Sunday, March 14, 2021

13:00 (plenum): Welcome, Concept of the Workshop, Introduction
Rebekka Denz, Carsten Schapkow, and Michael K. Schulz
13:30 (2 groups): Get Together – Work Together
Chairs: Cornelia Aust, and Frank Jacob

14:45: Break
15:15 (plenum): Self Introduction
16:00: Break
16:15 (plenum): Invited Lecture
Cornelia Aust: Jewish Rural and Urban Spaces: A Few Conceptual Considerations
17:15: Break

17:15 – 20:00 (plenum, and small groups): Session 1 (with break)
Migration and Transnationality – Chair: Frank Jacob
Felicitas Remer: City and Country as Sites of Modernization and Nation-Building: Urban and Rural Settlement in the Debates of German-Speaking Zionists, c. 1890-1939
Shai Abadi: The 'Old' Rural Jew in Hebrew Revival Literature
Max Lazar: “New People in the Old Gemeinde”: Rural Jewish Migration to Frankfurt am Main, 1933-1941
Discussion and a joint reading seminar

Monday, March 15, 2021
13:00 (plenum, and small groups): Session 2 (with break)
Country and City: Modernity and Tradition -- Chair: Cornelia Aust
Monika Müller: Country Jews in the Cities? – On the Importance of Country and City in the Jewish History of Pfalz-Neuburg
Moritz Bauerfeind: Franconian Reform Rabbis as Conciliators and Troublemakers
Maja Hultman: The Modern Jewish Stockholmer as both City Jew and Country Jew
Ekaterina Oleshkevich: Rural and Urban Jewish Childhoods in the Russian Pale of Settlement: What are the Differences?
Discussion and a joint reading seminar
16:15: Break
16:45 (plenum, and small groups): Joint reading seminar (with break)
Rural and Urban Jewries Between Tradition and Modernity – Chair: Eva Haverkamp-Rott, and Martha Stellmacher
18:30 – 19:00: Resume: Rebekka Denz, Carsten Schapkow, and Michael K. Schulz