Minorities, Cultural Heritage and
Contemporary Romanian Civilization
The Romanian Jewish Heritage Project Conference
The U.S. Government, with assistance from the Romanian Foreign Ministry, is providing support for the Romanian Jewish Heritage Project Conference on "Minorities, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Romanian Civilization". The conference will be held in Bucharest on October 21-22, 2003, and is organized by B'nai B'rith International and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania.
The Romanian Jewish Heritage Project's objectives include: the creation of a digital archive accessible via the Internet; a comprehensive documentation of Jewish trails in Romania; improvement of interethnic communication and cultural knowledge among Romania's ethnic minorities; and heightened public awareness of the role minorities play in a multiethnic, democratic civil society. The Project was officially launched at the end of 2002 through a grant from the U.S. Government to B'nai B'rith International under the Romanian-American Sustainable Partnerships (RASP) Program. RASP is financed by the U. S. Agency for International Development and implemented by World Learning.
B'nai B'rith International and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania are also assisted in the organization of the Project conference by the "Civic Education Project" Romania and the "Goldstein Goren" Center for Hebrew Studies of Bucharest University.
"MINORITIES, CULTURAL HERITAGE,
AND CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN CIVILIZATION"
International Seminar
Bucharest
October 21-22, 2003
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
9:00-9:30
Greetings
Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Representative of USAID/World Learning/US Embassy in Romania
Nicolae Cajal, president of FJCR, Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences
Daniel Mariaschin, Executive Vice President of B'nai B'rith International
1st Section: Multiculturalism and interethnic dialogue
9.30-11.00 Moderator Liviu Rotman
Jews, their Diaspora and the Minority Experience
Jeremy Cohen, Director, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Professor of Jewish History, Tel-Aviv University
Gala Galaction and the Jewish Heritage
George Voicu, Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Bucharest University
The Romanians' Tolerance to minorities - between myth and reality
Andrei Oisteanu, Researcher, "Goldstein Goren" Center for Hebrew Studies, Bucharest University
11.00-11.15 Coffee break
11.30-12:30 Moderator Felicia Waldman
From the goy-Jew to the Jew-goy
Michael Shafir, Senior Area Specialist, Radio Free Europe
The Germans of Romania between Nazism and Stalinism
William Totok
Political strategies of Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) and the multicultural model in Romania
Miklos Bakk, Assistant Professor, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj
12.30-13.00 Questions and Answers
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
2nd Section: Successful projects for the preservation of cultural heritage
14.00-17.00 Moderator Andrei Oisteanu
Together - a cultural project
Georgeta Rosu, Peasant's Museum
Digital Photo Of a Burning Candle
Stefan Maier, Project Manager, Romanian Jewish Heritage
Governmental structures involved in the issues of national minorities. Past and present
Peter Eckstein Kovacs, representative of the Hungarian minority
The Armenians' presence in Romania for a thousand years - a model of ethnic co-existence
Varujan Vosganian, representative of the Armenian minority
Rroma people of Romania: the emergence of a stigmatized identity
Vasile Ionescu, representative of the Rroma minority
Regenerative and Mimetic Actions in preserving the Identity of National Minorities
Andrei Ioan Stefanko, representative of the Slovak minority
17.00-17.30 Questions and Answers
17.45 Cocktail
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
3rd Section: Jewish heritage; lessons lived, lessons learned
09.00-10.45 Moderator Alexandru Florian
The Jewish cultural heritage, essence and form
Harry Culler, Researcher, FJCR
Significance of the Choral Temple in the Jewish cultural heritage
Lya Benjamin, Researcher, FJCR
The Holocaust in Romania and its Consequences through photographic images
Radu Ioanid, USHMM
Romanian Jews, Romanian Antisemitism, Romanian Holocaust
Paul Shapiro, USHMM
10.45-11.15 Coffee break:
Presentation of Ruth Glasberg Gold's book "The time of dried tears", Hasefer 2003
11.15-13.00 Moderator Liliana Popescu
The Jewish Cultural Heritage between preservation, re-evaluation and re-launching
Dorel Dorian, MP, Editor in Chief of "The Jewish Reality" Magazine
The Road to Jewish Heritage in the South of France
Carol Iancu, Professor, Paul Valery University, Montpellier
Managing historical memory. Contemporary highlights
Liviu Rotman, Researcher, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University
The year 1942 - Testimonies
Victor Eskenasy, Historian, Radio Free Europe
Romanian Jewish Heritage, a cross-field project
Alexandru Florian, Manager for Romania, Romanian Jewish Heritage Project
13.00-13.30 Questions and Answers
13.30-14.30 Lunch
END OF THE CONFERENCE
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