I .BEYOND THE COMFORT OF THE HISTORICALLY KNOWN TOLERANCE

Anelia Dimitrova – member of the Editorial Board of the series “Holocaust and Memory”
10.15-10.30 a.m.
Unread pages: the book series on Holocaust against the easy populism of neo- nazi ideologies or how to resist to the unbearable lightness of conspiracy theories

Emmy Barouh
10.30-10.45 a.m.
Bulgaria and the European debate on the new faces of Anti-Semitism

Alfred Krispin
10.45-11.00 a.m.
Anti-Semitic issues and the Bulgarian media – conclusions of the Monitoring commissioned by the “Open Society” Institute - Sofia, Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” and Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Discussion
11.00-11.30 a.m.

Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00 a.m.

II. FACING THE HISTORY
BULGARIANS AND RACISM

Philip Dimitrov
12.00-12.15 p.m.
“The Bulgarian case”– attitude to Jewish community in the natural framework of morality

Albena Taneva
12.15 – 12.30 p.m.
Sensitivity of the young generation in Bulgaria toward Anti-Semitism and Holocaust

Lilijana Deyanova
12.30-12.45 p.m.
Memory and oblivion – rescuing the Bulgarian Jews in the dynamic of the historical interpretations

Discussion
12.45 – 13.00 p.m.

III. KNOWLEDGE AGAINST IDEOLOGY

13.00-13.30 p.m.
Presentation of the first three books from the publishing series of Open Society Institute - Sofia
“History and Memory. Bulgaria: Facing the Holocaust” – Emmy Barouh
“The Night” of Elie Wiesel – Tony Nikolov
“Eihman in Jerusalem” of Hannah Arendt – Todor Tanev (Director of a Center for Jewish Studies in Sofia University ”)

Discussion
THE PUBLIC PRESENCE OF THE LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF HOLOCAUST VERSUS ANTI-SEMITIC BOOK SERIES – WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT...?

“Ciela” Publishing House – Petja Gagova
“East-West” Publishing House – Luben Kozarev
“Shalom” Publishing House – Becca Lazarova
Newspaper “Jewish News” – editor-in-chief Mihailina Pavlova

Announcement of a Jewish Museum “Jews in Bulgaria”

March 10, 2004
National Day for commemoration of the Holocaust in Bulgaria
“Dessislava” Hall, Hotel “Bulgaria”
10.00 a.m.– 1.30 p.m.

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