Sunday, October 14, 2012
Venue: Central European University, Auditorium, Nádor utca 9

17:30–18:00 Welcoming remarks

18:00–19:00 Keynote lecture
Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Budapest)

Géza Komoróczy (Budapest): Oriental Studies in Hungary and at the Rabbinical Seminary

19:00 Reception

Monday, October 15, 2012
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kisterem (2nd floor), Széchenyi, István tér 9

9:00–9:10 Welcome and greetings: Zsigmond Ritoók, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

9:10–10:15 LEOPOLD LÖW AND THE FIRST GENERATION OF HUNGARIAN JEWISH WISSENSCHAFT

Chair: Andreas Brämer (Hamburg)

Michael K. Silber (Jerusalem): The Beginnings of Hungarian Jewish Historiography

Michael L. Miller (Budapest): The Moravian Origins of Hungarian Wissenschaft des Judentums

10:15–10:45 Coffee break

10:45–12:30 IGNÁC GOLDZIHER: LONELY MAN OF FAITHS

Chair: Shaul Shaked (Jerusalem)

Ismar Schorsch (New York): Value Free Scholarship in an Age of Academic Bigotry: the Relationship between Heinrich Fleischer and Ignaz Goldziher

Ottfried Fraisse (Leipzig): From Geiger to Goldziher: Historical Method and its Impact on Shaping Islam

Tamás Turán (Budapest): Academic Religion: Goldziher as Scholar and Jew

12:30–14:00 Lunch break

14:00–15:15 VENUES OF WISSENSCHAFT: YESHIVA, SEMINARY AND UNIVERSITY

Chair: György Haraszti (Budapest)

Carsten L. Wilke (Budapest): Students' Itineraries between Yeshiva and University

Mirjam Thulin (Mainz): Connecting Centers of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David Kaufmann in Budapest, 1877–1899

15:15–15:45 Coffee break

15:45–17:30 THE POLITICS OF WISSENSCHAFT

Chair: Victor Karády (Budapest)

Gábor Schweitzer (Budapest): Scholarship and Patriotism: Research on the History of Hungarian Jewry and the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (1877–1947)

Miklós Konrád (Budapest): Hungarian Politics and the Construction of Denationalized Judaism

András Kovács (Budapest): An Unhappy Ending: Jewish Educational Institutions under Communist Rule

Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kisterem (2nd floor), Széchenyi. István tér 9

9:00–10:45 JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP, HUNGARIAN AUDIENCE

Chair: Kata Zsófia Vincze (Budapest)

Giuseppe Veltri (Halle): Ludwig Blau's Concept of Jewish Monotheism as Cultural Deviance

Vilmos Voigt (Budapest): A Suspension Bridge of Confidence: Folklore Studies in Jewish-Hungarian Scholarship

Zsuzsanna Toronyi (Budapest): Fixtures at an Exhibition: Making Judaica Visible at the Turn of the Century

10:45–11:15 Coffee break

11:15–13:00 RELIGIOUS CULTURES

Chair: Balázs Déri (Budapest)

Christian Wiese (Frankfurt a.M./Sussex): Hungarian-Jewish Scholars on Christianity and Christian Scholarship

Shaul Shaked (Jerusalem): From Bacher to Telegdi: the Lure of Iran in Jewish Studies

Paul B. Fenton (Paris): Georges Vajda and his Method of the Study of Kabbalah

13:00–16:00 Afternoon break

16:00–17:45 THE STUDY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM BY HUNGARIAN EMIGRANT SCHOLARS

Chair: Gábor Buzási (Budapest)

Günter Stemberger (Vienna): Meir Friedmann – A Pioneering Scholar of Midrash

Catherine Hézser (London): Samuel Krauss' Contribution to the Study of Judaism in Antiquity

Isaiah Gafni (Jerusalem): Adolf Büchler and the Historiography of Talmudic Judaism