Under the heading “Branching Out. Diversity in Jewish Studies,” the 12th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies will take place from July 16 to 20, 2023 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. As part of the diverse program, several research projects of the priority program will be represented with their own panels as well as individual presentations.
In issue 32 of Medaon – Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education – the two project leaders of the priority program’s research project Knowledge Architectures – Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross – published an article in the Miscella section on the commemorative year that celebrates 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany.
As part of the Grand Forum in Schwäbisch Gmünd, there will be two public lectures on Jewish heritage. Both events are hybrid and can be attended digitally with prior registration.
The proposed Conference (21 – 23 May 2023) sits at the crossroads of Holocaust and Migration Studies and intends to bring together new scholarship on both topics.
Das Konzert liefert einzigartige Einblicke in Peter Urys kompositorisches und musikdramaturgisches Schaffen. Im Zentrum steht sein Werk “Judaskuss”. Urys Deutung der biblischen Geschichte und Ideen zur Rehabilitierung des Judas Iskariot werden anhand archivalischer Dokumente und erhalten gebliebener Lieder illustriert.
Within the context of the priority program’s sub-project Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational, and academic levels in post-1945 Europe, Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Ross and Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz published an article in which they take a closer look at the concept Jewish cultural heritage and its diverse meanings.
It has been published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and can be read here (only available in German).
The conference is a cooperation of Bet Tfila-Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe at TU Braunschweig, GHI Warsaw and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It takes place within the framework of the ‘DFG Priority Program 2357: Jewish Cultural Heritage’, which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The conference will take place on 12-14 September 2023 at the POLIN Museum for the History of Polish Jews and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Submissions will be accepted from any discipline as long as the topic relates to this broad theme.
Held at the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin on November 29–30 2022, this international conference by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow marks the 150th anniversary of the »Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums,« as well as 80 years since its closure by the Nazi regime…
The twelfth EAJS congress, “Branching Out. Diversity of Jewish Studies”, taking place in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) on 16-20 July 2023, will showcase the diversity that is an integral part of Jewish Studies.
On 4 November, the Institute Heritage Studies (IHS) will publicly present the book “50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation”…
