International conference
On November 2017 the professor in-charge of the project Rika Benveniste and the post-doc researcher Dina Moustani organised the international conference titled «Jewish Education in Southeastern Europe, mid 19th-mid 20th century», in which the post-doc researcher presented part of her results.
The aim of this conference was to discuss about the following themes:
- Jewish education in the Ottoman Empire and in Greece (mid 19th- mid 20th century)
- Establishment of Alliance Israélite Universelle schools in the same period and their role in Jewish emancipation
- Jewish education in Greek and international schools
The acts of the conference are planned to appear during the 2018-2019 academic year.
Program
Friday, 24 November 2017
- 18.45
- Welcome
- 19.00
- Keynote Lecture
Minna Rozen: When Education Goes National: Salonikan Jewry 1912-1941 - 19.45
- Discussion
- 20.30
- Dinner
Saturday, 25 November 2017
- 10.00- 11.45
- Ideology in Jewish Education (Chair: Minna Rozen)
- Gila Hadar: Socialists, Hellenists, Zionists, Alliancists: The Pluralistic education of the Alliance
- Angel Chorapchiev: The Zionist struggle to control and reorganize the Jewish educational system in Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century
- Liviu Rotman: Emancipation and the Jewish school within an area of cultural border", (Emancipation et l'école juive dans une region de frontière culturelle)
- 11.00-11.45
- Discussion
- 11.45-12.00
- Διάλειμμα
- 12.00-13.15
- Alliance Schools I (Chair: Rika Benveniste)
- Rena Molho: The Religious Education in the Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU) Schools of Izmir
- Dina Moustani: Progress versus tradition: The Alliance Israélite Universelle in Thessaly, 1865-1881
- 12.40-13.15
- Discussion
- 13.15-14.15
- Διάλειμμα
- 16.00- 17.15
- Alliance Schools II (Chair: Rena Molho)
- Rachel Simon: The Impact of the Alliance Israélite Universelle on Jewish Education in the Muslim Regions of the Mediterranean: Libya as a Case Study
- Vasilis Ritzaleos: The Alliance school in Serres from its foundation till the destructive fire at the end of the Second Balkan War, 1901-1913
- 16.40-17.15
- Συζήτηση
- 17.15-17.30
- Break
- 17.30-19.15
- Jewish Education in the 20th century (Chair: Anna Matthaiou)
- Andreas K. Bouroutis: Jewish education and Italian fascism: The Salonica paradigm
- Nikos Tzafleris: The Jews of Volos: Educational status and social stratification in the first half of the 20th century
- Dimitis Goulis: Fragments of Jewish students presence in schools of Rezi Vardar/Xirokrini of Thessaloniki. Findings and a didactic proposal through school's archives
- 18.30-19.15
- Discussion
Abstracts
Download the conference abstracts [.pdf, 3.1MB]
Photographs
 Minna Rozen |
 Liviu Rotman, Rachel Simon, Angel Chorapchiev |
 Dimitris Goulis, Andreas Bouroutis, Anna Matthaiou |
 Gila Hadar, Minna Rozen |
 Rena Molho, Minna Rozen, Rachel Simon, Angel Chorapchiev |
 Rena Molho, Rika Benveniste |
 Nikos Tzafleris, Andreas Bouroutis, Anna Matthaiou |
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