350 Years of American Jewry, 1654-2004 - Transcending the European Experience?
Evangelische Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing
22.05.2005 – 26.05.2005
Eröffnungsvortrag
- Hasia Diner (New York ): Finding a 'New Zion' in America? Religion, Ethnicity and Interfaith Relations in the United States of America and Europe, 1654 – 2003
Colonial Identities
- Judah M. Cohen (New York): Seeking Religious Tolerance as Agents of Colonial Enterprise – The Sephardic Community in Colonial America
- Eli Faber (New York): Religion and National Independence – Religion and Civic Identity – American Jews and the First Modern Nation
Chair: Marc Lee Raphael (Charlottesville)
- Dana Kaplan (Kansas City): From One Judaism to Many – Embryonic Development of a Modern Pluralistic Judaism in Nineteenth Century America
American Judaism and Civic Culture
- Karla Goldman (Boston): Beyond the Synagogue Gallery. America Paves the Way for Jewish Women
- Cornelia Wilhelm (München): The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and the Shaping of an American Jewish Identity
Chair: Anthony Kauders (München)
Finding a "New Zion" in America?
- Yaakov Ariel (Chapel Hill): An Old Battle and the Prospects of Peace – Jewish-Christian Relationship in Nineteenth Century America
- Eric Goldstein (Atlanta): From Aryan and Semite to Black and White – Jewish Racial Identity in German and American Contexts
- Christian Wiese (Erfurt): Inventing a New Language of Jewish Scholarship – The Transition from German 'Wissenschaft des Judentums' to American-Jewish Scholarship
- Arthur Goren (New York): Zionism in the Promised Land
- Lenard Dinnerstein (Tuscon): Is there a 'New' Antisemitism in the United States?
Chair: Jacques Picard (Basel)
New Roles and Identities
- David Kaufman (Los Angeles): The Synagogue-Center Experiment in America, 1890 – 1920. Building Jewish Community in the Open Society
- Tony Michel (Madison): The Influence of American Jewish Radicals on Russian Jews
- Jeffrey Gurock (New York): Resisters and Accomodators Revisited – Reflections on the Study of Orthodoxy in America
- Stephen J. Whitfield (Brandeis): American-Jewish Culture?
Chair: Michael A. Meyer (Cincinnati)
Challenges for American Jewry after the Holocaust
- Jeffrey Shandler (Camden): American Responses to the Holocaust
- Michael Staub (Bowling Green): American Jews and the Middle East Crisis
- Paul Harris (Augusta): Russian Speaking Jewish Immigrants in the United States – Perspectives on Assimilation and Jewish Cultural Identity
- Michael Brenner (München): Jewish History for the 21st Century – A New Master Narrative?
Chair: Michael Brocke (Düsseldorf)
- Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis): From Periphery to Center. American Jewry and Jewish History after the Holocaust
- Henry Feingold (New York): Can Less be More? The American Jewish Effort to „Rescue“ German and Soviet Jewry
Podiumsdiskussion: Transcending the European Experience? A Reappraisal of America’s Promise after 350 Years
- Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis)
- Dan Diner (Leipzig/Jerusalem)
- Berndt Ostendorf (München)
- Henry Feingold (New York)
Moderation: Andreas Gotzmann (Erfurt)