The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Tuesday, February 7. Our guest will be Professor Sidra Ezrahi of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will lead a discussion on “Europe, Israel and America in the Twentieth Century: The Global Theatre of Jewish Tragedy, Epic and Comedy.”
paper available JSS – Ezrahi
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar will be Sunday, November 13. This will be a joint session with the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar. Our presenter will be Julie Mell (NCSU). She will lead a discussion of “The Jewish Serfdom that Never Was: Jews and the origins of English representative government.”
paper available JSS-Mell
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on September 11 at 3PM.
Our guest will be Professor Kenneth B. Moss, Felix Posen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of History and Chair, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
He will lead a discussion of ”Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews 1918-1939.”
paper available JSS – Moss
Sept. 11 – Kenneth Moss (Johns Hopkins Univ.) “Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews, 1918-1939″
Nov. 13 – Julie Mell (NCSU) “The Jewish Serfdom That Never Was: Jews and the Origins of English Representative Government”
Dec. 4 – Omar Kamil (Dubnov Institute, Leipzig) “Arab Approaches to Jewish History: Memories and Perceptions” – Cancelled
Feb. 7 – Sidra Ezrahi (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) “Europe, Israel and America in the Twentieth Century: The Global Theatre of Jewish Tragedy, Epic and Comedy”
Feb. 26 – Jonathan Elukin (Trinity College) “Is Shylock Really Jewish? The Devil, Theology and the Meaning of the Merchant of Venice”
March 18 – Christine Hayes (Yale) “Ancient Rabbinic Trolley Problems: The Individual, The Collectivity and the Contraints of Christian Discourse”
April 29 – Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford) “Rabbinic Urban Topography: The Eruv and other Neighborhood Maps”
May 4 – Mirjam and Noam Zadoff (Munich) “German-Jewish Dialogues: Gershom and Wener Scholem”
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on September 11 at 3PM.
Our guest will be Professor Kenneth B. Moss, Felix Posen Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of History and Chair, the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
He will lead a discussion of ”Unchosen Peoplehood: Spoiled Identity, Political Extrusion, and the National Horizon of Polish Jews 1918-1939.”
paper available shortly
The Jewish Studies Seminar will meet on Monday, April 11 at 5PM.
Our guest will be Professor Dan Diner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig. He will lead a discussion of ”World War Two Reframed: History’s Memory in an Era of Globalization.”
paper available JSS – DDiner WW2
Conference in the Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009)
Former Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill)
*** RSVP to Sandi Payne Greene payne@email.unc.edu
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1 PM Opening – Madeline Levine (UNC): Lilian Furst and Postwar European Jewish Intellectuals – East & West
1:15 PM – A clip from Lilian Furst’s video testimony at the Shoah Foundation – Visual History Archive
1:30 PM - Panel: Jewish Remigrés and the German Cold War, Moderator: Malachi Hacohen (Duke)
Ofer Ashkenazi (Minnesota/Hebrew University): The “German-Jewish Symbiosis” as a Cold War Mythology: Konrad Wolf’s Heimat and Jewish Identity
Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth): German-Jewish Socialism and the Transformation of the German Left: Ernst Fraenkel, the Cold War, and “Collective Democracy”
Comment: Daniel Bessner (Duke)
3PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM – Panel: Jewish Émigrés and Postwar Trans-Atlantic Culture, Moderator: Yaakov Ariel (UNC)
Arie Dubnov (Stanford): Diaspora Zionism, “Liberalism of Fear” and Isaiah Berlin’s “philosophical anthropology”
Adi Gordon (Cincinnati): The Need for the “West”: Hans Kohn and the North Atlantic Community
Comment: Sam Kessler (UNC)
5:15 PM Buffet Dinner
6:15 PM – Response: Ethical and Political Dilemmas of Postwar European Jewish Life, Moderator: David Weinstein (Wake Forest)
Martin Bormuth (Tübingen/Columbia)
David Kettler (Bard)
Discussion
Ofer Ashkenazi – Displaced Heimat
Udi Greenberg – Ernst Fraenkel
Adi Gordon – Need for West Hans Kohn
Sponsored by
Triangle Intellectual History Seminar
Duke-UNC Jewish Studies Seminar
Carolina Seminars
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Office of the Provost, Wake Forest University
The Jewish Studies Seminar previously scheduled for March 20 has been changed to Monday, April 11 at 5PM.
Our guest will be Professor Dan Diner of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig. He will lead a discussion of ”Between Empire and Nation State: An Outline for a European Contemporary History of the Jews.”
paper available April 4
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, February 27, 2011. Our guest will be Barbara Mann, Associate Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She will lead a discussion of “Space and Place in Jewish Studies.”
paper available shortly JSS – Mann
The next meeting of the Jewish Studies Seminar is Sunday, January 30, 2011. Our guest will be Alexander (Ari) Joskowicz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, European Studies and History at Vanderbilt University. He will lead a discussion of “Antisemitism, Anti-Catholicism, and Anticlericalism: An Entangled History.”
paper available JSS – Joskowicz
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