Monday, July 23
15:00 Welcome
Christian Wiese (Frankfurt am Main)
Garth Gilmour (Oxford)
15:15 The Beginnings: Wissenschaft des Judentums in Italy
Chair: Mirjam Thulin (Frankfurt am Main)
Cristiana Facchini (Bologna)
The Challenge of Wissenschaft des Judentums in a Catholic Country: The Italian Case
Asher Salah (Jerusalem)
The Intellectual Horizons of Rabbi Marco Mortara, a Representative of Wissenschaft des Judentums in 19th-Century Italy
Chiara Adorisio (Rome)
Wissenschaft des Judentums between Italy and France: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Letters to Salomon Munk in Paris
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Christian Wiese (Frankfurt am Main)
Andreas Gotzmann (Erfurt)
Scholarship and Faith in the Founding Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums
Tuesday, July 24
9:30 Wissenschaft des Judentums in Eastern Europe
Chair: Mirjam Thulin (Frankfurt am Main)
Keynote Lecture
François Guesnet (London)
Wissenschaft des Judentums in Eastern Europe: Successes and Failures of a Complex Relationship
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15
Michał Galas (Kraków)
Preachers and Scholars. The Great Synagogue in Warsaw as Center of Wissenschaft des Judentums
Kerstin Armborst-Weihs (Mainz)
Jewish Scholarship in Russia: Historical and Ethnographic Research as Pillars of a New Jewish National Consciousness
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Wissenschaft des Judentums in the Habsburg Empire
Chair: François Guesnet (London)
Ferenc L. Laczó (Jena)
Faith Enlightened? Jewish History, Identity, Values and Contributions in the Hungarian Variant of Wissenschaft des Judentums in the Horthy Era
Mirjam Thulin (Frankfurt am Main)
Instituting Wissenschaft des Judentums in Hungary: The Case of the Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest
Björn Siegel (Hamburg)
A “Community” within a Community? Adolf Jellinek and Wissenschaft des Judentums in Habsburg Vienna
16:45 Coffee Break
17:00 Visions and Values in Wissenschaft des Judentums
Chair: Christian Wiese (Frankfurt am Main)
Céline Trautmann-Waller (Paris)
The Buch Zunz or: Wissenschaft des Judentums from an Intimate View
George Y. Kohler (Beer Sheva)
“The Jewel of our Science” – Wissenschaft des Judentums and Kabbalah Research in 19th-Century Germany
18:45 Dinner
Wednesday, July 25
9:30 The Intersection of Wissenschaft des Judentums and Islamic Studies
Chair: George Y. Kohler (Beer Sheva)
Dirk Hartwig (Berlin)
An Antidote for Orientalism? German-Jewish Attitudes towards the Qur‘an and the Prophet Muhammad
Ottfried Fraisse (Frankfurt am Main)
Interlacing “Darwin” and “Hegel” through Maimonides – Ignác Goldziher’s Idea of Intercultural Evolution in Judaism and Islam
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Wissenschaft des Judentums at the Beginning of the 20th Century
Chair: Ferenc L. Laczó (Jena)
Kerstin von der Krone (Berlin)
Between History and Re-Orientation. Revisiting Modern Jewish Scholarship in the Early 20th Century
Nicolas Berg (Leipzig/London)
“For pure Knowledge Resentment is a Veil” (Ludwig Feuchtwanger). Werner Sombart and Wissenschaft des Judentums
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Material Cultures of Wissenschaft des Judentums
Chair: Kerstin von der Krone (Berlin)
Eva-Maria Jansson (Copenhagen)
David Simonsen and his Archive in Copenhagen
Zsuzsanna Toronyi (Budapest)
Collections of the Hungarian Jewish Museum related to Wissenschaft des Judentums
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30
Rachel Heuberger (Frankfurt am Main)
Aron Freimann and the Hebraica and Judaica Collection of the Frankfurt University Library
18:00 Dinner
Thursday, July 26
9:30 Wissenschaft des Judentums and Identity
Chair: Ottfried Fraisse (Frankfurt am Main)
Keynote Lecture
Christian Wiese (Frankfurt am Main)
Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish Nationalism. Mutual Perceptions and Debates
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15
Tally Gur (Haifa)
Non-Jews and Jewish Studies in Post Second World War Germany 1967–1989
Concluding Remarks
13:00 Lunch – Departure