[Asec] Tomorrow! Working Group Lived Religion 19:00 CET Hasidic Pilgrimage

[Eugene Clay]

The Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia


Invites you to join us at

Zoom link:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/3257831800?pwd=cEFqL2tmd1pUcnFlS1RyN3Y5RE5XQT09<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/psu.zoom.us/j/3257831800?pwd=cEFqL2tmd1pUcnFlS1RyN3Y5RE5XQT09__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!K11NCLa76vKMgo1uv0cPZPc78D88wOn5hOqfdT6eAu6E2FxsTuMtqvCpZxLG3bXY8w$>


24 February 2022, 19:00-20:15 CET

Alla Marchenko

Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw)

Hasidic Pilgrimages and Local Memory: Belz, Bobowa, Leżajsk, and Uman

With commentary by Jeanne Kormina, Professor of Anthropology, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hasidic pilgrimages to many localities in Eastern and Central Europe belong to distinctive post-Communist transformations in the region connected with freedom of travel and speech, as well as with interest in local history. In this presentation, the focus will be on four localities, whose position on cognitive maps of Jewish pre-war life significantly exceeds their role in today’s Poland and Ukraine. How are the agents of memory of each town dealing with the phenomenon of contemporary mass pilgrimages? What are the effects of Hasidic pilgrimage for local memoryscapes? What meanings do the pilgrimages have for local inhabitants, and how are they connected to inclusion/dismissal of pilgrimages into local memory frames? The results of this research demonstrate that, despite the uniqueness of each case, there are similarities in patterns of local memory, which offers a wider perspective to the field of cultural memory.

All are welcome!



Catherine Wanner

Professor of History, Anthropology, and Religious Studies

Affiliate Faculty, The Rock Ethics Institute and the

School of International Affairs

302 Weaver Building

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

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