Juden und Muslime in Deutschland vom frühen 19. Jahrhundert bis heute

Wissenschaftliche Tagung

15.-17. Januar 2020, München

Type of Event: Leo Baeck Conference

Speakers: David Nirenberg (Chicago), Susannah Heschel (Darthmouth), Miriam Rürup (Hamburg), David Moshfegh (Madrid), Walid Abd El Gawad (Berlin), Sabine Mangold-Will (Köln), Amir Theilhaber (Berlin), Gerdien Jonker (Erlangen), Marc D. Baer (London), David Motadel (London), Philipp Henning (Berlin), Mehnaz Afridi (New York), Doron Rabinovici, SAID, Shai Lavi (Jerusalem), Maria Alexopoulou (Mannheim), Doron Rabinovici (Wien), Farid Hafez (Salzburg), Gökce Yurdakul (Berlin), Dervis Hizarci (Berlin), Lamya Kaddor (Duisburg), Meron Mendel (Frankfurt), Ilya Sichrovsky (Wien)

Presenters: Ronny Vollandt (München), Michael Brenner (München), Mirjam Zadoff (München), Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin), Alex Rühle (München)

Organizer: Leo Baeck Institute

Department of Jewish History and Culture, LMU Munich

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin

Cooperation: With kind support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Registration: We kindly ask you to register with your name and the chosen lecture until the 8th January 2020: anmeldung@badw.de (free entry).

Venue:

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11

80539 Munich

Conference hall 1, frist floor

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About a Tea Bowl –
Interwoven Experiences of Post-Soviet Jewish Migration
Discussion with Brief Presentations (in German)

Since the 1990s, Jews from the Asian part of the former Soviet Union have been immigrating to Germany. Generally referred to as “Russian-Jewish contingent refugees,” little is known about their specific experiences in countries of origin such as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, or Tajikistan.

In a panel discussion, we will reflect upon the question how Soviet colonialism has determined the lives of Jews in Central Asia. Taking everyday objects like a tea bowl as a starting point, we are aiming to reconstruct the interwoven experiences of (ex-)Soviet minorities then and now and trace the emergence of Jewish and post-Soviet diasporas.

Darja Klingenberg (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main), Tsypylma Darieva (Center for Eastern European and International Studies, Berlin), and Miriam Goldmann (Jewish Museum Berlin) will give introductory keynotes and then discuss on the panel.

Chair: Alina Gromova (Jewish Museum Berlin)

The event takes place as part of the current exhibition A Is for Jewish and is part of the online project Future Memories. Commemoration Cultures of the Migration Society (in German).

When: Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 7 pm

Where: W. M. Blumenthal Akademy, Jewish Museum Berlin, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin (opposite the museum)

Please register: https://www.jmberlin.de/diskussion-postsowjetische-juedische-migration

Biographies and Politics:

The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, (Warsaw, Poland)

1-2 December 2019

Link for more information and programme: https://www.polin.pl/en/biographies-and-politics-conference

The conference ‘Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland’ aims to determine the actual Jewish engagement in leftist movements in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries from the point of view of their individual ideological choices.

Personal histories, family fortunes, and forming political identities will be analysed using a biographical method. Thus, they will help answer the question of what drove Polish Jews to join leftist organisations.

The conference will be attended by scholars from Europe, the United States, Israel and Australia, who specialise in research on the formation of Jewish political identities based on biographical sources.

The conference is jointly organised by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies (Halle/Saale), Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, and the UCL.

The conference is organised within the Global Education Outreach Program

The conference was made possible thanks to the support of:

• the European Association for Jewish Studies
• Taube Philanthropies
• the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation
• the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland
• Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit
• Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung
• the Gotteiner Institute for the History of the Bund and the Jewish Labor Movement at the University of Haifa

Maternal Sacrifice in Jewish Culture

Rethinking Sacrifice from a Maternal Perspective in Religion, Art, and Culture

Dates: 19-21 November 2019 

Venue:  Inalco, PLC (65, rue des Grands Moulins 75013 Paris), Auditorium et Salle 4.24

The phrase “maternal sacrifice” combines two complex terms entangled in an even more complex dynamic. First of all, “sacrifice”, a word whose definitions have been considered inadequate to describe the multiformity of practices and meanings it evokes as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor. James Watts distinguishes between “narrative traditions about killing people”, oriented towards an evaluation of killing and murder, and “the ritual killing of animals”, focused on the social functions of ritual and religion (Watts 2011, 8). To those categories a third level can be added that is related to the metaphorical use of the notion of sacrifice as the act of giving up something in order to attain a higher goal.

Secondly, “maternal” is another word that could arouse the same skepticism, were it not for what Samira Kawans describes as a recent “body of scholarship that simultaneously insists on the particularity and specificity of motherhood while at the same time rejecting any notion of a fixed or essential aspect of maternal experience, desire, or subjectivity.” (Kawans 2011, 972) Moreover, the ambiguity of this phrase resides in the possibility of reading it both as an objective and subjective genitive. The expression can then lead to the exploration of the sacrifice performed by the mother on several objects, including herself, or performed by others on the mother or the potential mother, i.e. matricide or the sacrifice of the virgin-daughter. These two perspectives can be then developed with respect to sacrifice as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor.

Rethinking Nancy Jay’s opposition between sacrifice and childbirth in what she defines a “remedy for having been born of woman”, the conference aims to explore new approaches to the maternal sacrifice as a ritual, as a narrative, and as a metaphor in the context of jewish culture.

Organizers: Elisa Carandina, CERMOM, INALCO, Piero Capelli, Università Ca’ Foscari

Keynote speaker: Yvonne Sherwood, University of Kent

Other participants:

Piero Capelli, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Ilaria Briata, Universität Hamburg
Corrado Martone, Università di Torino
Elisa Carandina, INALCO, Paris
Roni Henig, New York University
Hamutal Tsamir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva
Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Roni Henig, New York University
Alessandro Guetta, INALCO, Paris
Daniel Felipe Niño López, Universidad De La Salle, Bogota
Liliane Vana, , IEJ, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Shana Schick, University of Haifa
Dalia Marx, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
Isabella Scortegagna, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Elena Hoffenberg, International School, University of Haifa
Leili Anvar, INALCO, Paris
Leni Dothan, artist, architect, researcher
Mor Presiado, Bar-Ilan University
Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College, New York
Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, INALCO, Paris
Raffaele Esposito, Università L’Orientale, Napoli
Nourit Melcer-Padon, Hadassah College Jerusalem
Anna Lissa, CERMOM, Université Paris 8
Ekaterina Oleshkevich, Bar-Ilan, Ramat-Gan
Avraham Rubin, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, D.S., Missouri State University
Charlyn Marie Ingwerson, Drury University
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Open University of Israel

Contact: elisa.carandina@inalco.fr

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