During the academic year the Center holds a weekly bilingual colloquium. The colloquium gives the fellows and other young scholars the opportunity to present their research, as well as to hear lectures by experts in the field.
Monday 19.10.
10:30
Prof. Benjamin Pollock, FRMRC, Hebrew University
Introductions: Language, Translation, and Cultural Transfer in the German-Jewish Experience
Monday 02.11.
10:15
Prof. Gideon Freudenthal, Tel Aviv University Moses Mendelssohn’s and Salomon Maimon’s Ways to Enlightenment
Monday 16.11.
17:00
Prof. Abigail Gillman, Boston University
Translation Revolution: A History of German Jewish Bible Translation
Monday 30.11.
10:15
Anna Kawałko, FRMRC
A German Jew Looks at Postwar Europe: Gershom Scholem in Prague, 1946
Monday 07.12.
17:00-19:00
1. Rosenzweig-Frankel Workshop
Translation in Exile: Hebrew Scripture in Germanfrom Mendelssohn to Buber-Rosenzweig
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Wednesday 09.12.
20:00
Book Launch
The Return to the Archive: Dispersal, Transmission,and Anticipation in Personal Archives between Germany and Israel (Dubnow Jahrbuch Schwerpunkt)
Dr. Lina Barouch and Amit Levy
Traces and Treasures of German-Jewish History in Israel
Dubnow Institute Leipzig
Monday 14.12.
10:15
Prof. Stephan Braese, RWTH Aachen-University
Deutsche Sprachkultur von Juden und die Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch
Wednesday 16.12.
19:00
Book Discussion
Dr. Jan Kühne, FRMRC: Die zionistische Komödie im Drama Sammy Gronemanns
with responses from Dr. Brigitte Dalinger, Prof.
Sander Gilman, Prof. Jakob Hessing, Prof. Peter W.
Marx, and Prof. Moshe Zimmerman
Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
Monday 21.12.
20:00
Prof. Amir Eshel, Stanford University
The Art of the “Holy” in Modern German-Jewish Literature
Monday 04.01.21
20:00
Prof. Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto
Freud, Anna O., and the Linguistic Archeology of the Modern Jewish Self
Thursday 14.01.21
Naharaim-Symposium: Global Mobility and the German-Jewish Experience: Language, Culture, and History in Transition
Prof. Arie Dubnov, George Washington University
Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, FRMRC
Amit Levy, FRMRC
Monday 18.01.21
10:15
Dr. Michal Peles-Almagor, FRMRC
The Wandering Library: S.Y. Agnon between Hebrew and Weltliteratur“
Wednesday 20.01.21
19:00
Book Launch
Prof. Sidra DeKoven-Ezrahi (Hebrew University):
Three Poets of the Sacred Quotidian: Paul Celan,Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis (Hebrew)
with responses from Prof. Shahar Bram, Prof. Chana
Kronfeld, and Asif Rahamim
Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
Begin of 2nd Semester
Monday 15.03.21
10:15
Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani (Tel Aviv University), Dr. Yonatan Mendel (Ben Gurion University)
Presentation on the Maktoob Series, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Monday 22.03.21
17:00-19:00
2. Rosenzweig-Frankel Workshop
Literature and Translation between German and Hebrew Frankel Center
for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Monday, 05.04.21
10:15
Prof. Efrat Gal-Ed, Heinrich Heine Universität
Das utopische Projekt “Jiddischland”
Monday, 19.04.21
10:15
Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, FRMRC
Exilic Explorations. Approaching Jewish History through the Global Lens of Photography
Monday, 03.05.21
10:15
Ori Werdiger, FRMRC
”An Indirect Way to Proclaim Our Truth”: The Stakes of Jewish Translation in Interwar Germany and
Postwar France
Monday, 24.5.21
10:15
Asif Rahamim, FRMRC
”Singbarer Rest, ein Gegenwort”: Paul Celan and the Poetics of What Remains.
Monday, 07.06.21
10:15
Dr. Hanan Harif, Ben Zvi Institute
The Orientalist as Advocate: Infanticide and Exoticism in Mandate-Palestine
Monday, 21.06.21
10:15
Dr. Orr Scharf, Haifa University
Translation as a Mode of Philosophizing: Franz Rosenzweig's Maimonidean Lesson
Monday, 28.06.21
10:15
Final Workshop
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During the academic year the Center holds a weekly bilingual colloquium. The colloquium gives the fellows and other young scholars the opportunity to present their research, as well as to hear lectures by experts in the field.
Date |
Title |
In cooperation with- |
Venue |
Monday 28.10.19 10:00 |
Prof. Benjamin Pollock, FRMRC, Hebrew University Bildung and Therapy: German-Jewish Self-Formation Introductions |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 4.11.19 10:15 |
National Library Archive, incl. new Kafka-collection Tour by Dr. Stefan Litt |
|
The National Library, Givat Ram |
Monday 11.11.19 10:15 |
Prof. Maren Niehoff, Hebrew University
Alexandria as a Paradigm for Berlin |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 18.11.19 10:15 |
Prof. Michael Morgan, Indiana University
Philosophy, Therapy of the Soul, and Modern Jewish Philosophy |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 25.11.19 10:15 |
Dr. Yuval Kremnitzer, FRMRC
Mendelssohn and Kant on Enlightenment and Bildung: The Clash Between Individual and World-Historical Perfectionism |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 2.12.19 10:15 |
Prof. Paul North, Yale University
Kafka and the Progress Myth |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 9.12.19 10:15 |
Sabrina Habel, FRMRC, Zurich University
Carl Sternheim’s Comedies and the Formation of the Individual |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday-Tuesday 16-17.12.19 10:15 |
International Conference
The Conspiracy of the Good or Necessary Evil |
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows |
Mandel Building Room 530 |
Thursday 19.12.19 19:30 |
Prof. Amir Eshel, Stanford University
Poetic Thinking (Book presentation) |
Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) |
LBI |
Thursday 9.01.20 |
Beirat Meeting, FRMRC |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 13.01.20 10:15 |
Prof. Andreas Kilcher, Zurich University
Erzählen als Heilen |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Thursday 23.01.20 10:30-19:00 |
Tuvia Rübner in Memoriam |
Mandel Scholion |
Mandel 530 |
Monday 27.01.20 10:15 |
Dr. Idit Alphandary, Tel Aviv University
The Sincerity of Forgiveness: The Value of Resentment in Works by Heinrich Böll and Jean Améry |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Wednesday 29.01.20 19:00 |
"Synchronisation in Birkenwald" by Viktor Frankl
Scenic Re-enactment |
LBI Yad Vashem |
Yad Vashem |
Thursday 30.01.20 |
"The Dual State" by Ernest Fraenkl
Reflections on new Hebrew translation by Prof. Barak Medina, Prof. Dan Diner, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer and Prof. Yfaat Weiss
|
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Van Leer |
Wednesday-Friday 26-28.02.20 |
International Workshop
Emanzipation des Individuums — Emanzipation des Kollektivs |
Bar Ilan University, Augsburg University |
Bar Ilan University |
2nd Semester |
|
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Monday 16.03.20 10:15 |
Prof. José Brunner, Tel Aviv University
Psychoanalysis as a Pagan Game: Freud on the Science of the Unconscious |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Wednesday 18.03.20 19:00 |
Kerstin Schoor, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
The Crisis of Enlightenment. Cultural and Literary Discourses on Traditions of German Culture within the Jewish Cultural Circle in National Socialist Germany |
LBI |
LBI |
Monday 23.03.20 10:15 |
Dr. Yehuda Oren, Lakritz-Fellow, FRMRC
From Substance to Subject: Fichte and Rabbi Kook on the Knowledge of God |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Tuesday 24.03.20 19:00 |
Elazar Benyoëtz: Es dunkelt, wie mir scheint
Poetry Reading |
LBI |
LBI |
Monday 30.03.20 10:15 |
Inka Sauter, FRMRC
Tradition in Translation. On the Historical Semantics of the Buber-Rosenzweig- Bible |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 27.04.20 10:15 |
Dr. Dror Ynon, Bar-Ilan University
Eros and the Recreation of the Self |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday
11.05.20 |
Zarin Aschrafi, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig
Growing up in the Land of the Murderers. Erziehung and Self-Formation of the Jewish Youth in Post-War Germany |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 25.05.20 10:15 |
Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan, FRMRC
A borrowed history? On German-speaking Historians in Israel |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 08.06.19 10:15 |
Dr. Natasha Gordinsky, Haifa University
"Mein Deutsch blieb in der Spannung der Unerreichbarkeit": Katja Petrowskaja's Bildungsroman "Vielleicht Esther" |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Wednesday-Thursday 10-11.06.20
|
International Conference
Bildung & Therapy: German-Jewish Self-Formation |
LOEWE–Religiöse Positionierung, Goethe University Frankfurt |
Rabin 2001 |
Monday
22.06.20 |
Alexander Alon, Zurich University
Aporien des Klassizismus im frühen Zionismus: Agitationsliteratur, Massenpolitik (Kongresswesen), Wissensproduktion |
|
Rabin 1001 |
Monday 22.06.20 11:30 |
End of Term Picnic |
|
The Botanical Gardens, Mt. Scopus |
Workshop:
"Pedagogy of Separation: Jewish and Arab Education Systems in British Mandate Palestine"
Lecture:
Dr. Lutz Fiedler
"Israel in Revolution - Matzpen, the Palestine Conflict and the Hebrew Nation"
Adi Livny
"A Portrait of Pragmatic Radical: Werner Senator, 'Ihud' and Binationalism"
Book Launch:
Shelly Zer-Zion
"Habima in Berlin: The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater"
Lecture:
Dr. Roberto Navarrete
"Vom Historizismus zum Messianismus: Die Hegelsche Abstammung des theologisch-politischen Traktats Franz Rosenzweigs"
Dr. Enrico Lucca
"Franz Rosenzweig in Israel: S. H. Bergmann's Reading"
Chair: Prof. Benjamin Pollock
Lecture:
Dr. Oren Roman
"The Binding of Isaac in 18th Century Germany"
Chair: Dr. Aya Elyada
Workshop:
Lecture:
Anna Kawalko
"Restraining the Wild German East: German Heritage and Nation-Building in Lower Silesia, 1945-1947"
Yechiel Weizman
"Unsettled Property: The Question of Ownership of Abandoned Jewish Sites in Poland after the Shoa"
Chair: Prof. Daniel Blatman
Lecture:
Yehuda Dvorkin
"Pestalozzistrasse Synagoge - Liberal Judaism in Germany after the War (1945-1953)"
Bilha Shilo
"The Restitution of the YIVO Collection from Offenbach to YIVO New York after World War II"
Chair: Prof. Richard I. Cohen
Lecture:
Philip-Emanuel Karaschuk (University of Fribourg/Switzerland)
"Transfer of Knowledge: Establishment and Transformation of Anthroposophy in Israel since the 1920s"
Commentator: Miriam Szamet
Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Suanne Zepp (Free University of Berlin)
"Paris 1935: The First International Conference of Writers for the Defence of Culture"
Chair: Prof. Yossi Mali (Tel Aviv University)
Workshop:
"The 11th Annual Workshop for Young Israeli Scholars for German History and Culture"
Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Annegret Pelz (Universität Wien)
"Wasser, Flecken und Sedimente. Gedächtnisfiguren bei Ilse Aichinger"
Lecture:
Dr. Elisabeth Gallas
"Facing Catastrophe: The Conference on Jewish Relations, 1933-1955"
Workshop:
"Tangled Heritage. Jewish Publishing Cultures in the Interwar Period"
Colloquium:
"The Humanities between Germany and Israel: Historical Perspectives"
Workshop:
German Orientalism and Mizrahi Orientalists: The Study of Arabic Language and Culture in the Old Yishuv and in Mandatory Palestine
International Conference:
The Genre of Criticism. About Jewish and Other Diagnosticians of the Times
Guest Lecture:
Gil Rubin (PhD Candidate, Columbia University NY)
Why did Hannah Arendt Call Binationalism "Suicidal"? Arendt on Zionism, 1939-1948
Workshop:
למוסקבה, למוסקבה! המטרופולין האירופאית והולדתה של הספרות העברית המודרנית
Guest Lecture:
Prof. em. Sander L. Gilman (Emory University)
Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews or Jewish Nomads?
Chair: Prof. Yfaat Weiss
Seminar:
Katja Petrowskaja
Reading:
Katja Petrowskaja
Preparation Seminar with Prof. Birgit Erdle
Katja Petrowskaja’s Literature
Workshop:
The 10th Annual Workshop for Young Israeli Scholars for German History and Culture
Guest Lecture:
Prof. em. Bernard Wasserstein (University of Chicago)
The Master and His Messenger: Lothar Bickel and the Brunnerian Cult
Chair: Dr. Martin Rodan