Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives

Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives

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School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam; in Zusammenarbeit mit Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg
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Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Hs. 8, R. 0.60/61 et al. (see schedule)
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Potsdam
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.07.2016 - 22.07.2016
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Markus Krah

North American Jewry, despite its size, cultural productivity, and influence on many levels, has hardly begun to develop as a field of scholarship outside the U.S. itself.

Recently, however, the growing recognition of the interaction between American and other Jewries over time and into the present has sparked a novel wave of interest. European, Latin American, and Israeli-based scholars are beginning to add their voices to the scholarly discourse, complementing the dominant American perspective. This may presage a fruitful dialogue between American specialists and others.

This conference aims to further encourage this development by bringing together younger and senior scholars involved in such research, who take a transnational approach to the study of American Jewry.

Programm

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 – POTSDAM, CAMPUS NEUES PALAIS, Hs. 8, R. 060/61
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2.00 pm - WELCOME

Elisabeth Gallas, Anton Hieke, David Jünger, Ulrike Kleinecke, Markus Krah:
Conference Organizers’ Welcome

Oliver Günther (President University of Potsdam): Greeting

2.30 pm - INTRODUCTION

Markus Krah (Potsdam): The (Sorry) State of the Field of Transnational American Jewish Studies

Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati): Toward a Transnational Research Agenda on American Jewry

3.00 pm - ROUNDTABLE: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY AND THOUGHT

Tobias Brinkmann (Philadelphia): Locating ‘Germany’ in American Jewish
History and Memory

Eli Lederhendler (Jerusalem): Lost and Found: Modern Jewish Historians’
Assessments of Pan-Jewish Communities

Miriam Rürup (Hamburg): Transcending Nationality: Statelessness and World
Citizenship in 20th-Century Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations

Cornelia Wilhelm (Munich): From Community and Place to Network and Space: The Transnational Dimension of Immigration in American Jewish History

Chair: Markus Krah (Potsdam)

4.30 pm - Coffee break

5.00 pm - PANEL I: RE-POSITIONING 19TH-CENTURY JEWISH AMERICA

Janice Rothschild Blumberg (Atlanta): An American Rabbi’s Advice to Herzl:
Rabbi “Alphabet” Browne and Zionism in America

Richard Frankel (Lafayette): Understanding the Rise of Modern American Antisemitism in the Context of Late-Nineteenth-Century Globalization

Anton Hieke (Bobbau): The Maimonides Library and American-German "Bildung"

Chair: Gary Zola (Cincinnati)

6.30 pm - Reception

8.00 pm - Conference Dinner (by invitation)

THURSDAY, JULY 21, POTSDAM GRADUATE SCHOOL, Am Kanal 47, Potsdam
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9.00 am - Panel II: TRANSNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Jörg Jehoschua B. Ahrens (Lucerne): American Impact on the Beginnings of
Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Continental Europe after World War II

Dana Evan Kaplan (Atlanta): The Transnational Influences behind the Theo-
logical Shifts and Transformations in American Reform Judaism on the
Crabgrass Frontier, 1935−1975

Claire Maligot (Paris): American Jewish Contributions to the Second Vatican
Council, 1960−1965

Chair: Ulrike Kleinecke (Lucerne)

10.45 am - Coffee break

11.00 am - Panel III: RE-FRAMING GERMAN-JEWISH THOUGHT IN AMERICA

Martina Steer (Wien): Entangled Memories: Moses Mendelssohn as Jewish lieu de mémoire in the United States

George Y. Kohler (Ramat Gan): Steven Schwarzschild as a Reader of Hermann Cohen

Hans-Michael Haußig (Potsdam): Abraham Joshua Heschel and his Relation to Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) in Europe

Chair: David Jünger (Berlin)

12.30 pm - Lunch

1.30 pm - PANEL IV: AMERICAN ECHOES OF WEIMAR GERMANY

Philipp von Wussow (Frankfurt): A “Weimar Jew” in America? Leo Strauss and the Emergence of a Counter-Counterculture

Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink (Berlin): Bridging the Abyss: Jacob Taubes’s
Endeavors of "Understanding the Religious Dimension" within the Context
of American Jewish Intellectuals

Merel Leeman (Amsterdam): Rewriting America: George Mosse and Peter Gay’s Émigré Perspectives

Chair: Mirjam Thulin (Mainz)

2.30 pm - Coffee break

2.45 pm - PANEL V: AMERICAN JEWISH POLITICS AND THE POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH WORLD

Daniel Soyer (New York): Jewish Transnational Concerns and the New York
Electoral Left in the World War II Era

Constance Paris de Bollardière (Paris): American Bundists of the Jewish Labor Committee in Immediate Postwar France, 1944−1948

Sonja Pilz (Potsdam): Holocaust Remembrance in German and North American Jewish Memorial Prayers: A Window onto Two Jewish Identities and Theologies

Chair: Anton Hieke (Bobbau)

4.30 pm - Coffee break

6.00 pm - KEYNOTE LECTURE (Center for Jewish Studies, Sophienstr. 22a, 10178 Berlin)

Michael A. Meyer (Cincinnati): Looking Back: American Jews Relate to their
Places of Origin

FRIDAY, JULY 22 - POTSDAM, CAMPUS NEUES PALAIS, Hs. 8, R. 060/61
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9.30 am - PANEL VI: CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF JEWISH TRANSNATIONALISM

Cristina Spinei (Iasi): Sholem Aleichem’s Expressions of Jewish Transformations through the Encounter with a New World

Klara Szlezak (Passau): Photography and the Negotiation of a Transnational Jewry in Maurice Fishberg’s "The Jews" (1911)

Jesper Reddig (Münster): Re-Framing the “Nation of Immigrants” and the “Einwanderungsland” in U.S.- and German-Based Post-Soviet Jewish Literature: Yelena Akhtiorskaya and Olga Grjasnowa

Lars-Frederik Bockmann (Berlin): The Material Unconscious: On the Reinterpretation of American Pop Cultural Archives as Transnational Jewish Memory in the Novels of Michael Chabon

Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig)

11.30 am - Coffee break

11.45am - CONCLUDING DISCUSSION: LOOKING AT AMERICAN JEWRY FROM THE OUTSIDE AND FROM WITHIN

Christian Wiese (Frankfurt): Blind Spots of German Academia?

Zohar Segev (Haifa): The Perspective from Zion to America

Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati): What Can American Jewish Studies Learn from
Europe?

Chair: Sarah Panter (Mainz)

1.00 pm - End of Conference

Conference sponsored by University of Potsdam, in cooperation with Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, supported by Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Kontakt

Markus Krah

School of Jewish Theology, Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam

markus.krah@uni-potsdam.de


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