Haskalah, Aufklärung, Osvícenství: Jewish Enlightenment in the Czech Lands in a European Perspective


vom 18. - 20. Mai 2008

veranstaltet von der Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

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Konzeption: Dr. Louise Hecht, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci & Dr. Michael Miller, Central European University Budapest

mit Unterstützung Botschaft des Staates Israel in der Tschechischen Republik in Prag (Velvyslanectví Státu Izrael v ČR)

 

Programm

SUNDAY, 18th MAY 2008


Opening Ceremony
Opening Remarks by the Organizers

Welcome Adresses
Yaakov Levy, Ambassador of the State of Israel in the Czech Republic

Prof. RNDr, Lubomír Dvorák, Rector of Palacký University
Prof. Dr. Ivo Bartecek, Dean of the Philosophical Faculty
Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst, Head of the Jewish Studies Center

7.00 p.m.
Keynote Adress
The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the History of the Haskalah
Hillel Kieval, Washington University, in St. Louis

8.00 p.m.
Reception

MONDAY, 19th MAY 2008


9.00 - 10.00 a.m.
Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Lands
Chair: Louise Hecht

Josephinian Reforms and Enlightenment Perspectives
Ernst Wangermann, University of Salzburg, Salzburg

10.00 - 10.30 a.m.
Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.30 a.m.
Haskalah or Haskalot?
Chair: Lois Dubin

Haskalah in the Periphery: The Dutch Example
Irene Zwiep, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Between Prague and Vienna: Was there a Moravian Haskalah?
Michael Miller, CEU, Budapest

The Haskalah in Galicia and the Discourse of the "Schwärmerei"
Rachel Manekin, University of Maryland, Maryland

12.30 - 2.00 p.m.
Lunch

2.00 - 3.00 p.m.
A Rezeptionsgeschichte of Aufklärung and Haskalah in the Habsburg Lands
Chair: Marie Krappmann

Popularizing Knowledge: Remarks on the Accessibility of Printed Texts in the Bohemian Lands (1770-1815)
Michael Wögerbauer, Czech Academy of Science, Prague

Haskalah, Hasidim and the Limits of Religion: New Readings in Joseph Perl's Bohen Zadik (Prague 1838)
Jonatan Meir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.
Coffee Break

3.30 - 5.00 p.m.
Transfer of Rule, Transfer of Ideas
Chair: Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst

Between Vienna, Bohemia, Franconia and Upper Rhine Valley: The Schwarzenberg and the Transfer of Enlightened Rule
Stephan Wendehost, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna

The Frankists of Prague and the Court of Offenbach
Klaus Davidowicz, University of Vienna, Vienna

The 'Jacobin'-Years of Moses Dobrushka, alias Junius Frey
Daniela Tinková, Charles University, Prague

6.00 p.m.
Piano Recital by Marek Keprt
(Arnold Schönberg and Gideon Klein)

7.00 p.m.
Dinner

TUESDAY, 20th MAY 2008


10.00 - 12.00 a.m.
Schooling Enlightenment
Chair: Michael Silber

Haskalah and Jewish Educatoin in the Bohemian Lands
Louise Hecht, Palacký University, Olomouc

A Bohemian Maskil in Polish Lands - Herz Homberg's Schools in Galicia
Dirk Sadowski, Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

The Results of School Reforms in Hungary: The Jewish Schools under State Control
Eva Kowalská, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava

12.00 a.m.
Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 p.m.
A Family Affair? Case Studies in Jewish Enlightenment
Chair: Michael Miller

Love, Enlightenment, and the Modernizing State: A Woman's Experience in late 18th-century Trieste
Lois Dubin, Smith College, Massachusetts

The Rosenthal-Family and Haskalah in Hungary
Michael Silber, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

4.00 - 6.30 p.m.
Guided Tour of Olomouc

8.00 p.m.
Festive Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 21st MAY 2008


9.30 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Trip to Usov and Holešov