”Heritage” in the study of Jewish and other (Diaspora) Cultures - the search for roots as a recurring theme of 19th and 20th century history. Fourth Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History

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”Heritage” in the study of Jewish and other (Diaspora) Cultures - the search for roots as a recurring theme of 19th and 20th century history. Fourth Junior Scholars Conference in German-Jewish History

Veranstalter
German Historical Institute Washington, DC; Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington; Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts (Miriam Ruerup, Anne Schenderlein, Mirjam Zadoff)
Veranstaltungsort
Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg
Ort
Hamburg
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
03.07.2015 -
Deadline
01.07.2015
Website
http://www.igdj-hh.de
Von
Miriam Rürup

This workshop will focus on the themes of heritage and diaspora. We are specifically interested in creating a dialogue between scholars of Jewish history and historians working on other ethnic, religious, social, and cultural groups. Working from the observation that genealogy research is increasingly popular today, while Jewish museums are being built and Jewish heritage tourism is flourishing all over Europe, we would like to examine this Jewish interest in heritage and place it within a broader comparative perspective. Among some of the questions we are interested in exploring are: When and why is heritage important to a community? What role does the experience of diaspora, migration, persecution, and forced exile play in a community’s focus on heritage? How does Zionism and the goal of overcoming the Jewish diaspora affect diasporic searches for roots and inventions of a common past? Does heritage have a specific place and space? How are heritage sites chosen, created, invented, and represented?

For invited participants only. If you want to participate, you need to contact Beate Kuhnle (address below), since place is limited.

Programm

Friday, July 3, 2015

12:30 pm – 1:30pm
Welcome Lunch (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden)

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Welcome Remarks

1:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Panel 1: Identity and Heritage Construction in the Diaspora: Discourse and Practice
Chair: Mirjam Zadoff

Julia Carls (Universität Erfurt)
Hidden Dialiectics – Orthodox German-Jewish syntheses of “ Diaspora” and “Heritage” from early from the Early 20th Century

Markus Krah (Universität Potsdam)
Heritage and (Re-)Construction: Buber, Hasidism, and East European Judaism in German- and American-Jewish Discourses, 1900-1960

Martina Niedhammer (Collegium Carolinum, München)
The Making of a Mother Tongue
Yiddish, Occitan, and the Idea of “Cultural Heritage”

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel 2: Contested Heritage and Representation in Israel/Palestine
Chair: Andreas Brämer

Tzafrir Fainholtz (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya)
The Story of the "Israel in Palestine" Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, and the Complex Heritage of "Jewish" Modernism

Yehuda Sharim (Rice University, Houston)
I Need to Hear Your Voice: Reconsidering Mediterranean Jewish
Memory & Aesthetics in Contemporary Israeli Culture

Saturday July 4, 2015

9:30 am – 11:00 am
Panel 3: Postwar Eastern Europe
Chair: Björn Siegel

Gaëlle Fisher, University College London
What is (a) Bukovinian? Contests over Bukovina’s heritage after the Second World War

Anya Quilitzsch, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Makings of Heritage: Jewishness in the Soviet Periphery after World War II

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Tour of Historic Jewish Neighborhood “Grindel”

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Panel 4: Politics of Memory, Politics of History
Chair: Anna Menny

Sheer Ganor, University of California, Berkeley
The Wiedergutmachung Network: German Jews on the Junction of Memory and Bureaucracy

Kim Wünschmann, Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Constructing Tradition – Recording Loss
Jewish and Non-Jewish Heimatforschung in Post-War Rural Germany

Julia Lange, Universität Hamburg
Heritage Trouble: German American Identity Politics and the Holocaust

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Final Discussion
Chair: Miriam Rürup

Kontakt

Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Beate Kuhnle

Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg

http://www.igdj-hh.de