Multiple Jewries? New Perspectives on the History of Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the 18th Century to 1918

Multiple Jewries? New Perspectives on the History of Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the 18th Century to 1918

Veranstalter
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien; Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Veranstaltungsort
Marietta Blau Saal, Universität Wien
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
05.11.2014 - 06.11.2014
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Martina Steer, Universität Wien

The conference “Multiple Jewries? New Perspectives on the History of Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the 18th Century to 1918” is featuring original research on the history of Jews in the Habsburg Empire. Only few Jewish histories are as multifaceted as the history of Jews in the Habsburg Empire. The vague term “Austrian Jewry” not only includes the more or less acculturated Jews of Vienna, the Austrian and Bohemian Lands and Hungary, but also parts of cosmopolitan Italian Jewry, the Jews of rural and poor Galicia and Bukovina and since the end of the 19th century the primarily Sephardic Jewry of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Research on the history of Jews in the Habsburg Empire increasingly takes into account this spatial and topical diversity and during the last years the focus of research has shifted from the center to the peripheries. Seminal works on the history of Jews in Central Europe, e.g. Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia, and Bukovina have been published. Topical emphasis has been laid e.g. on Jews as agents of modernization, Jews and the nationalities question, the history of Jewish women, and Jews as objects of collective memories.
The complexity of the history of Jews in the Habsburg Empire might have been the reason why Marsha Rozenblit’s sophisticated dictum of the “tripartite identity” of fin-de-siècle Habsburg Jewry was so far the only attempt to conceptualize a master narrative of the history of the Jews in the Habsburg Empire. As a consequence of this lack of a common denominator, the history of “Austrian Jews” is often inconsiderately subsumed in the category “German-speaking Jewry”. Hence, overshadowed by German Jewry, its impact on major European movements such as the Haskalah and European history in general – not to mention the historiography of the Habsburg Empire – are underestimated. This conference aims to discuss this scholarly pattern by focusing on the connectedness and conflicts between Jewries in the Habsburg Empire. It seeks to develop new perspectives on the history of Jews in the Habsburg Empire and intends to explore the possibilities for a synergetic history of the Jews in the Habsburg Empire which is more than the mere sum of individual histories.

Programm

5.11.2014

9:00 Welcome, Opening Remarks

9:30 Identity – Politics – Reality (Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna)

Nino Gude (University of Vienna): Assimilation or Segregation: The Galician Jews and Ukrainians in Contact

Michael L. Miller (Central European University, Budapest): Don’t Turn the Khazar Question into a Jewish Question

Marsha Rozenblit (University of Maryland): Was There a Habsburg Jewry?

Coffee Break

11:45 Jews as Mediators of Entanglements (Olaf Terpitz, University of Vienna)

Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University, New York): David Oppenheim: Prague Rabbi, Imperial Jew

Branko Ostajmer (Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb): Theodor Herzl and Hugo Spitzer: Comparative Biographies

Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna): Jewish Professors at the University of Vienna since 1848: Cultural Entanglements and Contested Discrimination

Lunch

15:15 Jews and Habsburg Politics (Martha Keil, Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten)

Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston): “Galicia in Vienna”: The Activities of Galicia’s Zionist Reichsratsabgeordnete in the 1907-11 Parliament

Wolfgang Gasser (Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten): The 1848 Vienna Revolution in Four Jewish Diaries

Ofer Dynes (Harvard University): From Paperwork to Prose. Jewish Literature, a Habsburg Imperial Projekt (1814-1830)

Coffee Break

17:30 Roundtable (Martina Steer)

Mitchell Ash, Gary Cohen (University of Minnesota), David Rechter, Marsha Rozenblit,

19:30 Keynote Speech

Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence): Unsere Monarchie. Juden und Andere im späten Habsburgerreich

(location: Festsaal des Alten Rathauses, Wipplingerstraße 6-8, 1010 Wien; in cooperation with Wiener Vorlesungen and the Association of the Friends of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

6.11.2014

09:00 Habsburg Norms and Jewish Exceptionalism (Stephan Wendehorst, Justus Liebig University, Giessen/University of Vienna)

Martin Stechauner (Hebrew University): How Austrian were the Sephardic Jews of Vienna? Reflecting on the Foundation of the “Sepharad of the Danube”

Rachel Manekin (University of Maryland): Divorce Laws after the Josephinian Ehepatent: Habsburg Jews and the Question of Gleichförmigkeit of the Law

David Rechter (University of Oxford): East of Eden: Bukovina Exceptionalism and Habsburg Norms

Coffee Break

11:15 Visual (Self-)Representation of Jewish Identities (Éva Kovács, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute)

Anna Novikov (German Historical Institute, Warsaw): Dynamics of the Visual Perception of the Jews of Lemberg (1848-1918)

Tim Corbett (Lancaster University): The Encoding of Multiple Jewish Identities in the Epigraphy of Jewish Gravestones in Vienna

Carsten L. Wilke (Central European University, Budapest): The Oriental Question and its Urban Answers: Building the Great Synagogue of Pest (1854-1859)

Lunch

15:15 Jewish Communities as Cultural Spaces (Peter Becker, Institute for Austrian Historical Research and University of Vienna)

Tullia Catalan (University of Trieste): The Jews of Trieste between Habsburg Empire and Italy (1848-1918): a Social and National Perspective

Jasmina Huber (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf): Europeanization of the Liturgical Music in Belgrade Sephardic Community

Sara Olga Yanovsky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Living Together – Studying Apart? Communal Dilemmas and Debates around the Establishments of Jewish Schools in Vienna and Budapest, from Joseph II until World War I

Coffee Break

17:30 Central Peripheries: Challenges of Rural and Small Town Jewries (Gerhard Langer, University of Vienna)

Ursula Mindler (Andrássy University, Budapest): Ambivalence of Jewish Belonging in Rural Areas of Western Hungary/Eastern Austria. The Case Study of Oberwart/Felsöör

Ines Koeltzsch (Masaryk Institute, Prague): Mobility and Temporary Sedentariness. Rural and Small-Town Jews in the Bohemian Lands and their (Trans-) Regional Migration to the Cities in the Central European Context (1848-1918)

Gerald Lamprecht (University of Graz): Migration and Formation of Jewish Communities in Austrian Province in the 19th Century

19.30 Closing Remarks

Kontakt

Martina Steer
Institut für Geschichte
Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1
A-1010 Wien
tel. +43 1 4277 40831
martina.steer@univie.ac.at


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