Monday, 27 March 2023
13:30
Registration and Welcome
14:00
Introduction
14:15
Keynote Address
Elissa Bemporad (New York), A Time to Live and A Time to Die, A Time to Remember and a Time to Forget: Temporality and Violence in the Modern Jewish Experience
15:30–17:00
Panel 1: Violence, Time and Agency I; Chair: Kim Wünschmann (Hamburg)
Laura Jockusch (Brandeis), A Question of Time: Revenge during and after the Holocaust
Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig) In Anticipation of Violence: Legal Legacies of the Schwarzbard Trial 1927
17:00–17:30 Tea & Coffee
17:30–19:00
Panel 2: Violence, Time and Agency II; Chair: Ilay Halpern (Hamburg)
Tal Hever-Chybowski (Paris), Temporalities of Violence in Leib Kvitko’s poem “Forgiveness?...”
Jan Rybak (London), Jewish Security in a New Era: Nation, State, Self-Defence, and Galicia’s Jewish Militias after the First World War
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
09:30–11:00
Panel 3: Experiences of violence in Jewish memory and Israeli historiography; Chair: Amos Goldberg (Jerusalem/Hamburg)
Noga Wolff (Rishon LeZion/Jerusalem), The recruitment of the “long-term” perspective on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism as a cause for the growing political violence in the Israeli society
Ilay Halpern (Hamburg), “From war to war, from pogrom to pogrom…” The integration of violence in the general shtetl narrative as reflected in Yizkor books
11:00–11:30 Tea & Coffee
11:30–13:00
Panel 4: Eschatological vs. historicist interpretations of violence I; Chair: Karen Körber (Hamburg)
Bogdan Ovcharuk (Toronto), Messianic Temporality, Baroque Machiavellianism, and Constituent Revelation in Walter Benjamin
Gershon Greenberg (Washington DC), The Nullification of Time in Ultra-Orthodox Responses to the Holocaust
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30
Panel 5: Eschatological vs. historicist interpretations of violence II; Chair: Elke Morlok (Frankfurt am Main)
Alan Rosen (Jerusalem), 17 Elul 5699: Why the Beginning of World War II in Jewish Time Matters
Ofer Dynes (New York), From Blood Libel to Biography: Trauma and Temporality in Pinhas Katzenellenbogen’s Yesh Manhilin (1758–1764)
15:30–16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00–18:00
Panel 6: Experience and anticipation of violence – Violence and Temporality; Chair: Björn Siegel (Hamburg)
Anna Ullrich (Munich) and David Jünger (Rostock), In Hindsight – German Jews, the Holocaust and the (Re-)Construction of the German-Jewish Past
Anne-Christin Klotz (Jerusalem), Remembering means Fighting: How Eastern European Jews anticipated, understood and confronted Nazi-Germany and antisemitic Violence through Tradition and Novelty
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
09:30–12:00
Panel 7: Violence and Material Culture: Experiences and perpetration of looting and dispossession; Chair: Birthe Kundrus (Hamburg)
Magdalena Waligorska (Berlin), Looting in the Shtetl: Genocidal Dispossession during the Holocaust in the Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian Borderlands as Seen from the Jewish Perspective
Carolin Lange (Hamburg), After They Left: The Dispossession of Jewish Assets in Nazi Germany and the Factor of Time
Monica Rüthers (Hamburg) and Natalia Kuzuzova (Kherson), Life and Death, Violence and Temporality – A Preliminary Reading of Photographs from the Tcherikower Collection Showing Pogrom Victims and Pogromists
12:00–12:30 Tea & Coffee
12:30–14:00
Concluding Roundtable: Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History
- Elissa Bemporad (New York)
- Alfred Bodenheimer (Basel)
- Amos Goldberg (Jerusalem/Hamburg)
- Kim Wünschmann (Hamburg)