Tuesday, June 15, 2021

2:30–4:30 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
8:30–10:30 a.m. (New York, UTC -4)

Welcome
Jan Gerber

Introduction
Imanuel Clemens Schmidt
Hasia R. Diner

Interfaith Practice in Transnational Perspective
Chair: Zarin Aschrafi

Randi Storch
Adolph Jellinek, Theodor Herzl, and Thomas Davidson: Transnational Influences on the Interfaith Activism of Stephen Wise

Jessica Cooperman
Exporting Interfaith: American Jews and the Religious Affairs Bureau in American Occupied Germany

Respondent: Yaakov Ariel

4:45–6:15 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (New York, UTC -4)

American Jews and the Liberal Faith
Chair: Philipp Graf

Eli Lederhendler
Transnational and Local: American Jews and Liberal Politics

Ludwig Decke
“Hold on to the Faith in American Liberalism!” Morris R. Cohen and the American Jewish Liberal Imagination during the Nazi Period

Respondent: Elisabeth Gallas

6:30–8:00 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
12:30–14:00 p.m. (New York, UTC -4)

Pluralism and American Zionism
Chair: Jakob Stürmann

Imanuel Clemens Schmidt
A Secular Tradition: Horace Kallen on American Democracy in the United States and Israel

Noam Pianko
“We Too Have a Jewish Question”: Reconsidering European Zionist Political Thought in the American Context

Respondent: Nancy Sinkoff

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

3:00–4:30 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
9.00–10:30 a.m. (New York, UTC -4)

American Jewish Critics of Zion
Chair: Enrico Lucca

Sarah Imhoff
Beyond Social Work: American Zionist Women as Thinkers

Marjorie N. Feld
“The Good Cause for which We Must Martyr Ourselves:” American Jewish Zionism and Coalitions for Justice

Respondent: Hasia R. Diner

5:00–6:30 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (New York, UTC -4)

Jewishness, Blackness, and the American Political Scene
Chair: Brett Winestock

Marc Dollinger
Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Vera Kallenberg
Intersectionality, Jewish Experience, and Black Women’s History: Gerda Lerner and the Story of “Black Women in White America” (1972)

Respondent: Cheryl Lynn Greenberg

6:30–7:00 p.m. (Leipzig, UTC +2);
12:30–13:00 p.m. (New York, UTC -4)

Concluding Discussion