International Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute
Jerusalem, 15.-18. Mai 2005
LBI Jerusalem
Programm
Sonntag, 15. Mai
Opening Session
Chair: Michael Meyer (International Chairman LBI)
Greetings
Zwi Bacharach (Chairman LBI Jerusalem)
Judge Izhak Englard
Michael Heyd (Chairman Israel Historical Society)
Keynote
Steven Aschheim
Icons Beyond their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century
Monday, 16 May
Session I – Visions of Jewish Integration in State and Society
Chair: Avraham Barkai
Reinhard Rürup
Jewish Emancipation and the Vision of Civil Society in Germany
Peter Pulzer
The Place of Jews in German Historiography
Shulamit Volkov
Jewish Historiography: Diaspora and Nationalism
Session 2 – The German Jewish Symbiosis: Did it exist, did it have a future?
Round-Table
Moderator: Richard Cohen
Michael Brenner
Galili Shachar
Moshe Zimmermann
Session 3 – Visions of Enlightenment and Jewish National Identity
Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr
Shmuel Feiner
Moses Mendelssohn’s Dreams and Nightmares
Deborah Hertz
Assimilation Or Emancipation: Competing Visions and Experiences in Biedermeier Germany
Elisheva Carlebach
“From Luach to Volkskalender” The Presence of the Past in Nineteenth Century German-Jewish Culture
Dienstag, 17. Mai
Session 4 – Jewish Visions of Family, Community (Kehilla) and Religion
Chair: Itta Shedletzky
Michael Meyer
German Jews Reflect on the Future of the Jewish Religion
Steven Lowenstein
Demographic Changes in the German Jewish Family, 1815-1939
Yfaat Weiss
New “Ostjuden”? Russian Jews in Germany Today
Session 5 – Fears and Hopes: Visions of Antisemitism
Round-Table
Moderator: Zwi Bacharach
Yaacov Borut
Raphael Gross
Till van Rahden
Session 6 – Comparative Visions of Jewish Emancipation and Emigration in the 20th Century
Chair: Dov Kulka
Bath Ami Zucker
The Traumatic Encounter – German-Jewish Applicants and the U.S. Consuls in NS Germany
Dimitry Shumsky
“From Bilingualism to Binationalism: The Czecho-German Zionists and the Origins of Zionist Binationalism, 1900-1925″
Memories of a German Jewish Neighborhood -A Tour Through Rechavia (in Hebrew)
Mittwoch, 18. Mai
Session 7 – The Legacy of German-Jewish Culture: Then and Now
Chair: Monika Richarz
Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal
The Past as Guide to the Future: Visions of the Wissenschaft des Judentums
Robert Liberles
Steeped in the Past: Heinrich Graetz’s Vision of the Future
Andreas Gotzmann
Whose History? Perceptions and Visions of the German-Jewish Past in the 19th and 20th Century.
Session 8 – Preserving memories of the Past: The LBI History Project
Chair: Frank Mecklenburg
Christhard Hoffmann
The End of German Jewry and the Future of Its Legacy: Notions of Transferring Cultural Heritage in the Early Leo Baeck Institute
Guy Miron
From Memorial Community to Research Centre
Respondent: Arnold Paucker
Session 9 – Closing remarks
Chair: John Grenville and Robert Liberles