Rethinking Exile, Center, and Diaspora in Modern Jewish Culture
May 3-4, 2016
Conference Program
(For full conference description, please click here.)
Tuesday, May 3 (Møller Center)
Morning session - 9:30 – 13:00
9:30-11:00
1. Julie Cooper (Tel-Aviv University), Toward a Political Conception of the Exile.
2. Dani Kranz (SWP Berlin), Forget Israel – the Future is in Berlin!: Local Jews, Russian Immigrants and Israelis Jews in Berlin and across Germany.
Break - 11-11:30
11:30-13:00
3. Aaron W. Hughes (University of Rochester), Permanent Diaspora or Voluntary Exile?: American Jews, Zionism, and the Paradox of Israel.
4. Keith Kahn-Harris (Leo Baeck College, Birkbeck College, Institute for Jewish Policy Research),What do Diaspora Jews talk about when they talk about Israel?
Lunch Break - 13:00-14:00
Afternoon session - 14:00-17:30
14:00-15:30
1. Efrat Gal-Ed (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf), Yiddishland: A Promise of Belonging.
2. Eran Kaplan (San Francisco State University), Jewish Singularity: Between Exile and Home in an Old New Land.
Break – 15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
3. Daniel Weiss (University of Cambridge), Modern Jewish Emancipation in Europe and the Negation of Exile.
4. Andrea Schatz (King’s College, London), Central Interdependence: Europe, Palestine and the “Hope of Israel”.
Wednesday, May 4 (Møller Center)
Morning session - 9:30 – 13:00
9:30-11:00
1. Claire Sufrin (Northwestern University), The State of Israel as Counter-Narrative.
2. Mike Witcombe (University of Southampton), Don’t Mention the War: Jewish Spaces in Howard Jacobson’s J and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.
Break, 11-11:30
11:30-13:00
3. Zehavit Zaslansky (University of Cambridge), Rethinking diasporist modernism.
4. Ido Harari (Ben Gurion University), The Oyle that stayed in the Golus – Nathan Birnbaum on Exile, Sovereignty and Redemption.
Lunch Break - 13:00-14:00
Afternoon session - 14:00-17:30
14:00-15:30
1.Tommy Givens (Fuller Theological Seminary), Torn between Earth and Sky: National Jewish Homeland.
2. Merom Kalie (Independent scholar), Zionist and Exilic Elements in the Thought of Martin Buber.
Break – 15:30-16:00
16:00-17:30
3. Ezra Tzfadya (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), The Necessary State?: Modern Jewish and Shiite-Islamic Geographies in Dialogue.
4. Elliot Ratzman (Temple University), Freedom Dreams and Promised Lands: Varieties of Exile and Exodus in Jewish and Afro-American Nationalisms.
Free and Open to the Public
The Møller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DE
For more information contact:
Dr Yaron Peleg (yp240@cam.ac.uk)
Dr Daniel Weiss (dhw27@cam.ac.uk)