Call for Papers: Life and works of Immánuel Löw

 Call for Papers: Life and works of Immánuel Löw. Szeged Jewish Community, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Budapest; Szeged University. 04.09.2024 - 07.09.2024, deadline 01.03.2024

The Jewish Community of Szeged, the Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, and the University of Szeged are organizing an international scientific conference in Hungarian and English titled "Life and works of Immánuel Löw" in Szeged.

The objective of the international conference discussing the life and work of Immánuel Löw, the Chief Rabbi of Szeged, is to bring together scholars, researchers, and experts from different countries and regions of the world, facilitating collaborative work and the development of new perspectives. The prestigious professional plenary and section presentations provide an opportunity for researchers to showcase their research areas, along with the official unveiling of spaces named after Löw Lipo and Löw Immánuel, as well as the Löw memorial walk, forming an integral part of the program.

The conference is scheduled to take place from September 4th to 6th, 2024, with the venue provided by the University of Szeged. The Sabbath prayer service within the local community will be held in the synagogue designed by Baumhorn Lipót and Löw Immánuel, also constituting a part of the program.

We kindly request that you submit the title and a brief, 200-word abstract of your planned presentation to immanuellowconference@gmail.com by March 1, 2024. The submission of abstracts will be followed by a peer-review process to ensure the conference's high scientific standards. Applicants will be notified of section acceptance by March 11th.

Selected studies presented at the conference will be considered for publication in English by a reputable international publisher. If an author wishes to publish their research in the conference volume, a scholarly article meeting the formal requirements must be submitted to immanuellowconference@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2024. Accepted and peer-reviewed studies will be published in a printed volume. Formal requirements for the study will be announced at a later date. The travel and accommodation costs for presenters from Austria will be covered by the Österreichisches Kulturforum in Budapest.

Programm

Tag 1: 4. September

09:30 Uhr - 10:00 Uhr: Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

10:00 Uhr - 10:30 Uhr: Eröffnungszeremonie

10:30 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung

12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

13:00 Uhr - 14:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung

15:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr: Geführte Tour

17:30 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr: Freizeit

19:00 Uhr - 21:00 Uhr: Konferenzdinner

Tag 2: 5. September

09:30 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung (Englisch)

12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

13:00 Uhr - 14:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung (Englisch)

14:30 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr: Kaffeepause

15:00 Uhr - 17:30 Uhr: Einweihung des Immánuel-Löw-Platzes und des Lipót-Löw-Platzes

17:30 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr: Freizeit/Networking

19:00 Uhr - 21:00 Uhr: Konferenzdinner

Tag 3: 6. September

09:00 Uhr - 09:30 Uhr: Anmeldung und Begrüßungskaffee

09:30 Uhr - 11:00 Uhr: Vormittagssitzung

11:00 Uhr - 11:30 Uhr: Kaffeepause

11:30 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr: Mittagssitzung

13:00 Uhr - 14:00 Uhr: Mittagspause

14:00 Uhr - 15:30 Uhr: Nachmittagssitzung

15:30 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr: Schlusswort und Abschied

19:00 Uhr: Kabbalat-Schabbat-Gottesdienst (optional)

Tag 4: 7. September 2024

10:00 Uhr – 13:00 Uhr: Schabbat-Gottesdienst (optional)

Kontakt

immanuellowconference@gmail.com

Tamás Turán: Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist. Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety.

Tamás Turán: Ignaz Goldziher as a Jewish Orientalist. Traditional Learning, Critical Scholarship, and Personal Piety. De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110741285 .

About this book

Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), one of the founders of modern Arabic and Islamic studies, was a Hungarian Jew and a Professor at the University of Budapest. A wunderkind who mastered Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic as a teenager, his works reached international acclaim long before he was appointed professor in his native country. From his initial vision of Jewish religious modernization via the science of religion, his academic interests gradually shifted to Arabic-Islamic themes. Yet his early Jewish program remained encoded in his new scholarly pursuits. Islamic studies was a refuge for him from his grievances with the Jewish establishment; from local academic and social irritations he found comfort in his international network of colleagues. This intellectual and academic transformation is explored in the book in three dimensions – scholarship on religion, in religion (Judaism and Islam), and as religion – utilizing his diaries, correspondences and his little-known early Hungarian works.

Author information

Tamás Turán, Eötvös Loránd University and Institute for Minority Studies at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Marina Mogilner: A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-674-27072-5.

 Marina Mogilner: A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. ISBN: 978-0-674-27072-5.

The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves.

In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to easily conform to new standards of nationality meant a future of inevitable assimilation or second-class minority citizenship. The solution proposed by Russian Jewish intellectuals was to ground Jewish nationhood in a structure deeper than culture or territory—biology.

Marina Mogilner examines three leading Russian Jewish race scientists— Samuel Weissenberg, Alexander El’kind, and Lev Shternberg—and the movement they inspired. Through networks of race scientists and political activists, Jewish medical societies, and imperial organizations like the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, they aimed to produce “authentic” knowledge about the Jewish body, which would motivate an empowering sense of racially grounded identity and guide national biopolitics. Activists vigorously debated eugenic and medical practices, Jews’ status as Semites, Europeans, and moderns, and whether the Jews of the Caucasus and Central Asia were inferior. The national science, and the biopolitics it generated, became a form of anticolonial resistance, and survived into the early Soviet period, influencing population policies in the new state.

Comprehensive and meticulously researched, A Race for the Future reminds us of the need to historically contextualize racial ideology and politics and makes clear that we cannot fully grasp the biopolitics of the twentieth century without accounting for the imperial breakdown in which those politics thrived.

CfP: East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities (Polin)

This conference brings together the latest scholarship on the broad themes of transnationalism, intersectionality and cross-border exchanges in Jewish history from the early modern period to the present.  The conference will be conducted entirely in English.

Conference date: 18-21 June, 2023

Venue: POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland

Applications in English until November 7, 2022

We invite scholars working on transnational Jewish subjects broadly conceived, including Ph.D. candidates, to apply with a paper proposal (in English only). Applications with a paper proposal (abstract of no more than 500 words) and a short biographical note, should be sent via online application by November 7.

The organizers will reimburse invited speakers’ travel costs to and from the conference (economy class tickets) and will provide lodgings during the event.

» READ MORE: https://polin.pl/en/news/2022/08/24/call-papers-international-conference-east-central-europe-crossroads

» APPLY: https://polin.pl/en/form/conference-east-central-europe

CFP: Europäische Aufklärungen und "rassistische" Abwertung: Analysen und Reaktionen jüdischer Denker:innen

Während sowohl judenfeindliche als auch "rassisische" Tendenzen in der europäischen Aufklärung bereits im Fokus der Forschung sind, möchte der Workshop beide Aspekte zusammen denken: Wie haben zeitgenössische jüdische Denker:innen auf "rassistische" Tendenzen der europäischen Aufklärung geblickt? Gibt es Hinweise, dass maskilische Denker:innen ethnische bzw. „rassistisch“ motivierte Ausgrenzungstendenzen auf ihre Ursachen in den europäischen Aufklärungen selbst untersucht und kritisiert haben?

Europäische Aufklärungen und "rassistische" Abwertung: Analysen und Reaktionen jüdischer Denker:innen

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Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse, Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien ; Jakob Ole Lenz (M. A.), Lehrstuhl für politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06110 Halle (Saale) (Deutschland)

07.12.2022 - 08.12.2022

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.08.2022

Wie an der vermehrt unter anderem an Immanuel Kant geführten Diskussion in den letzten Jahren deutlich wurde, enthält die Aufklärung aus heutiger Sicht rassistische Stereotype. Auch die Judenfeindschaft war Teil der Aufklärung, wie sich exemplarisch an Voltaires Dictionnaire philosophique, Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Versuch einer Critic aller Offenbarung oder dem frühen G. W. F. Hegel zeigen lässt.

Die Fragestellung des Workshops möchte, über diese Foki hinausgehend, die Blickrichtung umkehren: Wie haben zeitgenössische jüdische Denker:innen auf "rassistische" Ideologeme der europäischen Aufklärung geblickt? Gibt es Hinweise, dass maskilische Denker:innen ethnische bzw. „rassistisch“ motivierte Ausgrenzungstendenzen auf ihre Ursachen in den europäischen Aufklärungen selbst untersucht und kritisiert haben?

Mögliche Themen und Fragen der einzelnen Sektionen können sein:

1) Ansatzpunkte

Finden sich in den Schriften der europäischen Maskilim kritische Hinweise auf „rassistisch“ ausgrenzende Tendenzen der christlichen Aufklärung?

2) Argumentationsstrategien

Falls ja, wie erörtert diese Kritik die Ausgrenzungs- und Abwertungsmechanismen? Werden Bezüge zur bürgerlichen Ausgrenzung von Jüdinnen und Juden zur Zeit der Aufklärung hergestellt?

3) Abolitionismus & Anti-Kolonialismus

Welche Rolle spielte der europäische Kolonialismus in den Schriften der jüdischen Denker:innen?

Gab es eine jüdische Kritik an der Sklaverei?

Gibt es eine außer-europäische jüdisch-maghrebinische oder mashriqinische Wahrnehmung des Verhältnisses zwischen den europäischen Aufklärungen und Minderheiten?

4) Deutschtümelei und Frühnationalismus

Welche Rolle nahmen „rassistische“ Ausgrenzungsmechanismen im primär gegen die französische Herrschaft gerichteten Frühnationalismus ein und wie sah eine mögliche jüdische Rezeption dessen aus?

Der Workshop findet anlässlich des 200. Todestages von Saul Ascher statt. Dieser Maskil hatte bereits 1794 die Judenfeindschaft Kants und Fichtes kritisiert, sich im napoleonisch

besetzten Berlin mit dem abolitionistischen Werk Henri Grégoires auseinandergesetzt sowie Gedichte der afroamerikanischen Dichterin Phillis Wheatley veröffentlicht.

Der Workshop findet vom 07. Dezember (nachmittags) bis zum 08. Dezember (mittags) 2022 statt.

Vorschläge zu Beiträgen von 20 Minuten länge können bis zum 28.08.2022 eingereicht werden. Bitte senden Sie Ihr Thema zusammen mit einem Abstract (ca. 300 Wörter) und einer kurzen biographischen Information (maximal 150 Wörter) bis zum 28. August 2022 an die Organisator:innen: Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse (ottfried.fraisse at judaistik.uni-halle.de) und Jakob Ole Lenz (M. A.) (jakob.lenz at student.uni-halle.de).

CFP: One Biography, Multiple Places: The Life and Work of Shmuel Hugo Bergmann Between Prague and Jerusalem (1883–1975)

In recent years, there is growing interest amongst scholars in various aspects of Shmuel Hugo Bergmann’s life and thought. Notwithstanding his importance and impact as a philosopher, theologian, political thinker, and academic leader, relatively little research was dedicated to him. Therefore, the first international Bergmann conference reflects that gap and intends to contribute to the study of his political and intellectual activities.

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Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 11000 Prague (Czech Republic)

03.11.2021 - 05.11.2021

Deadline: 30.06.2021

The  conference  will  address  the  multiple  aspects  of Shmuel  Hugo Bergmann’s political, scholarly,  and  cultural  activities. Originally  from  Prague,  where in  the  first  two  decades  of  the  20th century  he  took  part  in  the  Jewish-cultural  renaissance  of  the  local  German  speaking  community, Shmuel Hugo Bergmann moved to Palestine in 1920, where he assumed an influential role within the Jewish yishuv. He soon became a leading institutional figure associated with the development both of the Jewish National Library (of which he was the first director) and the Hebrew University (where he served as the first rector). At the same time, in light of his active advocacy of bi-nationalism and Arab-Israeli  dialogue,  and  by  virtue  of  his  participation  in  various  other  political  and  labor  organizations, Bergmann emerged as an important point of reference for left-wing Israeli discourse.

In Prague Bergmann studied philosophy with Anton Marty, a member of the Brentano School, and was influenced by the philosophy of Bernard Bolzano, to whom he dedicated his first monography. After  graduation  Bergmann  worked  as  librarian  in  the  Charles  University  Library  in  Prague  between 1906  and 1919.  In Prague,  Bergmann was  an  active member of the cultural  and  philosophical  Salon of Berta   Fanta (his   mother-in-law),   along   with   other   Jewish   intellectuals   of   his   generation including Felix Weltsch, Max Brod, Albert Einstein, and Franz Kafka. Bergmann also counted among the leaders of the Bar Kochba movement, an association for Jewish students at the Charles University that through the help of Martin Buber contributed to the cultural renewal of Western-European Jewry at the  beginning of the 20th century.  Bergmann  served as  the  chair  of  Bar Kochba  in 1903  and  in  that year  played  also  an  important  role  in  coordinating  the  activity  of  all  Jewish  students  organizations belonging to the Austrian Empire.

Immediately  after  the  first  world  war,  Bergmann  first  served  in  the  delegation  representing Czechoslovak Jewry at the Paris Peace Conference and then moved to London, where he worked as an employee  at  the  Educational  Department  of  the  World  Zionist  Organization.  Later  on,  in  May  1920 Bergmann emigrated with his family to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem where he was appointed the first  director  of  the  Jewish  National  and  University  Library  (1920–1935).  From  1928  on  Bergmann lectured  in  modern  philosophy  at  the  newly  established  Hebrew  University  and  in  1935  he  was nominated full professor in the Department of Philosophy. In the same year he was elected the first Rector of the Hebrew University (1935–1938). During his office, Bergmann contributed greatly to the enhancement of the University’s stature and helped to determine the direction of its academic activity. During  the  visit  of  T.  G.  Masaryk,  the  first  Czechoslovak  President,in  Palestine  in  1927,  Bergmann became  his  guide.  Immediately  after  World  War  II,  Bergmann  came  to  Prague  and  organized  in cooperation  with  the  Prague  Jewish  Museum, together  with  Gershom  Scholem, the  transport  of valuable Hebrew books that were collected by the Nazis in Theresienstadt to Palestine.

Bergmann soon became  a leading philosopher and cultural figure in Israel and in the Jewish world  as  a  whole;  he  was  responsible  for  the  translations  of  Germany  philosophy  into  Hebrew, participated in the national public debate, was a founding member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and was twice granted the Israel prize (in 1954 for his work in humanities, and in 1974 for his special contribution  to  society  and  the  State of  Israel).  Besides  his  interest  in  philosophy, mathematics  and natural sciences, Bergmann also showed great interest in religion, mysticism, and Western esotericism. His influences included Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Sri Aurobindo.

Starting from the late 1920s, Bergmann’s became one of the leading intellectual voices in the contemporary  pre-state  and  later  Israeli  political  debate,  always  in  favor  of  a  peaceful  solution  and advocating  a  separation  between  religion  and  the  state,  cautioning  his  readers against  abandoning Judaism altogether for the sake of a secular Zionism devoid of spirituality. In particular, from the late 1920s, Bergmann was active (together with Gershom Scholem, Judah Leon Magnes, Martin  Buber and others) in the Brit Shalom movement, which called for a dual-national state, and advocated peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel/Palestine.

Coorganizers:

Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow

S. H. Bergmann Center for Philosophical Studies at the Hebrew University 

The Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences 

The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam

Online event by Seminarium historii gender: Natalia Judzińska: Strategies of Resistance and Ways of Silencing of Jewish Voices concerning Ghetto benches at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. 22.2.2021, 18:30 CET (Polish).

Natalia Judzińska przedstawi referat "Strategie sprzeciwu i sposoby uciszania głosów żydowskich studentek wobec getta ławkowego w Uniwersytecie Stefana Batorego w Wilnie", skomentuje Natalia Aleksiun.

Getto ławkowe w uniwersytecie w Wilnie zostało wprowadzone 26 listopada 1937 roku przez księdza profesora Aleksandra Wójcickiego. Zanim jednak wprowadzono zarządzenie studentki i studenci samodzielnie zajmowali się przesadzaniem studentek i studentów żydowskich w lewą część sal wykładowych. Wystąpienie koncentrować się będzie na reakcjach nie tylko poszkodowanych, ale i reakcjach władz akademickich, a opierać się będzie na studium przypadku dwóch postępowań dyscyplinarnym wszczętym przeciwko Rywce Profitkier i Esterze Tajc. Omawiany fragment jest też częścią większej całości, mianowicie pracy doktorskiej powstającej pod kierunkiem prof. Anny Engelking i dr Elżbiety Janickiej, dotyczącej procesu instytucjonalizacji getta ławkowego w uniwersytecie w Wilnie.

ANTI-JEWISH QUOTAS: CENTRAL EUROPE AND BEYOND; ONLINE CONFERENCE November 23-24

organized  by the Nationalism Studies Program and Jewish Studies Program at  Central European University (Budapest/Vienna) and the Tom Lantos  Institute (Budapest)

3.00 to 6.00 PM (CET), November 23, 2020

and

3.00 to 6.15 PM (CET), November 24, 2020

In  1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced an anti-Jewish quota for  admission to universities, thus making Hungary the first country in  Europe to pass antisemitic legislation in the post-World War I period.  On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the so-called ‘numerus  clausus law’, we are organizing an international conference to examine  the history of restrictive ethnic and racial quotas in the first half of  the twentieth century.

The conference aims to explore the  ideologies of quota regimes and the ways they have been justified,  implemented, challenged and remembered. We will discuss the historical  origins of quotas, the moral, legal and political arguments developed by  their supporters and opponents; the domestic and international debates  surrounding anti-minority quotas; as well as the consequences – both  intended and unintended – of their implementation. Particularly  attention is paid to the role played by the Hungarian ‘numerus clausus’,  not only as a model for other restrictive quotas, but also as a  touchstone in the larger debates about liberalism, the “Jewish  Question,” and the “Refugee Question” in the interwar period.

The  conference will take place on Zoom on November 23 - 24, 2020 between  3.00 to 6.15 PM (CET). All participants must register online here (https://tom-lantos-institue.events.idloom.com/anti-jewish-quotas-central-europe-and-beyond). Registration closes at midnight CET on Thursday 19th November 2020.

AGENDA

Monday, November 23 3pm – 6pm CET

3:00 – 3:15         Welcoming Remarks

Michael L. Miller (CEU), Anna-Mária Bíró (Tom Lantos Institute)

3:15 – 4:00         Keynote Address

Mária M. Kovács (1953-2020)

The Hungarian Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apology and History

Introductory remarks by András Kovács (CEU)

Keynote address to be read by Luca Váradi (CEU)

4:00 – 6:00         Anti-Jewish Quotas: A Central European Perspective

Chair: Máté Rigó (Yale-NUS College; Imre Kertész Kolleg)

Jeremy King (Mount Holyoke College)

National Autonomy, Quotas, and a Classificatory Dilemma in Late Imperial Austria

Grzegorz Krzywiec (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

Anti-Jewish  Quotas and their Radicalization in Interwar Poland. Towards a  Reconsideration of the Fascist Appeal in East Central Europe

Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York; Gerda Henkel Fellow, Jena University)

Jewish Response to the Numerus Clausus in Interwar Poland

Andreas Huber (University of Vienna)

The Anti-Semitic Pact: How German National and Catholic Elites Fought for a Numerus Clausus at Austrian Universities after 1918

Tuesday, November 24 3pm- 6:15pm CET

3:00 – 4:00         Anti-Jewish Quotas, Antisemitic Violence

Chair: Laura Almagor (The University of Sheffield)

Roland Clark (University of Liverpool)

Rioting for Quotas in Transnational Perspective

István Pál Ádám (Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, Berlin-Brandenberg) (20 min)

Anti-Jewish Incidents in Interwar Hungary and the Numerus Clausus Debate

4:00 – 6:00         The Numerus Clausus: Hungarian Jewish Perspectives

Chair: Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute)

Linda Margittai (University of Szeged)

Numerus Clausus in the Southlands, 1941-1944: Implementation of Ethnic Discrimination in Higher Education

Ágnes Kelemen (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences) (20 minutes)

Rebels Against the Numerus Clausus: The Emigration of Hungarian Jewish Youth

Judith Szapor (McGill University, Montreal)

'A Path to Zionism' or 'Loyalty to the Nation'? The Impact of the Numerus Clausus on Jewish Identity in 1920s Hungary

Michael L. Miller (CEU)

A Foreign Relations Fiasco?  The Hungarian Numerus Clausus Law and Weimar Germany

6:00 – 6:15       Concluding Reflections

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918–1939, edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman. New Haven: Yale University Press 2020. ISBN: 9780300135527

 

URL: https://www.posenlibrary.com/frontend/node/109265

• • Introduction to Print Volume
  • Contents (Print Edition)

“This volume is intended to introduce readers to a world that they did not know existed.  We stress the richness of the writing and reflection throughout the Jewish world,” explains Endelman.

“Our selection of materials in many languages—many of which were translated for this volume—and in many subject areas helps the reader and viewer recreate the issues, personalities and divergent views of that time,” continued Gitelman.

“Rapid, dramatic change characterized the short twenty-year interval between the two world wars (1918–1939),” write Endelman and Gitelman. “In Europe, economic crises after 1929, strident nationalist movements and militant radical parties, political polarization and the erosion of liberalism, and the slide from democratic to authoritarian norms undermined Jewish hopes for stability and security, especially in the new states that emerged in Eastern and Central Europe. In West European societies and in North America, the challenges were less dire,” they observe, “but daunting nonetheless. However, despite the economic downturn of the 1930s, Western Jews (both native born and immigrants) continued to move into the middle class. In the United States, the Jewish community emerged as a significant influence in American and world Jewish politics. In Palestine, then under British control, the Jewish population grew rapidly, becoming more ideological and secular. If the less than 10 percent of European Jews who lived in Western democracies in the 1930s felt a sense of unease, then in Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Germany there was a palpable feeling of impending trouble, if not catastrophe.

“Indeed, the interwar years saw an explosion of Jewish creativity everywhere, not just in the Yishuv (the Jewish community in the Land of Israel). Regardless of the language in which they worked, groups of Jews embraced modernist trends in literature and art, produced middle-brow literature for popular consumption, and cultivated traditional forms of religious scholarship. With gusto and in large numbers, they engaged in social and political commentary, historical research, and literary criticism. They painted, sculpted, and photographed, wrote poetry and philosophy, made movies, danced, and composed music. It would be difficult to identify another twenty-year period in any era of Jewish history in which Jewish cultural life was so effervescent. Undoubtedly, the many crises and challenges that confronted them during these years stimulated and stoked this outburst of creativity, in large part because the political, social, and economic issues of the day were so urgent. Jews were both consumers of and contributors to the rich general intellectual ferment of these years.”

Organized by genre, Crisis and Creativity between World Wars showcases Jewish social, political and cultural thought, scholarship and innovation in religious thought, and visual culture, fiction, drama, and poetry. Gorgeously illustrated, this volume of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization will be cherished by anyone interested in the global story of Jewish culture and civilization.

“The Posen Library challenges the primacy of religion as the dominant mode of Jewish life and culture over the centuries,” explains Editor-in-Chief Deborah Dash Moore. “It is a somewhat controversial way of approaching the Jewish past and Jewish culture and civilization. The Posen Library explicitly contends that how Jews earned a living, related to each other in community, and decorated their homes is as worthy of understanding as how Jews wrote commentary on Torah.”

Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust - Live on Zoom, Online - Center for Jewish History, New York, NY; 22 Sep 2020 4:00 PM (Event timezone is America/New_York)

Natalia Aleksiun in conversation with Samuel Kassow

Natalia Aleksiun and Samuel Kassow discuss the legacies of Jewish historians before the Holocaust who wrote both academic and popular history for their community and engaged in creating a sense of Polish-Jewish belonging, while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. What shaped their sense of both scholarly and communal mission? How relevant is their work to writing Jewish history today and to our understanding of the modern Jewish experience in East Central Europe?

Please Note: Patrons who are sharing a computer to view the program need only reserve one ticket.

Presented by Center for Jewish History

URL: https://conscioushistory.bpt.me/

HPS.CESEE open access DISSERTATIONS (CEU 2019-2020)

• Mézes Ádám: Doubt and diagnosis : medical experts and the returning dead of the southern Habsburg borderland. Budapest : Central European University, 2020: http://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/mezes_adam.pdf

The dissertation interprets the vampire as a case of extraordinary knowledge production on the margins of the known world. I directed the focus at experts entrusted to apply their specialized knowledge on diagnosing the vampiric attack and on regulating the unruly dead. Throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, these expertsserved various social groups: local communities, administrative-judicial structures, aristocratic circles, the republic of letters and aulic political spheres. Thus, historical sources produced on vampires unveil actors, interests and intense negotiations about what is ‘normal’ death and decay, about who is an expert, and what is proof. I argue that knowledge production is social, political, and bears the mark of the environment where it was produced.

• Kelemen, Ágnes Katalin: Peregrination in the age of the Numerus Clausus : Hungarian Jewish students in interwar Europe. Budapest : Central European University, 2019: http://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/kelemen_agi.pdf

This dissertation investigates the dynamics between academic antisemitism, Jewish social mobility and Jewish migration through the case study of the “numerus clausus exiles” – as Jewish students who left interwar Hungary due to the antisemitic numerus clausus law (Law XXV of 1920) were called by contemporaries and historians. After a conceptual and historiographic introduction in the first chapter embedding this work in the contexts of Jewish studies, social history and exile studies; interwar Hungarian Jewish peregrination is examined from four different aspects in four chapters based on four different types of sources. In the second chapter an analysis of contemporary Hungarian (Jewish and non-Jewish) discourses is based on pro-Horthy, Conservative, Liberal, Social Democratic, assimilationist Jewish and Zionist press. It is argued that peregrination from Hungary was in the general press recognized as a mostly Jewish phenomenon, caused by the restriction of Jewish access to Hungarian universities, rather than a voluntary movement motivated by thirst for knowledge. In the meantime, the plight of émigré students became a central topic in Jewish press because a new Hungarian Jewish community of fate and identity was built on the support mechanism for numerus clausus exiles. Based on a database of over 1000 Hungarian medical and engineering students enrolled in universities abroad between 1920 and 1938 – Czechoslovakia, the First Austrian Republic, Weimar Germany and Fascist Italy – that the dissertation’s author constructed; the third chapter analyzes the social background of émigré students – most of whom were Jewish. In this way the case is made that studying abroad was a phenomenon of lower middleclass Jewish youth’s upward social mobility through education rather than an escape route reserved for privileged Jews. Ego documents written and edited (in most cases even published) by numerus clausus exiles provide the source base for the fourth chapter which reconstructs their own narratives on their peregrination. The prevalence of interpreting their student migration as exile from the Hungarian homeland unfolds both from autobiographies and memoirs written decades later and from letters sent while studying abroad, albeit with important individual variations. Based on digital databases, the fifth chapter follows up the career and life trajectories of students after their studies abroad. Four basic patterns are distinguished among the biographies of the over 1000 subjects: the most successful ones emigrated to the Western world usually through step-migration through Weimar Germany and did not return to Hungary. Few numerus clausus exiles immigrated to Palestine, however, they played important roles in the higher education and scholarship of Mandate Palestine and later of the State of Israel. Most numerus clausus exiles were forced to return to Hungary in the late 1930s due to the spread of hostility towards foreign Jews across Europe. They belong to two main groups, namely Shoah victims and Shoah survivors. The latter were likely to stay in Hungary for the rest of their lives after liberation, their experience with emigration notwithstanding, because they received opportunities for career advancement earlier denied to them and many believed this was also a chance to redeem Hungary from inequalities and injustices through Socialism. At the same time, quite a few numerus clausus exiles were put on show trials in the Stalinist period due to their past abroad and many more got disillusioned by the discrepancies between the ideal of Communism and the reality of State Socialism. Finally, it is argued in the final conclusions that this study speaks to the larger questions of how a minority can respond to discrimination and how individual initiatives from below can develop into communal agency based on solidarity.

• Hincu, Adela-Gabriela: Accounting for the "social" in state socialist Romania, 1960s-1980s: contexts and genealogies. Budapest : Central European University, 2019: http://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/hincu_adela-gabriela.pdf

This dissertation reconstructs the contexts and genealogies of scientific thought on the “social” in state socialist Romania in the 1960s–1980s. New ideas and practices of observing, analyzing, and intervening in the social realities of socialist society emerged beginning in the early 1960s, originally in debates over the canonical disciplines of Marxist-Leninist social science (historical materialism, scientific socialism, and Marxist sociology). These were further developed by Marxist revisionist and humanist Marxist thought on the relationship between individuals and society in socialism, which decentered the collectivist ethos characteristic of “dogmatic” Marxism-Leninist philosophy for most of the 1950s. Made possible by the Marxist humanist breakthrough of the early 1960s, Marxist-Leninist sociology was subsequently established as a separate discipline at the Academy of Social and Political Sciences and at the University of Bucharest. Institutional and intellectual constraints and possibilities were differently configured in these two contexts. For the case of the Academy of Social and Political Sciences, the dissertation emphasizes the dynamic between local, transnational, and global frameworks of knowledge production, and the role of Eastern bloc cooperation in the field of sociology in particular. In the Romanian context, the interplay between local and transnational frames of reference resulted in studies of the social structure of socialist society that sought to rework concepts of everyday Marxism-Leninism—as formulated in party pronouncements and translated into the planning of knowledge production in the social sciences. The most notable among these was the concept of “social homogenization.” Developed since the second half of the 1960s, through to the qualitative turn of the late 1970s, and into the 1980s, its history illustrates the interplay between legitimization and criticism characteristic of Marxist-Leninist sociology. Several student cohorts were trained at the University of Bucharest between 1965, when the sociology department was first established, through to 1977, when the department was disbanded, and in a very restricted sense until the end of the 1980s. As taught at the university, sociology drew on Marxist, interwar, and Western sociological sources. This idiosyncratic intellectual blend underpinned large-scale empirical research on the two main sociological issues of social development (especially in relation to industrialization and urbanization) and scientific management (in relation to social planning). By outlining the context of sociology as practiced at the university alongside oral history accounts by sociology students trained at the time, generational, intellectual, and existential fault lines come to the fore beneath a commonly shared understanding of sociology as an apolitical science of “social engineering” with roots in the interwar period. The second part of the dissertation proposes a “reverse genealogy” of three themes which became part of the imaginary of postsocialist intellectual thought on the social: participation, equality, and welfare. It explores how the three intellectual, institutional, and generational contexts identified in the first part of the dissertation played out in sociological research on mass culture, women’s emancipation, and the quality of life in the 1960s–80s.

• Szamosi, Barna: The legacy of eugenic discourses in the history of Hungarian medicine. Budapest : Central European University, 2019: http://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/szamosi_barna.pdf

In my dissertation I explore the legacy of eugenics in the history of Hungarian medicine. In this project I analyze how gender, race/ethnicity, and class play role in shaping medical concerns. And how do medical sciences contribute to empowerment in different historical periods. I was initially interested in how geneticists are producing knowledge about Roma people within Europe and more specifically in Hungary. I started my work with one very narrow question in mind: whether these works contribute to the geneticization of race/ethnicity as Troy Duster, Jonathan Kahn, Dorothy Roberts, Carolyn M. Rouse and many other scholars claim, and if yes, in what ways they do. I was interested in contemporary medical genetic discussions but I was aware that this discourse has continuities with the medical genetic discussions of the socialist period. In order to explore the commonalities and differences between these two, I did 35 interviews with medical geneticists and biologists who take part in research, teaching, or genetic counseling. These were in-depth semi-structured interviews in which I asked about their specific fields, about the continuities that they see with socialist medical aims regarding reproduction, how they see the role of race/ethnicity, gender, and class in shaping genetic concerns, and how would they describe the social relevance of their work. In the interviews I inquired how they view their work in relation to eugenics and their replies pointed towards connections between their work and the eugenic arguments of the early twentieth century. Thus, I became interested in the comparative analysis of eugenic thinking in the Hungarian medical discourse in two historically distant periods. Specifically, the early 1900s and 1910s when eugenics entered the Hungarian medical discourse with the present medical genetic concerns closely connected with the socialist medical practice. Medical genetics as a discipline emerged in the 1960s as a result of biotechnological developments. In the Hungarian literature medical genetic studies were first published around the end of the 60s. Institutions, that incorporated medical genetic knowledge to aid reproductive decision making such as genetic counseling institutes, were established in the 70s. Among the early concerns the degeneration of the population appeared similarly to the early eugenic discourse thus I think it is possible to establish connections between these two. In the early medical genetic publications of the 1970s the main concern was the possible transmission of ’bad’ genes for the future generations and the role that medical genetics could play to avoid that outcome. Their focus was on the female body but explicitly racial or ethnic concerns were not present in genetic argumentation until the early 1980s, although ethnicity based medical studies have appeared in the 1960s and 70s. The aim of population genetic works is to compare the genetic structure of Roma and non-Roma Hungarians in order to design screening panels that would improve the management of their healthcare. I think regarding these medical efforts one of the question to look at is how genetic knowledge empowers people at the intersection of the social categories of gender, class, race/ethnicity? In what ways do geneticists molecularize these social categories? And what are the possible ethical consequences of this practice?

• Lukic, Dejan: A strong class of serious scholars: the power dynamics of knowledge production in the earth science. Budapest : Central European University, 2019: http://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/lukic_dejan.pdf

This dissertation examines the social and political factors that conditioned the establishment of the earth sciences in Serbia during the long nineteenth century. It presents the development of scientific circles, institutions, and practices on the European periphery and analyses the power dynamics that stood behind them. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Serbia was an Ottoman province that was striving to become an independent nation state, in which it ultimately succeeded in 1878. Science was in Serbia intrinsically dependent on the process of state-building and the formation of state elites, in which scholars became the carriers of the process of the transformation of society. The formation of scientific circles, their recognition in Serbian society, and the establishment of institutional, educational, and research practices depended on their successful embeddedness in the contemporary political, intellectual, and social networks. This study exemplifies how notions of expertise and epistemic fields were constructed in the earth sciences, and how scholars divided research and responsibilities among themselves. Through the examination of personal notes, diaries, correspondence, and scientific publications, I have identified the power dynamics and strategies that led some of them to achieve the status of experts, recognised as such either by their colleagues, or by the state administration. In this respect, I have given special attention to the role that state and politics had on the dynamics of these circles, as well as to the role international scientific networks played in the recognition of their expertise. Particular focus is given to the careers of Jovan Žujović and Jovan Cvijić, who established scientific circles around them. Žujović became the primary organiser of scientific research in mineralogy, petrography, geology, palaeontology, and seismology by mobilising his students to study abroad and conduct research in earth sciences. The expansion of the circle led to the creation and division of separate scientific sub-disciplines in which scholars established their expertise. Through the interaction with international scientific networks, these scholars were looking for recognition and affirmation of Belgrade as a new international scientific centre. In this endeavour, Jovan Cvijić turned out to be the most successful. Because of his pragmatically chosen topics, he managed to distinguish himself both internationally and in Serbian public opinion. Both Žujović and Cvijić managed to assert themselves as the founding figures of Serbian science, yet that role depended on their social and political capital as much as it did on their academic capital. Science was strongly embedded in social and political processes and its development was conditioned by successful interaction across multiple social networks.

Judaica Petropolitana - Call for Articles for the 2020 special issue on "Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought"

Dear collegues,

As we had to cancel our Conference "Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought" which was planned for June due to the COVID-19 pandemy, we decided to keep and to continue the project in the special issue of the Judaica Petropolitana.

Judaica Petropolitana invites submissions for the 2020 special issue on "Philosophy of Dialogue in Russian, German, and Jewish Thought". Judaica Petropolitana is edited by the Department of Jewish Culture, Saint-Petersburg State University in collaboration with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The aim of the the special issue is to examine an essential issue of Jewish thought, meaningful throughout the entire history of Jewish philosophy - dialogism and dialogical approach. The topic of the issue provides an overview of the broadest spectrum of Jewish philosophical teachings, both in chronological and spatial terms, in internal and external connections.

In the special issue  we intend to address the dialogical philosophy (philosophy of dialogue) as a point of collaboration and interaction betweeen the Russian, German, German-Jewish, and Jewish intellectual traditions. Dialogism is deeply rooted in the Russian culture as attested by Dostoevskiy and Bakhtin. Dialogical thought in Germany includes extremely rich heritage of works and ideas of Ludwig Feuerbach, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Ferdinand Ebner, Martin Buber, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. In the Jewish thought the Bible and Talmud affirm the Dialogism and dialogical approach to core theological and philosophical issues. Jewish philosophy and mysticism continue the approach. Accordingly, studies on Dialogism allows to treat inter-cultural and inter-philosophical dialogues, exchanges, conflicts and interactions.

The issue will address the following topics:

1. Dialogism in the Jewish thought of Biblical and Post-Biblical era. Dialogism of the Talmud and Midrash. Dialogism of the Medieval Jewish philosophy and mystical thought.

2. Sources and evolution of the philosophy of dialogue in Germany: Jacobi, Kant, Feuerbach, and Cohen.

3. Philosophy of dialogue in Germany and Austria at the turn of the XXth century: Franz Rosenzweig, Ferdinand Ebner, Martin Buber, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.

4. Dialogism in Russian and the Russian thought: Dostoevskiy, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Bakhtin, and Vladimir Bibler.

5. Philosophy of dialogue and phenomelogy: Levinas.

6. Philosophy of dialogue and the pedagogical thought. Philosophers of dialogue on novations in education. Dialogical pedagogy and theories of learning and education. Rosenzweig, Buber, Rosenstock-Huessy, Levinas, Vladimir Bibler и др.

7. Recent state-of-the art and perspectives of philosophy of dialogue (Russia, Israel, etc).

Judaica Petropolitana (http://judaica-petropolitana.philosophy.spbu.ru) has been published since 2015. The Judaica Petropolitana is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal of Jewish Studies, dedicated to the exploration of the core issues in Jewish Culture, Philosophy, History, and Religion. It aims to respond both to the traditional disciplinary approaches in Jewish Studies and emerging new fields of research that goes beyond received historiographic categories and concepts. It publishes two issues per year and contains a thematic section, translations and archival publications, essays and reviews.

The Judaica Petropolitana publishes high-quality research articles, essays, reviews reporting results of research in Jewish Studies, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary approaches. It furthermore aims to bring to the attention of the scholarly community many yet unexplored topics, primarily grown from complex and multifaceted history of Jewish life and culture under Russian Empire and Soviet Union.

The main languages of the journal are Russian, English, Hebrew, although contributions are also accepted in French and German.

The deadline for the submissions - October 31, 2020.

The articles will be published after a double blind peer-review process. All articles should conform to our submission guidelines (the APA citation and referencing style, 6th edition; we kindly ask potential authors to request the detailed instruction via email or consult with the instruction at our webpage).

All submissions, proposals and editorial inquiries should be addressed to: Igor Tantlevskiy (tantigor@bk.ru) and Igor Kaufman (kaufman.igor.s@gmail.com)

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Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross (eds): Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe: Shared Identities, Entangled Histories, Cham: Springer 2019. Print ISBN 978-3-319-92479-3; Online ISBN 978-3-319-92480-9

• Jewish– German–Polish: Histories and Traditions in Medical Culture, Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross, 1-9

BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITY: EARLY MODERN JEWISH CARE FOR BODY AND SOUL

• Yiddish “Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum” From Early Modern Poland: A Humanistic Symbiosis of Latin Medicine and Jewish Thought; Ewa Geller; 13-25
• ‘When the Rabbi Meets the Doctor’: Differing Attitudes to Medical Diagnosis Among Halakhic Authorities in Eastern and Central Europe in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century, Eliezer Sariel, 27-39
• The Debate over Early Burial Amongst Jews in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the 1790s, Hans-Uwe Lammel, 41-60

MODERN JEWISH HEALTHCARE: COMMUNITY AND THE STATE

• German Medicine, Folklore and Language in Popular Medical Practices of the Eastern European Jews (Nineteenth to Twentieth Century), Marek Tuszewicki, 63-78
• Jewish Bodies and Jewish Doctors During the Cholera Years of the Polish Kingdom, Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, 79-95
• Work of Jewish Medical Community and the Health Culture at School in the Second Republic of Poland (1918–1939), Beata Szczepańska, 97-108
• A Survey of Jewish Healthcare in Poland After WWII, Ignacy Einhorn, Jakub Einhorn, 109-127

SHARED IDENTITIES

• German-Jewish Doctors as Members of the Colonial Health Service in the Dutch East Indies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Philipp Teichfischer, 131-153
• Jewish Students from Silesia Studying at the Medical Faculty of Vienna University in the Years 1850–1938 According to the Records Regarding University Promotion and Requirements, Joanna Lusek, Horst Doležal, 155-186
• Between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: The Dual Identity of Dr. Izrael Milejkowski, Naomi Menuhin, 187-198
• A Doctor’s War Testimony: The Four Incarnations of “Dr. Twardy”, Monika Rice, 199-217
• “Ich bin ein Koszaliner”? Struggles with Belongings in Borderlands. Leslie Baruch Brent’s Autobiography Sunday’s Child? A Memoire, Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk, 219-233

JEWISH DOCTORS IN THE FACE OF TERROR AND EXTERMINATION

• Jewish Doctors: A Place in Holocaust History, Ross W. Halpin, 237-248
• Fate of the Jewish Doctors – Members of the Jewish Chamber of Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940–1943), Maria Ciesielska, 249-260
• Coping with the Impossible: The Developmental Roots of the Jewish Medical System in the Ghettos, Miriam Offer, 261-277

URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92480-9#toc

Call for Papers: Haskala in Breslau. Joel Bri’l Löwes Schulschriften im Kontext (1791–1801). Freie Universität Berlin, 28.10.2020 - 29.10.2020. Deadline: 01.07.2020

Die Haskala des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts war eine jüdische Aufklärungsbewegung, deren Vertreter in mehreren Zentren wirksam waren. Während die personellen und institutionellen Bedingungen der Berliner Haskala in den letzten Jahren eingehend erforscht worden sind, steht für ein anderes wichtiges Zentrum der jüdischen Aufklärung – Breslau – eine vergleichbare Rekonstruktionsarbeit noch aus. Dazu soll ein DFG-gefördertes Editionsprojekt beitragen. Das Projekt rückt das Wirken des jüdischen Aufklärers Joel Löwe (hebr. Joel Bri’l, 1762–1802) ins Blickfeld. Löwe wurde 1790 zum Oberlehrer und Direktoriumsmitglied der neugegründeten jüdischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Schule in Breslau berufen und nahm in den folgenden Jahren maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den aufklärerischen Diskurs und das gesellige Leben vor Ort. Beabsichtigt ist eine Edition der zwischen 1791 und 1800 publizierten Programmschriften der Wilhelms-Schule und weiterer Texte Löwes aus seiner Breslauer Zeit. Mit der Edition dieser Schriften wird ein wichtiger Teil des Werks einer zentralen Figur der jüdischen Aufklärung erstmals erschlossen. Darüber hinaus verspricht das Projekt neue Einsichten in den ideen-, sprach-, kultur-, wissens- und sozialgeschichtlichen Kontext des ersten Dezenniums der Wilhelms-Schule, die als zweite moderne Erziehungsinstitution der Haskala in Preußen – nach der Berliner jüdischen Freischule – von großer Bedeutung für die deutsch-jüdische Bildungsgeschichte war.

Im Rahmen des Editionsprojekts findet am 28. und 29. Oktober 2020 ein interdisziplinärer Workshop an der Freien Universität Berlin statt, der Expertinnen und Experten aus den Geschichts-, Erziehungs-, Religions-, Kultur-, Sprach-, Literaturwissenschaften miteinander ins Gespräch bringen soll. Zur Diskussion stehen unter anderem folgende Aspekte, die eng mit Joel Löwes Leben und Wirken und der Wilhelmsschule in Breslau verbunden sind:

1) Die jüdische Gemeinde in Breslau im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert - Soziale und rechtliche Situation der Breslauer Juden seit 1786 - Minderheiten- und Religionspolitik in Schlesien, bes. in Breslau - Trägerschicht der Haskala in Breslau, z.B. jüdische Ärzte, Lehrer, Kaufleute - Fortsetzung des Streits um die frühe Beerdigung in Breslau, 1793–1798

2) Geschichte Breslaus im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert - Konfessionelle Prägung, Vielfalt und Konflikte - (Jüdisches) Schulwesen und Bildungsgeschichte in Schlesien, bes. in Breslau - Höheres Bildungswesen - Verlagswesen, bes. die Graßsche Buchdruckerei - Aufklärerische Gesellschaften - historische Persönlichkeiten und ihre geselligen Zirkel (Samuel Gottlieb Bürde, Nathan Friedländer, Georg Gustav Fülleborn, Christian Garve, Ludwig Friedrich Gottlob Ernst Gedike, Moses Hirschel, Georg Heinrich von Hoym, Karl Gotthelf Lessing, Johann Ephraim Scheibel, Johann Gottlieb Schummel, Friedrich Albert Zimmermann u.a.)

3) Löwes Gelehrsamkeit im wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Kontext - (Jüdische und nichtjüdische) Bibelübersetzung, Bibelauslegung und Bibelkritik - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn als Theologe im Austausch mit Löwe - Deutsche und hebräische Grammatik, Sprachforschung, Sprachpurismus - Löwe im Austausch mit Pädagogen und Sprachforschern, z.B. mit Joachim Heinrich Campe - (Jüdische) Kant-Rezeption

4) Haskala in Breslau - Breslauer jüdische Aufklärungsgesellschaften, bes. die Gesellschaft der Brüder - Esther Gad als Repräsentantin der Haskala in Breslau - Publikations- und Kommunikationsmedien (Schulprogrammschriften, Zeitschriften, didaktische und pädagogische Literatur, Fabeln, Briefe) - Festkulturen und öffentliche Vortragsformen (Eröffnungs- und Jahresfeiern, musikalische und andere Aufführungen, Vorlesungen)

Der Workshop wird in den einzelnen thematischen Sektionen nach jeweils kurzen Materialpräsentationen vor allem Raum für eingehende Diskussionen bieten. Ein Reader mit Texten Löwes wird vorab bereitgestellt.

Wir laden interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen herzlich zur Teilnahme am geplanten interdisziplinären Workshop ein. Drei Teilnahmeformen sind möglich: Sie können sich mit Ihrer Expertise in die Diskussion einbringen (Diskussionsteilnahme), die Moderation einer Diskussionseinheit übernehmen (Moderation) oder eine Materialpräsentation (Kurzvortrag) anbieten. Eine Erstattung Ihrer Reise- und Unterbringungskosten ist bei Bedarf möglich. Der Termin des Workshops ist vorbehaltlich der weiteren Entwicklung der Corona-Krise und wird ggf. noch in Absprache mit den Teilnehmenden verschoben.

Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 1. Juli 2020 mit Ihrer Interessenbekundung per E-Mail bei Uta Lohmann (E-Mail: uta.lohmann[at]uni-hamburg.de) und Kathrin Wittler (E-Mail: kathrin.wittler[at]fu-berlin.de). Teilen Sie uns dabei bitte mit, in welcher Form (Diskussionsteilnahme, Moderation oder Kurzvortrag) Sie teilnehmen möchten und zu welchem Aspekt aus dem Themenfeld ‚Joel Löwe und die Haskala in Breslau‘ Sie Wissen einbringen können und wollen. Wir freuen uns auf interessierte Rückmeldungen aus allen relevanten Disziplinen!