The German Rabbinate Abroad: Transferring German-Jewish Modernity into the World?
Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing
18.10.2009 – 21.10.2009
Hope and Failure within Modernity: Emigration of the German Rabbinate in the Early 19th Century
- Carsten Wilke: Missionaries and Refugees of German Jewish Modernity – Westbound and Eastbound Emigration of Rabbis from Bavaria 1830–1870
- Christian Wiese: Judaism’s Universal Role in the Modern World: Samuel Hirsch as a Rabbi and Philosopher in Dessau, Luxemburg and Philadelphia
- Lance Sussman: Moving Away, Staying in Touch: Isaac Leeser, Germany and the Americanization of Judaism
- Michael A. Meyer: The Refugee Rabbis: Trials and Transmissions
Exporting Modernity to England, Russia, USA, Netherlands?
- Tobias Grill: German Rabbis in Eastern Europe. Some general remarks
- Felix Heinert: (Re-)Locating Jewishness in 19 th century Riga: German Rabbis, Cultural maps, Local politics, and the Question of Language
- Haim Sperber: Rabbi Nathan Adler and the Formulation of the Chief Rabbinate in Britain, 1845–1890
- Martina Steer: Moses Mendelssohn Goes West. German Rabbis and the German-Jewish Philosophers in the United States
- Chaya Brasz: Neo-Orthodox and Radical Liberal Jews in the Netherlands – A German-Jewish Impact without a German Rabbinate
- Miriam Thulin: On the Correlations between Experience and Epistemology. The Life and Work of Marcus Jastrow (1829–1903)
Rabbinical Seminaries and Jewish Universities as Hubs of Cultural Transfer
- Yaakov Ariel: Kaufmann Kohler and the Academizing of the Hebrew Union College
- Steven J. Whitfield: Jewish Studies Transfers from Germany: The Beginnings at Brandeis University
- Ruth Nattermann: A Struggle for the Preservation of a German-Jewish Legacy. The Foundation of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York
- Jonathan Magonet: Rabbi Dr. Werner van der Zyl and the Creation of the Leo Baeck College
The Second Migration – German Rabbis in Exile
- Robert Jütte: Not welcomed with open arms – German Rabbis in Eretz Israel, 1933–1948
- Matthias Morgenstern: The Breuers in Eretz Israel and the USA
- Isaac Hershkowitz: Ignaz Maybaum and the Call for an Anti-Nazi Crusade
German Refugee Rabbis Overseas
- Cornelia Wilhelm: The German Refugee Rabbinate in the United States
- Jeffrey Lesser: The Interplay of Ethnicity and Nation – German-Jewish Identity in Brazil, 1930–1950
- Raymond Apple: The German Rabbinate in Australia
- Michael Brocke: A Biographical Handbook of Rabbis: Update and Outlook on the Project
Return to Germany as an Option?
- Elias Sacks: „Finden Sie mich sehr amerikanisch?“: The Exile of Jacob Taubes and the Return to German-Jewish Liberalism
- Andrea Sinn: The Return of Rabbi Robert Raphael Geis to Germany: One of the Last Witnesses of German Jewry?
- Andreas Brämer: Reluctant Remigrant. Rabbi I. E. Lichtigfeld in Frankfurt on the Main