Film screening: Unzere Kinder (Our Children), followed by a discussion between Shimon Redlich, Sir Martin Gilbert, and Antony Polonsky on Jewish life in postwar Poland
Unzere Kinder is a Yiddish film made in 1948. The film is one of the only postwar movies made in Yiddish and almost the last full length yiddish film to be made. It was also the first film which attempted to deal with the Holocaust. Suppressed by the postwar Polish Communist goernment as "pro -Zionist" and lost for over 30 years, "Our Children" was largely shot on location at an orphanage/school near Lodz. It stars children who were actual survivors of the Holocaust and focuses on how they came to terms with their past.
The Frankfurt School and Antisemitism (Elliott Philipp Memorial Lecture) - Eva-Maria Ziege, CJCR, Cambridge
Between the Beit-din and the Royal Exchequer: Hebrew documents from medieval England - Judith Schlanger, Paris
Politics, Diplomacy, Gift exchange and Royal Marriages in the Late Bronze Age (1500-1200BCE) (Raymond Westbrook Memorial Lecture) - Yoram Cohen, Tel Aviv University