Colloquium 2020/21

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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Colloquium 2019/20

 

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

 

 

 

 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

 

 

 

 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
 10:15

 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
 10:15

 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

 

Colloquium 2015/16

22-23.06.2016

Workshop:

"Pedagogy of Separation: Jewish and Arab Education Systems in British Mandate Palestine"

30.05.2016

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"

25.05.2016

Book Launch:

Shelly Zer-Zion
"Habima in Berlin: The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theater"

09.05.2016

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

11.04.2016

Lecture:

Dr. Oren Roman
"The Binding of Isaac in 18th Century Germany"

Chair: Dr. Aya Elyada

05.04.2016

Workshop:

"Museums of What Is Still to Happen. Encounters of Hebrew and German Language in 20th Century Hebrew Poetry"

28.03.2016

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

22.03.2016

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

07.03.2016

Lecture:

Philip-Emanuel Karaschuk (University of Fribourg/Switzerland)
"Transfer of Knowledge: Establishment and Transformation of Anthroposophy in Israel since the 1920s"

Commentator: Miriam Szamet

22.02.2016

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)

25.01.2016

Workshop:

"The 11th Annual Workshop for Young Israeli Scholars for German History and Culture"

17.12.2015

Lecture:

Prof. Dr. Annegret Pelz (Universität Wien)
"Wasser, Flecken und Sedimente. Gedächtnisfiguren bei Ilse Aichinger"

15.12.2015

Lecture:

Dr. Elisabeth Gallas
"Facing Catastrophe: The Conference on Jewish Relations, 1933-1955"

07.12.2015

Workshop:

"Tangled Heritage. Jewish Publishing Cultures in the Interwar Period"

01-02.11.2015

Colloquium:

"The Humanities between Germany and Israel: Historical Perspectives"

Colloquium 2015

11.06.2015

Workshop:

German Orientalism and Mizrahi Orientalists: The Study of Arabic Language and Culture in the Old Yishuv and in Mandatory Palestine

31.05-2.6.2015

International Conference:

The Genre of Criticism. About Jewish and Other Diagnosticians of the Times

19.3.2015

Guest Lecture:

Gil Rubin (PhD Candidate, Columbia University NY)
Why did Hannah Arendt Call Binationalism "Suicidal"? Arendt on Zionism, 1939-1948

15-16.3.2015

Workshop:

למוסקבה, למוסקבה! המטרופולין האירופאית והולדתה של הספרות העברית המודרנית

12.3.2015

Guest Lecture:

Prof. em. Sander L. Gilman (Emory University)
Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews or Jewish Nomads?
Chair: Prof. Yfaat Weiss

10.2.2015

Seminar:

Katja Petrowskaja

9.2.2015

Reading:

Katja Petrowskaja

4.2.2015

Preparation Seminar with Prof. Birgit Erdle

Katja Petrowskaja’s Literature

2.2.2015

Workshop:

The 10th Annual Workshop for Young Israeli Scholars for German History and Culture

15.01.2015

Guest Lecture:

Prof. em. Bernard Wasserstein (University of Chicago)
The Master and His Messenger: Lothar Bickel and the Brunnerian Cult
Chair: Dr. Martin Rodan