Dislocating Knowledge: Wissenschaftsmigration, 1920–1970

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Dislocating Knowledge: Wissenschaftsmigration, 1920–1970

Veranstalter
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 405
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Jerusalem
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Israel
Vom - Bis
05.06.2011 -
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Von
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Organized by Irene Aue, Ruchama Johnston-Bloom and Kim Wünschmann, Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nazism severely shaped the conditions under which many Central-European Jewish intellectuals pursued research. These ruptures often left their imprint on their theories and teaching. For some, academic research became a possibility or even a necessity in order to process specific, often extreme individual experiences of persecution as well as contemporary violent events in mid-20th century Europe. As the history of intellectual emigration has shown, those who not only managed to escape and survive but were also able to establish themselves academically in foreign countries were often confronted with numerous hurdles in their career. Adapting to new scientific communities with different academic standards, scholars were often compelled to re-evaluate and sometimes to reformulate their own work. A central task of the workshop will be to trace the development of scholarly work from its origins in very specific contexts to the ways in which it transformed in the process of migration, historically contextualizing how research was conducted and knowledge transferred under (sometimes) troublesome circumstances.

Programm

09:45 Opening Remarks

Reuven Amitai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yfaat Weiss, Director of The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10:00–11:30 Panel I: From Weimar to America: Intellectual Migration of German-Jewish Thinkers to the United States

Chair: Ashraf Noor (Jerusalem)

Ruchama Johnston-Bloom (Chicago/Jerusalem)
“The Omens of History:” German-Jewish Orientalists in America
Respondent: Reuven Amitai (Jerusalem)

Adi Armon (Jerusalem)
How to Begin to Study Leo Strauss during the Age of the Cold War?
Respondent: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Chicago/Jerusalem)

11:30–12:00 Coffee Break

12:00–13:30 Panel II: Analyzing Terror: Theories and Diagnoses of the Extreme Situation advanced by Émigré Scientists

Chair: Eran Rolnik (Tel Aviv)

Sigal Gooldin (Jerusalem)
Is the Holocaust Part of the Genealogy Anorexia? Reading Hilde Bruch’s Concept of the “Hunger Disease”

Kim Wünschmann (London/Jerusalem)
The “Scientification” of the Nazi Camps: The Writings of Bruno Bettelheim, Curt W. Bondy and Paul Martin Neurath and Their Reception in the New World

Respondent: José Brunner (Tel Aviv)

13:30–15:00 Lunch

15:00–16:30 Panel III: Writing History in the Face of Persecution

Chair: Iris Idelson-Shein (Jerusalem)

Irene Aue (Jerusalem)
The Making of a “Classic” of German-Jewish Historiography – Selma Stern’s “Der preußische Staat und die Juden”

Laura Jockusch (Jerusalem)
“Khurbn-forshers”: Jewish Survivor Historians and the Writing of Holocaust History

Respondent: Moshe Zimmermann (Jerusalem)

Concluding Remarks: Yfaat Weiss (Jerusalem)

Reception

Kontakt

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Jerusalem

rosenzweig@vms.huji.ac.il

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