2010 Annual International Conference - JEWS AND THE CITY. Jews in the urban space, from specificity to interculturality - Bucharest, May 27-28, 2010
The 2010 Annual International Conference of the Goldstein Goren Center at the University of Bucharest will be focusing on how the Jewish minority shaped and was shaped by the urban space along history. The diverse Jewish lifestyles, relations and spirituality patterns, which created a characteristic space within the rich context of urbanism, and their economic expression, artistic values and social ties, will build up the mainframe of discussion, while the following sub-topics, though not exclusively, might prove relevant for the conference panels:
“Usual” and “unusual” Jewish patterns on the urban canvass.
Types of Jewish communities, institutions and peculiarities of traditional life.
Opportunities for intermingling in the urban space: commerce, education, press, health and welfare, arts, leisure etc.
The call for papers closed on February 25, 2010.
2008 Jewish Culture between Local and Universal (26–27 June 2008)
2007 Jewish Life in the Diaspora before World War II: Europe and the Mediterranean (28–29 May 2007)
2006 Jews, Christians and Muslims: Cohabitation and Confrontation along the Centuries (18–19May 2006)
2005 The Holocaust in Romania: Pre-requisites, Facts and Consequences (2–3 June 2005)
2004 Being a Minority in the 21st Century (6-8May 2004)
2003 Identity, Integration, Assimilation, Rejection – Europe and the Jews (5-6 May 2003)
2002 Emancipation from Within: Jewish Spirituality in the 19th and 20th Century” (12-13 April 2002)
2001 Judaism and European Civilization: 2000 years of interferences (23-24 April 2001)
