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German Presents, Jewish Pasts

The Politics of Ancient Judaism in 19th-Century Germania
 

Today and tomorrow, CRASSH is hosting a vibrant seminar on 'Intermediaries' in the framework of its new project "Religious Diversity & the Secular University," which features several papers on the complexities of Judaism in the 19th century.

See the program below and further details here.

 

Thursday 14th December
11:00 - 11:30

Registration

 

11:30 - 13:00

Session One

Prof. Eliyahu Stern (Yale University)
Marx and the Kabbalah

Respondent: Prof. Simon Goldhill (CRASSH)

 

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

 

14:30 - 16:15

Session Two

Prof. Céline Trautmann-Waller (PR Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3)
Goldziher and the Foundations of Islamwissenschaft

Respondents: Dr. Lena Salaymeh (Tel Aviv University) & Prof. David Mosfegh (IE University)

 

16:15 - 16:45

Tea & Coffee Break

 

16:45 - 18:30

Session Three

Dr. Brian Young (University of Oxford)
Religious plurality and histories of opinion: insiders and outsiders in the English universities.
 

Respondents: Dr. Hugo Drochon (CRASSH) & Dr. Ruth Jackson (University of Cambridge)

 

Friday 15th December
09:00 - 10:30

Session Four

Dr. Theodor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH)
“Praeparatio Rabbinica": Zacharias Fraenkel (1801-1875) and the Septuagint

Respondent: Dr. Aaron Kachuk (University of Cambridge)

 

10:30 - 11:00

Tea & Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30 

Session Five

Dr. Emily Levine (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Exceptional Institutions

Respondents: Dr. Alison Wood (University of Cambridge)

 

12:30 - 14:00 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30

Session Six

Dr. Michael Ledger-Lomas (King's College London)

Mr Simon's Sunday Service

Respondent: Dr. Avi Lifschitz (University of Oxford) 

 

This project is generously financed through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 749628.