Brighton, 13-14 December 2004
Leo Baeck Institute London Bucerius Institute Centre for German-Jewish Studies
Organised by: Yfaat Weiss (Director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa) Raphael Gross (Director of the Leo Baeck Institute, London and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex)
Programme
Monday, 13 December 2004
Welcome Address Richard Whatmore (Head of Department (History), University of Sussex) Yfaat Weiss (Director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa) Raphael Gross (Director of the Leo Baeck Institute, London and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex) Harriet Murav (Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois) The New Golem and the Russian Jew in Germany Today Olaf Terpitz (Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig and Bucerius Institute, Haifa University) Russian Jewish Authors in Germany After 1989: Between ‘Russendisko’ and the ‘Jewish Peninsula’; The Different Artistic and ‘Lebensweltliche’ Concepts of Wladimir Kaminer and Oleg Jurev Chair: Stella Rock (University of Sussex) Yvonne Schütze (Professor, Humboldt University Berlin) Young Russian Jewish Immigrants in Berlin – the Process of Adaptation and Acculturation over time Chair: Nils Roemer (University of Southampton, School of Humanities- (History))
Tuesday, 14 December 2004
Yinon Cohen (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University) Jewish immigrants from the FSU in Germany and Israel: Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics Paper co-authored with Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) Chair: Andrea Hammel (University of Sussex) Julia Bernstein (Ph.D. student, Department of sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) Coping with ‘Capitalism’: How Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany experience and interpret their new Societies Victoria Hegner (Ph.D. candidate, Humboldt University Berlin) Historical Responsibility’ vs. ‘Freedom’- A Comparative study of Settlement Patterns among Soviet Jewish Migrants in Berlin and Chicago Chair: Irena Kogan (University of Mannheim) Nelly Elias (Department of Mass Communication, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Sapir Academic College) ‘We live in Germany, but our heart is in Israel’: Identity Seeking and Cultural Preservation among the participants of Nash Dom Club in Köln Simon Rabinovitch (Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University) The Dawn of a New Diaspora: Simon Dubnovs Autonomism from St. Petersburg to Berlin Chair: Rudolf Muhs (Lecturer in European History, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway, University of London)
