HAIFA 2
- 6 July 2006
IN CONJUNCTION WITH HAIFA UNIVERSITY
And participation of the majority of Jewish Egyptian organisations
In Israel and in the World
UJE. Union des
Juifs d’Egypte en Israel – Tel-Aviv.
Goshen. Israel – Haifa.
Association for Israel-Egypt friendship. (Israel).
AJOE. Association des
Juifs d’origine Egyptienne en France.
AIND. Association internationale Nebi Daniel –
Paris.
ASCJE. Nahar Misraïm. Paris.
The American Sephardi Federation. USA.
AJOE. Montreal Canada.
JEB. Brazil.
WCJE. Australia.
AJL. United Kingdom.
Los Muestros. Belgium.
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You are invited to participate in this important and historical event
A rich and
interesting program
The Jews
from Egypt : Past, Present and Future
Saving our
Jewish Heritage and consolidating harmonious ties with Egypt
Lectures,
Workshops, Roundtables activities
Global and personal
testimonies
And an exciting tour of
Haifa and its surroundings,
The famous Bahai Gardens, The Technion, The
Druze villages
The Navy Base at the
port of Haifa
Enjoy the special Israeli-Egyptian atmosphere
Come and see your
friends of old days, and make new ones.
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For additional details, visit our Congress Website : WWW.WCJE.NET or contact :
Sara Rossano Administrator
972. 9.7654087 rossano@bezeqint.net
For registration, please fill and send
us the attached Registration form.
You can find it also in our website WWW.WCJE.NET or press HERE
IN CONJUNCTION WITH HAIFA UNIVERSITY
REGISTRATION FORM
HAIFA, 2 - 6 July 2006
You are
warmly invited to participate in the WCJE Congress on:
“The Jews
from Egypt and Peace Culture”
Please print
and send the completed form together with your check, made out to:
“Union
des Juifs d’Egypte / Congress’’
and post it to the following address:
Union des
Juifs d’Egypte, 56 Pinsker Street, Tel-Aviv 61113, Israel.
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REGISTRATION FEE: The Registration Fee is US $ 250 , or 210 Euros per person. Registration includes
participation in all lectures, roundtables and workshops during the 4 days of
the Congress, coffees, Tour of Haifa, The Bahai Gardens and the Druze villages.
We kindly ask all participants (including lecturers),
to please send the Registration Fee as soon as possible, in order to defray the
costs for the preparation of the Congress.
Donations are very welcome.
We are keenly looking forward to welcoming you at the Congress
Sincerely,
Prof. Ada Aharoni,
WCJE President
*For additional
information please visit our website at: www.wcje.net
Or
contact our Administrator: Ms. Sara Rossano,
E-mail
address: rossano@bezeqint.net
Phone: 972-9-7654087 or mobile: 972-50-7218955.
Sunday to Wednesday, 2-6
July 2006, Haifa
Sunday, July 2, 2006, Dan Carmel Hotel, Haifa
14.00 - Registration
16.00 “Welcoming Get
Together” at the Dan Carmel (Red Room)
17.00 - Greetings:
Prof Ada Aharoni,
WCJE President
Mr. Jacques Perez, WCJE Director
Greetings by Delegates of World Organizations of Jews from
Egypt
Arie Ohana, Sara Rossano: Union des Juifs d’Egypte, Israel
Levana Zamir: Israel-Egypt
Friendship Association, Israel
Gilbert Baron: Goshen, Israel
Robert Farhi: AJOE: Association des
Juifs Originaires
d’Egypte, France
Yves Fedida: Nebi Daniel
Association, France
Joe Chalom,
Andre Cohen :
Nahar Misraim (ASPCJE), France
David Ribacoff: The American Sephardi Federation,
USA
Irene Buonavida, Mireille
Galanti, Vivianne Schinazi-Silver:
AJOE, Montreal
Elie Politi, Ernesto Rahmani: Jews from
Egypt, JEB, Brazil
Joe Barda: Delegate of
WCJE, Australia
Sara
Kemp, Ninette Levy: Delegates of AJL, UK
Suzy Vidal, Moise Rahmani: Delegates of WCJE, Belgium
18.30 – Chamber
Music Interlude
Screening of
Historical Speeches : Moderator: Levana Zamir, WCJE Vice President
Screening of the
historical speech of the late President Anwar Sadat
at the Knesset,
in Jerusalem, on November 20, 1977
Screening of the
last speech by the late Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin,
at the Public Assembly in Tel Aviv, on November 4, 1995
Peace Poems, and Songs we
loved to sing in Egypt.
Monday, July 3, 2006 (Dan Carmel, Red Room)
09:00
- Opening of Congress. Musical
Interlude
Opening Address by the President of the Congress
Prof. Ada Aharoni
Greetings: Ambassador David Sultan (rt.)
Mr. Tarek
Heggy, Egyptian Writer
Ambassador Adel El-Adawi (rt.), Cairo Peace
Mr. David Ribacoff,
WCJE Delegate in New York.
10:00
– First Session, Moderator: Mireille
Galanti, Montreal, AJOE
Collective
Memory: Writers’ Roundtable
History, Culture and Way of Life of Jews of
Egypt Reflected in Creative Works
Prof. Aimee Israel-Pelletier, The University of Texas at Arlington - Modern Egyptian-Jewish Writers,Preserving and Promoting
Culture
Naim Katan, Writer, Canada - Reprendre
La Parole
Presentation of selected passages by authors and poets:
Paula Jacques, Ada Aharoni, Suzi Vidal,
Albert Oudiz, Vivianne Schinasi-Silver, Albert Pardo,
Edmond Jabes, Jacques Hassoun
(late), Victor Nahmias (late)
11:30
- Coffee Break
Every presentation is up to twenty
minutes, followed by fifteen minutes discussion.
12:00
– Second Session, Moderator: Prof. Zaki Kraiem
Levana Zamir, Israel-Egypt Friendship
Association
History of the Jewish Institutions
in Egypt
Tomer
Levi, Brandeis University, Boston
Jewish
Philanthropy in
Alexandria (1840-1914)
Ovadiah Yeroushalmi, WCJE Delegate
The Jewish Press in Egypt
13:30
– Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:30 Third Session, Moderator: Levana Zamir
Aspects of the Life of the Jewish Community in Egypt in the
Twentieth Century
Prof. Chaim Aharoni, Technion- Economic and Social Developments that shaped Egypt’s
attitude Towards the Jewish Community
Prof. Gabriel Rosenbaum, Hebrew University- The Spoken Arabic of the Jews of Egypt
Miri Tsoref
and Sefi-Cohen Benayim, Tel
Aviv University-Researchers on “The
Jews from Egypt”
16:30 – 18:00 -Workshops of Oral History - Collective and Personal Memory
19:30
– Opening Ceremony
Greetings by Mr. Yona Yahav,
the Mayor of
Haifa,
Mr.
Toby Nathan, Culture Attache, Embassy of France, and
Luminaries
Carmel Choral, and Haifa Municipal
Dancers Ensemble
Presentations by artists, writers, poets, among them: Blanche Sachs, Suzi Vidal, Vivianne Schinasi-Silver.
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Hecht Museum Auditorium, Main Building, Haifa University
Every presentation is up to twenty minutes, followed by fifteen minutes
discussion
9:00
- “Welcoming Get Together”- Hecht Conference Hall
9:30 - Greeting : Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, President of
Haifa University
Prof. Ada Aharoni,
President WCJE
10.00 First
Session – Moderator: Prof. Ada Aharoni
The Jews in Egypt in
the Middle Ages and in Ancient History
Prof.
Aviva Doron, Haifa University - «And I know you planted the Divine Presence there as a visitor » -
Egypt in the Poetry of Yehuda Halevy
Dr. Ephraim
Lev, University of Haifa -The Cairo Geniza as a main source for the
reconstruction of medical knowledge and practice in Medieval Mediterranean
societies
Prof.
Nahem Ilan, Lander Institute, Jerusalem -Researching the Jews of Egypt : Goals and Achievements
11:30 -
Coffee Break
12:00 - Second Session - Moderator: Prof. Aviva Doron
The Jews in Egypt in the 20th
Century
Prof.
Ada Aharoni - The Jews from Egypt and Peace Culture
Dr. Ruthi Kimche
- The Zionist Movement in Egypt, 1918
- 1948
Prof. Michael Laskier, Bar Ilan -The Third Encounter: Egyptian Jewry and the Six-Day War
13:30 - Lunch Break
14:30 - Visit to the Hecht Museum, University of Haifa
15:00 Third Session - Moderator: Ms. Levana Zamir: President Israel-Egypt
Friendship Association
The Enhancement of the Understanding Between
Israel and Egypt
Mr.
Tarek Heggy, Egyptian Writer –
Culture, Civilization
and Humanity and the Jews from Egypt
Mr. David Sultan, Ambassador of
Israel in Egypt (rt.) –
Relations Israel – Egypt: Past,
Present and Future
Ambassador Adel El Adawy, Cairo
Peace –
Possible Enhancement of Understanding
Between Israel and Egypt
16.30
Fourth Session - Moderator: Prof. Aimee Israel-Pelletier, Arlington University, Texas, USA
Particularities
of the Languages Used by the Jews in Egypt, and the Reflection of the Relations
Between Jews and Muslims
Prof. Cyril Aslanov,
Hebrew University - Was
there a Specifically Jewish Blend of French in Pre-Nasserian
Egypt?
Dr. Yitzhak Kerem (University of Thessaloniki) – Ladino Culture and Language in 20th Century Egypt
Dr.
Dafna Tzimhoni, Truman
Institute and the Technion- Relations between Jews and Moslems in Modern Egypt Reflected in the
Memories of Jews from Egypt
Back to the hotels.
20:30 – Artistic Presentations on the Jews from Egypt, music,
dancing
Wednesday, July 5, 2006, Dan Carmel Hotel (Red Room)
9:00 - First Session - The Jewish Heritage in Egypt - The Nebi Daniel Stream
1. Current Status, Moderator: Joe Barda
Protocol by Alec Nacamuli
- Registers, Synagogues, Scrolls, Cemeteries, Books, Population Overview
Screening of Film
2. Civil and Religious Registers: Moderator- Roger Bilbul
Protocol by Yves Fedida- Registers, Historical Background, Status, Importance & Handling
Protocol by Frederic Abecassis- Entre Droit et Pratiques :
Comment les Juifs d'Egypte sont devenus
étrangers
(fin XIXe siècle - 1956)
11:00 - Coffee Break
3. Sifrei Torah,
Artifacts & Books: Moderator - Yves Fedida
Presentation by M. le Grand Rabbin
René-Samuel Sirat-
Préservation
& Témoignage - Localisation, Réalité, & Droit
Presentation by Prof. Sasson Somekh –
The Israeli Academic Center in
Cairo and the Jewish Heritage
4. Managing Assets – People, Synagogues,
Cemeteries- Moderator-
A. Nacamuli
Presentation by Ami Bergman, American Joint Committee
Past & Present role
and Activities of the American Joint Committee in Egypt
12:30 - Second Session - The Heritage in Egypt in the future
5. Open Round Table Discussion, and Final Track Solution
13:30 - Lunch Break
14:30 - The Jews of Egypt in the Diaspora after
Emigration: France, Australia and South America - Moderator: Jacques Perez
Mr.
Andre Cohen and Mr. Joe Chalom-
Activities of “Nahar
Misraim” in the Past and in the Present
Racheline Barda (born Abecassis)-
The Immigration Experience of the Jews
of Egypt in Australia
Mr.
Elie Politi and Mr.Ernesto Rahmani
After the “Second Exodus”, rebirth of
a Jewish identity in South
America
17:00 - General Assembly:
Conclusions and Resolutions of the WCJE
Founding of the International Board of the Jews from Egypt:
Goals,
Program and Possible Achievements.
20:00 - Farewell Party: Presentation by Lilit
Naggar
Musical
Interlude: “Memoirs from Egypt” by Artistic and Musical talents.
Thursday, July 6, 2006
Boarding
Buses
09:00 - Tour of Haifa: The Bahai Gardens, The Visitors’ Center at the Haifa Technion, the
Druze Villages.
13:00 - Lunch at Daliat El Carmel, Greeting by the
Mayor, Mr. Hassoon
15:30 - Visit the Navy Base at the Port of Haifa
17:00 - Back to the Hotels
End of the WCJE Congress
For more
information and the Registration Form, please visit the Congress website : www.wcje.net
(There may
be certain changes)
(March
2006)