Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Prof Dr Sharon Gillerman, Prof Dr David Rechter, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Tuvia Singer - Nationalism, Regionalism and Cosmology: Minorities and Foreigners in German Folk-Narratives in the Nineteenth Century (response: Lotte Houwink ten Cate)
Omer Michaelis - Critical Times and the Reconfiguration of Torah: Reading Hermann Co-hen in light of Moses Maimondies’ Guide of the Perplexed (response: Ayana Halpern)
Session 2
Lisa Gebhard - Jews as Cultural Mediators in “Greater Palestine” Davis Trietsch and the Colonial Ambitions of Early German Zionists in the Face of Transnational Transfers of Ideas and Knowledge (response: Agnes Kelemen)
Sam Shonkoff - Sacramental Existence: Embodiment in Martin Buber’s Philosophical and Hasidic Writings (response: Felix Schölch)
Lucia Linares - German Political Thought and the ‘Jewish Question’, 1916 – 1926 (response: Tuvia Singer)
Session 3
Ayana Halpern - Hebrew Social Work in Mandatory Palestine: Gender, Zionism and Jewish-German Welfare (response: Sam Shonkoff)
Agnes Kelemen - The Migration of the Numerus clausus Exiles - Hungarian Jewish Students in Interwar Europe (response: Lucia Linares)
Felix Schölch - Zuhause zwischen Isar und Jordan: Leben und Werk Schalom Ben-Chorins (response: Omer Michaelis)
Lotte Houwink ten Cate - Jews on Trial: Postwar Retribution Against Jews in Germany and Europe (response: Lisa Gebhard)