Sunday, April 1, 2001
2:15-2:45 pm Registration (no charge) Austin-East High School
2:45-4:00 pm "Remembering • Affirmation • Commitment"
Choreography by Ze'eva Cohen
Participants include the Tennessee Children's Dance Ensemble, Students from Austin-East Magnet and Vine Middle Magnet Performing Arts Program, and Mr. Arnold Schwarzbart
Ms. Lynn Miller, Chair 		Austin-East High School
4:30-5:00 pm Registration (no charge) Crest Room
University Center
5:00-6:00 pm "The Shtetl in Document And Art: Nostalgia and Reality"
Professor Stephen Feinstein, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
Mrs. Virginia Anagnost, Chair
 Shiloh Room
7:00-9:30 pm

Welcome by Mayor Victor Ashe

"On the Bridge Between a Vanished Past and a Safe Future"
Professor Yaffa Eliach, Broeklundian Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College
Bernard E. Bernstein, Esq., Chair

Auditorium
Reception to follow


 Ballroom
Monday, April 2, 2001
8:00-8:30 am

Registration (no charge) and Refreshments

Crest Room
8:30-9:45 am

"The Jews of Poland"
Professor Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University
Professor Vejas Liulevicius, Chair

Shiloh Room
8:30-9:45 am Teachers' Workshop
"Teaching the Holocaust"
with Professor Yaffa Eliach
Dr. Lynn Champion, Chair 		Rooms 226-227
9:45-10:15 am Refreshment Break Crest Room
10:00-11:45 am Teachers' Workshop
"The Search for Discourse: The Uses of Holocaust Painting And Memorials in the Classroom" with Professor Stephen Feinstein
Mrs. Nancy Jo Henry, Chair 		Rooms 226-227
10:15-11:45 am "Revisiting My Town of Danzig with Günther Grass"
Mrs. Mira Kimmelman, Author and Survivor
Professor Peter Hoeyng, Chair 		Shiloh Room
11:45-1:00 pm Lunch Break (for teachers) Ballroom
1:00-3:30 pm

Teachers' Workshop
"Teaching About Life in the Shtetl" with Dr. Annette B. Fromm, Director of Education and Public Programs, Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach
Mr. Arnold Cohen, Chair

 Rooms 226-227
1:00-2:15 pm "The Jews of/in Paris and the Twentieth Century: Microcosm of Fragmentation, Loss, and Precarious Recovery"
Professor Karen Levy, Modern Foreign Languages
Professor Carolyn R. Hodges, Chair 		Shiloh Room
2:30-4:00 pm

"The Last Wooden Synagogues in Eastern Europe"
Architectural History Film by Mr. Albert Barry, Independent Film Producer
Discussion to Follow
Professor J.P. Dessel, Chair

 Ballroom
7:00-9:30 pm "Voices of Hope and Tolerance in the New Millenium"
Mr. Morris Dees, Chief Trial Counsel and Chair of The Executive Committee, Southern Poverty Law Center
Mr. William Powell, Chair 		Auditorium
Reception to follow Ballroom
Tuesday, April 3, 2001

8:00-8:30 am

 Registration (no charge) and Refreshments Crest Room
8:30-10:00 am "Remembering Our Lost Communities"
Professor Henry Fribourg, Mr. Art Pais, and Mr. Ernie Gross
Rabbi Beth Schwartz, Chair 		Shiloh Room
10:00-10:15 am Refreshment Break Crest Room
10:15-11:30 am "Revisiting German Jewish Communities: Personal Testimony"
Mr. Manny Steinfeld and Mrs. Trudy Dreyer
Professor Gilya G. Schmidt, Chair 		Shiloh Room
12:30-1:45 pm "Racism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust"
Dr. Leon Bass, Liberator and Educator
Professor Charles H. Reynolds, Chair 		Ballroom
2:00-3:00 pm "And You Shall Teach Your Children — Even in Secret"
Dr. Lisa Plante, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Mrs. Mira Kimmelman, Chair 		Shiloh Room
3:00-3:30 pm Refreshment Break Crest Room
3:30-5:00 pm

"A Page From Our Family Album — Jewish Knoxville: Our Town Past and Present"
Panel Discussion
Mrs. Barbara Bernstein and Mrs. Wendy Besmann, Co-Chairs

Shiloh Room
7:30 pm

"Journey of the Fateful"
Multimedia performance by Professor Norman Magden in collaboration with Circle Modern Dance and the University of Tennessee Dancers
Professor and Associate Dean John P. Zomchick, Chair

 Bijou Theater