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Lecture Friday June 7th 2013

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On June 7, 2013, a special symposium in memory of Prof.dr. Rena Fuks-Mansfeld will be held at the library of the University of Amsterdam. Rena Fuks-Mansfeld was professor emerita of Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam and passed away on 27 November 2012.

Programme

13.00: Doors open
13.30: Opening by prof. dr. Evelien Gans, professor of Contemporary Jewry (UvA)
13.40: Documentary The Bund: A Century of Utopism (1997) starring: Rena Fuks
14.15: Prof. dr. Karin Hofmeester, On Rena Fuks’ magnum opus, a database of 700 Yiddish letters from the collections of the ISSH
14.35: Dr. Gerben Zaagsma, In search of the Jewish freedom fighter. Jewish volunteers in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).
15.00: Break
15.30: Dr. Hans Goedkoop, ‘Madame Fuks is not dead’. A personal recollection
15.45: Dr. Shanti van Dam, ‘Noblesse oblige’, Theodore Reinach (1860-1928), a Jewish intellectual in France
16.15: Dr. Pauline Micheels, Rena Fuks en Henriette Boas, insiders as outsiders
16.30: Discussion
17.00: Closing remarks & reception
Moderator: Prof.dr. Judith Frishman

Aanmelden: ludygiebels@xs4all.nl

Location: Doelenzaal, University of Amsterdam Library, Singel 425, Amsterdam.

Programma aankondiging

symposium nagedachtenis Rena Fuks

Available in: dutch