Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Universität Leipzig
Monday, 4 July 2016
10:00 Registration
10:30 Welcome and Introduction
Raphael Gross (Leipzig)
Svetlana Natkovich (Leipzig)
10:45 Imperial Encounters: Political Boundaries and Cultural Diffusion
Chair: Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv)
Paul Reitter (Columbus, Oh.)
Salomon Maimon’s Multinationalism: From the Pre-Partition Polish Commonwealth to the Prussian Kingdom
Israel Bartal (Jerusalem)
Changing Loyalties: Jewish Enlightenment and the Imperial Experience
David Schick (München)
Two Lives under Tsar and King Compared: The Biographies of Markus Silberstein and Eduard Lasker
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Imperial Politics and Jewish Self-Understanding
Chair: Markus Kirchhoff (Leipzig)
Alexey Miller (Saint Petersburg)
Imperial Russia's Jewish Policies before the Advance of Modern Antisemitism in the 1870s
Yaacov Shavit (Tel Aviv)
“This Liberation Was Wrought by a Decree of Reign-King”: Nineteenth-Century East-European Jewish Historians Interpret Russian History
Semion Goldin (Jerusalem)
Russian Liberal Imperialism and the “Jewish Question”: Petr Struve, Simon Dubnov and Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky in Russian Imperial Context
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Law and Order: Legal Conditions and Jewish Identifications
Chair: Jürgen Heyde (Leipzig)
Rachel Manekin (Maryland)
The Austrian Legislator and Jewish Divorce Laws: From Rejection to Accommodation
Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle/Saale)
Jewish Communities and Imperial Administration: Interactions on the Legal Level during the Nineteenth-Century
Ofer Dynes (Cambridge, Mass.)
Tales of Jurisdiction: Polish Jews and the Concept of Imperial Law, 1811–1848
16:45 End of First Day
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
9:15 Between Class and Nation
Chair: Robert Zwarg (Leipzig)
ChaeRan Y. Freeze/Gregory L. Freeze (Waltham, Mass.)
Becoming Russian Aristocrats: The Poliakovs in Imperial Russia
Svetlana Natkovich (Leipzig)
“What is Permissible for Jupiter is not Permissible for an Ox”: Haskalah as a Class Phenomenon
Alex Valdman (Beer Sheva)
A Nationalist-Integrationist Elite? Self-Perception, Practice, and Ideology of the Jewish-Russian Intelligentsia
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Dwellers, Settlers, Citizens, and Patriots: Placing Jews in Imperial Spaces
Chair: Nicolas Berg (Leipzig)
Cornelia Aust (Mainz)
Local, Regional, Transnational: The Jewish Economic Elite in Early Nineteenth-Century Warsaw
Dimitry Shumsky (Jerusalem)
Local Patriotism and Jewish Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky's Odessan Identity
Philipp Nielsen (Berlin)
Representatives of “the Germanic Idea” and “Bulwarks against Russiandom”: Eastern Europe’s Rural Jews in the German(-Jewish) Imagination during the First World War
12:45 Lunch Break
14:00 Sunset of Empires: Imperial Paradigms and Post-Imperial Conditions
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Leipzig)
Dina Gusejnova (Sheffield)
The Status of the Jews during the Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, 1917–1918
Roy Greenwald (Beer Sheva)
Pogrom Literature and the Disintegration of the Self: The Case of L. Shapiro
Marina Mogilner (Chicago, Ill.)
Racializing Jewishness in the Post-Imperial Context: The ARA Relief Campaign in the Volga Region, Jewish Anthropometric Statistics and the Scientific Promise of Integration
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Concluding Panel
Constitutive Others: Jews and Imperial Discourses, Empires and the Formation of Modern Jewish Selves
Chair: Gregory L. Freeze (Waltham, Mass.)
Panelists: Marina Mogilner (Chicago, Ill.), Dina Gusejnova (Sheffield), Israel Bartal (Jerusalem)
17:30 End of Conference