The conference A New Look at German-Jewish History through Photography focuses on the pre-digital age and approaches photography as a means for the historian to explore German-Jewish visual narratives of belonging in the context of both public and private visual language. The event is organised in collaboration with the German Historical Institute London and the Koebner-Minerva Center for German History (Israel). It is part of the Leo Baeck Institute London’s emerging research field Jewish Visual History.
Monday 17th October
Session 1
14.00-15.30
Methodology/Theory Roundtable
Chair: Prof Daniel Magilow (USA)
What is the Place of Photography in German-Jewish History? What to do with Photographs?
Prof Ofer Ashkenazi (Jerusalem)
Prof Michael Berkowitz (London)
Prof Maiken Umbach (Nottingham)
Session 2
16:00 - 17:45
Private Photography
Chair: Prof Ofer Ashkenazi (Jerusalem)
Presence, Absence, Reminiscence: The Home in German-Jewish Photography under Nazism
Shira Miron (Berlin)
Between Lederhosen and Khaki. Jewish Identity Performances Reflected in Private Albums
Dr Hanno Loewy (Hohenems)
Wine Reception
17.45
Tuesday 18th October
Session 3
10.00-11.45
Professional Photography
Chair: Prof Christina von Hodenberg (London)
August Sander's German Jews
Prof Daniel Magilow (USA)
(Not) Looking Back. German-Jewish Photo Editors in Exile
PD Dr Annette Vowinckel (Berlin)
Session 4
13:00 - 14:45
German-Jewish Photography after National Socialism
Chair: Kinga Bloch (London)
On the Morality of Documentary Filmmaking: Visual Evidence and Personal Narratives
Anat Vogman (Filmmaker, Jerusalem)
Home and Away: Jewish Return to Germany after 1945 in Family Photographs
Dr Amit Levy (Jerusalem)
Session 5
15:00 - 16:45
German-Jewish Photography in Transit
Chair: Prof Maiken Umbach (Nottingham)
Roman Holiday: German-Jewish Travellers and their Photographic Encounters with Fascist Italy
Dr Sarah Wobick-Segev (Jerusalem)
The Itinerant Camera: Global Travel and Ethnographic Knowledge in German-Jewish Photography
Dr Rebekka Grossmann (Jerusalem)
Conference Venue
German Historical Institute London
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
