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)

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