Tagung: Multiple Jewries? New Perspectives on the History of Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the 18th Century to 1918 (Wien, 5. – 6. 11. 2014)

Gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Geschichte der Universität Wien veranstaltet das Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung am 5. und 6. November 2014 die internationale Tagung „Multiple Jewries? New Perspectives on the History of Jews in the Habsburg Empire from the 18th Century to 1918“. Bei der von Martina Steer (Institut für Geschichte) und Thomas Winkelbauer (IÖG) organisierten Konferenz sollen aktuelle Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in der Habsburgermonarchie präsentiert werden, die einerseits die große Heterogenität jüdischer Bevölkerungsgruppen und Identitäten in den verschiedenen Ländern und Regionen der Monarchie, andererseits den bisher oft unterschätzten Beitrag dieser Gruppen zur jüdischen Geschichte Europas und zur europäischen Geschichte insgesamt in den Blick nehmen.

Eine ausführliche Präsentation in englischer Sprache gibt es hier. Der Folder mit Programm und weiteren Informationen ist im PDF-Format verfügbar.

 

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

9.00    

Welcome, Opening Remarks

 

9.30    

Identity – Politics  – Reality

Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna)

Nino Gude (University of Vienna): Assimilation or Segregation: The Galician Jews and Ukrainians in Contact

Michael L. Miller (Central European University, Budapest): Don’t Turn the Khazar Question into a Jewish Question

Marsha Rozenblit (University of Maryland): Was There a Habsburg Jewry?

Coffee Break

 

11.45  

Jews as Mediators of Entanglements

Olaf Terpitz (University of Vienna)

Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University, New York): David Oppenheim: Prague Rabbi, Imperial Jew

Branko Ostajmer (Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb): Theodor Herzl and Hugo Spitzer: Comparative Biographies

Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna): Jewish Professors at the University of Vienna since 1848: Cultural Entanglement and Contested Discrimination

Lunch

 

15.15  

Jews and Habsburg Politics

Martha Keil (Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten)

Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston): “Galicia in Vienna”: The Activities of Galicia’s Zionist Reichsratsabgeordnete in the 1907–11 Parliament

Wolfgang Gasser (Institute for Jewish History in Austria, St. Pölten): The 1848 Vienna Revolution in Four Jewish Diaries

Ofer Dynes (Harvard University): From Paperwork to Prose. Jewish Literature, a Habsburg Imperial Project (1814–1830)

Coffee Break

 

17.30  

Round Table

Martina Steer (University of Vienna)

Mitchell Ash, Gary Cohen (University of Minnesota), David Rechter, Marsha Rozenblit

 

19.30  

Keynote Speech

Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence): Unsere Monarchie. Juden und Andere im späten Habsburgerreich

Location: Festsaal des Alten Rathauses, Wipplingerstraße 6–8, 1010 Wien
(in cooperation with Wiener Vorlesungen and the Association of the Friends of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)

 

Thursday, 6 November 2014

09.00  

Habsburg Norms and Jewish Exceptionalism

Stephan Wendehorst (Justus Liebig University, Giessen/University of Vienna)

Martin Stechauner (Hebrew University): How Austrian were the Sephardic Jews of Vienna? Reflecting on the Foundation of the “Sepharad of the Danube”

Rachel Manekin (University of Maryland): Divorce Laws after the Josephinian Ehepatent: Habsburg Jews and the Question of Gleichförmigkeit of the Law

David Rechter (University of Oxford): East of Eden: Bukovina Exceptionalism and Habsburg Norms

Coffee Break

 

11.15  

Visual (Self-)Representation of Jewish Identities

Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute)

Anna Novikov (German Historical Institute, Warsaw): Dynamics of the Visual Perception of the Jews of Lemberg (1848–1918)

Tim Corbett (Lancaster University): The Encoding of Multiple Jewish Identities in the Epigraphy of Jewish Gravestones in Vienna

Carsten L. Wilke (Central European University, Budapest): The Oriental Question and its Urban Answers: Building the Great Synagogue of Pest (1854–1859)

Lunch

 

15.15  

Jewish Communities as Cultural Spaces

Peter Becker (University of Vienna)

Tullia Catalan (University of Trieste): The Jews of Trieste between Habsburg Empire and Italy (1848–1918): a Social and National Perspective

Jasmina Huber (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf): Europeanization of the Liturgical Music in Belgrade Sephardic Community

Sara Olga Yanovsky (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Living Together – Studying Apart? Communal Dilemmas and Debates Around the Establishments of Jewish Schools in Vienna and Budapest, from Joseph II until World War I

Coffee Break

 

17.30  

Central Peripheries: Challenges of Rural and Small Town Jewries

Gerhard Langer (University of Vienna)

Ursula Mindler (Andrássy University, Budapest): Ambivalence of Jewish Belonging in Rural Areas of Western Hungary/Eastern Austria. The Case Study of Oberwart/Felsőőr

Ines Koeltzsch (Masaryk Institute, Prague): Mobility and Temporary Sedentariness. Rural and Small-Town Jews in the Bohemian Lands and their (Trans-) Regional Migration to the Cities in the Central European Context (1848-1918)

Gerald Lamprecht (University of Graz): Migration and Formation of Jewish Communities in Austrian Province in the 19^th Century

 

19.30  

Closing Remarks

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