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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
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SUMMARY:Masterclass: Judeo-Arabic Journalism in the Maghreb: Texts\, Genres and Language Choices\, c. 1870–1920
DESCRIPTION:On 16–17 September 2026\, the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures will host a two-day masterclass with Dr. Avner Ofrath\, Senior Research Fellow in the Volkswagen Momentum Programme From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies. \nBringing together close textual analysis and broader historical perspectives\, the masterclass explores the rich yet little-known world of Judeo-Arabic journalism in the colonial Maghreb. Through a close reading of selected periodicals (English translations will be provided)\, participants will examine questions of authorship and readership\, local and global perspectives\, and the interplay of Judeo-Arabic\, Hebrew\, French\, and Spanish in the emerging Jewish press. Particular attention will be paid to the role of different literary genres in shaping a vibrant vernacular public sphere. \nDr. Ofrath is Alfred Landecker Lecturer in History at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the social\, cultural\, and intellectual history of Arabic-speaking Jews\, with particular interests in Judeo-Arabic language\, print culture\, and modern Jewish thought in the Middle East and North Africa. His current research traces the connected history of Judeo-Arabic writing across the Maghrib and Mashriq\, examining how writers revived Judeo-Arabic as a language of political expression\, modernity\, and Jewish identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \n16 September\n9:00 – 9:45\nSession I: Introduction\nJudeo-Arabic journalism in the Maghrib: Core issues and questions. \n10:00 – 12:00\nSession II: Language Choices and Structures\nA close reading of several excerpts from Maghribi Judeo-Arabic journals\, with special focus on issues of vocabulary\, syntax and translation. \n12:00 – 13:00\nLunch \n13:00 – 15:00\nSession III: Time and Temporality\nA discussion of visions of time and history in two texts from 1890s Algeria:\n“The Tale of Edison\,” in: Beit Yisrael\, nos. 1–10\, 25 June–27 August 1891\n“Light and Joy\,” in: Beit Yisrael\, no. 6\, 30 July 1891. \n17 September\n9:00-11:00\nSession IV: Sites and Boundaries\nA discussion of depictions and delineations of different sites of Jewishness in three texts from Algeria and Tunisia under colonial rule. \n11:15-12:45\nConclusion\nDiscussion of work in progress (to be circulated to participants in advance) and concluding questions and remarks. \nRegistration is open until September 15\, 2026 per e-mail at m.shcherbakova@lmu.de \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/masterclass-judeo-arabic-journalism-in-the-maghreb-texts-genres-and-language-choices-c-1870-1920/
LOCATION:Veterinärstr. 1\, Room 009\, München\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Masterclass
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SUMMARY:Volkswagen Momentum Masterclass with Dr. Rudy Kisler "Past Values: Heritage\, Power\, and Ethics"
DESCRIPTION:The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures at LMU is pleased to invite you to a two-day masterclass with Dr. Rudy Kisler. The masterclass will take place as part of the Volkswagen Momentum Workshop “Rethinking Jewish Cultures Beyond Europe” (June 9–12\, 2026). \nIn recent years\, heritage sites have increasingly become arenas of social conflict. From the toppling of monuments tied to colonial histories to contested repatriation claims concerning cultural artifacts held in European museums\, and the strategic use of archaeological sites to legitimize territorial claims\, such conflicts prompt us to ask: what place and meaning does the past hold in our communities today? \nIn this masterclass\, we will explore the relationship between representations of the past\, contemporary cultural politics\, and the present-day social norms and behaviors they promote. Drawing on his research on Jewish-Zionist heritage-making in contemporary Israel\, Dr. Kisler will examine both state-sanctioned heritage policies designed to convey national mythologies and local heritage-making practices. In this context\, he will present insights from his ongoing Volkswagen Momentum project on the cultural landscape of Bar’am/Bir’am. \nLocated near the Lebanese border\, the Bar’am/Bir’am landscape encompasses several distinct heritage performances. One prominent feature is the impressive remains of a Galilean-style synagogue from the Talmudic era. Another is an active Maronite Christian church alongside the remains of the depopulated village of Bir’am. A third consists of several Jewish saints’ burial sites that form part of a longstanding pilgrimage tradition. Taken together\, these sites allow us to examine the dynamics of meaning-making across different and at times competing heritage narratives. \nThe workshop is structured in three parts. In the first part\, participants will be introduced to the concept of cultural heritage and its theorization in contemporary societies. We will discuss\, among other approaches\, the semiotics of heritage\, material culture\, and heritage politics. In the second part\, we will engage in a participatory photovoice session. Through this activity\, participants will experiment with photographing surrounding landscapes and objects and collaboratively reflect on the meanings and interpretations that emerge. In the third and final part of the masterclass\, we will work on the creation of a potential alternative “Jewish heritage list.” Based on participants’ expertise and experiences\, we will collaboratively develop this list and imagine new ways of thinking about Jewish chronology and historiography through the democratization of knowledge. \nDr. Kisler is a research fellow in the Volkswagen Momentum Program “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” at the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures. His current project examines how various groups in Israel interpret and narrate their cultural heritage beyond official Zionist heritage discourses. Using a rights-based qualitative case study approach\, he centers the voices of marginalized communities through interviews\, observation\, and participatory photovoice methods. His work seeks to develop more inclusive models of heritage representation\, education\, and policy applicable in Israel-Palestine and other contested heritage contexts. \nDr. Kisler holds a PhD from McGill University’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education. He is the recipient of the Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship and multiple FRQSC Doctoral Research Scholarships. \nImage: Ruins of a synagogue at Bir’am. Taken from Van de Velde\, 1857\, Le Pays d’Israel
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/volkswagen-momentum-masterclass-with-dr-rudy-kisler-past-values-heritage-power-and-ethics/
LOCATION:Room 2.33\, Herzogliches Georgianum\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Masterclass
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marina Shcherbakova":MAILTO:M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
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SUMMARY:Volkswagen Momentum Workshop "Rethinking Jewish Cultures Beyond Europe"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is organized within the framework of the Volkswagen Momentum Fellowship Programme “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies\,” which seeks to bridge the traditionally segmented fields of pre-modern and modern Jewish history in the Near East through an integrated\, interdisciplinary approach. By encouraging the study of Jewish histories across temporal boundaries\, the programme highlights the mutual entanglement of pre-modern developments and modern contexts. \nIn this spirit\, the workshop brings together scholars working across different media\, geographies\, and methodological approaches to explore how Jewish pasts beyond Europe are narrated\, mediated\, and transformed into cultural heritage. Particular attention is given to challenging Eurocentric and Ashkenazi-centered paradigms in Judaic Studies by foregrounding Jewish cultural production in Arabic-speaking and other non-European contexts. \nMoving from textual and historical analysis to sound archives\, visual practices\, and participatory methods\, the program examines how meanings of the past are negotiated in relation to present-day political\, social\, and cultural contexts. Cultural production\, historical narratives\, and heritage practices emerge here as key sites in which competing understandings of the past are articulated and contested. \nThe workshop is structured in three parts. The opening day introduces different modes of narrating the past across media and disciplines\, framing key questions about authority\, representation\, and cultural translation. The following two-day masterclass led by Rudy Kisler focuses on the politics and semiotics of cultural heritage\, combining theoretical reflection with participatory methods such as photovoice. The final day turns to contemporary artistic practices in the exhibition “Yalla: Arab-Jewish Encounters” at the Jewish Museum Munich\, where participants reflect on how these questions are negotiated in curatorial and visual form. \n  \nProgram\nJune 9\, 2026\n9:30 Registration\n9:45 – 10:00 Introduction with Ronny Vollandt (LMU) and Marina Shcherbakova (LMU) \n10:00 – 12:30 Narrating the Past Across Media \nClaire Leibovich (Durham University)\nJacqueline Kahanoff’s Haggadah: Political Imagination and the Retelling of Biblical Stories in the Twentieth-Century Levant \nAlexandra Birch (Columbia University)\n“Let this be our Renaissance!”: Reconsidering Holocaust Evacuation to Soviet Central Asia in Jewish Intellectual History \nChristopher Silver (McGill University)\nSongs of the Land: Recording Trials and Tribulations in Arabophone Israel \n12:30 – 13:30 Lunch \n13:30 – 15:00 Discussion “From Narrative to Heritage: Scales\, Media\, and Authority”. Moderated by Joshua Krug (Independent Scholar) \nHow do cultural narratives become recognized as heritage? Which actors\, media\, and infrastructures shape this transition? And what forms of authority\, inclusion\, or exclusion emerge in the process? \n16:00 Lecture with Avner Ofrath (LMU) \nJudeo-Arabic Writing and the Question of Vernacular Modernity \n\nJune 10\, 2026\nMasterclass with Rudy Kisler (LMU)\nPast Values: Heritage\, Power\, and Ethics\nRead the full masterclass description \n10:00 – 13:00 Masterclass I: Concepts and Approaches \n13:00 – 14:00 Lunch \n14:00 – 16:00 Masterclass II: Photovoice and Participatory Methods \n  \nJune 11\, 2026\n10:00 – 13:00 Masterclass III: Imagining a New Jewish Heritage \n13:00 – 14:00 Lunch \n  \n16:00 Lecture with Rudy Kisler (LMU)\nIntersecting Heritages: The case of the Bir’am/Bar’am in Israel/Palestine \n  \nJune 12\, 2026\n10:00 – 11:00 Guided tour through the exhibition “Yalla: Arab-Jewish Encounters” at the Jewish Museum Munich with Fabio Ioppolo (LMU) \n11:30 – 12:30 Discussion with the curator Sapir van Abel (Jewish Museum Munich) \n  \nRegistration open till June 6\, 2026\, m.shcherbakova@lmu.de.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/volkswagen-momentum-workshop-rethinking-jewish-cultures-beyond-borders/
LOCATION:Room 2.33\, Herzogliches Georgianum\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Masterclass,Public Lecture,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marina Shcherbakova":MAILTO:M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
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SUMMARY:Masterclass "Mizrahi Music: The Postvernacular Age!?" with Dr. Diana Matut (Alte Synagoge - Haus der jüdischen Kultur in Essen)
DESCRIPTION:From the margins to mainstream – this is how Mizrahi music has often been described. What reads as a story of revivalist success is\, under close scrutiny\, rather a story of complete social\, linguistic and musical shift into an age of musical post-vernacularity. Mizrakhi music thrives in post-modern\, post-revival\, post-vernacular amalgams\, producing aesthetically pleasing\, incredible performances and recordings\, but musical vernacularity has been lost for the most part. \nThis course will engage with various questions regarding the past and present of Arab-Jewish musical cultures as well as cultural concepts of transfer and interference. It will analyse the social history of Mizrahi musics\, women’s performance practices as bearers of traditions as well as innovators and analyse chosen pieces. \nThere is no need to read music\, know Arabic\, Turkish\, Ladino or Hebrew when attending this course\, but please inform me if you do know any of these languages in advance. If you play an instrument that you’d like to bring to class\, please tell me well in advance as well. Thank you! \n  \nThursday\,\n10th April 2025\nVenue: Raum W401 (Lehrturm)\, Professor-Huber-Platz 2\, 80539 München \nFirst Session\n10:00-12:30 \nBREAK 12:30-14:00 \nSecond Session\n14:00-16:00 \n  \nFriday\, 11th April 2025\nVenue: Raum W401 (Lehrturm)\, Professor-Huber-Platz 2\, 80539 München \nThird Session\n10:00-12:30 \nBREAK 12:30-14:00 \nFourth Session\n14:00-16.00 \n  \nDiana Matut is a research fellow at the department for Jewish Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). She is director of the Old Synagogue – House of Jewish Culture in Essen and regularly teaches Jewish Music (and Old Yiddish) for the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies\, for the Aleph Cantorial Program and the Other Music Academy – Yiddish Summer Weimar.\nShe is a Jewish and Yiddish Studies scholar (having minored in Semitic Languages)\, as well as a musician. Her special interests are the history of Yiddish music and literature\, questions relating to gender and performance practice as well as the interconnectivity between Jewish and non-Jewish musics\, musicians and music-making.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/masterclass-mizrahi-music-the-postvernacular-age-with-dr-diana-matut-lmu/
CATEGORIES:Masterclass
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240229
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SUMMARY:Masterclass on "The representation of Jews and Judaism in al-Andalus: texts and contexts" with Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro (CAS fellow\, January to March 2024)
DESCRIPTION:The representation of Jews and Judaism in al-Andalus: texts and contexts \nIn al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia)\, the Jewish community flourished to the extent that their historical experience was labelled as a ‘Golden Age’ by 19th century European Jews who found in it a precedent to legitimize their insertion into the wider society: in Sefarad\, they claimed\, Jews – while adapting to Islamic society and civilization – had managed to strengthen their religion and culture. The ways in which Jews living in al-Andalus reflected about such adaptation and the tensions it created within the community have been studied by a number of scholars\, and the ‘Golden Age’ trope and its modern (controversial) reception have also been analyzed. Having such studies as the background\, my interest lies in how Jews and Judaism were represented by Andalusi Muslims\, and the extent to which they took into account the internal Jewish perspectives. The views of some Muslim authors such as Ibn Ḥazm (d. 1064) and Ṣāʽid al-Ṭulayṭulī (d. 1069) have been so far paid attention to in modern scholarship\, but there are less known texts that illuminate the areas in which Muslims showed some interest about a religious community that formed part of their society. Andalusi religious coexistence (‘convivencia’) has both been celebrated and denied often in connection with present needs and emotions. Looking back at the texts in which Andalusi Muslims talked about Jews and the contexts in which such texts were written raises questions about how al-Andalus has been and is imagined and its relation to history\, and what is gained and what is lost by privileging what I would call an ’emotional’ approach to al-Andalus. \n  \n!!! 27.02.2024 !!! \nSession 1: The early period: Jews as helpers of the Muslims \nSession 2: The Cordoban caliphate and the Taifa period: Arabized and ‘Islamicate’ Jews \n  \n!!! 28.02.2024 !!!\n \nSession 3: The Almohad period: forced conversion \nSession 4: Sefarad and Convivencia
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/masterclass-the-representation-of-jews-and-judaism-in-al-andalus-texts-and-contexts-with-prof-maribel-fierro-cas-fellow-january-to-march-2024/
LOCATION:Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)\, Seestraße 13\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
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