SEMINAR ON TOLERATION OF VARIETY WITHIN
JUDAISM IN THE MODERN PERIOD

Mondays at 2.30 p.m. (apart from Tuesday May 18 at 10 a.m.)

All meetings will be held in the Oriental Institute

Convenors: Martin Goodman, Corinna Kaiser, Simon Levis-Sullam

April 26
Leena Petersen (Sussex)
On dogmatism and tolerance in the Wissenschaft des Judentums

May 3
Eliyahu Stern (Oriental Institute)
Canon and tolerance in modern rabbinic culture

May 10
Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv)
Not ‘Revenge Messianism’. Subversive messianic ideas in the Ashkenazi
rabbinate from the late 16th century to the late 18th century

May 18 (n.b. Tuesday, at 10 a.m.)
Adam Ferziger (Bar Ilan)
The Hamburg Cremation Controversy: early 20th century Orthodoxy
and the boundaries of Jewish identity

May 24
Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College London)
Hasidim and Mitnagdim

May 31
Bernd Witte (Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf)
Moses Mendelssohn: tolerance in the tradition of Judaism

June 7
Jonathan Webber (Birmingham)
Shifting boundaries and cultural (in)coherence in the modern Jewish world

June 14
Tudor Parfitt (SOAS)
Lost Tribes in Africa and Asia