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Fellowship Workshop Leipzig Summer 2026

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22 June 2026, 12:00AM - 24 June 2026, 11:59PM

Gilad Cohen: Zionism Beyond Empires: Reinterpreting pe-1948 ideas of “the Jewish state” in the light of the fin de siècle connected Jewish Polity
(Brandeis University, Modern Jewish History)


Annika Duin: Letters to the Past. Citizen Responses to Antisemitic Violence, 1945–1990 
(Universtity of Bielefeld, History) 


Thomas Coleman Glasman: The role of Politics, Religion and Interpersonal Conflict on the Development of Set Theory, (1879-1932)
(University of Oxford, History of Mathematics)


Luis Gruhler: Commentary as a Philosophical Form in the Work of Salomon Maimon
(LMU Munich, Philosophy) 


Anna Hofman: Visualizing Space: Third Generation Jewish Self-Positioning in Poems and Poetry Films 
(University of Hamburg, German Studies) 


Caleb Klein: Regional Variation in Ashkenazi Hebrew Script in the Thirteenth Century 
(University of Oxford, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) 


Niklas Lämmel: Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism
(University of Kassel, Philosophy)


David Lüllemann: A Jewish Commercial Network in the Early Eighteenth Century? Reassessing the Economic and Social Networks of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer Through Newly Examined Yiddish and Hebrew Sources
(Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Jewish Studies) 


Cyra Sommer: After the Catastrophe—Yekkes in Israel and Their Relationships with Germany,1945–1995 
(University of Haifa, Jewish History)


Nathanel Stawski: From Reluctant to Radical Revolutionaries: Conservatism in Early German Zionist Thought 
(University of Cambridge, History) 
 

 

Staff

Dr Peter Antes 
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes


Dr Joseph Cronin
Director Leo Baeck Institute London,


Dr Rachel Furst 
Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
 


Dr Elisabeth Gallas 
Deputy to the Director, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, 


Dr Caroline Jessen 
Senior researcher, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow


Dr Alice Riegler 
Programme and Development Officer, Leo Baeck Institute London

 

 

Session 1 Chair: Joseph Cronin 

09:30–10:15 Stawski, Nathanel: From Reluctant to Radical Revolutionaries: Conservatism in Early German Zionist Thought // Respondent: Gilad Cohen 

10:15–11:00 Duin, Annika: Post für die Vergangenheit. Briefe als Reaktion auf antisemitische Gewalt 1945-1990 /Letters to the Past. Citizen Responses to Antisemitic Violence, 1945–1990 // Respondent: Anna Hofmann 
 

Session 2 Chair: Rachel Furst 

11:30–12:15 Lüllemann, David: A Jewish Commercial Network in the Early Eighteenth Century? Reassessing the Economic and Social Networks of Joseph Süss - Oppenheimer Through Newly Examined Yiddish and Hebrew Sources // 
Respondent: Thomas C. Glasman

12:15–13:00 Klein, Caleb: Regional Variation in Ashkenazi Hebrew Script in the Thirteenth Century // Respondent: Luis Gruhler


Session 3 Chair: Caroline Jessen 

14:30–15:15 Sommer, Cyra: Nach der Katastrophe. Jeckes in Israel und ihre Beziehungen zu Deutschland, 1945-1990 / After the Catastrophe—Yekkes in Israel and Their Relationships with Germany,1945–1995 // Respondent: Annika Duin

15:15–16:00 Gruhler, Luis: Der Kommentar als philosophische Form bei Salomon Maimon / Commentary as a Philosophical Form in the Work of Salomon Maimon // Respondent: Niklas Lämmel 


17:15 Lecture  Dr. Itamar Ben-Ami (Utrecht University) Un/Visible. Four Kippahs and the Making of Jewish Life in Europe  (Public event in the framework of Leipzig’s “Jüdische Woche”) 

18:30 Conversation of fellows with Itamar Ben-Ami 
 

Session 4 Chair: Rachel Furst

09:30-10:15 Cohen, Gilad: Zionism Beyond Empires: Reinterpreting pre-1948 ideas of “the 
Jewish state” in the light of the fin de siècle connected Jewish Polity // Respondent: David Lüllemann

10:15-11:00 Glasman, Thomas Coleman: The role of Politics, Religion and Interpersonal Conflict on the Development of Set Theory, (1879-1932) // Respondent: Cyra Sommer 


Session 5 Chair: Elisabeth Gallas

11:30–12:15 Hofman, Anna: Visualizing Space: Third Generation Jewish Self-Positioning in Poems and Poetry Films // Respondent: Caleb Klein

12:15–13:00 Lämmel, Niklas: Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism // Respondent: Nathanel Stawski

14:45–15.45 Concluding Panel & Discussion at Dubnow Institute

16:15–17:30 Museum Tour & Talk: Provenance Research and Jewish History, with Dr. Ulrike Saß, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig https://mdbk.de/en/

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