Program of the International Conference
Judaism as "Wissenschaft" - "Wissenschaft" as Judaism.
The Development and Concepts of Historical Thinking
Time: Monday, September 15th, 2003 to Thursday, September 18th, 2003
Place: Jewish Museum, Berlin
Monday, September 15, 2003
19.15 Opening
Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum Berlin)
Andreas Gotzmann (University of Erfurt)
Michael Brenner (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts)
Klaus Wowereit (Mayor of Berlin/Schirmherr der Tagung)
19.45 Keynote-Address
Michael A. Meyer (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati)
Two Persistent Tensions within "Wissenschaft des Judentums"
20.30 Reception
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
I. The Emergence and Function of a new scholarly Paradigm
(Chair: Reinhard Rürup, TU Berlin)
9.15 - 9.45
Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Against the Current: The Counter-Enlightenment and the Alternative 'Wissenschaft' of Shmuel David Luzatto (Shadal)
9.45-10.15
Gershon Greenberg (American University, Washington, DC)
Nineteenth Century Reform Religious Thought and "Religionswissenschaft"
10.15-10.30
Coffee Break
10.30-11.00
David Myers (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Geschichte" and "Glaube": The History of a Vexed Relationship in Modern Jewish Culture
11.00-11.30
Respondent: Nils Römer (University of Southampton)
11.30-12.15
Discussion
II. Jewish Historiography and its Relation to other Disciplines
(Chair: Raphael Gross, Leo Baeck Institute, London)
14.30-15.00
Richard Sarason (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati)
Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic History, and Scholarly Thinking: "Wissenschaft" and Beyond
15.00-15.30
Esther Seidel (Leo Baeck College, London)
"Den Geist des Judentums erkennbar machen" - Objectives and Results of Philosophical Enquiry within "Wissenschaft des Judentums"
15.30-16.00
Coffee Break
16.00-16.30
Christian Wiese (McGill University, Montreal/University of Erfurt)
Bible Criticism as Danger and Opportunity: The Scholarly Discourse on the Hebrew Bible in Protestant and Jewish Historiography and Theology in the 19th and 20th Centuries
16.30-17.00
Gabriele von Glasenapp (University of Frankfurt)
From Text to Edition. Processes of Scholarly Thinking in German Jewish Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries
17.00-17.30
Respondent: David Biale (University of California, Davis)
17.30-18.15
Discussion
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
III. Ideology and Popularization in Jewish Historiography
(Chair: Eli Bar Chen, University of Munich)
9.00 - 9.30
Christhard Hoffmann (University of Bergen)
Historicizing Emancipation: Jewish History, Culture, and "Wissenschaft" in Germany, 1912-1938
9.30-10.00
Michael Brenner (University of Munich)
Historiography in a Cultural Ghetto: Jewish Historians in Nazi Germany
10.00-10.30
Anthony Kauders (University of Munich)
What Power for which Jews? (Post)modern Reflexions on Power in Jewish Historiography
10.30-10. 45
Coffee Break
10-45-11.15
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Post-Zionism or Binationalism? Two Approaches to Jewish History and the Critique of Zionism
11.15-11.45
Respondent: Micha Brumlik (University of Frankfurt)
11.45-12.30
Discussion
IV. "Wissenschaft" and Jewish Identity
(Chair: Andreas Brämer, Institute for the History of German Jewry, Hamburg)
14.30-15.00
Elliot R. Wolfson (NYU, New York)
Occupied Territory: Hegemony, Heresy, and the Academic Study of Kabbalah
15.00-15.30
Aviezer Ravitzky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Who is Orthodox? New Perspectives in Jewish Studies
15.30-16.00
Robert Seltzer (Hunter College, New York)
Which "Wissenschaft?" Reconstructionism's Theological Appropriation of Sociology
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-17.00
Steven Aschheim (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
The post-1945 German-Jewish Dialogue and the Tensions and Possibilities of Historical "Wissenschaft"
17.00-17.30
Respondent: Christoph Schulte (University of Potsdam)
17.30-18.15
Discussion
20.00-21.00 Evening Lecture
Felicitas Heimann-Jellinek (Jewish Museum, Vienna)
"Das wahre Bild der Vergangenheit huscht vorbei" (Walter Benjamin). Von der Schwierigkeit, jüdische Geschichte und Erinnerung zu musealisieren
Thursday, September 18, 2003
V. New Concepts and Perspectives
(Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institute for the History of German Jewry, Hamburg)
9.15 - 9.45
Tal Ilan (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Women and the Politics of Power in Jewish Texts from Antiquity - Some New Questions
9.45-10.15
Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
The Martyrs of Caesarea: The Politics of "Wissenschaft"
10.15-10.30
Coffee Break
10.30-11.00
Andreas Gotzmann (University of Erfurt)
Farewell to National History. A Plea for Perspectiveness and Relativity in Jewish History
11.00-11.30
Respondent: Shulamith Volkov (Tel Aviv University)
11.30-12.15
Discussion
14.30: Guided Tour of the Jewish Museum in Berlin