Jewish Heritage Seminar:
Care, Conservation and Management and Use
of Historic Jewish Properties
Jewish Community Center
Bratislava, Slovakia
March 17 – 19, 2009
Seminar Schedule
(ALL SESSIONS AT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER)
15:00–16:30 (I) Opening Session
Welcome & Introduction to Seminar
Maros Borsky, Peter Salner
Overview of Jewish Heritage Issues for the Seminar
Session leaders:
Herbert Block, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00 (II) Session
Knowing What you Have: Documentation and Protection of Judaica Collections and Documentation, Condition reviews, and Preservation Planning of Building and Sites
Session leaders:
Eleonora Bergman, Ivan Ceresnjes
19:00 – 20:00 Break
20:00-21:00 Dinner at Jewish Community Center
Welcome by Pavol Traubner
Introduction of Distinguished Guests and Seminar Participants
21:00-22:00 (III) Session over coffee & desert
Case Study: Jewish Heritage in Slovakia (some Problems and Solutions)
Session leader: Maros Borsky
Wednesday, March 18
Breakfast at hotel (kosher breakfast must be ordered in advance)
8:30 (IV) Departure from Bratislava
Morning Theme: Restoration & Reuse of Synagogues
Excursion leader: Maros Borsky, with local conservators
Hatam Sofer Memorial
Samorin Synagogue
Stupava Synagogue
13:30 Return to Bratislava / Lunch at Jewish Community Center
14:30-16:30 (V) Session
Building conservation, project conception, organization and administration,
Session Leaders: Michael Beizer, Eleonora Bergman, Mark Weber
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 (VI) Session
Funding Strategies for Conservation and Use
Session leader: Samuel D. Gruber
18:00 -19:00 Break
19:00-20:00 Dinner at Jewish Community Center
20:00-22:00 (VII) Session over coffee and desert
Before and after property restitution: economic, legal, religious issues
Session leaders:
Herbert Block, Monika Krawczyk, Michael Schudrich
Thursday, March 19
Breakfast at hotel (kosher breakfast must be ordered in advance)
7:30 Morning Minyan at Heydukova Street Synagogue (optional)
8:00 Visit to Heydukova Street Synagogue (5 minute walk from hotel)
9:00-10:45 (VIII) Session
Jewish properties and cultural heritage: education, tourism and economic development
Session leaders:
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Max Polonovski, Monika Krawczyk
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 (IX) Closing session
Wrap-up: Present-day predicaments and follow up strategies
Panel: To be Announced
13:00-14:00 Lunch at Jewish Community Center
14:00 End of seminar and individual departure of participants
This seminar is sponsored by:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
The Cahnman Foundation
International Survey of Jewish Monuments
The Jewish Community of Bratislava
The Jewish Heritage Foundation - Menorah
The Rothschild Foundation (Europe)
The Slovak Jewish HeritageCenter
UZZNO
The World Monuments Fund