Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese
Sunday, 3 July 2011
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Welcome / Introduction
Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Vice-President, Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt)
I. Introducing the Debate: Religion and Enlightenment in Comparative Perspectives
16:00-18:15
Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Darrin Mc Mahon (Florida State University)
Religion and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment – Historiographical Perspectives
Michael Printy (Wesleyan University)
The Vocation of Man: Johann Joachim Spalding and the Origins of Kulturprotestantismus
Ann Thomson (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
Enlightenment(s), Religion(s) and Science: Reflexions on a Debate
18:15 Coffee
18:30 Keynote lecture
Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
The Haskalah Project of Secularization: Challenging ‘The Religious Turn’
19:30 Reception
Monday, 4 July 2011
II. Early Modern and Early Maskilic Perspectives
09:00-10:30
Chair: Rebekka Voss (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University)
Printing the Talmud: An Early Stage in Jewish Modernity (1520-1581)
Jonatan Meir (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva)
Marketing Demons: Joseph Perl, R. Israel Baal Shem Tov and the History of one Amulet
Coffee 10:30
III. Haskalah in 18th-Century Germany
11:00-13:15
Chair: Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan)
Michah Gottlieb (New York University)
Moses Mendelssohn and the Talmud
Allan Arkush (Binghamton University)
Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological-Political Argument
Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College, London)
Saul Ascher and the Modernization of Judaism
13:15 Lunch
14:30-16:15
Chair: Francesca Bregoli (Queens College, CUNY)
Dirk Sadowski (Georg-Eckert Institute, Braunschweig)
Mission and Emancipation: The Orientalist Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734-1815) and the Jews of his Time
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
The Berlin Haskalah and the Kabbalah
16:15 Coffee
17:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)
The Hague Dialogue: A Conversation that Almost Took Place Between Two Jewish Intellectuals at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
IV. Haskalah in 18th-Century Scandinavia, Italy and Holland
9:00-11:15
Chair: Heiko Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Dominique Bourel (Sorbonne / CNRS)
From Berlin to Scandinavia: Haskalah in the North
Francesca Bregoli (Queens College, CUNY)
State Reformism and Jewish Enlightenment in 18th-Century Livorno
Shlomo Berger (University of Amsterdam)
Uneducated Ashkenazim and their Religious Literature: Yiddish Books and their Modernizing Effects
Coffee 11:15
V. Eastern European Haskalah
11:30-13:45
Chair: Israel Bartal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Daniel B. Schwartz (George Washington University)
‘Our Rabbi Baruch’: Spinoza and Radical (Jewish) Enlightenment
Marcin Wodzinski (University of Wroclaw)
Two Enlightenments: The Polish Case
Mordecai Zalkin (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva)
East European Rabbinate and the Haskalah: A Love-Hate Affair?
Lunch 13:45
Coffee 14.45
15:15-16:45
Chair: Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University)
Israel Bartal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Melitsa and Jargon: Mendele Moykher Sforim and the Revival of Pre-Haskalah Ashkenazi Hebrew
Michal Arbell (University of Tel Aviv)
The Drama of Heresy in the 19th Century Hebrew Literature in Eastern Europe
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
VI. Haskalah, Sex, Race and Gender
9:00-11:15
Chair: Andreas Gotzmann (University of Erfurt)
Pawel Maciejko (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), ‘...keine Hure von denselben geniessen’: Sexual Ethics of the Prague Frankists and the Haskalah
Natalie Naimark Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)
A Path of Their Own? Jewish Women and the Enlightenment
Tova Cohen (Bar Ilan University)
Were there Jewish Torah Scholars (‘lamdaniyot’) in 19th-Century Europe?
11:15 Coffee
11:45-13:15
Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Louise Hecht (Palacký University Olomouc)
‘Hours of Devotion’: Gender and Religion in the Habsburg Haskalah
Iris Idelssohn-Shein (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
The Disenchantment of Difference: The Haskalah and the Emergence of Race
13:15 Final Comments
14:00 Lunch