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

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

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