Friday, July 3, 2015
12:30 pm – 1:30pm
Welcome Lunch (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden)
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Welcome Remarks
1:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Panel 1: Identity and Heritage Construction in the Diaspora: Discourse and Practice
Chair: Mirjam Zadoff
Julia Carls (Universität Erfurt)
Hidden Dialiectics – Orthodox German-Jewish syntheses of “ Diaspora” and “Heritage” from early from the Early 20th Century
Markus Krah (Universität Potsdam)
Heritage and (Re-)Construction: Buber, Hasidism, and East European Judaism in German- and American-Jewish Discourses, 1900-1960
Martina Niedhammer (Collegium Carolinum, München)
The Making of a Mother Tongue
Yiddish, Occitan, and the Idea of “Cultural Heritage”
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel 2: Contested Heritage and Representation in Israel/Palestine
Chair: Andreas Brämer
Tzafrir Fainholtz (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya)
The Story of the "Israel in Palestine" Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, and the Complex Heritage of "Jewish" Modernism
Yehuda Sharim (Rice University, Houston)
I Need to Hear Your Voice: Reconsidering Mediterranean Jewish
Memory & Aesthetics in Contemporary Israeli Culture
Saturday July 4, 2015
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Panel 3: Postwar Eastern Europe
Chair: Björn Siegel
Gaëlle Fisher, University College London
What is (a) Bukovinian? Contests over Bukovina’s heritage after the Second World War
Anya Quilitzsch, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Makings of Heritage: Jewishness in the Soviet Periphery after World War II
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Tour of Historic Jewish Neighborhood “Grindel”
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Panel 4: Politics of Memory, Politics of History
Chair: Anna Menny
Sheer Ganor, University of California, Berkeley
The Wiedergutmachung Network: German Jews on the Junction of Memory and Bureaucracy
Kim Wünschmann, Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Constructing Tradition – Recording Loss
Jewish and Non-Jewish Heimatforschung in Post-War Rural Germany
Julia Lange, Universität Hamburg
Heritage Trouble: German American Identity Politics and the Holocaust
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Final Discussion
Chair: Miriam Rürup