BARBARA PANIC KOEN

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Ø  Curator at the Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Freelance journalist

Ø  Freelance curator

EXHIBITIONS  

Ø  Co-authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Izabrani …” (The Chosen …) by Mirjana Lehner Dragić, for the manifestation “Museums for 10”, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Jewish languages”, for the manifestation “Leto u parku” (Summer in the park), Bela Crkva

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Jezici Jevreja” (Jewish languages), for the manifestation “European Heritage Days”, Pančevo Jewish Community   

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Moša Mevorah - Oficiri Kraljevine Jugoslavije – Portreti iz nemačkih zarobljeničkih logora 1941.” (Moshe Mevorah - Officers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army – Portraits from German POW Camps 1941), for the manifestation “Museums of Serbia – Ten Days from 10 to 10”, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Associate curator of the exhibition titled “Jevreji Srbije – Oficiri Vojske Kraljevine Jugoslavije“ (Jews of Serbia – Officers of the Royal Yugoslav Army), Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Istaknute žene jevrejskog porekla” (Famous Women of Jewish Origin), for the manifestation “European Day of Jewish Culture”, Pančevo Jewish Community

Ø  Associate curator of the exhibition titled “Jevreji Srbije u Prvom svetskom ratu” (Jews of Serbia in the WWI), Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Co-authored the catalogue for Gabriella Nikolić exhibition titled “One Day, One Woman, One Child”, Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, NY

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Daniel Ozmo”, for manifestation “Museum Night”, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Associate curator of the exhibition titled “Sinagogalni ritualni predmeti” (Synagogual ritual items), Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Kladovo transport – Nada je yauvek ostala na Dunavu” (Kladovo transport – The hope has left forever on the Danube) by Mirjana Lehner Dragić, Cultural Centre Kladovo; National Museum, Zrenjanin

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Muzičari” (Musicians) by Jozef Baruhović, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Grafike Radovana Hiršla” (Graphics by Radovan Hirsl), for the manifestation “Museum Night”, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Associate curator for the exhibition titled “Ketuba – jevrejski bračni ugovor” (Ketubah – Jewish Marriage Contract), Pančevo Jewish Community

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Sinagoga – keramički reljefi“ (Synagogue - Ceramic reliefs) by Dušica Brguljan, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Associate curator for the exhibition titled “Jerusali, Sveti grad … očima turiste” (Jerusalem, Holy city … through a tourist’s eye), Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Hagada” (Haggadah), for the manifestation “European Day of Jewish Culture”, Pančevo Jewish Community  

Ø  Associate curator for the exhibition titled “Savez jevrejskih opština 1919-2009 – Od Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca do republike Srbije” (Federation of the Jewish communities 1919 - 2009 – From the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians to Republic of Serbia), Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition titled “Životni cilus Jevreja” (Jewish Life Cycle), for the manifestation “Museum Night”, Pančevo Jewish Community   

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition titled “Jewish Holidays”, Historical Archive Bela Crkva (manifestation organized by Pančevo Jewish Community)

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition titled “Jevrejski običaji i tradicija” (Jewish Tradition and Customs), for the manifestation “Museum Night”, Pančevo Jewish Community

Ø  Associate curator of the exhibition titled “Poznati jevrejski pisci” (Famous Jewish Writers), National Museum Vršac (organized by Pančevo Jewish Community)

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition titled “Jevreji Pančeva” (Jews of Pančevo), Historical Archive Pančevo (organized by Pančevo Jewish Community )

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition and catalogue titled “Hagada – Od iluminacije do ilustracije” (Haggadah – From illumination to illustration), mounted during a workshop “The Jewish Art and Tradition” (The international cooperation workshop between the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade) and Bar – Ilan University, Tel Aviv, and Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition and catalogue titled “Hagadas españolas: De iluminación a ilustración (Haggadah – From illumination to illustration)”, Instituto Cervantes, Belgrade

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition catalogue titled “Sarajevska hagada kao inspiracija” (Sarajevo Haggadah as Inspiration), by Mirjana Lehner and Marko Dragić, Galerija SKC, Novi Beograd (Gallery Youth Cultural Centre, New Belgrade)

Ø  Co-authored the exhibitions and catalogue titled “Pintores sefardíes de Belgrado – Albert Alkalaj, Dida Demajo, Rajko Levi, Bora Baruh (Sephardic painters from Belgrade – Albert Alcalay, Dida DeMayo, Rajko Levi, Bora Baruh)”, organized by the Jewish Historical Museum in the Instituto Cervantes, Belgrade

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Sinagoga kao umetničko nasleđe” (Synagogue – The Artistic Heritage). by Mirjana Lehner and Marko Dragić, for the manifestation “European Day of Jewish Culture”, Archive of Pančevo, Jewish Community Belgrade, Jewish Community Zemun, Jewish Community Zrenjanin, Jewish Community Subotica

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Drvo i cvetanje” (Tree and blossom) by Marko Dragić, opened in the Jewish Community Belgrade during Tu Bi’Shvat holiday

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled “Portreti” (Portraits) by the photographer Goran Milosević, Starčevo

Ø  Co-authored the exhibition catalogue titled “Jevreji tu oko nas” (The Jews around us), National Museum of Zrenjanin (the exhibition marks 65 years of the end of Holocaust and 110 years of building synagogue in Zrenjanin)

Ø  Authored catalogue and exhibition titled „Njih ne smemo zaboraviti“ (We must not forget them) by Mirjana Lehner, Belgrade Jewish Community

AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATIONS

Ø  Audio-visual presentation titled “Jezici Jevreja” (Jewish languages), for the manifestation “Leto u parku” (Summer in the park), Bela Crkva

Ø  Audio-visual presentation titled “Jezici Jevreja“ (Jewish languages), for the manifestation “European Heritage Days”, Pančevo Jewish Community  

Ø  Audio-visual presentation of the book titled “Jevrejska periodika u Srbiji 1888-2016” (Review of Jewish periodicals in Serbia, 1888-2015), European Heritage Days (Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade); the author of book, published in 2015 by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia, is Biljana Albahari

Ø  Screenwriting consultant on TV movie titled “Kalemegdanski kadiš” (Kalemegdan Kaddish) by Lavinia Davenport, Broadcast channel RTS

Ø  Audio-visual presentation titled “Sudbina jedne beogradske porodice – Avram Amar i njegovo potomstvo” (Destiny of Belgrade’s Family – Avram Amar and his Descendants), the project of the Jewish Historical Museum, for the manifestation “Jevremova ulica – ulica otvorenog srca” (Jevremova Street – The Open-Heart Street), Belgrade

Ø  Audio-visual presentation titled “Život i stvaralaštvo Ženi Lebl” (Life and work of Jennie Lebl), for the manifestation “The Jewish Cultural Scene – Bejahad”, Opatija (Croatia)

LECTURES

Ø  “Spomeničko-memorijalni kompleks Jevrejskog groblja u Beogradu” (Burial Ground Complex of the Jewish Cemetery in Belgrade and the Bereavement in Judaism), Limmud Ex-YU, Vrnjačka Banja

Ø  Co-authored and designed publication titled “Sefardska kuhinja” (Cuisine Sephardi) for participants of the project “Škola kuvanja” (Cooking classes), organized by Belgrade Jewish Community  

Ø  “Jevrejski žalobni običaji – Sefardsko groblje u Beogradu” (Bereavement in Judaism – The Sephardic Cemetery in Belgrade), for the manifestation “European Heritage Days”, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Ø  “Purim u doba Inkvizicije” (Purim in the Era of the Inquisition), Pančevo Jewish Community

Ø  “Hagada” (Haggadah), Historical Archive of Bela Crkva; City Museum of Vršac

Ø  Assistant to Dr. Dragan Bulatović (Faculty of Philosophy - The History of Art Department) on the series of the lectures titled „Legacies of the National Museum in Pančevo“

BOOKS, ARTICLES, MANUALS

Ø  Monograph titled “Spomeničko-memorijalni kompleks Jevrejskog groblja u Beogradu” (Burial Ground Complex of the Jewish Cemetery in Belgrade), publisher the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Serbia

Ø  Kids Handbook “Hanukah”, publisher Pančevo Jewish Community

Ø  Article titled “Sephardic community of Belgrade – from early days to the Final Solution”, Jewish History Magazine: Journal of the Hasmonean Jewish History Society, London

Ø  Article titled “Skulptura Haluca Slavka Brila” (Sculpture of Chalutz by Slavko Bril), Jewish review of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia, No.5

Ø  Article titled “Malbiš Arumim u Beogradu pre Drugog svetskog rata” (Malbish Arumin in Belgrade before WWII), Jewish review of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia, No.4

Ø  Co-authored book titled “Znameniti Jevreji Srbije” (The Prominent Serbian Jews), publisher The Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS (lecturer / participant)

Ø  Lectured at the seminar “Verborgene Landschaften”/ “Landscapes, hidden away”, Belgrade

Ø  Lectured at workshop „Limmud Ex-Yu“, Vnjačka Banja

Ø  International workshop “Balkans, Holocaust, and mass crimes during WWII”, Belgrade

Ø  Seminar “New Tools for Holocaust Education in Libraries: Using Literature to Bring Pedagogical Content to Memorial Day Commemorations”, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade

Ø  Workshop “Jewish Art and Tradition”, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Art Historian Department  

Ø  Lectured at the international seminar “Teaching about the Holocaust”, lecture title “Yugoslav Jewish Painters in Holocaust”, Novi Sad

Ø  Summer seminar “Teaching the Shoah, Antisemitism and Contemporary Israel“, Yad Vashem, Israel

PRIZES

Ø  Thesis titled “Dura Europos – zidno slikarstvo“ (Dura Europos – Synagogue paintings), the third prize at the 46^th open competition of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES  

Ø  Member of the jury at the “Holokaust – kultura sećanja” (Holocaust – Cultural Memory) contest, organizer “Haver Srbija” (Haver Serbia)

Ø  Author and administrator of website for the Pančevo Jewish Community  www.jopancevo.org

Ø  Coordinator/author of European Day of Jewish Culture for the Pančevo Jewish Community  

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