Dr. Yechiel Weizman

 Dr. Yechiel Weizman- CV

Mail: yechiel.weizman@biu.ac.il

EMPLOYMENT

2021-Present Lecturer at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University.

2019-2021       Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.

2020-2021       Co-investigator in the research group “Mapping the Archipelago of Lost Towns: Post-Holocaust Urban Lacunae in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands”, Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage at Humboldt University, Berlin. Funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung

EDUCATION

2013-2018       PhD, the department of Jewish History, Haifa University. Title of dissertation: “Ambivalent Presence: The Material Jewish Remnants in Poland, 1945-1989”.  

2009-2012       M.A in Cultural Studies (with distinction), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title of thesis: “The Synagogue, the Cemetery and the Empty Chair: Polish-Jewish Memory Work in Poland, 2000-2012”.

2011-2012       Teaching certification studies in Philosophy and Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2006-2009       B.A in Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  2024              Recipient of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Book Award in Polish-Jewish  Studies.

 2023               Finalist – The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2023

2022                Finalist – The Memory Studies Association First Book Award

2021                First Book Subvention grant from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

2021                First Book Subvention grant from Alexander R. Dushkin Foundation at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2020                The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship. (declined)

2019-2020       The Minerva Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2018                The Robert Wistrich prize for young scholars on the research on Antisemitism / The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

2015-2018       The Nathan Rotenstreich scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the humanities / The Israeli Council for Higher Education.

2015-2016       Doctoral fellowship from the Memorial Foundation in New-York.

2015                Excellence grant from the Research Institute of Yad-Vashem.

2014                Research grant from the government of Poland for a visiting researcher at Warsaw University, Poland.

2014                Research grant from the Israeli Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East European Studies.

2013                The Betty and Bernard Friedan prize for M.A thesis in Holocaust studies.

SELECTED LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

Sep 2024            “Golgotha in Paradise: Rajgród and the Memory of its Jews.” A paper given at the conference: From Shtetl to Post-Jewish Town, Polin Museum, Warsaw.

Jul 2024         “Negative Memory: Profanation and Commemoration of Holocaust Sites”. A paper given at the conference: Memory Maps: Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize former sites of Jewish life and death, Munich, Yad Vashem and Yale.

Apr 2023        “The Dialectics of Commemoration: Anniversaries of the Warsaw    Ghetto Uprising in Communist Poland”. Paper given at the conference: Looking at: the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect, Leipzig University.

Dec 2022       “Rethinking the Curriculum? Teaching the Holocaust in the wake of the War against Ukraine”. Initiator and moderator of a roundtable at the AJS 54th Annual Conference, Boston.

   Sep 2022      “The Materiality of Remorse After the Holocaust”. Paper given at the   online conference: Emotions and Holocaust Studies, TU Berlin and Penn State.

June 2022      “The Many Deaths and Afterlives of the “Barefoot Rabbi” and the Making   of an Iconic Holocaust Image”. Paper given at the conference: The Photography of Persecution. Pictures of the Holocaust, American University Paris.

July 2021       “Zoom and the Shtetl: Towards a New (Im)Materiality of the Memory of the Holocaust”. Paper given at the Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, Warsaw.

June 2021       “Divine Vengeance: The Demonic Aura of Profaned Jewish Sites After the Holocaust”. Paper given at the online conference: The Fantastic Afterlives of the Holocaust, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, June 2021.

June 2021       “The Afterlife of a Photograph and the Triadic Memory of WWII”. Paper presented at the online conference: Fatal Attraction: Germany, Poland and the Jews after the Holocaust, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

May 2020        “Topography of Ambivalence: The Evolution of the Polish-Jewish Townscape from the Late 19th Century to the Present”. Lecture given at the research colloquium of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.

Jan.  2020       “Ambivalent Presence: The Material Jewish Remnants in Poland, 1945–1989”. Lecture given at the research colloquium of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Leipzig University.

Nov. 2019       “Clearing the Rubble: The Poles and the Jewish Traces in One Small Polish Town after the War”. Paper presented at the 51th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), San-Francisco.

Oct. 2018        “Battleground of Memories: Conflicting Polish-Jewish War Narratives in Olkusz, Poland”. Paper presented at the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar: New Vistas in Holocaust Research, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa / Ca’ Foscari, The University of Venice.

Apr. 2018        “Dissonant Landscape: Jewish spaces and the Memory of the Holocaust in one Polish Town”. Paper presented at the conference: Tomorrow’s Holocaust Memory, Tel-Aviv University.

Dec. 2017       “Breaching the Silence: Jewish Sites as Reminders of the Holocaust in Communist Poland”. Paper presented at the conference: Building from Ashes. Jews in Postwar Europe (1945-1950), The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.

Jul. 2017         “Material Ethnic Cleansing and the De-Judaization of Space in One Small Town in Poland after the Holocaust”. Paper presented at the conference: Nationalism in the History of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence, The Hebrew University and the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

Jul. 2017         “The Perception and Status of Jewish Sites in Poland since the Holocaust”. Paper presented at the Eighth Session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, Prague.

Oct. 2016        “Nostalgia and Rupture: Renovating the Jewish Space and the Polish-Jewish Past”. Paper presented at the conference: Present-Past. Modern Representations of Polish-Jewish Everyday Coexistence in Word, Image and Sound, POLIN Museum, Warsaw.

Apr. 2016   “Sanitizing the Ruins: The Two Lives of the Synagogue in Dąbrowa Tarnowska”. Paper presented at the 3^rd International Polish-Jewish Studies Workshop: Doikeyt, Diaspora, Borderlands. Imagining Polish Jewish Territories, The University of Illinois, Chicago.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• Memory Studies Association (MSA)
• Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2007-2015       Lecturer, Museum guide, content editor, and instructor of seminars and courses at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad-Vashem, Jerusalem.