Chaired by Prof Dr Sara Lipton, and Prof Dr Christhard Hoffmann
Programme
Session 1
Miriam Szamet - Immigration and Education: Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in the Modern Jewish community in Palestine, 1900 - 1930 (response: Ido Harari)
Nisrine Rahal - A Garden of Children and the Education of Citizens: The German Kinder-garten Movement from 1837-1880 (response: Julia Lange)
Tally Gur - “Chronicle of a death Foretold": Jewish Studies and Identity Politics - The case of the Martin Buber Institute, Köln University (January 1984) (response: Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg)
Session 2
Julia Lange - Heritage Trouble: German American Identity Politics and the Holocaust (response: Tally Gur)
Marie-Sophie Graf - Sigmund Neumann – Realist with a view (response: Yakov Mayer)
Shira Billet - The Sources of Sociality: Hermann Cohen, German Idealism, and the Sci-ence of Judaism (response: Martin Bürgin)
Ido Harari - Converting to Otherness – the Dialectic of Differentiation in and from Modern Europe (response: Nisrine Rahal)
Session 3
Yakov Mayer - The Reception of the Jerusalem Talmud in the Early Modern Period (response: Marie-Sophie Graf)
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg - The Organization of Halakhic Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: Responsa as a Case Study (response: Miriam Szamet)
Martin Bürgin - The Plum War: An anti-judaic pogrom during the Helvetic era (1802) and its reception in historiography, social memory and religious remembrance culture (response: Shira Billet)
