350 Years of American Jewry, 1654-2004 - Transcending the European Experience?

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)