Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe – The

Organization
Participants
Marion Aptroot (Heinrich -Heine -Universität Düsseldorf)
Shlomo Berger (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Jörg
Deventer (Simon - Dubnow - Institut) Dan Diner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Simon - Dubnow - Institut)
Todd M. Endelman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Shmuel Feiner (Bar - Ilan University) Elliott Horo­witz
(Bar - Ilan University) Gershon D. Hundert (McGill
University) Maoz Kahana (The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem) Iris Idelson - Shein (Tel Aviv University)
Yosef Kaplan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Achim Landwehr (Heinrich -Heine -Universität Düsseldorf) Stefan Litt (National Library of Israel) Natalie
Naimark- Goldberg (Bar - Ilan University) Simon Neuberg
(Universität Trier) Nathanael Riemer (Universität Potsdam) David B. Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrea Schatz (King’s College London) Heinz Schilling
(Humboldt-Universität Berlin) Magda Teter (Wesleyan
University) Rebekka Voß (Goethe -Universität Frankfurt
am Main) Christian Wiese (Goethe -Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Marion Aptroot
Chair of Yiddish Studies, Department of Jewish Studies
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
http://www.phil.hhu.de/jiddisch
Jörg Deventer
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture
at Leipzig University
http://www.dubnow.de
Christian Wiese
Martin Buber Chair in Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
http://www.evtheol.uni-frankfurt.de/buber/
Contact
jiddisch@uni-duesseldorf.de
Tel. + 49 - 211 / 81 - 14292
The conference is open to the public. Admission is free.
International Conference June 24 – 26, 2012
Jewish History and Culture
With the financial support of
• Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Heinrich -Heine -Universität Düsseldorf
• Moe -Radzyner-Stiftung “ Brückenschlag ”
• Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich -Heine -Universität
Düsseldorf
• Simon - Dubnow - Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und
Kultur an der Universität Leipzig
Illustration
University of Amsterdam, Special Collections, Bibliotheca
Rosenthaliana, Hs. Ros. 382, Haggadah, Altona 1738, written and painted by Joseph ben David from Leipnik
in Early Modern Europe –
The Eighteenth Century Reconsidered
Venues
Sunday Evening, June 24, 2012
Künstlerverein Malkasten
Jacobistraße 6
40211 Düsseldorf
Monday – Tuesday, June 25 – 26, 2012
Schloss Jägerhof / Goethe - Museum Düsseldorf
Jacobistraße 2
40211 Düsseldorf
Sunday, June 24
12 : 45 Lunch Break
17 : 00 Welcome
Ulrich von Alemann, Vice President, Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf
Bruno Bleckmann, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
14 : 15 Change and Transition in Everyday Life (I)
Chair: Rebekka Voss (Frankfurt)
17 : 30 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Marion Aptroot (Düsseldorf)
Stefan Litt (Jerusalem)
Games, Inns and Wine: Leisure Activities of Jews and
Attempts to Ban them in Central Europe in the Eighteenth
Century
Shmuel Feiner (Ramat - Gan)
Age of Conflicts and Inventions: New Perspectives on the
Jewish Eighteenth Century
Monday, June 25
09 : 00 Introduction
Jörg Deventer (Leipzig)
09 : 15 Reconsidering Periodizations
Chair: Shmuel Feiner (Ramat - Gan)
Dan Diner (Jerusalem / Leipzig)
Point and Plane: Jewish Conflations in Space and Time
Gershon D. Hundert (Montreal)
The Localization of the Eighteenth Century in European
Jewish History: A Singular Perspective
10 : 45 Coffee Break
11 : 15 Querying Paradigms
Chair: Christian Wiese (Frankfurt)
Heinz Schilling (Berlin)
Konfessionalisierung – Säkularisierung. Anmerkungen zu
einem komplexen Verhältnis
Yosef Kaplan (Jerusalem)
Confessionalization and Secularization in the Judeoconverso Diaspora
Magda Teter (Middletown, CT)
The Pleasures and Dangers of Daily Jewish-Christian
Encounters
Nathanael Riemer (Potsdam)
Generation, Presentation and Diffusion of Pre-Modern
Knowledge in Early Modern Jewish Encyclopedias
10 : 45 Coffee Break
11 : 15 Transfer and Disseminati0n of Knowledge (II)
Simon Neuberg (Trier)
The Making of a Popular Work on Morals and Conduct:
Simkhes hanefesh
15 : 45 Coffee Break
Marion Aptroot (Düsseldorf)
A Yiddish Library for the Jewish Home: A Publisher’s
Vision?
16 : 15 Change and Transition in Everyday Life (II)
12 : 45 Lunch Break
Maoz Kahana (Jerusalem)
Medical Knowledge through a Jewish Lens: Rabbis, Physicians and Alchemists, Hamburg 1736
14 : 00 Threshold Experiences
Chair: Jörg Deventer (Leipzig)
Natalie Naimark- Goldberg (Ramat - Gan)
Changing Perceptions of Marriage among EighteenthCentury German Jews: The Modernization of a Traditional
Institution
17 : 45 Coffee Break
18 : 15 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Christian Wiese (Frankfurt)
David B. Ruderman (Philadelphia)
The Moral Cosmopolitanism of Pinhas Hurwitz, the
Author of Sefer Ha-Brit: Some Initial Reflections on its
Origins and Impact
Tuesday, June 26
09 : 15 Transfer and Disseminati0n of Knowledge (I)
Chair: Achim Landwehr (Düsseldorf)
Shlomo Berger (Amsterdam)
Between Internal and External Culture: Yiddish Books and
their Gatekeeping Roles during the Eighteenth Century
Todd M. Endelman (Ann Arbor)
Why Jews Became Christians in Central and Western
Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Elliott Horowitz (Ramat - Gan)
An Italian Convert to Christianity in Eighteenth-Century
England
15 : 30 Coffee Break
15 : 45 Perceiving the “ Other ”
Chair: Stefan Litt (Jerusalem)
Andrea Schatz (London)
Jewish Orients before the Enlightenment
Iris Idelson - Shein (Tel Aviv)
Race in Translation: Curious Encounters on the Threshold
of Modernity
17 : 15 Concluding Remarks
Chair: Marion Aptroot (Düsseldorf)
Shmuel Feiner (Ramat - Gan)
David B. Ruderman (Philadelphia)