11th International Carlebach Conference
Wissenschaft des Judentums: Judaism and the Science of Judaism – 200 Years of Academic Thought on Religion March 19th - 21th, 2017
March 19th 15:00 / Greetings Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Bar Ilan University President Christian Jörgens, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Tel Aviv Dr. Andreas Brämer, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg Prof. Doerte Bischoff, Universität Hamburg Prof. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach – Words of Welcome
16:00-17:30 / First Session: The 19th Century Chair: Thomas Meyer Itta Shedletzky (Jerusalem) Ludwig Philippson, Abraham Geiger. Sara Hirsch: Jewish Fiction Literature in 19th Century Germany between Religion and Wissenschaft Andreas Brämer (Hamburg) The Religious Dialectics of Jewish Scholarship – How God Temporarily Took a Back Seat in Early Wissenschaft des Judentums George Y. Kohler (Bar Ilan) Theology as a Wissenschaft des Judentums Discipline between 1849 and 1910 – An Overview
18:00 / Keynote Lecture Michael A. Meyer (Cincinnati) Jewish Scholarship and Religious Commitment - Their Relative Roles in the Writings of Rabbi Leo Baeck
Festive Reception
March 20th 09:30-11:00 / Morning Session A: Figures: Munk, Lazarus, Brann Chair: Andreas Brämer Chiara Adorisio (Rome) Salomon Munk - Religion and the Ideal of Wissenschaft Hanoch Ben Pazi (Bar Ilan) The Religious Ethics of Moritz Lazarus Noa Sophie Kohler (Beer Sheva) Marcus Brann on Religious Identity: Can non-Jews be Wissenschaft des Judentums Scholars?
Coffee break
11:30-13:00 / Morning Session B: Cohen and Diaspora Chair: George Y. Kohler Daniel Weiss (Cambridge) Max Kadushin, Hermann Cohen, and the Scholarly Investigation of Classical Rabbinic Literature’s non-Scientific Rationality Michael Moxter (Hamburg) Learning from Hermann Cohen. Barth’s Understanding of Theology as a Science Andreas Kilcher (Zurich) Wissenschaft des Judentums and Diaspora Theory
15:00-16:30 / Afternoon Session A: Beyond Germany Chair: Hanoch Ben Pazi Asher Salah (Jerusalem) Christian Orientalists and Wissenschaft des Judentums in Italy Björn Siegel (Hamburg) Jewish Modernity on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Fritz Pinkuss and Heinrich Lemle
March 21th 09:30-11:00 / Morning Session A: Leo Strauss Chair: Alfred Bodenheimer Yehuda Halper (Bar Ilan) God, Δαιμόνιον, and “The Absent Philosopher”: Constructing a Socratic Dialogue between Halevi and His Readers according to Leo Strauss’ Thomas Meyer (Munich) Julius Guttmann, Leo Strauss, and the Problem of ‘Political Theology’ in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1925-1938) Cedric Cohen Skalli (Haifa) Between Yitzhak Baer and Leo Strauss: The Rediscovery of Isaac Abravanel’s Political Thought in the late 1930s
Coffee break
11:30-13:00 / Morning Session B: Weimar and beyond Chair: Doerte Bischoff Meir Seidler (Ariel University) Rabbi Joseph Carlebach and Biblical Criticism Martin Treml (London) Between Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Warburg Circle: The Case of Hans Liebeschütz Beate Meyer (Hamburg) Studying in Times of Persecution - Student’s Experiences at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (1940-1942)
15:00-16:30 / Afternoon Session: The Bible Chair: Michael A. Meyer Alexandra Zirkle (Chicago) Biblical Hermeneutics: Between Wissenschaft and Religion Chanan Gafni (Beer Sheva) The Jewish Discovery of the Apocrypha:A Case of Cultural Assimilation or Jewish Patriotism?
17:00 / Closing Session with Final Lecture Alfred Bodenheimer (Basel) Jewish Studies as Successor of Wissenschaft des Judentums? What Can Be Achieved in the 21st Century? |
