Preparing to the expedition to Buczacz
The town of Buczacz – Agnon’s native town - was known for many generations as an important Jewish intellectual center, combined rabbinic knowledge, Hasidism and Jewish Enlightenment. This year, which was declared by the Israel Ministry of Education as a year of Agnon, group of volunteers (students, researchers and archivists) are preparing to document the old Jewish cemetery in Buczacz.
From Kraków to Lemberg
Research project, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities
Expedition to Vyzhnytsa
Vyzhnytsa (Vizhnitz) hold a unique position in the history of Eastern European Jewry: at the end of the nineteenth century, Jews made up more than 90% of the population of this small town, which was also a prominent center of Hasidism. In the course of the expedition the historical part of the cemetery – about 2,200 tombstones - was fully documented.
The Legacy of the Vilna Gaon in Nineteenth Century Galicia
This research will look into the Gaon of Vilna's footage in Galicia: how his works were received by scholars and Maskilim, and how the wider public acknowledged his authority.