Dr. Ingo Haar
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Jewish Museum Vienna
5.30-8.00 p.m.
Welcome:
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Jewish Museum Vienna)
Ilan Knapp (Jewish Community Vienna)
Josef Ehmer (University of Vienna)
Keynote:
Catherine Horel (Université de Paris 1.):
Jewish associative life in the multicultural cities of the Habsburg Empire around 1900
Friday, December 11, 2009
Springer Schlößl
Panel I:
Eastern European Jewish Migration and Civil Society I
Moderator: Josef Ehmer (University of Vienna)
9.00-10.30 a.m.
Eugene M. Avrutin (University of Illinois):
Mass migration and the dilemmas of travel from the Russian Empire
Bjoern Siegel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Brussels, Berlin and Brody - Jewish organizations and their strategies against mass immigration from Eastern Europe (1872-1882)
10.30-11.00 a.m.
Coffee Break
Eastern European Jewish Migration and Civil Society II
11.00 a.m. -12.30 p.m.
Ingo Haar (University of Vienna):
The ‘Israelitische Allianz Wien’ and the Pogroms in First World War Galicia: Negotiations, the Misery of the Camps and Repatriation
Patrick Kury (University of Bern):
Between socio-cultural differences and nationalistic reflex: Migration and Jewish life in Switzerland in 1900
12.30-2.00 p.m.
Lunch and Break
Panel II:
Jewish Immigration and Integration in the Cities of Northern Europe
Moderator: Tobias Metzler (University of Southampton)
2.00-4.00 p.m.
Anders Hammarlund (Stockholm University):
A prayer for modernity: Cantor Abraham Baer’s Jewish liturgy reform and Swedish national identity
Carl Henrik Carlson (Uppsala University):
Interaction between ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ Jews in Stockholm
Christop Buller (Technical University of Berlin):
Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Copenhagen, 1880-1918
4.00-4.30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel III:
Jewish Immigration and Integration in the Cities of Western Europe I.
Moderator: David Feldman (Birkbeck University of London):
4.30-6.30 p.m.
Veerle Vanden Daelen (University of Michigan):
In the port city we meet? Sub-ethnic Jewish cultures in Antwerp, 1880-1914
Rosa Reicher (University of Heidelberg):
Clustering, segregation and ‘Little Jerusalem’: Jewish migration to Dublin
Frank Caestaecker (University of Ghent):
Jewish migrants in Belgium in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century: The dynamics of immigration and political, demographic and economic factors
7.00 p.m.
Dinner
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Springer Schlößl
Panel IV:
Jewish Immigration and Integration in the Cities of Western Europe II
Moderator: Leo Lucassen (Leiden University)
9.00-11.00 a.m.
Yael Granot-Bein (University of Haifa):
Conflict and compromise: Anglo-Jewish policy towards destitute immigrants. Jewish Families from Eastern Europe, 1881-1914
David Feldman (Birkbeck University of London):
Conservative pluralism: a framework for understanding Jewish integration in London, 1848-1914
Peter Tammes (Leiden University):
Eastern European Jewish migration to Amsterdam: transmigration and settlement
11.00-11.30 a.m.
Coffee Break
Panel V:
Jewish Immigration and Integration: Comparison of Metropolises in Western and ‘Central Europe’
Moderator: Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton)
11.30 a.m. -1.00 p.m.
Tobias Metzler (University of Southampton) :
Transitory refuge: The London Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter and the Paris Asile Israélite de nuit in comparative perspective
Matthias Thorns (University of Hanover):
Solidarity in times of crisis: Jewish solidarity in Berlin and London with Eastern Jewish immigrants during the First World War
1.00-2.00 p.m.
Lunch and Break
Panel VI:
Jewish Immigration and Integration in the German Empire
Moderator: Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton)
2.00-4.00 p.m.
Sabine Sander (University of Erfurt):
Haskala and Reform Judaism as a contribution to the integration of metropolitan culture - Mendelssohn and Lazarus
Ramona Wöllner (University of Halle-Wittenberg) :
German Jews in the tug-of-war between the “enlightened” tradition and Eastern Jews ‘old’ tradition
Michael L. Miller (CEU Budapest)
Ungarian Jews in Wilhelmine Empire
4.00-4.30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Panel VII:
Jewish Migration and Integration in Habsburg Empire
Moderator: Klaus Hödl (University of Graz)
4.30-6.00 p.m.
Katerina Capkova (New York University of Prague):
Jewish migration to Prague and its impact on Prague Jewish society, 1848-1914
Barbara Staudinger (University of Vienna):
Jewish welfare for Eastern European refugees in early 20th century Vienna: Integration and instrumentalisation
7.00 p.m.
Dinner
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Springer Schlößl
Panel VIII:
Jewish Migration and Integration in Vienna
Moderator: Ingo Haar (University of Vienna)
9.00-11.00 a.m.
Klaus Hödl (University of Graz):
Jewish experiences in Vienna around 1900
Markus Helmut Lenhart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Between truth and fiction - Eastern Jewish life in Isidor Kaufmann’s art
Iris Meder (University of Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences, Vienna) :
Networks of Jewish Architects of Vienna Modernism
11.00-11.30 a.m.
Coffee Break
Panel IX:
Global Perspectives
11.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m.
Lara Rabinovitsch (University of New York):
Pastrama, cashcaval and eggplant: Little Roumania as a site of cultural identification in early 20th century New
York City
12.30-2.00 p.m.
Lunch
2.00-2.30 p.m.
Summary
Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton)
2.30-3.30 p.m.
Discussion/Comment
Moderation: Ingo Haar
Leo Lucassen, Joachim Schlör v.a.
3.30 p.m.
Departure