First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland: Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe, 19TH Century to WWII

Conferences: First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland: Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe, 19TH Century to WWII (Kazimierz on the Vistula River (Poland), 27-29 October 2008).

The First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland, organized by the Polish
Society of Oriental Art - Section of Jewish and Israeli Art on the
occasion of the 100th anniversary of the conference in Czernowiz
(Cernivci), will be devoted to Jewish artists (painters, sculptors,
graphic artists, architects) who from the period of the Haskalah until
WWII created art centers in Central-Eastern Europe or were connected
with these centers, active in Western Europe, Russia, America and the
Palestine. The schedule of speakers has not yet been posted, but a
preliminary program lists prominent scholars and activists from many
countries. For more information see:
http://sztukaorientu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=15

This is a mega-conference with dozens of speakers from Poland and around the world. I will be there, speaking about the influence of Polish synagogue architecture on American synagogues in the the 19th and 20th centuries.