Program of the workshop

8.30: Welcome and opening of the workshop

8.30-9.00

Przemysław Zarubin (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)  The Project Presentation: "The role of Jews in the economic life of Krakow and the surrounding area in the autonomous period 1867-1918" Sources, selected problems, main characters.

9.00-9.30

Hanna Kozińska-Witt (Independent Researcher) Jewish entrepreneurs from Podgórze. How to interpret wealth?

9.30-10.00

Daniel Baránek (Historický ústav Akademie věd ČR, Praha)

"Why Jewish Businessmen ?" Methodological reflections on the implications of the term "Jewish entrepreneurs"

COFFEE BREAK 10.00-10.15

10.15-10.45

Tünde Csendes (Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, Budapest)

Insight into the professional life of the Jewish industrialists and landowners of Győr between the two world wars

10.45-11.15

Vladyslava Moskalets (Ukrainian Catholic University)

What makes the industry Jewish: case of Boryslav oil industry in the 19th-20th century

11.15-11.45

Aleksander Lupienko (Instytut Historii PAN)

Jews as building investors in Lviv (1772-1914): a survey

11.45-12.15

Final discussion and Conclusions

Papers should not be longer than 20 minutes. A short discussion will follow every paper.