Jews and Muslims in the Czarist Empire and the Soviet Union

Jews and Muslims in the Czarist Empire and the Soviet Union

Veranstalter
International Research Training Group “Religious Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Karlsuniversität Prag; Martin Schulze Wessel, Chair of History of Eastern European History/LMU München; Michael Brenner, Chair of Jewish Studies/LMU München
Veranstaltungsort
Historisches Kolleg, Kaulbachstr. 15
Ort
München
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
20.06.2013 - 21.06.2013
Deadline
13.06.2013
Website
Von
Franziska Davies

The conference deals with the Muslim and Jewish experiences in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the 1860s until the 1920s. It brings together specialists from both fields to allow a comparative approach to the history of Jews and Muslims sharing the experience of living in the Russian and Soviet states. By taking into account the imperial as well as the early Soviet period it shows continuities and changes between the Russian Empire and its successor state.

Registration is requested until June 13th at
Conferencejam@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Programm

13.30-14.30 Conference Opening

Martin Schulze Wessel (LMU, Munich)
Opening remarks

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University, Evanston)
Jewish Apples and Muslim Oranges in the Russian Basket: Options and Limits of a Comparative Approach

14.30-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00-17.30 Panel I: Jews and Muslims and their Encounter with the Imperial and Soviet States

Chair: Christoph Neumann (LMU Munich)

Vladimir Levin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem):
Common Problems, Different Solutions: Jewish and Muslims Politics in Late Imperial Russia

Franziska Davies (LMU Munich):
Jews and Muslims as Soldiers of the Tsar: The Army and the Challenge of Difference

David Schick (LMU, Munich):
The Jews in the Economic Policy of the Russian Empire: The Example of Odessa (1855-1894)

18.00 Dinner

20.00 Evening Lecture

Michael Stanislawski (Columbia University, New York):
The Jewish and Muslim Enlightenments in Russia: A Comparison

Chair: Michael Brenner (LMU Munich)

Friday, June, 21st
9.00-12.0 Panel II: Depicting Difference: Visual and Discursive Representations of Jews and Muslims in Late Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union

Chair: Heléna Tóth (LMU Munich)

Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Constructing Religious Minorities in the Russian Caucasus, 1860s-1920s: “Aliens’” Clergy and Congregations of Dagestani “Native” Muslims and Jews

Yvonne Kleinmann (University of Leipzig)
The Power of Documentation: Ethnographic Representations of Jews and Muslims in the Late Russian Empire

David Shneer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Documenting the Ambivalent Empire: Soviet Jewish Photographers in Birobidzhan and the Soviet East

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-16.00 Panel III: The Making of National and Religious Identities

Chair: Guido Hausmann (LMU Munich)

Ellie Schainker (Emory University, Atlanta):
A View of the Confessional State from Below: Converts from Judaism and Confessional Choice in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Russia

David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York):
Yiddish and the Formation of a Secular Jewish National Identity in Czarist Russia

Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, Minnesota):
From Muslim Anticlericalism to Soviet Atheism: The Uzbek intelligentsia through the Revolution, 1917-1929

Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University, Chicago):
“Who Are We And Why?” Imperial, Islamic, and Ethnic Identities in the Russian Empire

Kontakt

Laura Hölzlwimmer
Internationales Graduiertenkolleg „Religiöse Kulturen im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts“
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Historisches Seminar
Abteilung für Geschichte Ost- und Südosteuropas
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 5544
conference.jam@lrz.uni-muenchen.de


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