EAJS Newsflash August 2010

2. 1 Leitung der wissenschaftlichen Abteilung und 1 wissenschaftliche Assistenz (KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau)


KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau, Dachau, 01.12.2010
Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2010



1) In der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten ist die Stelle der Leitung der wissenschaftlichen Abteilung mit internationalem Profil (in Vollzeit mit 40 Wochenstunden) zum 1.12.2010 oder später zu besetzen.


Aufgabenstellung:
- Leitung der wissenschaftlichen Abteilung
- Bei entsprechender Eignung auch Stellvertretung in Abwesenheit der Gedenkstättenleitung
- Initiierung und Förderung anwendungsbezogener Forschung
- Konzeptionierung wissenschaftlicher Tagungen und Publikationen
- Planung von Ausstellungen und Wechselausstellungen
- Kooperation mit Häftlingsverbänden (Comité International de Dachau)
- Vernetzung mit Universitäten, Gedenkstätten und Bildungseinrichtungen
- Einwerbung von Drittmitteln und Leitung entsprechender Drittmittelprojekte
- Wissenschaftliche Betreuung von Archiv und Bibliothek


Anforderungsprofil:
- Abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium mit Schwerpunkt im Fach Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Kultur- und Politikwissenschaften oder Ethnologie/Volkskunde
- Der Abschluss einer Promotion ist erwünscht.
- Fähigkeiten zum selbständigen konzeptionellen und projektorientierten Arbeiten, Organisationstalent, soziale Kompetenz, Teamfähigkeit sowie ein hohes Maß an Flexibilität
- Einschlägige und möglichst internationale Erfahrungen im Bereich von zeithistorischen Museen, Gedenkstätten oder vergleichbaren Einrichtungen historisch-politischer Bildung
- Sichere Beherrschung der englischen und französischen Sprache in Wort und Schrift

Anstellung, Vergütung und Sozialleistungen richten sich nach dem Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst (TV-L). Die Vergütung erfolgt nach Entgeltgruppe 13 des TV-L. Im Interesse der beruflichen Gleichstellung sind Bewerbungen von Frauen erwünscht. Interessentinnen und Interessenten aus dem Ausland werden besonders zur Bewerbung aufgefordert. Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bewerbungen werden auch vom Comité International de Dachau eingesehen.

Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf, Publikationsverzeichnis, Expertisen und knapper Darstellung Ihrer einschlägigen konzeptionellen Vorstellungen richten Sie bitte bis zum 15. September 2010 an folgende Adresse:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
Dr. Gabriele Hammermann
Alte Römerstraße 75
85221 Dachau



2) In der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten ist zum 1.12.2010 die Stelle einer wissenschaftlichen Assistenz (in Vollzeit mit 40 Wochenstunden) zu besetzen.


Aufgabenstellung:
- Leitung der Bibliothek
- Bearbeitung wissenschaftlicher Anfragen
- Mitarbeit an Ausstellungen
- wissenschaftliche Recherchen
- Vorbereitung von Publikationen


Anforderungsprofil:
- Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium im Fach ost- und südosteuropäische Geschichte, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte oder Slawistik mit dem Schwerpunkt: Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus und/oder Erinnerungskultur/politik
- Organisationstalent, soziale Kompetenz, Teamfähigkeit
- Erfahrungen im Bereich von zeithistorischen Museen, Gedenkstätten, Archiven oder vergleichbaren Einrichtungen historisch-politischer Bildung
- Sichere Beherrschung der englischen, polnischen oder russischen Sprache

Anstellung, Vergütung und Sozialleistungen richten sich nach dem Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst (TV-L). Die Vergütung erfolgt nach Entgeltgruppe 10 des TV-L. Im Interesse der beruflichen Gleichstellung sind Bewerbungen von Frauen erwünscht.
Schwerbehinderte Bewerber/innen werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bewerbungen mit Lebenslauf, Publikationsverzeichnis und Zeugnissen richten Sie bitte bis zum 15. September 2010 an folgende

Adresse:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
Dr. Gabriele Hammermann
Alte Römerstraße 75
85221 Dachau

mailto:info@kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de

3. Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies


European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies

The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies is delighted to be hosting the European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies for the academic years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12.

Scholars are invited to apply to participate in the residential workshop at Yarnton Manor taking place from January to June 2011 and from October 2011 to March 2012. Successful applicants will be working with eminent scholars in the same field.
Recipients of an ESAJS Fellowship will be provided with self-catering accommodation on the Yarnton Manor estate and will receive a stipend of £750 per calendar month of tenure.

The Project for the academic year 2010-11:


The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications to participate in residential workshops at Yarnton Manor taking place from October 2011 to March 2012. Successful applicants will be working with eminent scholars in the same field.

Recipients of an ESAJS Fellowship will be provided with self-catering accommodation on the Yarnton Manor estate and will receive a stipend of £750 per calendar month of tenure.
The Project to be undertaken in 2011-12 is outlined below (see also http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/2011-12.html):

OLD YIDDISH: OLD TEXTS, NEW CONTEXTS
Project Leaders: Professor Simon Neuberg,
Dr Jordan Finkin

This seminar group will be devoted to a reevaluation of texts in Old Yiddish through application of the techniques and multidisciplinary approaches developed in recent years within modern Yiddish studies. Building on the long-established tradition of the study of Old Yiddish through a focus on detailed linguistic and philological analyses, this group will seek to situate the texts in their social and cultural contexts, in order to formulate the central features of a systematic approach to this literature through which these core texts can take their rightful place within the broader field of Yiddish Studies.

Old Yiddish Project http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/documents/OldYiddishProjectforwebsite.pdf

Application form 2011-12 http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/documents/ESAppForm2011-2012.pdf

Application information 2011-12 http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/documents/ESapplicationinfo2011-12.pdf

4. The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, within the framework of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society,

are offering numerous Manfred Lahnstein PhD Scholarships to young researchers in various disciplines from Germany and Europe.


The Manfred Lahnstein scholarship was being offered for the first time in 2007.
The young researchers should deepen their understanding of Israel through a 10 month stay at the University of Haifa.
The students should be able to do local research which ought to be an essential part of the their thesis.
The scholarships are for students in any disciplines which are being taught at the Haifa University.
The Manfred Lahnstein scholarship will give a grant of 1000 Euro per month.

The applicants are required to submit:
* Their Curriculum Vita
* A short abstract of the Project/Dissertation
* Two scientific recommendations
* A written statement of a Professor at the University of Haifa, who will be his/her advisor during the research in Israel
During their stay the scholarship recipients will be required to live in Haifa and participate in all the activities of the Bucerius Institute.

The deadline for 2011 submission will be October 28, 2010.
The period of stay in Haifa is November 2011 - August 2012.


The material should be send by electronic mail to Lea Dror-Batalion: mailto:ldror@univ.haifa.ac.il
The decision will be taken by a jury composed of faculty and staff members of the University of Haifa and the ZEIT-Stiftung. The decision will be send in December 2010.
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
Feldbrunnenstrasse 56, 20148 Hamburg,
Tel:040-413366, Fax: 040-41336700
E-Mail: mailto:zeit-stiftung@zeit-stiftung.de

5. C.H. Beck-Stipendien fuer Literatur- und Geisteswissenschaften

Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Marbach


Der Verlag C.H. Beck schreibt zusammen mit dem Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach jeweils ein Doktorandenstipendium und ein Postdoktorandenstipendium aus. Die maximale Foerderdauer betraegt 6 Monate. Stipendien sind mit 900 Euro/Monat (Doktorandenstipendium) und 1.500 Euro/Monat (Postdoktorandenstipendium) dotiert. Reisekosten werden nicht separat erstattet. Gefoerdert werden literatur- und geisteswissenschaftliche Projekte, die sich durch ueberzeugende Argumentation und klaren Bestandsbezug auszeichnen. Bewerbungen (Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, Projektdarstellung auf maximal sechs Seiten, Arbeitsplan fuer die Zeit in Marbach mit Liste der in Frage kommenden Bestaende, Angaben zur Einkommenssituation und zur Zahl der beantragten Monate) sind unter Verwendung des Formblatts bis zum 30. September 2010 einzureichen. Wirksam werden die fuer die Marbach-Stipendien geltenden Bedingungen. Ein Rechtsanspruch auf ein Stipendium besteht nicht. Antraege sind zu richten an den zustaendigen Referenten des Deutschen Literaturarchivs:

Dr. Marcel Lepper, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Schillerhoehe 8-10, D-71672 Marbach am Neckar, E-Mail: mailto:marcel.lepper@dla-marbach.de, Telefon: +49-7144-848-171, Fax: +49-7144-848-191, WWW: http://www.dla-marbach.de

Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2010

 

6. Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2011-2012
Application Deadline: November 10, 2010


Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity

The past decades have seen the emergence of an intense interest in the subject of travel as a complex range of practices and representations. The inherent richness and diversity of the evidence, texts, and materials related to Jewish travel make it a perfect venue to engage scholars from a broad range of disciplines and periods (ancient, medieval, and modern history, literature, art and film, anthropology, postcolonial and gender studies) in a critical dialogue. Travel writing in particular (in its mimetic, imaginative, and hybrid modes) has served a variety of social and ideological functions throughout the ages, and unquestionably, travels of dislocation and return, pilgrimage, trade and conquest, hold a prominent place in formative Jewish and non-Jewish fictions of identity. What cultural and ideological work is performed by these texts, and how do they produce representations of an-Other and his world, against which and through which they explore and invent a particular sense of self? This is the problematic that this research group will explore.

While each mode and each period brings its own questions and dilemmas, there are a number of common questions and issues cutting across disciplinary lines that proposals could address:

" What are the institutions and conditions that foster travel, such as new technologies, concepts of leisure, or commercial networks linking Jewish communities in far-off places? How do these factors provide social, political, and economic contexts that influence both travel fact and travel fiction?
" How do travel discourses engage in a critical dialogue with "hearth and home," supporting or disturbing dominant perceptions of centers and margins? How do these categories look like when viewed through a Jewish lens as opposed to a Christian or Muslim one?
" How do the various genres and discourses of travel writing interact and influence one another? How does the real affect the imaginary, and vice versa? How do travel literatures themselves circulate?
" How is the journey depicted in visual media such as photography, sketches, and film? How is travel imagined in postcards or touristic advertising?
" To what extent does Jewish travel map onto the movement made possible by the expanding frontiers of empires, both ancient and modern? How, for example, do Jewish authors interact with European models of expansion and discovery?
" While relatively few pre-modern travel narratives were written by women, travel accounts do raise important issues of gender agency and representation. How does gender influence both what is seen and how it is interpreted in the various modes of travel writing?

The Katz Center invites applications from scholars in the humanities and social sciences at all levels, as well as outstanding graduate students in the final stage of writing their dissertations.
Stipend amounts are based on a fellow's academic standing and financial need with a maximum of $40,000 for the academic year.

The application deadline is November 10, 2010. Awards will be announced by February 1, 2011.

Applications are available on our website: http://www.cajs.upenn.edu
For questions contact: Sheila Allen: mailto:allenshe@sas.upenn.edu

 

7. Jews and Revolutions - from Vormärz to the Weimar Republic

The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem; the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Israel
28.02.2011-01.03.2011, Jerusalem


In the modern era, the German-speaking world faced myriad revolutionary upheavals. For Jews, those events took on unique significance: on the one hand, some of the prominent revolutionary figures were Jews or of Jewish descent; while on the other hand, those revolutions had tremendous impact on Jewish life. The conference will engage the motives, features and unique outlines of Jewish involvement in the story of those revolutions and of revolutionism in the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century, focusing on the figures, lives, thought and endeavors of Jewish revolutionaries.

We welcome paper proposals.


Possible topics:
- Jews in the German Workers' Party
- Jews in revolutionary movements (1848, Marxism and Communism, Zionism, etc.)
- Utopia, messianism and tikkun olam
- Revolutionary thought
- Revolutionary consciousness
- Judaism and Jewishness as a revolutionary element
- Jewish particularism vs. universalism and cosmopolitanism
- Current implications and relevance of the issue

The conference will be held in Jerusalem on February.28-March.1,2011.
The conference will be conducted in English. Lecture duration is 20-25 minutes. Please send proposals of up to 300 words and a CV by October.1, 2010, to the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, mailto:leobaeck@leobaeck.org.
Please write in the subject line "Re: Jews and Revolutions Conference."


Deadline: 01.10.2010

Leo Baeck Institute Israel, 33 Bustenai street, Jerusalem
tel.(00)972-(0)2-5633790
fax.(00)972-(0)2-5669505
mailto:leobaeck@leobaeck.org

 

8. Conference on the History of the Oevure de Secours aux Enfants (Paris, June 2012)


In 2012, Oevure de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), a Jewish medical and social work organization, will celebrate the centenary of its creation.

While the work of OSE during World War II, especially its role in France, has been the object of several historical studies, vast segments of the history of OSE remain unexplored. As a result, this conference, which will be held in Paris in June 2012, seeks to establish a framework for a more global understanding of one of the first contemporary NGOs.


Historical Background
The creation of OZE (Obshtshestvo Zdravookraney Evrei) in St. Petersburg in 1912 can be understood through the interplay of three historical contexts. The first was that of a troubled Russia and declining Tsarist Empire which sought its salvation through a relative political liberalization after the counter-revolutionary and "patriotic" pogroms of 1905. The next was Jewish Russian, characterized by the violent wave of antisemitism sparked by the Beilis Affair and the affirmation of a movement for the cultural autonomy and "regeneration" of the Jewish people. And finally, the general European context, which sought to promote public health. As members of the hygienist movement, yet acting in the larger framework of Jewish autonomy, the founding doctors of OZE were inspired by a global vision of a public health system for the masses that would break with the traditional structures of charity. From its beginnings, the policies of OZE included assisting and treating Jewish populations, healing and preventing illnesses by improving the health of the youth and promoting proper hygiene through an extensive public health campaign.

In this framework, OSE developed throughout the zones of Jewish settlement in the Russian Empire, in particular in the Polish and Lithuanian regions. During the interwar period the organization, which had been forced to leave Bolshevik Russia and thereafter changed its name to the Union of OSE Societies, reached a new transeuropean dimension, moving its headquarters successively to Berlin, Geneva, and then Paris. During the Second World War, OSE was cut off from the Eastern Europe of its beginnings and opened new branches on the American continent and in North Africa. OSE was active in Tunisia and especially Morocco, where it still operates a dispensary. OSE reached its summit in the 1950s, during the reconstruction of European Jewish communities.

The overarching theme in the history of OSE during these tragic decades for the Jewish people is clearly its remarkable capacity to adapt in emergency situations, for which the organization always proposed innovative solutions. The organization and its Russian "doctors without borders" could be found wherever Jews were in difficulty, assisting refugees, victims of pogroms and famines, victims of totalitarianism and finally, victims of the Shoah. Whether one looks at its rescue of Jewish children, its postwar social work, or its reception of Jewish migrant populations, OSE has demonstrated efficiency and savoir-faire.


A Vast Terrain to Explore

These are only the large themes, which call for more detailed analyses. While the factors surrounding the creation of OZE at the end of the Tsarist Empire are known, how did they play out during the creation of the organization? At its beginnings and later, the project provoked debates, within and outside the community, that remain unexplored: is it justified to establish a public health and medical organization especially for Jews? Should the health problems of Jews be treated in isolation? The longstanding history and geographic expansion of the organization incite even more questions: on the impact of the hygienist movement, the transfer of savoir-faire from one country to another, and the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish philanthropy. Thus, the interrogations of the doctors of OSE concerning the "racialization" of illness (for example, ringworm and typhus were considered Jewish illnesses) and their desire to create their own institute for Jewish biology need to be recontextualized in the framework of the hygienist movement of the 1920s - little known in France- which was completely deformed by racist theories in the following decade. The ideas of OSE regarding the prevention of illness and childhood diseases are transnational and intersect with Zionist ideals that argued for the regeneration of Jews and the birth of a new Jewish man.

The history of OSE demonstrates that health played a central role in the definition of national policies, in particular during the establishment of Nation States and in the affirmation of minority identities and political activism. The history of OSE can thus serve as a model for other minorities.

The traces left by OSE in the collective memory, or more often the absence of such traces, represent another area of possible research. The institution and is socio-medical role has been neglected in the history of medicine, just as it has been absent in collective memories, especially in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe today, with the exception of those who have been treated and assisted by OSE. Without a doubt, the erasure of OSE from the memory of Eastern European Jews can be explained by the vicissitudes of history, yet this explanation remains insufficient.

Limited to one day, our conference can shed light on only some aspects of the history of OZE-OSE that have until now escaped the gaze of historians. We are particularly interested in presentations of original research on:

The birth of OZE, placed in the socio-political conditions of Russia and the Jewish world
The expansion and the activities of OZE in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and in particular, its work in Germany before 1933
OSE's "discovery" of North African Jewry after the Shoah
Possibly, new research on the action of OSE during World War II


The publication of presented research is anticipated, pending the decision of the scientific committee, which will conduct a peer review of all submissions.

Please send your presentation proposal (200 words maximum) in French or English as well as a short Curriculum Vitae to mailto:l.hobson@ose-france.org before October 15th, 2010.

Scientific Committee:
Georges Bensoussan, Editor-in-Chief, Memorial de la Shoah, Paris
Katy Hazan, historian at OSE-France, Paris
Laura Hobson Faure, assistant professor of American studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
Catherine Nicault, professor of modern history, Université de Reims Yves Ternon, surgeon and historian, PhD in history, habilitated to direct research (HDR)

 

9. Call for Papers

The Loudest Voice: Jewish American Women's Literature

42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, NY - Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers University


Is there a common, traceable voice in the writing of Jewish American women writers? This panel seeks papers that explore Jewish American women's writing from the early 20th century to now and may include poets, fiction and non-fiction authors, and comic writers/artists. Papers can address individual authors, comparisons of works by several women, or comparisons across generations.

What does this writing tell us about how Jewish identity has been conceived over the past century? Send 250-500 word abstracts to Tahneer Oksman, mailto:toksman@hotmail.com.

Deadline: September 30, 2010

Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

The 42nd Annual Convention will feature approximately 360 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2011 Convention will be posted at: http://www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar).
Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. Do not accept a slot if you may cancel to present on another session.

 

10. BAJS Annual Conference: 'The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism'

Annual Conference of the
British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS)
University of Southampton
5-7 September 2010

'The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism'


The conference will be held at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. The Parkes Institute is a unique centre for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages. The Institute, through its research, publications, teaching and outreach work, is based on the library and life work of the Christian scholar and activist, the Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896-1981). The library now consists of over 20,000 printed items - books, pamphlets and journals - and is supplemented by one of the largest collections of Jewish archives in Europe, consisting of many hundreds of individual and institutional records, totalling millions of individual items. (http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/)

Information about the BAJS Conference is available at http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/news/conf-bjas10.shtml.

Membership of BAJS is open to anyone interested in an academic approach to Jewish studies. Members of BAJS work in a wide range of academic disciplines including history, religious studies, theology, literature, linguistics and sociology.
For membership enquiries, please contact Dr Lars Fischer, CJCR, Wesley House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BJ.
Email: mailto:lf309@cam.ac.uk.
Annual subscription rates: Ordinary Members: £15.00; Associates: £10.00; Students: £5.00

 

11. International Conference: Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE to 135 CE, London, 13-14 September 2010


JUDAEA AND ROME IN COINS, 65 BCE TO 135 CE
An International Conference

13 & 14 September 2010


A two-day conference with the theme Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE to 135 AD, will be held at the premises of Spink and Son Ltd. in London on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th September 2010.

This event, co-ordinated by David Jacobson, Nikos Kokkinos and Philip Skingley and co-sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies at University College London (UCL), follows two previous London conferences (The World of the Herods and Nabataeans in 2001 and Herod and Augustus in 2005), which were successful and have become reference points.

The period covered spans the Roman conquest of Judaea by Pompey, through the years of the Herodian dynasty to the last major Jewish uprising against Roman rule under Simon Bar-Kokhba, and encompasses the birth of Christianity. The past few decades have seen considerable advances in numismatic scholarship dealing with this period, partly stimulated by archaeological exploration and numerous coin finds, which have shed new light on the historical events and associated political, social and economic issues. We should like to use this conference to exchange views and analyse the fresh developments from new perspectives.

Well-known experts in the fields of Roman and Jewish numismatics will be delivering lectures in four sessions over two days, these include:

Michel Amandry, Rachel Barkay, Julian Bowsher, Andrew Burnett, Kevin Butcher, Ted Buttrey, David Hendin, Larry Kreitzer, Kenneth Lonnqvist, Sam Moorehead, Danny Syon and Boaz Zissu.

Hospitality in the form of buffet lunches and refreshments will be provided. The Conference Proceedings will be published.

A small related exhibition will be on display in the Spink showrooms for the duration of the Conference and a visit to the British Museum is scheduled where a further related exhibition is planned.

The cost of participation for the four sessions is £80 or £50 for full-time students.

To register your interest in this event please contact Philip Skingley at Spink and Son Ltd., 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET.

Tel. +44 207 563 4045 / Fax. +44 207 563 4068 or email: mailto:pskingley@spink.com.

Due to limitations of capacity for this event, it is important to register early your intention to attend. A 25% deposit payable now will secure a place on a first-come first-served basis.

 

12. International Symposium


Fixing, Transmitting and Preserving: Early Jewish and Rabbinic Literature in the History of Hebrew Bible

20th-21st September 2010


The history of the composition, fixation, and transmission of the Hebrew biblical text is still far from having been known and written. This process has been, for the most part, explained by way of theories but there still remain questions that have not been answered. What happened between the moment in which the biblical consonantal text was fixed and the appearance of the Masora, five centuries later? How was preserved the biblical text in the meantime? Which role played the rabbis and their literary works in the transmission, setting and preservation of the Hebrew biblical text? The purpose of this symposium is to create a forum of specialists in biblical textual criticism, rabbinical, and masoretic studies, to work on the questions raised above, to foster a dialogue between diverse fields of study, and to produce an overview of the subject that at present has not been achieved.

La historia de la composición, la fijación y la transmisión del texto bíblico hebreo sigue todavía rodeada de muchas incógnitas y ha sido explicada recurriendo a diversas hipótesis de trabajo. Pero aún quedan algunas de las cuestiones principales sin responder. Este simposio pretende ser un foro de discusión e intercambio de ideas entre los máximos especialistas de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con la historia del texto bíblico hebreo (crítica textual, estudios rabínicos y estudios masoréticos) que, tradicionalmente, lo han hecho por separado desde diferentes períodos y metodologías con el objeto de debatir algunas de las cuestiones que continúan abiertas.


Program

20th September

9:00-9:30 Reception and introduction


Session 1: Rabbinic Literature and the fixation of the biblical text

9:30-10:30 Enmanuel Tov, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
"The Myth of the Stabilization of the Text of the Hebrew Scripture?"
10:30-11:30 J. Van Seters, University of North Carolina, EEUU
"Did the Sopherim Create a Standard Edition of the Hebrew Scriptures?"

11:30-12:00 Coffe break

12:00-13:00 Arie van der Kooij, Universiteit Leiden, Netherland
"Rabbinic Literature and the Standardization of Biblical Text in Hebrew"
13:00-14:00 Julio Trebolle Barrera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"From Textual Pluralism to a fixed Hebrew Text. The Variants of the versions in 1-2 Kings (kaige-sections of the Greek text)".

14:00-16:00 Lunch


Session 2: Rabbinic Literature and the transmission of the biblical text

16:00-17:00 Giussepe Veltri, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
"Language Conceptions as Background of Rabbinic Text Transmission"
17:00-18:00 Philip S. Alexander, Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Manchester, UK
"The Polemical and Apologetic Context of the Rabbinic Choice of Text-type for their Scriptures"


21st September

Session 2: Rabbinic Literature and the transmission of the biblical text

9:00-10:00 Willem F. Smelik, University College London, UK
"Early Targumic Evidence for Masoretic Traditions of the Hebrew Text"
10:00-11:00 Günter Stemberger, Institut für Judaistik,Vienna, Austria
"Notes on Grammar and Orthography in Halakhic Midrashim: Late Additions?"

11:00-11:30 Coffe break


Session 3: Rabbinic Literature and the preservation of the biblical text

11:30-12:30 Lea Himmelfbar, Bar Ilan University, Israel
"Preservation of the Biblical Text Reading in the Rabbinic Literature"
12:30-13:30 Elvira Martín Contreras, CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
"Rabbinic Ways of Preservation and Transmission of the Biblical Text in the light of Masoretic Sources"

14:00-16:00 Lunch

16:00-17:00 Alexander Samely, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, UK
"Are there Special Literary Features of Philological Comments/Statements in Midrashic Texts?"
17:00-18:00 David Marcus, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, EEUU
"The Practical Use of the Masorah for the Elucidation of the Story of Samuel's Birth"


Organizing Committee:
Elvira Martín Contreras, CCHS-CSIC
Lorena Miralles Maciá, Universidad de Granada
Emilia Fernández Tejero, CCHS-CSIC


Scientific Committee:
Philip S. Alexander, Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Manchester, UK
Aron Dotan, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Natalio Fernández Marcos, CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Luis F. Girón Blanc, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Carmel McCarthy, University College Dublin, Irland
Olga Ruiz Morell, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Günter Stemberger, Institut für Judaistik, Vienna, Austria


Registration is required.

To register, or for additional information about the symposium, please see http://www.cchs.csic.es/es/content/simposio_internacional_fixing or contact mailto: mailto:fixingsymposium@gmail.com

Venue:
Sala Menéndez Pidal
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS)
CSIC
C/ Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid (Spain)

 

13. Abschlusskonferenz "Der Ort des Terrors".
Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager
27./28. September 2010

Veranstaltungsort:
Topographie des Terrors
Niederkirchnerstr. 8
10963 Berlin


Mit Abschluss des Projektes "Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager" ist die Geschichte der KZ im engeren Sinne erstmals aufgearbeitet.
Dies soll zum Anlass genommen werden, die Problematik der nationalsozialistischen Zwangslager insgesamt zur Diskussion zu stellen.

Zur Entwicklung künftiger Forschungsstrategien sollen Probleme der Binnenstrukturen, der Lebensverhältnisse, der Überlebenschancen, aber auch der Wahrnehmung in der Öffentlichkeit und der Rezeption der Lagergeschichte erörtert werden. Typologische Aspekte werden exemplarisch betrachtet: Die nationalsozialistischen Zwangslager, die unter Bezeichnungen wie Polizeihaftlager oder Erweiterte Polizeigefängnisse unter der Hoheit der Gestapo als Haftstätten jenseits rechtsstaatlicher Maximen in großer Zahl errichtet wurden, sind ebenso wie die "Arbeitserziehungslager", Lager für Zwangsarbeiter, spezielle "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden", die Lager der "Organisation Schmelt", die "Jugendschutzlager" von den Opfern als KZ empfunden worden, Haftbedingungen wie Organisation und Bewachung unterschieden sich oft kaum von den KZ, die durch die zentrale Leitung im SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt formal definiert sind.

"Zigeunerlager" und "Sonderlager für ungarische Juden" waren ebenso Instrumente nationalsozialistischen Terrors wie Ghettos, die im nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftsgebiet in Polen, im Baltikum, in Ungarn, in Weißrussland, in der Ukraine, in Russland ebenso wie in Griechenland eingerichtet wurden als Lager mit KZ-ähnlichen Lebensumständen, in denen die Arbeitskraft der dorthin Deportierten bis zur physischen Vernichtung ausgebeutet wurde.

Angesichts der riesigen Zahl all dieser Zwangslager ist es notwendig, sie zu charakterisieren, dabei Desiderate zu zeigen und auf weiteren erheblichen Forschungsbedarf und erinnerungspolitische Lücken aufmerksam zu machen.

Kontakt und Information:
Dr. Angelika Königseder
Email: mailto:koenig[at]zfa.kgw.tu-berlin.de
Tel.: (030)314-21397

 

14. Arbeit in den nationalsozialistischen Ghettos

Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau; in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jüdischen Historischen Institut, Warschau
03.12.2010-04.12.2010, DHI Warschau, Al. Ujazdowskie 39; 00-540 Warszawa


Der nationalsozialistischen Expansions- und Vernichtungspolitik fielen im Zweiten Weltkrieg sechs Millionen Juden zum Opfer, die in einem systematischen Genozid vernichtet wurden. Bevor jedoch die Massenmorde begannen, wurden die europäischen Juden in insgesamt über 1100 Ghettos in Osteuropa eingesperrt, um sie von der Außenwelt abzuschneiden und ihre Kontrolle zu erleichtern. Diese Ghettos sollten sich selbst versorgen und den deutschen Besatzern möglichst keine Kosten und Mühen verursachen, sondern ganz im Gegenteil kostendeckend wirtschaften. Wie die neueste Forschung gezeigt hat, ist von einer flächendeckenden Entlohnung der Ghettoarbeiter und -arbeiterinnen in Form von Bargeld oder Lebensmitteln auszugehen.

Zwar war dieses Entgelt weder angemessen noch ausreichend, aber es half doch zu überleben. Die historischen Erkenntnisse im Rahmen der Wiedergutmachung in Folge des "Ghettorentengesetzes" ZRBG zeigen auch, dass die meisten Arbeiten zwar unter allgemeinen Zwangsumständen ausgeübt, aber eben doch aus eigenem Entschluss angetreten wurden. Das Bild einer monolithischen Terrorherrschaft erfährt so Differenzierungen, denn trotz allem blieben individuelle Spielräume des Ghettolebens bestehen. Die bisherige Begriffsbildung der Historiker, die mehr oder weniger alle Arbeitsformen als Zwangsarbeit apostrophiert hat, muss dementsprechend nuanciert werden; Zwang beschreibt als Begriff zwar die allgemeinen Umstände in den Ghettos, stellt aber kaum eine trennscharfe, erklärende Kategorie dar.

Die gemeinsam vom Deutschen Historischen Institut und dem Zydowski Instytut Historyczny veranstaltete Konferenz will die Ergebnisse aus der Beschäftigung mit "Ghettorenten" in einem interdisziplinären Ansatz bündeln und in den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs einordnen. Sie geht davon aus, dass es eben nicht "das" Ghetto gab, sondern viele unterschiedliche. Mit der Tagung sollen die Bedingungen der Ghettoarbeit und -wirtschaft näher in den Blick genommen und der immer noch geringe Forschungsstand zu den Ghettos vergrößert werden.

Untersucht werden etwa
- das Verhältnis von wirtschaftlichem Kalkül und Vernichtungsideologie,
- der Beitrag der Ghettos zur Besatzungs- bzw. Rüstungsökonomie,
- die verschiedenen Absichten der lokalen Machthaber und Institutionen in Bezug auf "ihre" Juden,
- Fragen nach der Arbeitsmotivation, den verschiedenen Arbeitsformen und deren Organisation (aus der Opferperspektive),
- die Bedeutung "freiwilliger" Aspekte für die Lebenskonstruktionen bzw. Verfolgungsnarrative der Überlebenden, aber auch für die Rechtfertigung der Besatzer,
- kollektive wie individuelle Überlebensstrategien angesichts von Ausplünderung und Unterversorgung.


Freitag, 3. Dezember (Beginn 9 Uhr)

Begrüßung
Prof. Dr. Eduard Mühle (DHI); Dr. Eleonora Bergman (ZIH)

Sektion I: Vorüberlegungen und Bedingungen (9:30-11 Uhr)
1. Einführung
Dr. Jürgen Hensel, ZIH Warszawa; Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, DHI Warschau

2. Rekrutierung und Beschäftigung jüdischer Arbeitskräfte im besetzten
Polen und Litauen während des Ersten Weltkrieges
Dr. des. Christian Westerhoff, Landesbibliothek Berlin

3. HSSPF Krüger und die jüdische Arbeit im GG 1940 - ein Kompetenzstreit
Dr. Jacek A. Mlynarczyk, Muzeum Historii Polski


Sektion II: Ghettoarbeit im nördlichen Osteuropa (11:15-13:30 Uhr)
Moderation: PD Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, DHI Warschau

1. Jüdische Arbeiterselbstorganisation am Beispiel von Krakau und Warschau
Imke Hansen M.A., Universität Hamburg

2. Max Bischof und die Transferstelle Warschau
Giles Bennett M.A., Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin

3. Theresienstadt: Musterghetto und Musterarbeit?
Dr. Peter Klein, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

4. Besatzungsziele in der Sowjetunion und jüdische Arbeit in Litauen
Dr. Joachim Tauber, Nordost-Institut Lüneburg


Sektion III: Ghettoarbeit im südlichen Osteuropa (15-17:30 Uhr)
Moderation: Dr. Andrea Löw, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin

1. Die ukrainischen Juden unter Zivil- und Militärverwaltung
Prof. Dr. Frank Golczewski, Universität Hamburg

2. Nicht länger der vergessene Friedhof? - Überlegungen zur Ghettoarbeit und Arbeitseinsatzsteuerungsmaßnahmen in Transnistrien
Dr. Andrej Angrick, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

3. Wenig Zeit zur Arbeit? Die ungarischen Ghettos 1944
Mag. Regina Fritz, Universität Wien


Samstag, 4. Dezember (Beginn 9 Uhr)

Sektion IV: Orte jüdischer Arbeit (9:15-12 Uhr)
Moderation: Dr. Katrin Stoll, DHI Warschau

1. Deutsche Firmen in den Ghettos
Dr. Jürgen Hensel, ZIH Warszawa

2. Wehrmacht und "Arbeitsjuden"
Dr. Jochen Böhler, DHI Warschau

3. Jüdische Zwangsarbeitslager. Arbeit außerhalb der Ghettos 1940-1942
Dr. Marta Janczewska, Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydów, IFiS-PAN Warszawa

4. Ghettos als Arbeitslager 1942/43
Dr. Alina Skibinska, Warszawa


Sektion V: Makroökonomische Aspekte jüdischer Arbeit (13:30-15 Uhr)
Moderation: Dr. Martin Dean, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington [angefragt]

1. Wie überlebt ein Ghetto? Arbeit, Geld und Lebensmittel
Dr. Witold Medikowski, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2. Der Beitrag der Ghettoarbeit für die NS-Wirtschaft
Dr. Ingo Loose, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

3. Verwaltung und SS. Konträre Interessen in der Judenpolitik?
Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, DHI Warschau


Sektion VI: Nachgeschichte und Ergebnisse (15:15-17:30 Uhr)
1. Ghettorenten und historische Wissenschaft - interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Dr. Jan-Robert von Renesse, Landessozialgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen; Dr. Jürgen Zarusky, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin

2. Zusammenfassung und Abschlussdiskussion
Dr. Jürgen Hensel, ZIH Warszawa; Stephan Lehnstaedt, DHI Warschau


Konzeption: Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt (mailto:lehnstaedt@dhi.waw.pl) und Dr. Jürgen Hensel (mailto:jhensel@jhi.pl).

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