Chaired by Prof Dr Elisabeth Hollender and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Lina Nikou - Vergangenheitstouristen - Tourists of the Past. The Influence of Official Invitations for Jewish Refugees of the Nazi Regime by the Senate of Hamburg on the City’s Historiography (response: David Pruwer)
Olga Zitová - The Weekly Paper Selbstwehr (Self-Defence) (1907-1938) in the Czech Cultural Context (response: Amir Heinitz)
Adam Stern - Rosenzweig’s Jesus (response: Julia Carls)
Session 2
Yaniv Feller - Leo Baeck and the Study of Essences (response: Joseph Malherek)
David Pruwer - Self-criticism and Rupture in Weimar Jewish Orthodoxy (response: Olga Zitová)
Julia Carls - Orthodox Jewish Homiletics in the Early 20th Century (response: Dorothea Kies)
Dorothea Kies - How Sources Interact. Anti-Jewish Pogrom(s) in Erfurt in the 13th Century (response: Lina NIkou)
Session 3
Amir Heinitz - Friedrich Rosen between Orientalist Scholarship and German Foreign Relations in the Orient Methodological Considerations (response: Yaniv Feller)
Andreas Lehnertz - Jewish Seals in Medieval Ashkenaz and their Images (response: Adam Stern)
Joseph Malherek - Victor Gruen’s Retail Therapy: Exiled Jewish Communities and the Invention of the American Shopping Mall as a Postwar Idea (response: Andreas Lehnertz)