Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History

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Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History

Veranstalter
Ilay Halpern (University of Hamburg), Monica Rüthers (University of Hamburg) and Kim Wünschmann (Institute for the History of the German Jews)
Veranstaltungsort
University of Hamburg
Gefördert durch
Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg, Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Gleichstellung und Bezirke
PLZ
20148
Ort
Hamburg
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
Hybrid
Vom - Bis
27.03.2023 - 29.03.2023
Website
https://www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/forschungsprojekt-gewalt-zeiten/forschungsgruppe-gewalt-zeiten.html
Von
Kim Wünschmann, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden

Experiences of violence have a great impact on Jewish life and Jewish thinking from biblical times onwards. An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Hamburg will discuss these various collective experiences of violence in Jewish history with a special focus on temporality. The conference is organized by Ilay Halpern (University of Hamburg), Monica Rüthers (University of Hamburg) and Kim Wünschmann (Institute for the History of the German Jews).

Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History

Experiences of violence have a great impact on Jewish life and Jewish thinking from biblical times onwards. Anti-Jewish violence was and is still interpreted through temporal prisms. Traditionally, experiences of violence were viewed by Jews as continuing or reflecting the biblical narrative of gentile hostility toward Jews. This line of interpretation often contains an eschatological concept of apocalypse and salvation. In contrast to this cyclic notion of events, Zionism and Socialism offered their own notions of time. They viewed episodes of violence against Jews as part of a linear process that should end by establishing their envisioned utopias: A Jewish homeland or a new socialist order. Under this temporal prism, both the anticipation and commemoration of such events are meant to justify the ideological cause. A third prism, which seems to keep increasing over time and even receive a sacralized status, is that of the Holocaust as a cataclysm dominating the discussion on prior and future events of violence against Jews.

The conference will take place at the University of Hamburg from 27 to 29 March 2023. It is organized as part of the Work Package “Before the Pogrom. Anticipated Violence in Modern Jewish History” within Research Unit “GewaltZeiten/Times of Violence. Temporality in Violent Undertakings”, funded by the Research Program of the City of Hamburg (LFF), in which scholars from the University of Hamburg, the Institute for the History of the German Jews, and the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr cooperate.

There will be a limited number of seats available for additional participants and registration is required. If you are interested in attending the conference, please contact Beate Kuhnle at kontakt@igdj-hh.de.

Programm

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)

Kontakt

Beate Kuhnle
Institute for the History of the German Jews
E-Mail: kontakt@igdj-hh.de

https://www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/forschungsprojekt-gewalt-zeiten/forschungsgruppe-gewalt-zeiten.html