Performing the Jewish Archive

Programme

(correct as of 9 January 2018)

SUNDAY 14 JANUARY 2017 ♦ MON 15 JANUARY ♦ TUE 16 JANUARY

11:30-12:30: Registration and lunch

12:30-13:00: Official opening
Stephen Muir, (Principal Investigator, Performing the Jewish Archive)

13:00-14:40: Session 1 – Memorialization and Education

• Joseph Toltz:
  ‘Dum veneris judicare’: performance, resistance, redemption and empathy in Defiant Requiem and Brundibár
• Racheli Galay:
  Young musicians performing the Jewish archives in Israel
• Teryl Dobbs:
  Josima Feldschuh, the ‘Prodigy of the Warsaw Ghetto’: Implications for critical pedagogy and music/Holocaust Education

14:40-15:00: Tea / coffee

15:00-16:40: Session 2 – Performers and Audiences

• Lisa Peschel:
  Presenting the historical background of plays from World War II and audience response: Is ‘co-textuality‘ more effective?
• Nick Barraclough:
  What do audience faces tell us about their experience of artistic performances?
• Zvi Semel:
  Viktor Ullmann’s Immer inmitten: Archival search for meaning
• Arnold Mittelman:
  National Jewish Theater Foundation Holocaust Theater International Initiative: Research, education, production as a tool in Holocaust-related education

16:40-17.00: Tea / coffee break

17:00-18:30: Keynote lecture

• Prof Michael Berkowitz, University College London
  Leopold Godowsky’s Living Archives Project (1963): music, photography, film, preservation

MONDAY 15 JANUARY 2017

9:30-11:10: Session 3 – Performers and Institutions

• Chad McDonald:
  ‘Separate from and unrelated to’: Comparing how the Ben Uri Gallery and Wiener Library responded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
• Clare George:
• Political cabaret in the exile archive
• Gila Flam:
• Dan HaShomer [Dan The Guard] An opera at the crossroad between the Archive and the Stage of the National Library of Israel
• Ilana Cravitz & Suzi Evans:
  ​Access,​ ​approach,​ ​context​ ​and​ ​responsibility:​ ​performing​ ​the​ ​Jewish​ ​music​ ​archive

11:10-11:30: Poster introduction (with tea / coffee)

• Alexandr Bar:
  PhD poster introduction

11:30-13:30: Session 4 – Composers and their Archives

• Danielle Padley:
• Jewish music for non-Jewish audiences: Charles Garland Verrinder’s Kol nidrei and Hear my cry O God
• Melanie Brown:
  Musical echoes from a forgotten era of Ireland’s cultural history: the Rev. Leo Bryll Archive at the Royal Irish Academy of Music
• Edward Einhorn:
  Food of Flowers: When is Art a human need?

13:30-14:15: Lunch

14:15-15:45: Panel 1 – Performing the Jewish Archive

• Steve Muir:
  About the Performing the Jewish Archive project
• Simo Muir:
  Mother Rachel and her Children: A curated collection of three contemporary stagings
• Joseph Toltz:
  Jewish music and theatre down under: The Sydney Festival and the ethics of performance
• Teryl Dobbs:
  Josima Feldschuh, ‘The prodigy of the ghetto’, and a critical pedagogy of music
• David Fligg:
  Gideon Klein’s Topol [The poplar tree] as an interactive website case-study

15:45-16:00: Tea / coffee

16:00-17:00: Performance
Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel:
Body of Song: Digital archives and embodied research in the Judaica Laboratory

17:00-18:30: Panel 2 – Mediating the archive

• Hannah Holtschneider:
  Curating the Jewish archive
• Philip Alexander:
  Performing the archive: Whither cantorial music in Scotland?
• Mia Spiro:
  Translating the archive: from manuscript to published memoir: the role of the editor

18:30-19:00: Free time

19:00-20:00: Supper

20:00-21:00: Concert, performed by the Cassia String Quartet

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
  String Quartet in D minor (K.421)
• Gideon Klein:
  Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
• Pavel Fischer:
  String Quartet No.3 ‘Mad Piper’

Cassia String Quartet: Amy Welch, Tory Clarke, Laurie Dempsey, Andy Crick

The Cassia String Quartet was born out of a passion for the string quartet repertoire. Recipients of the 2013 Musiciens Entre Guerre et Paix Award from the International Académie Ravel, they were finalists in the Trinity Laban Intercollegiate Competition and winners of the 2013 Nossek String Quartet Prize. They are now an associate quartet of Birmingham Conservatoire. Collaborations include commissioning and premiering a quartet by the composer Aaron Parker and performing alongside the clarinettist Nicholas Cox, pianist Sally Halsey and the Ely Sinfonia. The quartet have also enjoyed working alongside several bands, most notably New Order, The Charlatans, and Daughter. 

TUESDAY 16 JANUARY 2017

9:30-11:00: Panel 3 – Jewish music, cultural revival, and the archive: Towards a sustainable future

• Miranda Crowdus:
  From archive to practice: Ethics, challenges, and emergent ontologies in Jewish music revival(s)
• Martha Stellmacher:
  ‘Worthless’ items and the archive: Strategies for raising awareness of the cultural value of Jewish music-objects
• Sarah Ross:
  Jewish liturgical music database: Applying the concept of cultural sustainability in Jewish music studies

11:00-11:20: Tea / coffee break

11:20-12:40: Paper; video documentary

• Tanya Ury:
  Personal affects: Going into the archive
• Archive burn out
  A video documentation of a performance

12:40-13:20: Lunch

13:20-14:50: Panel 4 – The ‘Testifying to the Truth’ project: Rethinking online access to Holocaust testimony

• Christine Schmidt:
  ‘We are all witnesses’: The creation of The Wiener Library’s testimonies collection
• Tobias Simpson:
  Testifying to the truth: Why is online access to The Wiener Library’s testimony collections important?
• Jessica Green:
  No more digital islands: An integrated approach to Holocaust digital resources

14:50-15:30: Closing remarks & conference end

• Plenary discussion, publication plans