International Conference
Challenging the Concept of the „Other“: Jewish and German Culture in Weimar Germany
Monday-Wednesday, November, 16-18, 2009
at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem
Academic Director: Dr. Karin Neuburger
The conference aims at investigating the dynamic relations between "self” and "other" as manifest in the literature and related arts produced by Germans and Jews in Weimar Germany, at a time when modernism reached its peak concomitantly problematizing well entrenched conceptions of "subject," "tradition," and "artistic value." From today's perspective, these oeuvres, comparatively viewed, apparently destabilize notions such as “other” and “identity,” insiders and outsiders. The conference will engage with alternatives to this conceptual framework, as they emerge from the partially unaware parallels between the discussed works.
The conference is organized by Dr. Karin Neuburger (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in cooperation with the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, the Institute for Middle and Eastern European Cultures, the Thyssen Foundation and the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Program:
Monday, November 16, 2009
17.30-18.00 Gathering
18.00-18.30 Greetings
Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Prof. Israel Bartal, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Opening Remarks: Dr. Karin Neuburger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
18.30-20.00
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Ritchie Robertson, St. John’s College, Oxford
‘The Past is Another Country’: Constructions of History in Novels by Jewish Authors in the Weimar Republic
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
09.00-11.00
Chair: Prof. Cyril Aslanov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Ashraf Noor, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Der Ort eines Worts”: Language and Exteriority in Wittgenstein and Heidegger 1930-1935
Prof. Stephan Braese, RWTH Aachen
The Otherness of Language: Kraus, Kafka, Klemperer, and German Sprachkultur of Jews
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.30
Chair: Prof. Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp
Kafka, the Other and the End
Prof. Amir Eshel, Stanford University
Paul Celan’s Other Reconsidered
13.30-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-16.30
Chair: Prof. Jakob Hessing, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Ruth HaCohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arnold Schoenberg among Alter Egos
Dr. Hanni Mittelmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recasting The Other: The Stories of Albert Ehrenstein
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
09.00-11.00
Chair: Prof. Avraham Novershtern, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ms. Rachel Seelig, University of Chicago
A Yiddish Bard in Berlin: Moishe Kulbak and the Invisible
Flourishing of Yiddish Poetry in Exile
Dr. Aminadav Dykman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Other in the Hebrew Tradition of Translation
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.30
Chair: Dr. Yoav Rinon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Nitzan Lebovic, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
A German-Jewish Treshold: A Prophecy to the Gentiles
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-15.30
Chair: Ms. Irene Aue, The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Yfaat Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leah Goldberg and German Orientalism
Dr. Karin Neuburger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Uri Zvi Greenberg’s Farewell to Europe
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30
Round Table
Chair: Dr. Karin Neuburger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Ruth HaCohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp
Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
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