Schedule

Workshop: Remnants of the Past or Laboratories of Modernity? The Political Jewish
Communities in Moravia after 1848 and their Archival Sources
Tuesday, May 3
Venue: Muzeum Umění Olomouc, Denisova 47
13.30-14.00
Introduction
Ines Koeltzsch (MÚA AV ČR)
Chair: Michal Frankl (ŽMP)
First Panel
The Israeliten-Gemeinde and its Meanings
14.00-14.30
Daniel Baránek (FF UK): The Religious Function of the Political
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-15.45
Chair: Louise Hecht (FF UP)
Jewish Communities in Moravia (after 1848 until 1880s)
Peter Urbanitsch (ÖAW): The Split of the Israeliten-Gemeinden into Religious
and Political Communities in Moravia in the 1880s (in German)
Johannes Reiss (Jüdisches Museum Eisenstadt): The Holy Jewish
Community of A"SCH - a Case sui generis in Europe (in German)
Coffee Break
15.45-16.45
Keynote Lecture
Michael Miller (CEU): “Those rotten, backward bastions of German
domination”: Political Jewish Communities in Moravia and the Nationality
Question
Chair: Marie Crhová (FF UP)
18.00
Reception at the Jewish Community in Olomouc
Wednesday, May 4
Venue: Muzeum Umění Olomouc, Denisova 47
Second Panel
Local Self-Government and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations in Small
Towns
Chair: Ines Koeltzsch (MÚA AV ČR)
9.00-9.30
Johannes Kontny (University of Vienna): The Outline of Local Self-
Government in Moravia at the End of the 19th Century and at the Beginning of
the 20th Century (in German)
9.30-10.00
Martin Rája (Zámek Slavkov-Austerlitz): The Jewish and Christian Community
10.00-10.30
Petr Pálka (Muzeum Kroměřížska): The Unification of the Christian and the
10.30-11.00
Jarka Vitámvásová (JMP): 1931: The Actual End of “Třebíč – Židovská obec”?
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
in Slavkov. A Rattling Neighbourhood Under one Roof
Jewish Political Township into the United Town of Holešov in 1918/19
Third Panel
The Israeliten-Gemeinden and their Archival Sources
11.30-12.00
Pavel Kocman (JMP): The Traces of Moravian Jewish Political Communities
12.00-12.30
David Nehyba (SOkA Znojmo): The Sources of the Jewish Political
12.30-13.00
Chair: Magda Veselská (JMP)
in Archival Fonds and in Secondary Literature
Communities Miroslav and Šafov in the State Archives Znojmo
Michal Stehlík (National Museum): Písečné
13.00-14.00
Lunch Break
Fourth Panel
Regional Contexts and Demography
14.00-14.30
Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner (Karl Franzens University Graz/Andrássy
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-16.30
Chair: Pavel Kocman (JMP)
University Budapest): Cultural/Political Activities and the Jewish Search for
“Identity” in Eastern Austria after 1918
Andrea Pokludová (FF OU): Jewish Elites and the Modernization of the
Moravian and Silesian Towns Moravská Ostrava, Olomouc, Opava and
Frýdek
Ludmila Nesládková (FF OU): The Demographic Features of the Political
Jewish Communities in Boskovice and Holešov
Galina Rucká (SOkA Hodonín): Census Documents as Archival Sources for
the Demographic History of the Jewish Community in Strážnice
Coffee Break
Fifth Panel
Urban Societies and Anti-Semitism
16.30-17.00
Michal Frankl (JMP): Communal Antisemitism in Moravia at the End of the
17.00-17.30
Milan Řepa (HÚ AV ČR): Jewish Population and the Crime of Public Violence
17.30-18.00
Chair: Daniel Soukup (FF UP)
19th Century?
Hillel Kieval (Washington University in St. Louis): 1899. A Year of Living
Dangerously
18.00-18.30
Summary
19.00
Dinner
Thursday, May 5
9.00-14.00
Field Trip to Prostějov, Return to Olomouc around 14:00 (Lunch 12-13.00)
contacts:
Ines Koeltzsch, [email protected]
Jarka Vítámvásová, [email protected]
Partner: