TUESDAY, 17 JULY 2012

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL, Givat Ram University Campus

9.00 a.m.
Registration & Introduction
Dieter Hecht, Louise Hecht, Stephan Wendehorst

9.30 - 11.00 a.m.
The Holy Roman Empire I
Thomas Lau, Fribourg

Coffee

11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
The Holy Roman Empire II
Thomas Lau, Fribourg

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Welcome Addresses
Director of the National Library of Israel

Palaeography I: Archival sources on early modern Jewish history in the Federal Republic
Friedrich Battenberg, Darmstadt

Palaeography I: Archival sources on early modern Jewish history in Jerusalem
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Palaeography A II: German manuscripts & sources – Introduction
Thomas Lau, Fribourg

Palaeography B II: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, beginners’ level – Introduction
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Palaeography C II: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Records from 17th century Jewish minute books: Frankfurt-on-Main and Altona
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

HEBREW UNIVERSITY, MOUNT SCOPUS CAMPUS, RABIN BUILDING (HUJIRab)

6.30 – 8.00 p.m.
Welcome Addresses
Reuven Amitai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Horst Carl, Gießen, Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna, Thomas Lau, Fribourg
for the research cluster “The Jewish Holy Roman Empire”  

Key-Note Lecture: Égalité avant la lettre? Joseph II’s Edicts of Toleration for the Jews, 1781-1789
Michael K. Silber, Jerusalem

 

THURSDAY, 19 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A IV: German manuscripts & sources for beginners
Thomas Lau, Fribourg

Palaeography B IV: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Palaeography C IV: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level - Statutes of an 18th Century Jewish Community – Fürth
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Coffee
 
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Jews as a Group, the Principle of Parity and the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Mendelssohn’s Language Politics and the Jewish Oath
Grit Schorch, Halle-Wittenberg

Coffee

4.00 - 5.30 p.m.
Community, Congregation, or Commune? Jewish Gemeinden and Gemeindesinn in the Habsburg Monarchy
Michael Miller, Budapest

 

SUNDAY, 22 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A V: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – An expulsion decree on trial at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar: The Jews of Ettenheim against the Prince-Bishop of Straßburg
Anette Baumann, Gießen/Frankfurt/Wetzlar

Palaeography B V: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography C V: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – modern communication strategies: postcards in Ladino
Michael Studemund-Halevy, Hamburg

Coffee

Functions, Sinews and Perceptions of the Empire

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Competing Laws and Jurisdictions: The Holy Roman Empire as a Polycentric Legal System
Karl Härter, Frankfurt

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
On the Margins or at the Centre of Empire? Hamburg’s Jewish Communities
Anette Baumann, Gießen/Frankfurt/Wetzlar and Michael Studemund-Halevy, Hamburg
 
Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Protestant Nonconformists in the Empire: The Mennonites before the Imperial Aulic Council
Astrid von Schlachta, Innsbruck

 

TUESDAY, 24 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A VII: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – An expulsion decree on trial at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar: The Jews of Ettenheim against the Prince-Bishop of Straßburg
Anette Baumann, Gießen/Frankfurt/Wetzlar

Palaeography B VII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Michael Studemund-Halevy, Hamburg

Palaeography C VII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – The Pinkasim of Metz and Frankfurt
Jay Berkovitz, Amherst & Edward Fram, Beer Sheva

Coffee

Scholarship, Art and Memory
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
The Beard and Jewish Distinctiveness: The Question of Acculturation or Secularization in the Eighteenth Century
Michael Silber, Jerusalem

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Of "Stuffed Rabbis, Lutheran Yeshivot, and Comprehensive Synagogues": Non-Jewish Collecting and Display of Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe
Michael Korey, Dresden

4.00 – 6.00 p.m.
Excursion II: The Israel MuseumImagining Jewish History - A Look at History from the Visual Perspective
Richard Cohen, Jerusalem

 

THURSDAY, 26 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography B IX: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – Selected records from the Franconian Imperial Circle concerning Jewish matters
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Palaeography C IX: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D IX: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Rulings of the Rabbinical Court of Metz
Jay Berkovitz, Amherst

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Religious Responses: Halakhic Texts from the Holy Roman Empire
Maoz Kahana, Jerusalem

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
To Tell Their Children: Reizl Plohn’s Parokhet and Jewish Memory in Seventeenth-Century Prague
Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The Forged Chronicle of Prague’s Medieval Czech Jewish Community
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Coffee

AUSTRIAN HOSPICE (AH)

6.00 – 7.30 p.m.
The Fate of the Lost Temple Treasures in the Medieval Period
Guido Berndt, Erlangen & Roland Steinacher, Vienna

 

SUNDAY, 29 JULY 2012

AH

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A X: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – Selected records from the Franconian Imperial Circle concerning Jewish matters
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Palaeography C X: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D X: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Zionist encounter with Zvi Perez Chajot
Sharon Gordon, Jerusalem

Coffee

Diplomacy,  Law of Nations and International Relations: Jews and the Origins, Evolution and Fractures of the Law of Nations

11.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Jews as Actors in International Relations
Israel Bartal, Jerusalem

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Shtadlanut: On Premodern Jewish Politics
Scott Ury, Tel Aviv
 
Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe in Jewish History  
Omry-Kaplan Feuereisen, Berlin & Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna  

Coffee

6.00 – 7.30 p.m.
Everybody's Darling, Nobody's Concern: Jewish Salonières in Vienna
Dieter Hecht, Vienna

 

TUESDAY, 31 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography class B XII: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level– A Case of Forum Shopping? Metz Jews in the Records of the Imperial Aulic Council in Vienna
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Palaeography C XII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D XII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – The Cherem against Ludwig August Frankl
Yochai Ben-Ghedalia, Jerusalem

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 11.30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Dieter Hecht, Louise Hecht, Michael Silber, Stephan Wendehorst

12.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Excursion V: The Israeli Supreme Court

WEDNESDAY, 18 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A III: German manuscripts & sources for beginners
Thomas Lau, Fribourg

Palaeography B III: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Palaeography C III: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level - Records from 18th century Jewish minute books: Offenbach
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Coffee

Theory, Methodology and Historiography: Citizenship, Constitution and the Jews in the 18th Century Holy Roman Empire

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Hugo Grotius’ Remonstantie: Remarks on the Legal Position of the Jews in the Dutch Republic
Yossi Kaplan, Jerusalem

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
What did it mean to be German in the Early Modern period?
Thomas Lau, Fribourg  

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The Enlightenment’s Model Constitution Beyond the “Civil Improvement of the Jews”: Dohm as Prussian Imperial Commissioner in the Imperial City of Aachen and the Prince-Bishopric of Lüttich
Horst Carl, Gießen
Palaeography C II: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Records from 17th century Jewish minute books: Frankfurt-on-Main and Altona
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

HEBREW UNIVERSITY, MOUNT SCOPUS CAMPUS, RABIN BUILDING (HUJIRab)

6.30 – 8.00 p.m.
Welcome Addresses
Reuven Amitai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Horst Carl, Gießen, Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna, Thomas Lau, Fribourg
for the research cluster “The Jewish Holy Roman Empire”  

Key-Note Lecture: Égalité avant la lettre? Joseph II’s Edicts of Toleration for the Jews, 1781-1789
Michael K. Silber, Jerusalem

 

FRIDAY, 20 JULY 2012

10.00 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Excursion I: In the Footsteps of Flavius Josephus Through Jerusalem. The Discovery of the Palace of Queen Helene/Recent Excavation by the Archeology Department of the Hebrew University near the Dung Gate
Michael Tuval, Jerusalem  
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Palaeography C IV: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level - Statutes of an 18th Century Jewish Community – Fürth
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Coffee
 
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Jews as a Group, the Principle of Parity and the Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Mendelssohn’s Language Politics and the Jewish Oath
Grit Schorch, Halle-Wittenberg

Coffee

4.00 - 5.30 p.m.
Community, Congregation, or Commune? Jewish Gemeinden and Gemeindesinn in the Habsburg Monarchy
Michael Miller, Budapest

 

MONDAY, 23 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A VI: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – An expulsion decree on trial at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar: The Jews of Ettenheim against the Prince-Bishop of Straßburg
Anette Baumann, Gießen/Frankfurt/Wetzlar

Palaeography B VI: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography C VI: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level - modern communication strategies: postcards in Ladino
Michael Studemund-Halevy, Hamburg

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
On the Uses of Pinkasim in Writing Jewish History: Metz and Frankfurt as Case Studies
Jay Berkovitz, Amherst, Edward Fram, Beer Sheva  

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
The Habsburg Monarchs and the Jews
Michael Silber, Jerusalem

Coffee

4.00-5.30 p.m.
Between East and West: Encounters between Jews from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire
Cornelia Aust, Jerusalem
Empire: The Mennonites before the Imperial Aulic Council
Astrid von Schlachta, Innsbruck

 

WEDNESDAY, 25 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A VIII: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – Selected records from the Franconian Imperial Circle concerning Jewish matters
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna   

Palaeography C VIII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D VIII: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – The Pinkas Frankfurt
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Jewish Printing in the Holy Roman Empire
Dirk Sadowski, Brunswick

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
The Maskilic Rediscovery of Josephus Flavius
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The Leo Baeck Institute and its German-Jewish History
Anja Siegemund, JerusalemMichael Korey, Dresden

4.00 – 6.00 p.m.
Excursion II: The Israel MuseumImagining Jewish History - A Look at History from the Visual Perspective
Richard Cohen, Jerusalem

 

FRIDAY, 27 JULY 2012

10.00 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Excursion III: In the Footsteps of Flavius Josephus to Massada
Eyal Ben-Eliahu, Jerusalem
records from the Franconian Imperial Circle concerning Jewish matters
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Palaeography C IX: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D IX: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Rulings of the Rabbinical Court of Metz
Jay Berkovitz, Amherst

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Religious Responses: Halakhic Texts from the Holy Roman Empire
Maoz Kahana, Jerusalem

Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
To Tell Their Children: Reizl Plohn’s Parokhet and Jewish Memory in Seventeenth-Century Prague
Rachel Greenblatt, Harvard

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
The Forged Chronicle of Prague’s Medieval Czech Jewish Community
Louise Hecht, Olomouc/Vienna

Coffee

AUSTRIAN HOSPICE (AH)

6.00 – 7.30 p.m.
The Fate of the Lost Temple Treasures in the Medieval Period
Guido Berndt, Erlangen & Roland Steinacher, Vienna

 

MONDAY, 30 JULY 2012

HUJIRab

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Palaeography A XI: German manuscripts & sources, advanced level – A Case of forum shopping? Metz Jews in the  records of the Imperial Aulic Council in Vienna
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Palaeography C XI: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew for beginners
Stefan Litt, Jerusalem

Palaeography D XI: Judendeutsch, Yiddish, Ladino & Hebrew, advanced level – Responsa from the Rabbinical Court of Prague
Maoz Kahana, Jerusalem

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
The Wiener Israelitische Allianz
Björn Siegel, Hamburg

Lunch

2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Motzkin, Jewish Minority Rights and the Paris Peace Treaty
Frank Nesemann, Speyer

Coffee

4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Nürnberg and Beyond: Jewish Jurists, Crimes of War and „Genocide“
Omry Kaplan-Feuereisen, Berlin

Coffee

6.00 – 7.30 p.m.
Olmütz – Wien – Jerusalem: Der Weg des Zionisten Egon Michael Zweig (1877-1949)
Dieter Hecht, Vienna