Conference in the Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009)
Former Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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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
Conference Abstracts
Ofer Ashkenazi – Displaced Heimat
Udi Greenberg – Ernst Fraenkel
Arie Dubnov – Isaiah Berlin
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