International Conference on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Leo Baeck Institute
Jerusalem, 15-18 May 2005
LBI Jerusalem
Programme
Sunday, 15 May
Opening Session Chair: Michael Meyer (International Chairman LBI)
Greetings Zwi Bacharach (Chairman LBI Jerusalem) Judge Izhak Englard Michael Heyd (Chairman Israel Historical Society)
Keynote Steven Aschheim Icons Beyond their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century
Monday, 16 May
Session I - Visions of Jewish Integration in State and Society Chair: Avraham Barkai Reinhard Rürup Jewish Emancipation and the Vision of Civil Society in Germany Peter Pulzer The Place of Jews in German Historiography Shulamit Volkov Jewish Historiography: Diaspora and Nationalism
Session 2 - The German Jewish Symbiosis: Did it exist, did it have a future? Round-Table Moderator: Richard Cohen Michael Brenner Galili Shachar Moshe Zimmermann
Session 3 - Visions of Enlightenment and Jewish National Identity Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr Shmuel Feiner Moses Mendelssohn's Dreams and Nightmares Deborah Hertz Assimilation Or Emancipation: Competing Visions and Experiences in Biedermeier Germany Elisheva Carlebach "From Luach to Volkskalender" The Presence of the Past in Nineteenth Century German-Jewish Culture
Tuesday, 17 May
Session 4 - Jewish Visions of Family, Community (Kehilla) and Religion Chair: Itta Shedletzky Michael Meyer German Jews Reflect on the Future of the Jewish Religion Steven Lowenstein Demographic Changes in the German Jewish Family, 1815-1939 Yfaat Weiss New "Ostjuden"? Russian Jews in Germany Today
Session 5 - Fears and Hopes: Visions of Antisemitism Round-Table Moderator: Zwi Bacharach Yaacov Borut Raphael Gross Till van Rahden
Session 6 - Comparative Visions of Jewish Emancipation and Emigration in the 20th Century Chair: Dov Kulka Bath Ami Zucker The Traumatic Encounter - German-Jewish Applicants and the U.S. Consuls in NS Germany Dimitry Shumsky "From Bilingualism to Binationalism: The Czecho-German Zionists and the Origins of Zionist Binationalism, 1900-1925" Memories of a German Jewish Neighborhood -A Tour Through Rechavia (in Hebrew)
Wednesday, 18 May
Session 7 - The Legacy of German-Jewish Culture: Then and Now Chair: Monika Richarz Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal The Past as Guide to the Future: Visions of the Wissenschaft des Judentums Robert Liberles Steeped in the Past: Heinrich Graetz's Vision of the Future Andreas Gotzmann Whose History? Perceptions and Visions of the German-Jewish Past in the 19th and 20th Century.
Session 8 - Preserving memories of the Past: The LBI History Project Chair: Frank Mecklenburg Christhard Hoffmann The End of German Jewry and the Future of Its Legacy: Notions of Transferring Cultural Heritage in the Early Leo Baeck Institute Guy Miron From Memorial Community to Research Centre Respondent: Arnold Paucker
Session 9 - Closing remarks Chair: John Grenville and Robert Liberles
