of Esh Kodesh
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15-13:15 |
Session 4
Chair: Sara Pecanac
Yad Vashem Archives
Tomas Radil
Czech Academy of Science
Emergent Theology Among Adolescent Prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Discussion
Krinka Petrov
Institution of Literature and Arts- Serbia
Between Religion and Secular Ideology: Jewish Officers from Yugoslavia in German POW Camps
Discussion |
WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY 2012
| 09:00-11:00 |
Session 5
Chair: Robert Rozett
Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries
Asaf Yedidya
Yad Vashem and Jerusalem College
“Sha’ali Serufa”: Isaac Breuer’s Epitaph on German Jewry from 1942
Discussion
Esther Farbstein and Chaim Shalem
Michlalah College
The Other ‘Resistance’ – Jewish Steadfastness in France During the Holocaust
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15-12:45 |
Session 6
David Weiss-Halivni
Personal Theological Reflections on the Holocaust
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Bar-Ilan University |
| 12:45-14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-16:15 |
Session 7
Chair: Yehoyada Amir
Hebrew Union College
Gershon Greenberg
American University
Elisha Rozenfeld’s Shomer Emunim (Ungvar 1941)
Discussion
Isaac Hershkowitz
Bar-Ilan University
Ararita: A Kabbalistic Godly Appellation in the Midst of the Holocaust (A Study in the Writings of R. Yitzchak Messer During the Holocaust)
Discussion |
THURSDAY, 12 JULY 2012
| 09:00-11:00 |
Session 8
Chair: Nikos Tzafleris
Research Fellow, Yad Vashem
Graciela Ben Dror
Moreshet - Journal for the Study of Holocaust and Antisemitism
From Theology to Antisemitism: Theological Texts and Debates About Jews During the Holocaust in Spain and Latin America
Discussion
Jovan Ćulibrk
Serbian Orthodox Church,
A View of Theologians of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the suffering of Jews During the War
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15-13:15 |
Session 9
Chair: Aviad Kleinberg
Tel Aviv University
Alberto Melloni
University of Modena-Reggio; University of Bologna
Angelo G. Roncalli: Ynusual Rreflections of a Vatican Diplomat During the Shoah
Discussion
Ion Popa
University of Manchester
Some Documents of the Romanian Orthodox Church Regarding the Holocaust and the Jewish Community (1945-1972)
Discussion |
| 13:15-13:45 |
Conclusion
Dina Porat
Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University |
