Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps
Sunday, May 10th 2009
19:00 Greetings
Charlotte Knobloch, Vice President
of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) and President
of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Dr. Thomas Lackmann, Head of the Mendelssohn Forum
Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Klal Yisrael Tel Aviv
Prof. Dr. Yosef Gorny, Klal Yisrael Tel Aviv
19:45 Opening Lecture
Existiert ein europäisches Judentum? Zwischen demographischer Stagnation und „jüdischer Renaissance"
Prof. Dr. Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam
Monday, May 11th 2009
Session I
Demographic developments and socio-cultural challenges in today's European Jewry
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv
10:00 Recent Demographic Trends
in the European Jewish Population
Prof. Dr. Sergio DellaPergola, Jerusalem
10:30 New Developments in the Jewish Diaspora
Prof. Dr. Gabi Sheffer, Jerusalem
11:00 Reading between the Lines: Assertion
and Reassertion in European Jewish Life
Tony Lerman, former director JPR London
Session II
European Jewish Insights
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Andras Kovacs, Budapest
12:00 Jewish Community and Identities
in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Vladimir Zeev Khanin, Tel Aviv
12:30 About Dialectics of Reform Judaism in Europe
Prof. Dr. Micha Brumlik, Frankfurt am Main
13:00 Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present:
New and Old 'Others' in Contemporary Spain
Prof. Dr. Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv
Session III
Discussing a New European Jewish Self-Conception
Moderation: Dr. Aharon Zajdenberg, Tel Aviv
15:30 From Universalism to Jewishness?
French Intellectuals in Contemporary France
Prof. Dr. Pierre Birnbaum, Paris
16:00 The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora.
New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989
Prof. Dr. Michal Y. Bodemann, Toronto/Berlin
16:30 Is there a Need for a Legal Definition of the Relationship
between Israel and World Jewry?
Prof. Dr. Claude Klein, Jerusalem
Tuesday, May 12th 2009
Session IV
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Politics
Moderation: Dr. Gideon Botsch, Potsdam
10:00 "Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!"
-Is the »East« still different?
Dr. Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv
10:30 Hate against 'The Others' and its Psychosocial Mechanisms
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gergely, Brussels
11:00 From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Anti-Semitism?
The post-Communist Case
Prof. Dr. Andras Kovacs, Budapest
Session V
European Jewry and World Jewry
Moderation: Olaf Glöckner, Potsdam
12.00 On Centers, Peripheries and Frontiers.
The Changing Profile of Latin American Jewry
in a Comparative Perspective
Prof. Dr. Judit Bokser Liwerant, Mexico City
12:30 Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option
for Jewish Solidarity
Dr. Ofer Schiff, Beer Sheva
13:00 Permanence and Dominance of Diaspora Jewry:
Past, Present, Future
Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn, Munich
Session VI
European Jewry and Israel
Moderation: Dr. Alexandra Nocke, Berlin
15:30 Does European Jewry need an Ethnic Umbrella?
Prof. Dr. Yosef Gorny, Tel Aviv
16:00 Divergence and Convergence of Jewishness:
Israel, the US and Europe
Prof. Dr. Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv
16:30 A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water
Prof. Dr. David Ohana, Beer Sheva
19:30 Roundtable Discussion: The Future of European Jewry