Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity
Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Young Scholars Awards Workshop
Program
4.00 – 4.10 p.m. CEST
Opening / Words of Welcome
Armin Lange and Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna)
Part I
Chair: Kerstin Mayerhofer
4.10 – 4.25 p.m. CEST
Impulse Lecture
Michael Brenner (Munich/Washington)
4.25 – 4.35 p.m. CEST
Discussion
4.35 – 4.55 p.m. CEST
The Maimonides Renaissance in Interwar Germany: The Case of Alexander Altmann
Daniel M. Herskowitz (Oxford)
4.55 – 5.10 p.m. CEST
Response by Michael Brenner and Discussion
5.10 – 5.30 p.m. CEST
Survivors and Jewish Identity in Postwar Austria
Rachel Blumenthal (Jerusalem)
5.30 – 5.45 p.m. CEST
Response by Michael Brenner and Discussion
5.45 – 6.00 p.m. CEST
Break
Part II
Chair: Armin Lange
6.00 – 6.20 p.m. CEST
The Pinkas as Locus of Jewish Communal Identity in early-modern Germany
Elisheva Carlebach (New York)
6.20 – 6.30 p.m. CEST
Discussion
6.30 – 6.50 p.m. CEST
The Khazar Origins of Hungarian Jewry: Reflections on an Invented Pedigree
Michael L. Miller (Budapest/Vienna)
6.50 – 7.00 p.m. CEST
Discussion
7.00 – 7.20 p.m. CEST
“The Soul is Greater than the Soil”: Jewish Territorialism and the Jewish Future beyond Europe and Palestine (1905-1960)
Laura Almagor (Sheffield)
7.20 – 7.30 p.m. CEST
Discussion
Part III
7.30 – 8.00 p.m. CEST
Closing Discussion
Armin Lange and Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna)