Doctoral Network in Jewish History: Basel, Manchester and QMUL
At the School of History, QMUL, 23 April 2015
Venue: The Leo Baeck Institute Library, Arts Two, Second Floor
Hosted by Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL), with Distinguished Guest Professor Erik Petry (Basel) Programme
10.00 Coffee and Welcome
10.15-11.30 Session I: Entangled Lives in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Katharina Keim (PGR, Manchester): Pirqei de Rabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality, and Historical Context Marci Freedman (PGR, QMUL): Transmission and Reception of Benjamin of Tudela's ‘Book of Travels’ Cecil Reid (PGR, QMUL): A Fourteenth-Century Purim Story: Treachery and Salvation at the Court of Alfonso XI of Castile (1340) Benjamin Williams (Leverhulme ECF, Manchester): Reading the Bible in the Ottoman Empire
11.30-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.30 Session II: German-Jewish Experiences Sabina Bossert (PhD student, Basel): ‘A humble tool in the hands of God’ – Religious elements in David Frankfurter’s life Tabea Richardson (PGR, QMUL): Trespassing racial, national and religious identity in Germany before and after the Holocaust: Jewish and Christian women in the so-called Christian-Jewish dialogue
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.20 Walk around the Mile End campus
2.20-3.00 Session III: Facing Racial States Rodney Reznek (PGR, QMUL): Cosmopolitanism in the 1930s Discourse on German Jewish Immigration into South Africa Florence Largilliere (PGR, QMUL): Conflicting Identities: Discourses of Fascist Italian Jews Faced with the Racial Laws
3.00-3.15 Tea
3.15-4.15 Session IV: Contemporary Jewish Identities Selin Yilmaz (PhD student, Basel/Istanbul): Rethinking of the National Security Doctrine of Israel in the context of the Constant Perception of Existential Threat Tereza Ward (PGR, Machester): Social and Religious Jewish Nonconformity: Representations of the Anglo-Jewish Experience in the Oral Testimony Archive of the Manchester Jewish Museum Joe Cronin (PGR, QMUL): How did the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union change attitudes towards the Holocaust in Germany’s Jewish communities?
4.45 Guest lecture by Professor Erik Petry (Basel) What is Jewish History, and why work towards a PhD in Jewish History?f
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