Lecture Series: Ruptures and New Beginnings:
Jews and the Foundation of New States in the Twentieth Century
Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Deventer
Dr. Markus Kirchhoff
Research Colloquium
Time: Thursday, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (every other week)
Start: 7 November 2019
The emergence of numerous new sovereign states was one of the most important and defining processes of the twentieth century. On the basis of a selection of case studies, this research colloquium focuses on the Jewish aspects and questions related to nation-building and state formation.
A major focus is on the creation of new state formations in Central and Eastern Europe through to the Middle East in the aftermath of World War I. Of special interest is the impact of these processes on Jews and other minorities in the new states emerging from the multi-ethnic empires of the Habsburgs, the Romanovs, and the Ottomans.
Another focus lies on the foundation of states after World War II – as well as the question of the extent to which these reflected the experiences of the interwar period and the Holocaust.
Lectures
7. November 2019
Dietmar Müller (Leipzig)
Neue Staaten und legal activism – Anfänge des humanitären Völkerrechts und des internationalen Strafrechts
28. November 2019
Yoram Meital (Be'er Scheva)
Nation-State Formation in Egypt – Consequences for the Jewish Community
19. Dezember 2019
Annette Weinke (Jena)
What’s Wrong with International Law? Europäisch-jüdische Emigrantenjuristen und das humanitäre Völkerrecht, 1930–1990
16. Januar 2020
Malachi Hacohen (Durham, NC)
Imperial Peoples in an Ethno-National Age – Jews and the Foundation of the First Republic of Austria, 1918–1920
30. Januar 2020
Jochen Böhler (Jena)
Kampf an allen Fronten – Polen und Juden im Staatsgründungsprozess, 1918–1921
6. Februar 2020
Anna Koch (Leeds)
Der Traum vom anderen Deutschland – Jüdische Antifaschisten und ihre Rückkehr nach 1945
Speakers
Dr. Jochen Böhler, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Prof. Dr. Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, Durham, N.C. | Dr. Anna Koch, University of Leeds | Prof. Dr. Yoram Meital, Ben-Gurion-Universität des Negev, Be‘er Scheva | PD Dr. Dietmar Müller, LeibnizInstitut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Leipzig | PD Dr. Annette Weinke, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
7th November 2019 to 6th February 2020, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Das Forschungskolloquium ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung zwischen dem Dubnow-Institut und dem Projekt »Europäische Traditionen – Enzyklopädie jüdischer Kulturen« der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.