Monday 14 February 2011:
Conference at Exeter College Oxford
Presented by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. All welcome.
For information: enquiries@ochjs.ac.uk
9.30-10.00am: Chair David Rechter
Adam Sutcliffe
Whose Enlightenment? Moses Mendelssohn, Solomon Maimon and the Politics
of Haskalah
10.00-10.40am
Zohar Shavit
A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart
from it (Proverbs 22, 6): On the maskilic efforts to alter the Jewish habitus
10.40-11.10am
Andrea Schatz
Hebrew Times? Mendelssohn, Orientalism and the Life of a "Dead" Language
11.10-11.30am coffee
11.30-12.00am: Chair Avi Lifschitz
Zehavit Stern
The Rhymester as the Poet's Troubling Double:
The Paradoxical Rejection of Folk Performance in Haskalah Literature
12.00-12.30pm
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Beyond the Limits of Haskalah: Dorothea Mendelssohn, an Enlightened
Jewish
Woman from Berlin
12.30-1.00pm
Dirk Sadowski
Moishe's hunchback and Shloime's name. The Hebrew printing press in
Jessnitz (1718-1744) and its influence on the Haskalah
1.00-1.45pm lunch
1.45-2.15pm: Chair Joanna Weinberg
Israel Bartal
Sefer, Bukh, Bikehl: On books, libraries and the Haskalah invention of a new Jewish book-shelf
2.15-2.45pm
Shmuel Feiner
The Subversive and Secular Library of the Jewish Enlightenment
2.45-3.15pm
Shlomo Berger
Is there something enlightened in 18th century Yiddish
books and literature?
3.15-3.30pm tea
3.30-4.00pm: Chair Shmuel Feiner
Christoph Schulte
The Future of Jewry after Emancipation: Three models in the Berlin Haskalah
4.00-4.30pm
Christian Wiese
A Polemical
Dialogue
and Its Aftermath in the 19th Century: Mendelssohn's Challenge to
Christianity and Christian Scholars Revisited
4.30-5.15pm
Ritchie Robertson
Secular, Religious, or Radical? Versions of the Enlightenment from Ernst Cassirer to Jonathan Israel
5.30-7.00pm
Reception in the Divinity School and opening of the exhibition in the Proscholion
