Participant List Bratislava Seminar on

Jewish Heritage Properties March 17-19, 2009

Dr. František Alexander

Executive Chairman, Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Slovakia

Bratislava, Slovakia

Lucia Apostol

Chief of Development Sector

Center of Administration of the Patrimony

Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania

Dr. Eleonora Bergman

Director, The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Warsaw, Poland

Andreas Becker

Research Co-ordinator, European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative

Lo Tishkach Foundation

Michael Beizer

Jewish historian

Hebrew University Jerusalem

Sally Berkovic

Director of Programmes

Rothschild Foundation (Europe)

Herbert Block

Assistant Executive Vice President
Joint Distribution Committee

New York, NY USA

Dr. Maroš Borský

Director, Slovak Jewish Heritage Center

Bratislava, Slovakia

Vyacheslav Brez

Director, Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk

Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Philip Carmel

Executive Director, Lo Tishkach Foundation

Ivan Ceresnjes

Researcher, Center for Jewish Art

Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Livia Chereches

Member, Jewish Community of Oradea

Oradea,  Romania

Ljubica Dajč

Federation of Jewish communities of Serbia

Sonja Elazar

Project Manager for the Restitution of Jewish Communal Property in B/H

Jewish Community of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Tomáš Färber

Member of Board / Controller of the JC , Jewish Community of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr Viera Farkašová

Executive Director, Jewish Heritage Foundation – Menorah 

Bratislava, Slovakia

Pavel Frankl

Chairman, Jewish community of Žilina

Žilina, Slovakia

Dean Friedrich

Secretary General, Jewish Community Zagreb

Zagreb, Croatia

Rabbi Boruch (Boris) Gorin

Moscow, Russia

Gannadi Gramberg

Board Member, Jewish Community of Estonia

Tallin, Esotnia

Ruth Ellen Gruber

Author, journalist

Samuel D. Gruber

President, International Survey of Jewish Monuments

& Director, Jewish Heritage Research Center

Syracuse NY  USA

Attila Eitan Horvath

Director, Strategic European Loan Fund and Property Management Programs

Joint Distribution Committee

Budapest, Hungary

Inna Ioffe

Union of Jewish Religious Organizations Of Ukraine

Kiev, Ukraine

Samuel Izsak

General Manager, Fundatia Caritatea

Bucharest, Romania

Michael J. Jordan

Journalist

Bratislava, Slovakia

Mario Kabiljo

Educator, Jewish Museum of Sarajevo

Jewish Community of Sarajevo

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Marek Karnafel

Property Manager, Jewish Religious Community of Warsaw

Warsaw, Poland

Ing. Jan Kindermann

Project Coordinator, Revitalization of Jewish Monuments in the Czech Rep.

Matana a.s., Praha, Czech Republic

Jaroslav Klenovský

Architect, Matana, a.s.,

Brno, Czech Republic

Monika Krawczyk

Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Properties in Poland

Warsaw, Poland

Faina Kukliansky

Vice Chairman , Jewish Community of Lithuania

Vilnius, Lithuania

Ms. Beata Leichtová

Secretary General, Jewish Community of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Mojmir Maly

Head of the Department , Matana a.s.,

Jewish Community in Prague, Czech Republic 

Rudy Marcovici

Director, Center of Administration of the Patrimony

Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Rabbi Baruch Myers

Director, Chabad of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr. Arno Pařik

Curator of Art, Jewish Museum of Prague

Prague, Czech Republic

Tamás Pasternák

Program Coordinator, Jewish community of Komárno

Komárno, Slovakia

Michael Petráš

Chairman of Board, Jewish Heritage Foundation – Menorah 

Bratislava, Slovakia

Dr. Max Polonovski

Conservateur en Chef du Patrimoine,

Chargé de mission pour la protection du partimoine juif

Direction de l’architecture du patrimoine

Hôtel national des Invalides

Dr. Janez Premk

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Robert Sabatos

Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia

Subotica, Serbia

Dr. Peter Salner

Chairman, Jewish Community of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Eva Salnerová

Political Specialist, US Embassy

Bratislava, Slovakia

Rabbi Michael Schudrich

Chief Rabbi, Jewish Community of Poland

Warsaw, Poland

Meylakh G. Sheykhet

UCSJ: Union of Councils for the Jews in the FSU

Jewish Revival (Ukraine) &

Faina Petriakova Center for the Jewish Collections in the Museums of Ukraine.

Lviv, Ukraine

Dr. Tomáš Stern

Member of Board, Jewish Community of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Radovan Strapko

Member of Board / Controller of the JC

Jewish Community of Bratislava

Bratislava, Slovakia

Jana Švantnerová

Judaica Curator, Slovak Jewish Heritage Center

Bratislava, Slovakia

Zsuzsanna Toronyi

Head of the Archive, Hungarian Jewish Archives

Budapest, Hungry

Prof. Pavel Traubner

Honorary chairman, Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Slovakia

Bratislava, Slovakia

Juraj Turčan

Chairman, Jewish Community of Banská Bystrica 

Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Gita Umanovska

Executive Director, Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia

Riga, Latvia

Bella Velikovskaia

Executive Director, The Union of Religious Jewish Congregations in the Republic of Belarus

Belarus, Minsk,

Mark Weber

Technical Director & Field Projects Manager, World Monuments Fund

New York, NY, USA

Peter Wirth

Architect,, Architectural Studio “KANON”

Budapest, Hungary