WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 – POTSDAM, CAMPUS NEUES PALAIS, Hs. 8, R. 060/61
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2.00 pm - WELCOME
Elisabeth Gallas, Anton Hieke, David Jünger, Ulrike Kleinecke, Markus Krah:
Conference Organizers’ Welcome
Oliver Günther (President University of Potsdam): Greeting
2.30 pm - INTRODUCTION
Markus Krah (Potsdam): The (Sorry) State of the Field of Transnational American Jewish Studies
Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati): Toward a Transnational Research Agenda on American Jewry
3.00 pm - ROUNDTABLE: TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY AND THOUGHT
Tobias Brinkmann (Philadelphia): Locating ‘Germany’ in American Jewish
History and Memory
Eli Lederhendler (Jerusalem): Lost and Found: Modern Jewish Historians’
Assessments of Pan-Jewish Communities
Miriam Rürup (Hamburg): Transcending Nationality: Statelessness and World
Citizenship in 20th-Century Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations
Cornelia Wilhelm (Munich): From Community and Place to Network and Space: The Transnational Dimension of Immigration in American Jewish History
Chair: Markus Krah (Potsdam)
4.30 pm - Coffee break
5.00 pm - PANEL I: RE-POSITIONING 19TH-CENTURY JEWISH AMERICA
Janice Rothschild Blumberg (Atlanta): An American Rabbi’s Advice to Herzl:
Rabbi “Alphabet” Browne and Zionism in America
Richard Frankel (Lafayette): Understanding the Rise of Modern American Antisemitism in the Context of Late-Nineteenth-Century Globalization
Anton Hieke (Bobbau): The Maimonides Library and American-German "Bildung"
Chair: Gary Zola (Cincinnati)
6.30 pm - Reception
8.00 pm - Conference Dinner (by invitation)
THURSDAY, JULY 21, POTSDAM GRADUATE SCHOOL, Am Kanal 47, Potsdam
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9.00 am - Panel II: TRANSNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
Jörg Jehoschua B. Ahrens (Lucerne): American Impact on the Beginnings of
Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Continental Europe after World War II
Dana Evan Kaplan (Atlanta): The Transnational Influences behind the Theo-
logical Shifts and Transformations in American Reform Judaism on the
Crabgrass Frontier, 1935−1975
Claire Maligot (Paris): American Jewish Contributions to the Second Vatican
Council, 1960−1965
Chair: Ulrike Kleinecke (Lucerne)
10.45 am - Coffee break
11.00 am - Panel III: RE-FRAMING GERMAN-JEWISH THOUGHT IN AMERICA
Martina Steer (Wien): Entangled Memories: Moses Mendelssohn as Jewish lieu de mémoire in the United States
George Y. Kohler (Ramat Gan): Steven Schwarzschild as a Reader of Hermann Cohen
Hans-Michael Haußig (Potsdam): Abraham Joshua Heschel and his Relation to Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) in Europe
Chair: David Jünger (Berlin)
12.30 pm - Lunch
1.30 pm - PANEL IV: AMERICAN ECHOES OF WEIMAR GERMANY
Philipp von Wussow (Frankfurt): A “Weimar Jew” in America? Leo Strauss and the Emergence of a Counter-Counterculture
Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink (Berlin): Bridging the Abyss: Jacob Taubes’s
Endeavors of "Understanding the Religious Dimension" within the Context
of American Jewish Intellectuals
Merel Leeman (Amsterdam): Rewriting America: George Mosse and Peter Gay’s Émigré Perspectives
Chair: Mirjam Thulin (Mainz)
2.30 pm - Coffee break
2.45 pm - PANEL V: AMERICAN JEWISH POLITICS AND THE POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH WORLD
Daniel Soyer (New York): Jewish Transnational Concerns and the New York
Electoral Left in the World War II Era
Constance Paris de Bollardière (Paris): American Bundists of the Jewish Labor Committee in Immediate Postwar France, 1944−1948
Sonja Pilz (Potsdam): Holocaust Remembrance in German and North American Jewish Memorial Prayers: A Window onto Two Jewish Identities and Theologies
Chair: Anton Hieke (Bobbau)
4.30 pm - Coffee break
6.00 pm - KEYNOTE LECTURE (Center for Jewish Studies, Sophienstr. 22a, 10178 Berlin)
Michael A. Meyer (Cincinnati): Looking Back: American Jews Relate to their
Places of Origin
FRIDAY, JULY 22 - POTSDAM, CAMPUS NEUES PALAIS, Hs. 8, R. 060/61
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9.30 am - PANEL VI: CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF JEWISH TRANSNATIONALISM
Cristina Spinei (Iasi): Sholem Aleichem’s Expressions of Jewish Transformations through the Encounter with a New World
Klara Szlezak (Passau): Photography and the Negotiation of a Transnational Jewry in Maurice Fishberg’s "The Jews" (1911)
Jesper Reddig (Münster): Re-Framing the “Nation of Immigrants” and the “Einwanderungsland” in U.S.- and German-Based Post-Soviet Jewish Literature: Yelena Akhtiorskaya and Olga Grjasnowa
Lars-Frederik Bockmann (Berlin): The Material Unconscious: On the Reinterpretation of American Pop Cultural Archives as Transnational Jewish Memory in the Novels of Michael Chabon
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig)
11.30 am - Coffee break
11.45am - CONCLUDING DISCUSSION: LOOKING AT AMERICAN JEWRY FROM THE OUTSIDE AND FROM WITHIN
Christian Wiese (Frankfurt): Blind Spots of German Academia?
Zohar Segev (Haifa): The Perspective from Zion to America
Gary P. Zola (Cincinnati): What Can American Jewish Studies Learn from
Europe?
Chair: Sarah Panter (Mainz)
1.00 pm - End of Conference
Conference sponsored by University of Potsdam, in cooperation with Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, supported by Federal Ministry for Education and Research