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10:00am Welcome
Judith C. Siegel, Director of Academic and Public Programs, CJH
Brian Wallis, Curator, Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany/New York, Former
Chief Curator and Deputy Director, International Center of Photography
10:15am-11:00am
Maya Benton, Curator, International Center of Photography,
Rediscovering Roman Vishniac
11:15am -1:00pm Session I
Option A: Berlin, 1920-38
Mitra Abbaspour, Independent Curator and Scholar, Former Associate Curator,
MoMA, "A Living Whole": The Cosmopolitan Culture of Interwar Berlin
Marion Kaplan, Professor, NYU,
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Michael Berkowitz, Professor, University College, London,
Russian Jews and Photography
Judith Cohen, Director, Photo Archives, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Washington, D.C., A Different Kind of Holocaust Photographer
Moderator: Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research, Leo Baeck Institute
Option B: Eastern Europe, ca. 1935-38
Adam Mazur, Art Critic and Curator, Warsaw, Poland,
Photographing Polish Jews From Outside and Within
Shelley Helfand, Former Reference Historian, JDC Archives, New York,
The Role of the Joint in Eastern Europe from 1935-38
J. Hoberman, Film Critic and Professor, the Cooper Union,
A Melamed Lights His Cigarette: Vishniac's Carpathian Outtakes
Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and
Instructor, Rutgers University, Vishniac and the Yiddish Press
Moderator: Jonathan Brent, Director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
1:15pm-2:00pm
Lorraine Wild, Book Designer, Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles,
Reconsidering Roman Vishniac Rediscovered. The award-winning designer of
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered (Prestel, 2015) will discuss her work, graphic design, and a wide range of issues related to presentation and interpretation of subject matter. In conversation with
Brian Wallis, Curator, Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany/New York, Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator, International Center of Photography
2:15pm-3:45pm Session II
Option A: The Netherlands, France and Germany: ca. 1938-39 and 1947
Joël Cahen, Director, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam,
A Radically Different Style: Jewish Pioneers in the Dutch Polder
Laura Hobson Faure, Professor, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris,
Taking a Closer Look at Vishniac in Prewar France
Atina Grossmann, Professor, the Cooper Union,
Vishniac and the Surviving Remnant
Steven Hoelscher, Professor, University of Texas, Austin and Academic
Curator of Photography, the Harry Ransom Center, A Landscape in Ruins: Roman Vishniac's Return to Postwar Berlin
Moderator: Avinoam Patt, Professor, University of Hartford
Option B: America, 1941-90
Deborah Dash Moore, Professor, University of Michigan,
Roman Vishniac's New York
Herb Tam, Director, Museum of Chinese in America, New York,
Vishniac's Chinatown
Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and
Instructor, Rutgers University, From the Shtetl to Burlesque
Hasia Diner, Professor, NYU,
The Jewish Child in New York
Norm Barker, Professor, Johns Hopkins University,
The Curious Microscopist
Moderator: Rachel Lithgow, Director, American Jewish Historical Society
4:00pm-5:00pm Concluding Session
Alana Newhouse, Editor-in-Chief, Tablet Magazine
Judith Cohen, Director, Photo Archives, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Washington, D.C. and Maya Benton, Curator, International Center of Photography
5:15pm Reception
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