Dedicated to the revival of Jewish culture in Europe, Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, educates leaders for Europe, such as academicians and community activists, in Jewish textual sources which serve as the wellsprings of Jewish and modern civilization.
24th May 2023 at 18:00-20:00 CET
You are invited to keep the Pesach theme of “Freedom” alive as we approach Shavuot, by following your feet on a dancing path to greater Freedom. Finding Freedom is a 5Rhythms® movement meditation class where we explore how the message of Freedom moves within each of us and how we can move more freely with others.
Finding freedom within means we begin with our own bodies – by becoming aware of our body parts and how these want to move, giving them our presence and attention, and then moving them more freely to explore new movements that can dissolve our conscious and subconscious patterns and limitations. Finding freedom with others means we recognize the tension that can arise when there are others present. How can we stay true to our own movement and expressiveness, and at the same time move together with others to dissolve tension – to co-create and experience freedom together.
The 5 Rhythms are a simple, dynamic movement meditation that releases the dancer that lives within each of us. No previous experience of dance or 5 Rhythms is necessary, and everyone can participate regardless of physicality. There are no special steps to learn, and you can follow your own pace and movement. The 5 Rhythms – flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness – are different movement qualities that together build a wave of energy and presence. The method was developed by Gabrielle Roth and more information is available at www.5rhythms.com
The class will begin with a warmup and a short introduction to 5 Rhythms® and the class structure. Then the group will be guided through a wave, supported by a variety of world music and beats that connect us to ourselves and to our theme of Freedom.
The class is led by Adam Eisen, a certified 5 Rhythms teacher who has danced the 5 Rhythms since 2013. More information about 5Rhythms activities in Stockholm with Adam and Susanne are found here: https://www.facebook.com/5Rhythms-with-Susanne-and-Adam-149398265657966=
What to bring:
• Soft, comfortable clothes for dancing and a water bottle
• We dance barefoot or with soft gym shoes
Free entrance.
The event is organized by Paideia and the Jewish Community in Stockholm. Supported by Kulturrådet.
23rd May 2023 at 20.00 CET
In this lecture, Joanna analyses the relationships between Jewish children and their non-Jewish Polish rescuers during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. She argues that a critical analysis of the early postwar testimonies of child survivors and their rescuers enables the historian to gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of different stages of rescue and everyday survival, and to identify various groups of young survivors and rescuers. It also sheds light on the everyday interactions and communications between different individuals within a local non-Jewish Christian Polish society, especially between those who aided Jewish fugitives and those who were hostile towards the idea of sheltering Jews and harassed, blackmailed and denounced both the genuine rescuers and their young Jewish charges. Integrating the snap-shots of rescue from these testimonies into the wider historical narratives of the Holocaust increases our knowledge of rescue acts and rescue dynamics and our understanding of the experience of survival itself, especially the role of child survivors in their own physical survival in Nazi occupied Poland, as well as of the history of abuse of children under genocidal conditions.
Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian, and founder and first Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She is a Visiting Full Professor of the Holocaust and Contemporary History at University of Lund (2023 – 2025) and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide, UCL Institute for Advances Studies, and Research Fellow at Weiss-Livnat International Centre for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa, June 2019 – May 2025. She is a co-Editor in Chief of Genealogy Journal.
Among her major publications are Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, (translated into Polish in 2015 and nominated for the Best History Book of Kazimierz Moczarski Award 2016 in Poland; Hebrew translation, with new epilogue, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem Institute, 2021), Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka (Lincoln, NUP, 2012), and singled co-edited Jewish Family 1939 –Present: History, Representation, and Memory, Brandeis University Press/NEUP, January 2017). Her latest single-authored monograph is Piętno Zagłady Wojenna i powojenna historia oraz pamięć żydowskich dzieci ocalałych w Polsce (Warsaw, ZIH, December, 2020).
She is currently working on a book project on the history and memory of rescue of Jewish children in Poland, More Than the Milk Of Human Kindness: Jewish Survivors and Their Polish Rescuers Recount Their Tales, 1944-1949, and was a co-convenor of an international conference on Children, War and Genocide that took place at Munich Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in October 2022.
The event is moderated by Urszula Chowaniec.
The event is organized by Paideia folkhögskola and Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
The event is held in English. Free entrance.
Registration is obligatory by May 22nd.
