The Leo Baeck Seminar takes place twice a year and brings together professors and doctoral fellows from various universities and subdisciplines to discuss their work in progress. The first seminar, which takes place during the autumn, enables the fellows, who are at different stages of their writing, to share their work for the first time in this context and receive feedback in a safe, constructive and stimulating academic environment. When meeting for the second seminar during the summer, the participants are already familiar with each other’s work. This enables the group to dive into a more thorough and detailed discussion on every dissertation project and to assist each fellow in further developing and improving his or her work. In addition, the seminar program usually consists of outdoors activities which are related to the history and culture of the location in which the seminar takes place. These activities are not only refreshing and insightful, but they also provide the participants with the opportunity to get to know each other on a personal level, thus, creating a strong network of scholars and encouraging future cooperation.
Leo Baeck Fellowship Workshops
2025
2024
18th, 20th of November, 2nd, 9th December 2024
4.00-6.00pm Berlin Time
Participants:
2023
Monday, 12 June 2023
Programme
Session 1
16.00-18.30 Berlin time
16.00-16.15 Opening Remarks
One slot takes 35 minutes: the 5 minute presentation is followed by a 2 minute commentary delivered by one of the other fellows attending, 15 minutes of general discussion, max. 5 minutes of commentary by Elisabeth Gallas, Caroline Jessen or Miriam Rürup and finally a response to this last commentary by the original speaker.
2022
Monday, 14th November 2022
Programme
Session 1
4.00-5.50 Berlin time
4.00-4.30 Opening Remarks
One slot takes 35 minutes: the 6 minute presentation is followed by a 2 minute commentary
delivered by one of the other fellows attending, 15 minutes of general discussion, max. 5
minutes of commentary by Stefanie Fisher or Caroline Jessen and finally a response to this
Wednesday, 15th June 2022
Programme
Session 1
15.00-17.00 Berlin time
15.00-15.15 Opening Remarks
One slot takes 35 minutes: the 6 minute presentation is followed by a 2 minute commentary delivered by one of the other fellows attending, 15 minutes of general discussion, max. 5 minutes of commentary by Daniel Wildmann or Elisabeth Gallas and finally a response to this last commentary by the original speaker.
2021
Wednesday, 10th November 2021
Programme
Session 1
16.00-17.50 Berlin time
16.00-16.30 Opening Remarks
One slot takes 35 minutes: the 6 minute presentation is followed by a 2 minute commentary delivered by one of the other fellows attending, 15 minutes of general discussion, max. 5 minutes of commentary by Daniel Wildmann or Elisabeth Gallas and finally a response to this last commentary by the original speaker.
Online Workshop, 22nd, 29th, 30th of June 2021
Chaired by Dr Elisabeth Gallas and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Opening Remarks Annika Funke: Organisationsformen ländlicher Judensiedlungen zwischen Zentralität und Dispersion. Ein Vergleich regionaler Netzwerke im Elsass und in der Wetterau im ausgehenden Mittelalter
2020
Online Workshop, 8th – 9th December 2020
(originally scheduled for Leipzig in June 2020, postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and staged as a Zoom conference)
Chaired by Dr Peter Antres and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Opening Remarks
Alisha Meininghaus: Jewish birth-amulets as an indicator for changing concepts of ‘religion’, ‘magic’ and gender roles in past and present
Online Workshop, 10th, 11th, 18th and 19th November 2020
Chaired by Dr Elisabeth Gallas and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Opening Remarks
Annika Funke: Organisationsformen ländlicher Judensiedlungen zwischen Zentralität und Dispersion. Ein Vergleich regionaler Netzwerke im Elsass und in der Wetterau im ausgehenden Mittelalter
2019
Workshop in Brighton, 3rd – 6th November 2019
Chaired by Dr Peter Antres and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Guided Tour at Brighton Pavilion
Session 1
Opening Remarks
Aviya Doron: Economic interactions between Jews and Christians – Trust and Risk in Medieval Urban Environment. (response: Zarin Aschrafi)
The Leo Baeck Institute is happy to announce the second workshop of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2018/19 from 23rd - 26th June 2019 in Leipzig.
The Leo Baeck Institute is happy to announce the second workshop of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2018/19 from 23rd - 26th June 2019 in Leipzig.
Venue: Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow
Chaired by Dr Peter Antres and Dr Daniel Wildmann
23. – 26. June 2019
Programme
Guided tour through the permanent exhibition on “Dictatorship and Democracy after 1945” in the “Zeitgeschichtliches Forum”.
Session 1
2018
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Dr Elisabeth Gallas and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Josef Northmann: Futures’ Past: Commerce, Capital and the Rise and Fall of the Commodity Exchange in German Economic Life, 1870 – 1935 (response: Felix Hempe)
Chaired by Dr Miriam Rürup and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Guest speaker: Baroness Julia Neuberger
Programme
Session 1
Film ‘Jud Süß’, with an introduction by Daniel Wildmann
Session 2
Ahuva Liberles Noiman: Das Leben von Konvertiten im Spätmittelalter (response: Sara Halpern)
2017
The Leo Baeck Institute is happy to announce the first workshop of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2017/18 from 15th – 18th October 2017 in Brighton
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Prof Dr David Rechter, Dr Andrea Schatz and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Miriam Fenton: Everyday Life, Identity, and Communal Relations: A Comparison of Khehilot Shum and Aragon, c. 1200-1347 (response: Alexander Walther)
Chaired by Prof Dr Sharon Gillerman, Prof Dr David Rechter, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Agnes Kelemen: The Migration of the Numerus Clausus Exiles. Hungarian Jewish Students in Interwar Europe (response: Lucia Linares)
Felix Schölch: Zuhause zwischen Isar und Jordan. Leben und Werk Schalom Ben-Chorins (response: Omer Michaelis)
2016
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Prof Dr Sharon Gillerman, Prof Dr David Rechter, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Prof Dr Sharon Gillerman, Prof Dr David Rechter, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Tuvia Singer - Nationalism, Regionalism and Cosmology: Minorities and Foreigners in German Folk-Narratives in the Nineteenth Century (response: Lotte Houwink ten Cate)
Chaired by Prof Dr Sara Lipton, and Prof Dr Christhard Hoffmann
Programme
Session 1
Miriam Szamet - Immigration and Education: Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in the Modern Jewish community in Palestine, 1900 - 1930 (response: Ido Harari)
Chaired by Prof Dr Sara Lipton, and Prof Dr Christhard Hoffmann
Programme
Session 1
Miriam Szamet – Immigration and Education: Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in the Modern Jewish community in Palestine, 1900 – 1930 (response: Ido Harari)
Nisrine Rahal – A Garden of Children and the Education of Citizens: The German Kinder-garten Movement from 1837-1880 (response: Julia Lange)
2015
Chaired by Prof Dr Sara Lipton, Prof Dr David Rechter, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Annegret Oehme - Adapting Arthur The Transformations and Adaptations of Wirnt of Grafenberg’s Wigalois (response: Tally Gur)
Yakov Mayer - The Reception of the Jerusalem Talmud in the Early Modern Period (response: Marie Sophie Graf)
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)
2014
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Prof Dr Raphael Gross, Dr Claudia Prestel, and Dr Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Dorothea Kies - History and Knowledge: Jews in the Christian Historiography of the 13th Century (response: Lina NIkou)
Andreas Lehnertz - Jewish Seals in Late Medieval Ashkenaz (response: Adam Stern)
Programme
Session 1
Yael Almog - Hebrew Reminiscences – the Secular Readership of Modern Hermeneutics (response: Anna Koch)
Alexandra Zirkle - “Was ist nun ein Gotteshaus“: The Temple Cultus in Nineteenth-Century German Jewish Scriptural Hermeneutics (response: Kevin McNamara)
2013
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Miriam Rürup, and Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Session 1
Yael Almog – Hebrew Reminiscences – the Secular Readership of Modern Hermeneutics (response: Anna Koch)
Chaired by Marion Kaplan, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Programme
Lecture Prof. Marion Kaplan - Lisbon is Sold Out! The Daily Lives of Jewish Refugees in Portugal during World War II
Session 1
Nicholas Baer – Dialectics of Jewish Renewal: The Promised Land in Early Zionist Cinema (response: Daniela Bartáková)
2012
Chaired by Marion Kaplan, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Nicholas Baer
Chaired by Elisabeth Hollender, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Lisa Schoß
2011
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Vivian Liska, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Joshua Teplitsky
Chaired by Cathy Gelbin, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Oren Roman
2010
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Cathy Gelbin, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Roy Ben-Shai
Workshop at Kleineich
Chaired by Cathy Gelbin, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Sophie Zimmer
The second Leo Baeck Fellows workshop, held in Kleinich in the country house «Arnoth» (30 May – 2 June 2010), was characterized by the diversity not only of the research topics, but of the extra-curricular activities and evening discussions.
2009
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Cathy Gelbin, Raphael Gross, and Daniel Wildmann
Report by Iris Idelsohn Shein
The Workshop was held at the Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes, Université de Mon- tréal, December 7/8, 2009.
2008
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Liliane Weissenberg and Raphael Gross
Report by Kerry Wallach
Chaired by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Raphael Gross
Report by Amalia Kedem
The second workshop of the 2007/8 Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme took place in Prague on 5–8 May 2008. The main purpose of the workshop was to give the fellows an additional opportunity to exchange ideas and learn from each other’s thoughts and projects.
2007
Workshop at the University of Sussex, England
Chaired by Yfaat Weiss and Raphael Gross
Report by Dr Yaacov Deutsch
2006
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