ORGANIZER:
Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary)
After concluding its residency at the Institute at the end of July 2015, the Galicia: Literary and Historical Approaches to the Construction of a Jewish Place Research Group will be holding a reunion conference. The conference will focus on the activities of the important figure Joseph Perl, an educational reformer and parodist in Galicia in the first half of the ninetenth century, and the fiction of S.Y. Agnon that returns to the Galician milieu of premodern times.
