500 Years of Reformation. Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism. Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem Annual International Conference

500 Years of Reformation. Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism. Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem Annual International Conference

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Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem in cooperation with the University Frankfurt a.M. (Martin Buber Chair in Jewish Thought), the School of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, the Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute for the History of the German Jews (Hamburg) and the Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University.
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Hebrew University/Leo Baeck Institute
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Jerusalem
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Israel
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12.02.2017 - 14.02.2017
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Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem

500 Years of Reformation. Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism

Annual International Conference of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
February 12-14, 2017

Programm

Sunday, 12 February 2017
Venue: The Hebrew University, Beit Maiersdorf, Room 501

16.00
Opening Remarks and Greetings
Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Chairman of the The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem/Bar Ilan University)
Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese (Frankfurt University)
Dr. Martin Hauger (Evangelical Church in Germany)

16.30-18.00
Mutual Readings
Chair: Dr. Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University)

Prof. Dean Philipp Bell (Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago)
"The Impact of the Reformation on Early Modern German Jewry: Politics, Community, and Religion"

Dr. Alexandra Zirkle (University of Chicago)
"Beyond Counter-Narrative: Jewish-Protestant Dialogue Revisited"

Clemens Schmidt, MA (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
"History as Affirmation and Mission. Three Protestant Readings of the Jewish Diasporic Experience, 1706–1819"

19.00
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Prof. Christian Wiese (Frankfurt University)

Prof. Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College)
"Is God a Virgin? Theological Benefits and Problems in the Protestant-Jewish Relationship"

Monday, 13 February 2017
Venue: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, Bustenai St. 33
9.00 Gathering

9.30-11.00
Jewish Perspectives on the Reformation
Chair: Prof. Miriam Eliav-Feldon (Tel Aviv University)

Dr. Marketa Kaburkova (Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc)
"Echoes of Christian Reformation Movements in Early Modern Jewish Writings"

Dr. George Y. Kohler (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
"A Return to Judaism? – Luther’s Reformation of Christianity in the Eyes of the First Reform Rabbis"

Dr. Yaniv Feller (Jewish Museum Berlin)
"The First Reformer of the Church? Leo Baeck on the Marcionite Origins of Protestantism"

11.30-13.30
Missionary Activity
Chair: Dr. Miriam Rürup (Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg)

Dr. Alexander van der Haven (Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva)
"Predestination and Toleration: The Sole Persecution of Jews in the Dutch Republic in the Context of Calvinist Debates about Free Will"

Dr. Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
"German Pietism and the Jews: Between Luther's Reformation and the Enlightenment"

Prof. Yaakov Ariel (University of North Carolina)
"New Modes of Protestant Interactions with the Jews: The Rise of Pietist and Evangelical Missions"

Prof. Agnieszka Jagodzinska (University of Wrocław)
"Converted to Modernity? The Impact of the Missions of the London Society on Polish Jews"

15.00-16.00
Conversion and Anti-Conversion
Chair: Prof. Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)

Ahuva Liberles, M.A. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, CSOC)
"'Like a Journey to a Distant Land' – Considering Conversion in Late Medieval Germany"

Dr. Astrid Schweighofer (University of Vienna)
"'[...] that I have quite a protestant point of view' (Lise Meitner) – Conversions from Judaism to Protestantism in Fin de Siècle Vienna on the Example of Egon Friedell and Lise Meitner and their Engagement with Liberal Protestant Theology"

16.30-18.00
Eastern Europe
Chair: Dr. Judith Kalik (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Dr. Anat Vaturi (University of Haifa)
"Beyond Theology? Everyday Encounters between Jews and Protestants in Early Modern Cracow"

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle University)
"A Microhistory of Conversion: Interactions between Catholics, Jews and Protestants in 18th-Century Rzeszów"

Dr. Johannes Gleixner (Collegium Carolinum, Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia)
"Standard bearers of Hussitism or agents of Germanization? Czech Jews and Protestants competing and cooperating for the religion of the future 1899-1918"

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Venue: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, Bustenai 33
8.45 Gathering

9.00-10.30
Jewish-Protestant Relations and influences in music, theatre and literature
Chair: Prof. Galili Shahar (Tel Aviv University)

Tuvia Singer, MA (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Wandering Jew as a Cosmological Figure in Protestant, Catholic and non-Confessional Use"

Dr. Sarit Cofman Simhon (Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv)
"Lessing and Wolfsohn: Representing Interfaith Marriage in German Theatre during the Enlightenment"

Dr. Lars Fischer (University College London)
"Bach and the Jews"

11.00-12.30
Panel: Hebraism and the Science of Judaism
Chair: Dr. Aya Elyada (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Dr. Ofri Ilany (NYU Tel Aviv)
"‘Der Gott Jakobs ist unser Schutz!‘: German Nationalism and the Old Testament God"

Dr. Golda Akhiezer (Ariel University)
"Protestant Hebraism, the Study of Jewish Sects and Wissenschaft des Judentums"

Prof. Walter Homolka (University of Potsdam)
"Jewish and Protestant Jesus Research – Striving for Origins and Authenticity"

14.00-15.30
Panel: In the Shadow of Racism and Fascism
Chair: Dr. Scott Ury (Tel Aviv University)

Dr. Dirk Schuster (University of Potsdam)
"Protestantism and Racial Boundaries. Jews, »Aryans« and Divine Salvation at the German Christian Church Movement"

Dr. Hansjorg Buss (Göttingen University)
"The Reception and Instrumentalization of Martin Luther’s “Judenschriften” in the “Third Reich”"

Prof. Kyle Jantzen (Ambrose University, Calgary)
"Nazi Racism, American Antisemitism, and Christian Duty: U.S. Protestant Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis of 1938"

16.00-18.00
Panel: Jewish-Protestant Relations after the Holocaust
Chair: Dr. Barbara Meyer (Tel Aviv University)

Prof. Christian Wiese (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
"Traces of the Encounter with Martin Buber in Paul Tillich’s Writings on Judaism and the „Jewish Question“ after World War II"

Prof. Ursula Rudnick (Leibniz-University in Hannover)
"The Long way of the European Lutheran Churches toward a Condemnation of Luther´s Antisemitism and a Re-definition of Lutheran-Jewish-Relations"

Dr. des. Irene Aue-Ben-David (Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem)
"Josel von Rosheim meets Martin Luther in 1950. On the Reception of Selma Stern's Josel of Rosheim in Germany"
Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg)/Dr.

Jenny Hestermann (Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt)
"German Guilt and Hebrew Redemption: Aktion Sühnezeichen and the Legacy of Protestant Philo-Zionism"

18.00 Closing Remarks

19.30
Luther, Bach and the Jews
Venue: Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, 20 Radak Street
Public Event in Hebrew
With Prof. Guy Miron (Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem/Open University of Israel/Yad Vashem), Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Chairman Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem/Bar Ilan University), Dr. Aya Elyada (The Hebrew University), Dr. Lars Fischer (University College London), Prof. Ruth HaCohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and David Witzthum (Board Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem).

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Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
33 Bustenai Street
9322928 Jerusalem
leobaeck@leobaeck.org

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