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SUMMARY:Gershom Scholem Lecture 2026: "Visualisierungen des Göttlichen". Ein Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel (Universität Münster)
DESCRIPTION:Die jüdische Kunst kennt keine anthropomorphe Gottesdarstellung\, also keine Darstellung Gottes in menschlicher Gestalt. Wie der jüdische Gelehrte Maimonides im 12. Jahrhundert klar formulierte\, gilt bereits die Vorstellung eines anthropomorphen Gottes als schwere Sünde. Vor dem Hintergrund seiner streng rationalistischen Weltanschauung konnte sich Maimonides nicht vorstellen\, dass jüdische Gelehrte jemals in solchen anthropomorphen Kategorien über Gott denken würden. Die jüngere Forschung hat jedoch wiederholt gezeigt\, dass sich auch in rabbinischen Texten durchaus Ansätze von Anthropomorphismus finden lassen. In der jüdischen Mystik des Mittelalters wird schließlich häufig mit anthropomorphen Vorstellungen gearbeitet\, wenn es um Beschreibungen des Göttlichen geht. \nDer Vortrag widmet sich der Frage\, wie sich diese unterschiedlichen Diskurse auf die Darstellung des Göttlichen in der jüdischen bildenden Kunst ausgewirkt haben. Zunächst wird erläutert\, wie das biblische Bilderverbot zu verstehen ist und wie es in der mittelalterlichen Exegese interpretiert wurde. Demnach kann das Göttliche selbst nicht visualisiert werden. Göttliches Eingreifen hingegen wurde in künstlerischen Darstellungen immer wieder anschaulich gemacht: von der besonders in der spätantiken jüdischen Kunst häufig gezeigten Hand Gottes über göttliche Lichtstrahlen\, die das Schöpfungswerk bewirken\, bis hin zu Umschreibungen des Gottesnamens\, die in künstlerische Kompositionen integriert wurden. Auch die im Hohelied allegorisch beschriebene göttliche Liebe fand bildliche Ausdrucksformen. Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele werden diese Konzepte vorgestellt und in ihrem jeweiligen historischen und theologischen Kontext analysiert. \nDie Vortragsreihe erinnert an Gershom Scholem\, der in der Geschichte der Judaistik in München eine herausragende Rolle spielt. Er wurde 1922 an der LMU promoviert. Nach seiner Emigration nach Palästina wurde er Professor an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem sowie Präsident der Israelischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scholem gilt als Wiederentdecker der Kabbala und führte die akademische Erforschung der jüdischen Mystik in die moderne Wissenschaft ein. Mit seinen zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Thema gilt er heute als einer der bedeutendsten Judaisten deutsch-jüdischer Herkunft. \nDie Veranstaltung soll die Münchener Judaistik einem allgemeinen Publikum zugänglich machen und an deren bedeutende Geschichte mit einem Festvortrag erinnern. \n  \nProgramm\nBegrüßung\nProf. Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick\nVizepräsidentin für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität\, München \nEinführung\nProf. Dr. Ronny Vollandt\nProfessor für Judaistik\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität\, München \nVerleihung Steinschneider-Preis 2026 \nFestvortrag\nProf. Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel\nProfessorin für Jüdische Studien\, Universität Münster \n  \nIm Anschluss an den Festvortrag lädt die Abteilung für Judaistik zu einem Empfang ein. \nUm Anmeldung wird gebeten bis 02.07.2026 an jac@culture.lmu.de \n  \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/gershom-scholem-lecture-2026-visualisierungen-des-gottlichen-ein-festvortrag-von-prof-dr-katrin-kogman-appel-universitat-munster/
LOCATION:Historisches Kolleg\, Kaulbachstraße 15\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Scholem Lecture
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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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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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SUMMARY:Workshop with Prof. Ludwig Paul (Hamburg University): Introduction to Judeo-Persian
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an intensive two-day workshop with Prof. Ludwig Paul from Hamburg University. \nThe workshop will provide an introduction to Judeo-Persian texts across different centuries. After an initial overview\, we will read and discuss texts from various periods\, possibly in reverse chronological order. Materials may include selections from the Geniza documents\, tafsir literature\, works by Shahin\, Baba’i b. Lutf\, and Baba’i b. Farhad\, among others. \nTexts will be provided in advance. \n  \nVenue: Kleiner Besprechungsraum\, Georgianum\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, 80539 München \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/workshop-with-prof-ludwig-paul-hamburg-university-introduction-to-judeo-persian/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260416T170000
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SUMMARY:International Conference "Jewish Literature under Muslim Rule: Textual Transformations and Inter-Religious Encounters"
DESCRIPTION:A cooperation between the Simon Dubnow Institute\, Leipzig\, and the Unit of Judaic Studies/Munich Research Centre of Jewish Arabic Cultures at the University of Munich. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research\, Technology and Space – BMFTR \nWe are pleased to announce an international conference exploring the impact of Muslim rule on Jewish literature\, with a particular focus on religious texts—including translations of the Bible\, commentaries\, and philosophical and legal writings. The conference will examine how Jewish authors responded—textually\, linguistically\, and theologically—to the Islamic environment in which they lived\, and how Islamic models of thought\, language\, and literary form left their imprint on Jewish religious expression. \nWorkshop Program\nVenues:     Raum M110\, Main Building\, University of Munich\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, 80539 Munich \n                  Seidlvilla\, Nicolaiplatz 1B\, 80802 Munich \n  \nApril 14 – Venue: Raum M110 \n18:15-18:30 Opening: Jan Gerber\, Ronny Vollandt \n18:30-19:30 Keynote Lecture: Reuven Firestone. Hinting What May Not Be Declared and Inferring What May Not Be Said: Decoding Jewish Anti-Muslim Polemics Written under Muslim Rule \n19:30-20:00 Reception \n  \nApril 15 – Venue: Seidlvilla \n09:00-09:30 Registration \n  \n09:30-11:00 NEGOTIATING INTERRELIGIOSITY \nChair: Gregor Schwarb \nJasper Bernhofer Elements of Arabic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind in Samaritan-Arabic Polemics against Judaism \nHaitham Ismaeil An 18th-Century Samaritan Theological Defense Against the Accusation of Worshipping the Golden Calf \nKübra Güneş Maimonides on Treatment of Non-Jews in the Context of the Commandments of Kings and Wars and Its Roots in Islamic Tradition \n  \n11:00-11:30 Coffee Break \n  \n11:30-12:30 IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN LITERATURE \nChair: Hanna Trauer \nAriane Sadjed. Judeo-Persian and the Hebrew “Revival”: Religious Canonization in the Writings of Haim Moreh \nRavza Aydın. The Defence of the Other: Perceptions of Identity and Homeland in Avram Galante’s Article “Why I Defend Islam?” \n  \n12:30-13:30 Lunch \n  \n13:30-15:00 CONCEPTUAL ENGAGEMENTS \nChair: Ali Langroudi \nMohammad Golshan (Göttingen). Rethinking the Concept of Qadīm: Reading Burhān-i Ḥudūth and Qidam in Two Judeo-Persian Keter Malkuth Commentaries \nDan Shapira. I Firk 143: One of the Oldest Qipčaq Texts (Composed after 1340\, Copied after 1470s) from the Islamicate and Persianate World \nRoza Ashkenazi. Religious Terms and Jewish Personal Sacral Names in Judeo-Persian Literature and Judeo-Persian Transliterations of Classic Persian Poetry \n  \n18:15-19:15 Keynote Lecture; Venue: Raum M110; Julia Rubanovich. Epic Voices: Medieval Judeo-Persian Biblical Poetry in Context \n  \nApril 16 – Venue: Seidlvilla \n10:00-11:00 LITERARY ADOPTIONS I \nChair: Avner Ofrath \nShlomo Zuckier. ‘Oral Torah’ between Late Talmudic and Early Islamic Discourse \nGavin McDowell (Paris). Sefer ha-Yashar: A Persianate Tales of the Prophets \n  \n11:00-11:30 Coffee Break \n  \n11:30-13:00 LITERARY ADOPTIONS II \nChair: Ronny Vollandt \nJoshua Krug. Voluntary Conversion and Identity Formation in the Medieval Islamic World: Maimonides’ “Letter to Ovadiah the Convert” in Context  \nŞeyma Benli. Two Jewish Brothers\, Two Separate Translations: A Comparative Study of the First Ottoman Turkish Renditions of the Psalms \n  \n13:00-14:00 Lunch
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/jewish-literature-under-muslim-rule-textual-transformations-and-inter-religious-encounters/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Marina Shcherbakova":MAILTO:M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
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SUMMARY:Conference "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations"\, 19-21 January 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Unit for Judaic Studies at the Institute for the Near and Middle East (LMU Munich) is pleased to announce the concluding conference of the project Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations (Munich\, Halle\, Heidelberg 2022–2026). \nThe conference will explore how materiality mediates\, shapes\, or challenges Jewish-Arab relations across historical and spatial contexts. It will bring together scholars to discuss manuscripts\, documents\, inscriptions\, architecture\, and objects of everyday life as critical interfaces of Jewish-Arab entanglement \nPROGRAM\nOPENING 14:00-14:30 TERESA BERNHEIMER & ANNA BUSA (LMU Munich) \n  \nI MONDAY 14:30-16:30 (RONNY VOLLANDT\, LMU Munich) \nAriel Fein: I\, the bookcase speak to you (Princeton University Art Museum) \nTal Hever-Chybowski: Betsalel Frenkel’s Yiddish Book Collection in Alexandria (MLU\, Halle) \nÖzge Yildirim: Journey of an Arabic Astronomy Manuscript: Ottoman-Jewish Intellectuals as Transmitters of Knowledge (LMU\, Munich) \nMiriam Goldstein: Materiality of Near Eastern copies of Toledot Yeshu in Judeo- Arabic (The Hebrew University\, Jerusalem) \nCOFFEE 16:30 \n  \nKEYNOTE LECTURE: MONDAY 18:00 c.t. \nORIT BASHKIN (University of Chicago): Arab Jewish Relations in the 19th and 20th century: materiality\, memory\, and periodization \n  \nII TUESDAY 9:30-11:00 (OTTFRIED FRAISSE\, MLU\, Halle) \nSawsan Marwan: Visual Power\, Material Poster\, A Zionist lithograph of 1900 and the construction of Jewish-Arab relations (independent artist\, Israel) \nLily Eilan: Unturned stones? Preservation of Palestine homes in Galilee’s Kibbutzim: a case study (University of Heidelberg) \nTamar Novick/Lee Rotbart: Burdened: The donkey and power relations in Palestine/Israel in the 20th century (TUM\, Munich) \nCOFFEE 11:00-11:30 \n  \nIII TUESDAY 11:30-12:30 (ANNA BUSA\, LMU Munich) \nNadia Vidro: Jewish copies of classical Arabic grammars as loci of Muslim-Jewish entanglement (UCL\, London) \nYoram Meital: Material dialogues: Jewish\, Islamic\, and Coptic interactions in Ben Ezra Synagogue (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) \nLUNCH 12:30-14:00 UHR \nIV TUESDAY 14:00-15:30 (JOHANNES BECKE\, University of Heidelberg) \nTamir Karkason: Binding the Twansa: Material politics of Jewish belonging in 1890’s colonial Tunis (MLU\, Halle) \nGregor Schwarb: From Abbassid Chanceries to Wissenschaft des Judentums: Qaraite manuscripts and the shifting of Jewish-Arab relations (LMU\, Munich) \nMoshe Yagur: Documenting Qaraite Endowments in 16th century Jerusalem through their 20th Century Reflections (Bar Ilan University) \n16:30 GUIDED TOUR\, JÜDISCHES MUSEUM MUNICH (https://www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de/) \n  \nV WEDNESDAY 9:30-11:00 (ILSE STURKENBOOM\, LMU Munich): Objects on the move \nAnna Messner: On the Trail of the ‘Mosseri Bible’ or ‘Bible du Caire’. The Transcultural Biography of a Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript and its (Dis)Entangled Histories with the Arab World (Heinrich Heine University\, Düsseldorf) \nTom Fogel: Tradition in motion: Preservation and change in Yemeni Jewish Amulets (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) \nArtemis Ignatidou: Of music records in Ottoman Salonika: local musical culture\, interfaith debates\, and the introduction of a new technology (University of Bayreuth) \nCOFFEE 11:00-11:30 \n  \nVI WEDNESDAY 11:30-13:00 (TERESA BERNHEIMER\, LMU Munich) \nRhea Stark: The Rise and Revival(s) of America’s ‘Cathedral Synagogue’\, Temple Emanu-el and the aesthetic identifications of Reform Jewry (Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York) \nYair Wallach: Ashkenazim wearing the Fez: appropriation\, assimilation\, masquerade? (SOAS\, London) \nAli Satilmis: Minarets in the window. A Minaret form Hanukkiah and Jewish-Arab relations (Kocaeli University\, Istanbul) \nLUNCH 13:00-14:30 \nVII WEDNESDAY 14:30-15:30 (JULIA SCHNEIDAWIND\, LMU Munich) \nMichal Ohana: A Morrocan Jew’s gaze upon his native land from 1830’s London (MLU\, Halle) \nJulia Hauser: The Nakba in Focus: Photographs of destroyed Arab Towns and Villages in a German Archive (Kassel University) \nCLOSING WEDNESDAY 15:30 (TERESA BERNHEIMER\, LMU Munich\, ANNA BUSA\, LMU Munich) \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/conference-the-materiality-of-jewish-arabic-relations-19-21-january-2026/
LOCATION:Hauptgebäude der LMU\, Senatssaal\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Ausstellung "Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt: Fotografische Erinnerungen an eine vergangene Zeit"
DESCRIPTION:Diese Ausstellung lädt Besucherinnen und Besucher ein zu einer Reise in jüdisch-arabische Lebenswelten – von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel. Thematisch gegliedert – etwa in die Bereiche Alltagsleben\, Religion\, Bildung\, Berufs- und Wirtschaftsleben\, Presse sowie Migration – gewährt die Ausstellung eindrucksvolle Einblicke in eine weitgehend vergessene oder gar verdrängte Geschichte. \nHistorische Fotografien dokumentieren den Alltag jüdischer Gemeinschaften in Regionen wie dem Maghreb\, Libyen\, Ägypten\, Syrien\, Irak und Jemen. Sie zeugen von Nähe\, Austausch und gemeinsam gelebten kulturellen Räumen – „jüdisch“ und „arabisch“ galten über Jahrhunderte nicht als Gegensätze\, sondern als Ausdruck eines eng verflochtenen Miteinanders. Dieses zeigte sich etwa in den Markt- und Geschäftsbeziehungen von Städten wie Kairo oder Tunis oder im Alltag multireligiöser Stadtviertel\, in denen jüdisches\, muslimisches und christliches Leben eng miteinander verbunden war. Persönlichkeiten wie aus der Kaufmannsfamilie Sassoon oder die ägyptisch-jüdische Schauspielerin Leila Murad\, eine Ikone des arabischen Kinos\, stehen exemplarisch für die vielfältige jüdische Präsenz im öffentlichen und kulturellen Leben. Auch wenn diese Beziehungen nicht spannungsfrei waren\, prägten sie jüdisches Leben tiefgreifend. \nDie Ausstellung will nicht verklären\, sondern erinnern. Gerade in einer Zeit\, in der jüdisch-arabische und jüdisch-muslimische Beziehungen häufig ausschließlich durch die Linse des Nahostkonflikts betrachtet werden\, eröffnet sie eine alternative Perspektive: Sie macht die Möglichkeit von Koexistenz und Nachbarschaft sichtbar – jenseits polarisierender Narrative. „Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt“ ist ein Plädoyer für die Bewahrung einer vielschichtigen Vergangenheit. Die fotografischen Zeugnisse laden dazu ein\, eine facettenreiche Geschichte neu zu entdecken – als Impuls für mehr Verständnis\, differenzierte Betrachtungen und neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Gegenwart. \nDie Ausstellung ist eine Kooperation des Beauftragten der Bayerischen Staatsregierung für jüdisches Leben und gegen Antisemitismus\, für Erinnerungsarbeit und geschichtliches Erbe und der Abteilung für Judaistik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/ausstellung-judisches-leben-in-der-arabischen-welt-fotografische-erinnerungen-an-eine-vergangene-zeit/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250925T220000
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SUMMARY:Vernissage "Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt: Fotografische Erinnerungen an eine vergangene Zeit"
DESCRIPTION:Wir laden sehr herzlich zur Vernissage “Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt: Fotografische Erinnerungen an eine vergangene Zeit” ein. \nHistorische Fotografien dokumentieren den Alltag jüdischer Gemeinschaften in Regionen wie dem Maghreb\, Libyen\, Ägypten\, Syrien\, Irak und Jemen. Sie zeugen von Nähe\, Austausch und gemeinsam gelebten kulturellen Räumen – „jüdisch“ und „arabisch“ galten über Jahrhunderte nicht als Gegensätze\, sondern als Ausdruck eines eng verflochtenen Miteinanders. Dieses zeigte sich etwa in den Markt- und Geschäftsbeziehungen von Städten wie Kairo oder Tunis oder im Alltag multireligiöser Stadtviertel\, in denen jüdisches\, muslimisches und christliches Leben eng miteinander verbunden war. Persönlichkeiten wie aus der Kaufmannsfamilie Sassoon oder die ägyptisch-jüdische Schauspielerin Leila Murad\, eine Ikone des arabischen Kinos\, stehen exemplarisch für die vielfältige jüdische Präsenz im öffentlichen und kulturellen Leben. Auch wenn diese Beziehungen nicht spannungsfrei waren\, prägten sie jüdisches Leben tiefgreifend. \nDie Ausstellung will nicht verklären\, sondern erinnern. Gerade in einer Zeit\, in der jüdisch-arabische und jüdisch-muslimische Beziehungen häufig ausschließlich durch die Linse des Nahostkonflikts betrachtet werden\, eröffnet sie eine alternative Perspektive: Sie macht die Möglichkeit von Koexistenz und Nachbarschaft sichtbar – jenseits polarisierender Narrative. „Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt“ ist ein Plädoyer für die Bewahrung einer vielschichtigen Vergangenheit. Die fotografischen Zeugnisse laden dazu ein\, eine facettenreiche Geschichte neu zu entdecken – als Impuls für mehr Verständnis\, differenzierte Betrachtungen und neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Gegenwart. \nDie Ausstellung ist eine Kooperation des Beauftragten der Bayerischen Staatsregierung für jüdisches Leben und gegen Antisemitismus\, für Erinnerungsarbeit und geschichtliches Erbe und der Abteilung für Judaistik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. \n  \nPROGRAMM\nGrußworte\nBettina Nir-Vered \n  \nDr. Ludwig Spaenle\nBeauftragter der Bayerischen Staatsregierung für Jüdisches Leben und gegen Antisemitismus\, für Erinnerungsarbeit und geschichtliches Erbe \nEinführung\nProf. Dr. Ronny Vollandt\nProfessor für Judaistik und Direktor der Forschungsstelle für jüdisch-arabische Kulturen an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität \nMarina Shcherbakova\nakademische Koordinatorin des Fellowshipprogramms „From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies“ \nKuratoren der Ausstellung \nMusikalische Begleitung\nEnsemble Chesed\nklassische arabisch-jüdische Musik von Liran Levi und Xavier Ramírez Mondragón \nEmpfang\n\n  \n\nAufgrund begrenzter Platzzahl im Veranstaltungsraum ist eine Anmeldung UNBEDINGT erforderlich unter: muenchen@digev.de \nEnde gegen 21.30 – 22.00 Uhr \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/vernissage-judisches-leben-in-der-arabischen-welt-fotografische-erinnerungen-an-eine-vergangene-zeit/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Vernissage
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250729T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250729T210000
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SUMMARY:Gershom Scholem Lecture 2025:“Wenn Dich von hier tut der Angelus vertreiben“. Ein Festvortrag von Prof. Dr. Saverio Campanini (Universität Bologna)
DESCRIPTION:Begrüßung\nProf. Dr. Hans van Ess\nVizepräsident für den Bereich Forschung\, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität\, München \n& \nFrau Ministerin Dorothea Bär\nBundesministerin für Forschung\, Technologie und Raumfahrt \nEinführung\nProf. Dr. Ronny Vollandt\nProfessor für Judaistik\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität\, München \nFestvortrag\nProf. Dr. Saverio Campanini\nProfessor für hebräische Sprache und Literatur\, Universität Bologna \nGershom Scholem zählt zweifellos zu den bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten jüdischen Gelehrten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinem umfangreichen Werk zur Kabbala\, jüdischen Philosophie und Religionsgeschichte legte er den Grundstein für die wissenschaftliche Erforschung der jüdischen Mystik. Weniger bekannt ist jedoch seine besondere Verbindung zu München\, einer Stadt\, die gleich dreimal eine wichtige Rolle in seinem Leben spielte:\nZum ersten Mal hielt sich Scholem von 1919 bis 1922 in München auf\, wo er seine Studien abschloss und an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Semitistik promovierte – kurz bevor er nach Palästina unter britischem Mandat emigrierte\, wo er seit ihrer Eröffnung an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem tätig war. Sein zweiter Aufenthalt im Jahr 1932 war von kurzer Dauer\, doch veröffentlichte er in dieser Zeit eine scharfe Polemik gegen Hans-Joachim Schoeps\, den Autor des Werkes „Jüdischer Glaube in dieser Zeit“. Scholem warf Schoeps vor\, die jüdischen Traditionen zu verfremden\, indem er sie an eine protestantisch geprägte Denkweise und die Erwartungen der deutschen Mehrheitsgesellschaft anpasste. Der dritte und letzte Besuch führte ihn 1974 nach München zurück\, als er den Großen Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste entgegennahm. In seiner bedeutenden Rede „Mein Weg zur Kabbala“ verdeutlichte er die tiefgreifende Verflechtung seiner biografischen und akademischen Entwicklung.\nDer Vortrag beleuchtet\, wie diese drei Aufenthalte in München entscheidende Wendepunkte in Scholems Leben und Schaffen markierten. Zugleich wird er der Frage nachgehen\, ob die Wahl Münchens als Schauplatz dieser biografischen Stationen bloßer Zufall gewesen sein kann. Hinter dieser Frage ist vielleicht eine allgemeinere verborgen: kann man die Bestimmung\, die das Gegenteil von Zufall sein sollte\, auch Schicksal nennen? \nDie Vortragsreihe erinnert an Gershom Scholem\, der in der Geschichte der Judaistik in München eine herausragende Rolle spielt. Er wurde 1922 an der LMU promoviert. Nach seiner Emigration nach Palästina wurde er Professor an der Hebräischen Universität in Jerusalem sowie Präsident der Israelischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Scholem gilt als Wiederentdecker der Kabbala und führte die akademische Erforschung der jüdischen Mystik in die moderne Wissenschaft ein. Mit seinen zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Thema gilt er heute als einer der bedeutendsten Judaisten deutsch-jüdischer Herkunft. \nDie Veranstaltung soll die Münchener Judaistik einem allgemeinen Publikum zugänglich machen und an deren bedeutende Geschichte mit einem Festvortrag erinnern. \nIm Anschluss an den Festvortrag lädt die Abteilung für Judaistik zu einem Empfang ein.\nU. A. w.g. bis 15.7.2025 an jac@culture.lmu.de
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/gershom-scholem-lecture-2025wenn-dich-von-hier-tut-der-angelus-vertreiben-ein-festvortrag-von-prof-dr-saverio-campanini-universitat-bologna/
LOCATION:Historisches Kolleg\, Kaulbachstraße 15\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Scholem Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250410T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250411T160000
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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;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250409T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250409T200000
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SUMMARY:Vortrag von Dr. Diana Matut (Alte Synagoge - Haus der jüdischen Kultur in Essen): "Her:Voice. Die vernakularen Liedkulturen jüdischer Frauen"
DESCRIPTION:Säkulare jüdische Frauen und Anhängerinnen der Reformbewegungen haben die Freiheit\, sich in jeder Form von Musik auszudrücken. Diese Freiheit ist jedoch ein relativ neues Phänomen. Historisch sowie im gegenwärtigen orthodoxen bzw. haredischen Kontext kann Singen ein höchst transgressiver und provokativer Akt sein\, der von vielen Faktoren abhängt. \nDieser Vortrag möchte die Her:Story singender jüdischer Frauen herausarbeiten\, wobei besonders der vernakulare Gesang im Vordergrund steht. Er wird der Frage nachgehen\, wie unterschiedliche halachische Interpretationen und diverse sozio-historische Kontexte sehr unterschiedliche Umgebungen für die musikalischen Praktiken und Möglichkeiten jüdischer Frauen schufen\, die bis ins 21. Jahrhundert hinein resonieren. \nDer Vortrag möchte jüdische Frauen als Innovatorinnen darstellen\, als diejenigen\, die in liminalen Momenten der Lebenszyklen musikalische Schlüsselfunktionen innehatten und -haben\, aber auch als Menschen\, die durch wechselnde halachische Interpretationen und männliche professionelle Konkurrenz historisch in der Ausübung ihrer Kunst stark herausgefordert wurden. Nicht zuletzt stellt dieser Vortrag Gesangspraktiken vor\, die orthodoxe und haredische Jüdinnen heute erneut für sich reklamieren. \nDiana Matut ist Research Fellow in der Abteilung für Judaistik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). Sie ist Leiterin der Alten Synagoge – Haus der jüdischen Kultur in Essen und unterrichtet regelmäßig jüdische Musik (und Altjiddisch) am Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies\, für das Aleph Cantorial Program und die Other Music Academy – Yiddish Summer Weimar.\nSie ist Judaistin\, Jiddistin (mit fortgeschrittenen Kenntnissen zu semitischen Sprachen) und Musikerin. Ihr besonderes Interesse gilt der Geschichte der jiddischen Musik und Literatur\, Fragen zu Gender und Aufführungspraxis\, sowie den Verbindungen zwischen jüdischen und nicht-jüdischen Musiken\, Musikern und Musikproduktionen. \n  \nDatum: Mittwoch\, 9. April 2025\nZeit: 18:00 c. t.\nOrt: Hauptgebäude\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, 80539 München\nRaum: A015
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/vortrag-von-dr-diana-matut-lmu-hervoice-die-vernakularen-liedkulturen-judischer-frauen/
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250404T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250404T140000
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SUMMARY:Lunch-Time Lecture with Prof. Dr. Craig Perry (Emory University): "Slavery and Jewish-Muslim Entanglement in Medieval Egypt\, 11th-13th c."
DESCRIPTION:The Jewish community of Cairo preserved what is arguably one of the richest archives for the study of slavery in the medieval Middle East. This talk will explore these writings to illustrate different aspects of Jewish-Muslim entanglements in Egypt and beyond. The main themes will include: the interplay of Jewish and Islamic slavery law; slave-owning and the construction of Jewish masculinities; and the lives of unfree and freed peoples in this entangled society. \nCraig Perry is an assistant professor at Emory University in Atlanta\, Georgia in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies\, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies\, and the Islamic Civilizations Studies Graduate Program. He is co-editor of The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2\, AD 500 – AD 1420 (2021). In Fall 2025\, his book Slavery in a Medieval Islamic Society: a Jewish History\, will be published by Princeton University Press. \n \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/lunch-time-lecture-with-prof-dr-craig-perry-emory-university-slavery-and-jewish-muslim-entanglement-in-medieval-egypt-11th-13th-c/
LOCATION:Veterinärstr. 1\, Room 009\, München\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241207
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SUMMARY:Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship: Claiming Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash
DESCRIPTION:Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship\nClaiming Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash\n \n  \nThe modern concept of the individual author as a creative genius plays an eminent role in literary studies. Its omnipresence and applicability to medieval texts have been questioned under the influence of Roland Barthes’ essay ‚La mort de l‘auteur‘ (1968) and Michel Foucault’s ‚‚Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?‘ (1969). Being foremostly anonymously and collectively created works\, many rabbinic and medieval texts display multiform textual states resulting in manifold manuscript variants rooted in their respective creative production and transmission processes involving different agents. This assertion also applies to Jewish and Arabic or Eastern literary cultural contexts which mingle authorship with transmission processes. Also\, Alistair Minnis who studied Western medieval authorship negates the accuracy of this overarching concept of the individual author when it comes to medieval texts claiming that this anachronistic conception‚ has no historical validity as far as medieval literature is concerned‘ (Minnis 1984:1). \nDespite these structuralist and post-structuralist attempts to dethrone the modern notion of the author diverting the focus of research to the texts themselves (and their readers)\, the author concept returned in the early 1990s and continues to haunt scholars ever since. \nBoth views\, the overemphasizing of the modern concept of the author as well as the claimof his absence in rabbinic and early-medieval literature\, oversimplify authorship. With this workshop\, we intend to challenge/question both these views by drawing attention to overlooked notions of rabbinic and medieval authorship. By studying the consciously applied mechanisms of auctores and their attempts to exert auctoritas we focus on methods of authorial agency that claim ownership in pre-modern literary production and transmission. To date these aspects have been largely ignored when investigating pre-modern literary creation in the Near East and beyond. \nThe workshop thus focuses on different aspects of authoriality\, authorial agency\, and new more nuanced concepts of medieval authorship in rabbinic literature early medieval midrashic texts (2nd to 10th centuries CE). It approaches them also with a comparative perspective to Judaeo-Arabic literary production\, in which novel notions of authorship emerge. \n\n\n\nThursday\, 5 December 2024 (10:00-18:00)\n10:00 – 10:20\nIntroduction / Opening Words (20 minutes)\n1. Authorship in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature\nChair: Dr. Annabelle Fuchs \n10:20 – 10:55\nWho Authored Rabbinic Biographies\, Why and with What Authority?\nMonika Amsler (Bern) \n10:55 – 11:30\nRabbinic Literature\, Reliability of Name Attributions\, and the Author Function\nShlomo Zuckier (Princeton) \n\n\n11:30 – 11:50: Coffee Break (20 minutes)\n\n\n11:50 – 12:25\nDear Editor: Authorship\, Redaction\, and Aesthetics in the Manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud\nGal Sela (Regensburg) \n12:25 – 13:00\nThe “Imaginary of Authorship” in Baba Bathra 13a-14b\nMadalina Vartejanu-Joubert (Paris) \n\n13:00 – 14:30: Lunch Break (90 minutes)\n\n\n2. Authorship in Hebrew Literary Traditions in Medieval Europe\nChair: Dr. Teresa Bernheimer \n14:30 – 15:05\nAuthorship Arising: Yosippon and Josephus\nSaskia Dönitz (Frankfurt/Münster) \n15:05 – 15:40\nAnonymous Storytellers: The Rise of Medieval Hebrew Narratives under the Influence of Emerging Authorship\nAnnabelle Fuchs (München) \n15:40 – 16:15\nPracticing Authorship in the Art of Compilation\nAnna Busa (München) \n\n16:15 – 16:35: Coffee Break (20 minutes)\n\n\n3. Authorship in Jewish Literary Traditions under Islamic Influence\nChair: Dr. des. Anna Busa \n16:35 – 17:10\nAuthorship and Modes of Composition in Judeo-Arabic Texts\nRonny Vollandt (München) \n17:10 – 17:45\nAuthorship and Patronage in Early Islamic-Era Jewish Texts\nEliav Grossman (Princeton) \n17:45 – 18:00\nClosing Words / Final Discussion of the Day (15 minutes) \n \nFriday\, 6 December 2024 (10:00 – 14:30)\n4. Analyzing Textual Samples: Midrashic Traditions and Beyond\nChair: Dr. des. Sophia Schmitt \n10:00 – 10:35\nSix … in Search of an Author – ש”ס בחיפוש אחר מחבר. Seder Eliyahu claiming Auctoritas through the Centuries\nUlrich Berzbach (Köln) \n10:35 – 11:10\nBetween Author and Redactor: The Case of Midrash on Ecclesiastes\nReuven Kiperwasser (Berlin) \n\n\n11:10 – 11:30: Coffee Break (20 minutes)\n\n\n11:30 – 12:05\nDead Words and Words of the Dead: Compositionality and Narrativity in a Lost Genizah Recension of the Tanhuma on Emor\nTova Sacher (Haifa) \n12:05 – 12:40\nPlagiarism in Rabbinic Texts?\nLieve M. Teugels (Salzburg) \n\n12:40 – 14:10: Lunch Break (90 minutes)\n\n\n14:10 – 14:30\nFinal Discussion (20 minutes) \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/auctor-auctoritas-authorship/
LOCATION:Salon Hildebrand\, Maria-Theresia-Str. 23\, München\, 81675
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241108
DTSTAMP:20241028T092555Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture and Masterclass with Maya Shatzmiller: "The Use and Abuse of the Genizah Documents"
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture: “The Use and Abuse of the Genizah Documents: The Genizah and Medieval Economic History: Judeo-Islamic Symbiosis or Misconceptions? Four Cases” \nSixty years have passed since S. D. Goitein first drew attention to the Genizah documents as a unique source for writing the economic history of the Middle East\, among other.  Since then\, the work of researchers further documented how important are these medieval quantitative data. Recently\, however\, the content and the interpretation of the Jewish traders’ letters from the Geniza\, became a subject of debate and controversy\, suggesting that a review of the use of the Geniza documents may be in order.  \nIn the first lecture I examine four cases where I used quantitative data from the Genizah in the reconstruction ofthe economic structures of the medieval Middle East and raise questions about their indiscriminate use. \nIn the second lecture (masterclass) I will examine the empirical evidence of the model\, based on the Genizah documents\, that economic interaction in the Islamic Middle East was grounded in informal institutions. I suggest that the assimilation of this model with inefficient cultural beliefs and collectivist behaviour attributed to Islamic societies raises concerns of empirical and methodological nature.\n \nThe lecture takes place on Wednesday\, 6 November\, 6:00-8:00 pm at Amalienstraße 73A\, room 112. \nMasterclass: “The Use and Abuse of the Genizah Documents: The Genizah\, the Maghribi Traders’ Debate\, and Collectivist Muslims: How the Genizah Documents Enabled Global Underdevelopment Theory” \nThe masterclass takes place on Thursday\, 7 November\, 2:00-4:00 pm at Edmund-Rumpler Straße 13\, room B 112.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/public-lecture-with-maya-shatzmiller-the-use-and-abuse-of-the-geniza-documents/
LOCATION:Amalienstraße 73A Raum 112\, Amalienstraße 73A\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80799\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240725T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240725T220000
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UID:7826-1721930400-1721944800@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Caesarea - eine mediterrane Stadt als Schlüssel zur Rabbinischen Literatur
DESCRIPTION:Mit der Zerstörung des Jerusalemer Tempels durch die römische Armee im Jahr 70 n. Chr. verlor das Judentum in der römischen Provinz Palästina sein religiöses\, politisches und administratives Zentrum. In den folgenden Jahrhunderten formierte sich eine Bewegung von Gelehrten\, die als Rabbinen bezeichnet werden. Sie organisierten sich in Lehrbetrieben in verschiedenen Städten und schufen dort Grundsätze in Werken\, die für das Judentum\, wie wir es heute kennen\, zentral sind: die Mischna\, den Jerusalemer Talmud und wichtige Midrasch-Sammlungen. Die klassische rabbinische Literatur setzt sich aus anonymen Sammelwerken zusammen\, die frühere Traditionen aufnehmen\, oft unter Nennung des Gelehrten\, der sie ursprünglich formulierte\, und der Tradentenkette\, die sich oft über Generationen und verschiedene rabbinische Zentren streckte. Bei diesen komplexen Redaktionsprozessen spielte die Rivalität der unterschiedlichen rabbinischen Zentren\, wie z.B. Tiberias und Sepphoris\, eine maßgebliche Rolle. \nDieser Vortrag wird ein Schlaglicht auf die Tätigkeit der Gelehrten in Caesarea werfen\, deren Beitrag zu den klassischen rabbinischen Werken von besonderem Interesse ist\, da sie in der mediterranen Provinzhauptstadt wirkten und damit einen besonderen Status genossen. Sie waren außerdem in einer internationalen Atmosphäre verwurzelt. Die Gelehrten Caesareas stellen damit eine markante Gruppe innerhalb der rabbinischen Bewegung dar\, die oft weltoffenere Positionen vertrat als spätere\, in Tiberias ansässige Redaktoren der rabbinischen Sammelwerke. Der Vortrag wird einige Schlüsselpassagen der beiden Hauptquellen für die Traditionen Caesareas\, nämlich des Jerusalemer Talmuds und des Midrasch Genesis Rabbah\, vergleichen\, um nach Spuren tiberianischer Redaktion und Agenden zu fragen und das ursprüngliche Profil der Traditionen zu rekonstruieren. Damit ist der Vortrag auch ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung des Pluralismus innerhalb des rabbinischen Judentums. \n  \nVortragende: Prof. Dr. Maren Niehoff (Hebräische Universität Jerusalem) \n  \nProf. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Huber\, Präsident der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität\, übernimmt die Grußworte. \n  \nIm Anschluss wird es einen Empfang geben.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/caesarea-eine-mediterrane-stadt-als-schlussel-zur-rabbinischen-literatur/
LOCATION:Historisches Kolleg\, Kaulbachstraße 15\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Scholem Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240507T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240507T200000
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UID:8401-1715105700-1715112000@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Friedrich Grote: Ein gescheiterter Bibeljäger und sein Vermächtnis
DESCRIPTION:Ein Vortrag von Peter Tarras (LMU München) in der 4MZ-Reihe “Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung” \n  \nIm 19. Jahrhundert erlebte die Jagd europäischer Gelehrter nach den ältesten Bibelhandschriften ihre Hochphase. Einer der unterschätztesten Handschriftenjäger dieser Zeit ist Friedrich Grote (1861-1922). In den 1890er Jahren kündigte er einen sensationellen Fund an. Trotz Begeisterung der Öffentlichkeit wurde er von der Fachwelt zurückgewiesen\, was aus dem Gelehrten einen Händler und Sammler machte. Seine Sammlung bestand aus hunderten von Fragmenten aus dem St. Katharinenkloster auf dem Sinai. Hier hatten zuvor Bibeljäger wie Constantin Tischendorf ihre bahnbrechenden Entdeckungen gemacht; auch Grote war hier zugange. Als Forscher übertraf er Tischendorf nicht\, dafür aber bei Weitem bei der Zerstreuung der Kulturgüter des Sinaiklosters. Dieser Vortrag widmet sich dem Kontext und den Folgen seiner Tätigkeit und macht auf die Bedeutung der Provenienzforschung für den Umgang mit nahöstlichem Kulturgut aufmerksam. \n  \nProgramm der 4MZ-Reihe “Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung” \n  \n  \nVerantwortlich für den Inhalt: Münchner Mittelost-Mittelmeer-Mittelasien-Zentrum (4MZ)
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/friedrich-grote-ein-gescheiterter-bibeljager-und-sein-vermachtnis/
LOCATION:Hörsaal M 010\, Hauptgebäude der LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240227T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240227T200000
DTSTAMP:20240126T091045Z
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UID:8235-1709056800-1709064000@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Prof. Dr. Maribel Fierro (CSIC\, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas\, Madrid): "Al-Andalus in the Present: History and Emotions"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/public-lecture-with-prof-dr-maribel-fierro-csic-consejo-superior-de-investigaciones-cientificas-madrid-al-andalus-in-the-present-history-and-emotions/
LOCATION:Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)\, Seestraße 13\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240229
DTSTAMP:20240126T091121Z
CREATED:20230704T141440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T091121Z
UID:6302-1708992000-1709164799@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
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
CATEGORIES:Masterclass
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231205T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231205T200000
DTSTAMP:20230919T085137Z
CREATED:20230919T085120Z
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SUMMARY:Mourād Farag (1867-1956): Ein karäischer Intellektueller während der Nahḍa
DESCRIPTION:Ein Vortrag von Gregor Schwarb (LMU München) in der 4MZ-Reihe “Basiswissen Islam: Persönlichkeiten” \n  \nDie Biographie von Mourād Farag spannt ein Jahrhundert (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jh.)\, welches mit dem Traum der Emanzipation und der vollständigen Integration ägyptischer Jüdinnen und Juden im modernen arabischen Bildungsbürgertum begann und in der Tragik ihrer Auswanderung und dem Abgesang des arabischsprachigen Judentums endete. \n  \nProgramm der 4MZ-Reihe “Basiswissen Islam: Persönlichkeiten”
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/mourad-farag-1867-1956-ein-karaischer-intellektueller-wahrend-der-nah%e1%b8%8da/
LOCATION:Hörsaal M 114\, Hauptgebäude der LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231109T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231109T163000
DTSTAMP:20230907T101526Z
CREATED:20230427T082613Z
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UID:5770-1699520400-1699547400@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Saadya Gaon in the Qaraite literature of the 10th–11th centuries
DESCRIPTION:Saadya Gaon’s anti-Qaraite polemic was fundamental for the development of Qaraite literature. In their turn\, Qaraites quoted Saadya and discussed his views so much that their treatises can now be used to reconstruct Saadya’s lost works. This workshop explores anew the inextricable connection between Saadya and the Qaraites by looking at a wide range of previously little studied Qaraite sources from the 10th-11th centuries. \n  \nPROGRAMME \n9:00 am – 10:00 am \nSacha Stern (University College London)\, Rabbi Isaac Nappaḥa\, founder of the Jewish calendar: how a Rabbanite text came to be owned by Qaraites \n  \n10:00 am – 10:30 am \nCoffee break \n  \n10:30 am – 11:30 am \nMaxim Roozen (Freie Universität Berlin)\, References to Saadya Gaon in Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī’s Kitāb al-Anwār wa-l-Marāqib \n  \n11:30 am – 12:30 pm \nNadia Vidro (University College London)\, A Qaraite refutation of Kitāb al-Tamyīz by Saadya Gaon and its attribution to Ḥasan Ben Mashiaḥ \n  \n12:30 pm – 2:00 pm \nLunch \n  \n2:00 pm – 3:00 pm \nFriederike Schmidt and Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, References to Saadya Gaon in the works of Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ \n  \n3:00 pm – 3:30 pm \nCoffee break \n  \n3:30 pm – 4:30 pm \nGregor Schwarb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, Poznański’s Karaite Literary Opponents of Saadiah Gaon 115 years on: the cases of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah\, Šlomo ben David ha-Naśi\, and Yefet al-Burqumānī
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/saadya-gaon-in-the-qaraite-literature-of-the-10th-11th-centuries/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231024T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231024T200000
DTSTAMP:20230919T084743Z
CREATED:20230919T084229Z
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UID:6619-1698171300-1698177600@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Fatima\, Tochter des Propheten Muhammad und „Herrin der Frauen aller Welt“
DESCRIPTION:Ein Vortrag von Teresa Bernheimer (LMU München) in der 4MZ-Reihe “Basiswissen Islam: Persönlichkeiten” \n  \nTochter\, Ehefrau\, Mutter\, Heilsgestalt: Fāṭima\, die Tochter des Propheten Muhammad\, Ehefrau seines Cousins ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib\, Mutter von al-Ḥasan und al-Ḥusayn\, den einzigen männlichen Nachkommen des Propheten\, spielt in der gesamten islamischen Welt als „Herrin der Frauen aller Welt“ eine wichtige Rolle. Obwohl historische Quellen zu Fāṭimas Leben rar sind\, entwickelte sich über religiös-politische Abgrenzungen hinweg ein Kult zu ihrer Verehrung\, der in diesem Vortrag nachgezeichnet werden soll. \n  \nProgramm der 4MZ-Reihe “Basiswissen Islam: Persönlichkeiten”
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/fatima-tochter-des-propheten-muhammad-und-herrin-der-frauen-aller-welt/
LOCATION:Hörsaal M 114\, Hauptgebäude der LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804
DTSTAMP:20230726T135148Z
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UID:5535-1690761600-1691107199@www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
SUMMARY:Genres and Disciplines of Learning in Judaeo-Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Sarah Stroumsa and Ronny Vollandt\, on behalf of the Society for Judaeo- Arabic Studies\nOrganized by Friederike S. Schmidt and Gregor Schwarb. \nThe emergence of Judaeo-Arabic literature was related to new ways of organizing and transmitting knowledge. The introduction of new disciplines went hand in hand with the development of new teaching methods and textual practices\, as well as the adoption of new literary genres and novel concepts of authorship. These changes had begun in the 9th century but developed mainly over the course of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They had a lasting effect on Jewish literature ever since. Disciplines of learning emerged that had no precedent in rabbinic literature\, such as lexicography\, grammar\, literary theory\, scriptural exegesis\, jurisprudence\, theology\, and philosophy. They reflected contemporaneous developments in non-Jewish literatures and brought along a host of new technical terms and concepts in Arabic. \nWe understand genres and disciplines of learning as dynamic structures that are never fixed and static\, but continuously interact with the reading public\, the social environment\, the literary canon\, and with other texts. \nThe Society of Judaeo-Arabic Studies\, therefore\, invites to the 21st conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies Genres and disciplines of learning in Judaeo-Arabic literature (Munich\, 31st of July – 3rd of August 2023)\, a conference on the nature\, development and formation of genres and disciplines of knowledge in Judaeo-Arabic literature. \nThe conference will take place at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.\n \n  \nPROGRAMME\n  \nMonday\, 31st of July\n10:00 am – 12:00 am \nWalking tour (“Jewish Munich”) \n  \n12:00 am – 1:00 pm \nGet-together at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Veterinärstr. 1) plus light lunch \n  \n2:00 pm \nVenue: Center for Advanced Studies (Seestraße 13) \n  \nWelcome \n  \nTranscending Communal Boundaries (I) \n2:15 pm – 3:45 pm \n  \nPanel I \nChair: Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nDaniel J. Lasker (Ben-Gurion University)\, Judah Hadassi the Karaite and the Judaeo-Arabic Tradition from the Golden Age \nNeri Y. Ariel (French National Centre for Scientific Research)\, Exploring Interreligious Relations through Adab al-Qāḍī: A Study of the Genre of Training Books for Jurists and Judges \nMoshe Lavee and Yoav Phillips (University of Haifa)\, From Magnifying Glass to Big Data Analysis in Service of Judeo-Arabic – Islamic Culture Scholarship \n  \n3:45 pm – 4:00 pm \nCoffee break \n  \n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nSocial History \nPanel II \nChair: Elinoar Bareket (Achva Academic College) \nOra Molad-Vaza (Hebrew University Jerusalem)\, Orphans in the Mediterranean Jewish Society – The Story of the Cairo Geniza Documents \nDotan Arad (Bar-Ilan University)\, The Mustaʿribs in Egypt in the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Light of New Documents \nAmir Mazor (University of Haifa)\, Islamic Historiography as Polemic Literature: Deconstructing Arabic Biographical Texts Concerning Jewish Converts \n  \n6:00 pm \nGreetings \nHans van Ess (Vice President of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität for Research) \n  \nOpening Address (Sarah Stroumsa and Ronny Vollandt) \n  \nKeynote Lecture \nAharon Maman (Hebrew University Jerusalem / Academy of the Hebrew Language)\, Genres and sub-genres in the field of Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Philology \nfollowed by reception \n  \nTuesday\, 1st of August\n  \nVenue: main building of the LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Senatssaal (E 110\, upper floor) \n  \n8:30 am – 10:00 am \nLinguistic Thought (I) \nPanel III \nChair: Aharon Maman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Academy of the Hebrew Language) \nDaniel Isaac (University of Strasbourg)\, Adoption of the tri-radical root system among Iberian Exegetes\, acceptance and rejection – the case of Ibn Chiquitilla \nAli Watad (Beit Berl College)\, Ibn al-Kaṯar’s Perception of the Origin of the Language in His Book Šarḥ Im-baquti\bəḥuqūtay \nSimon Haffner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, Does grammar presuppose writing? \n  \n10:00 am – 10:30 am \nCoffee break \n  \n10:30 am – 12:30 am \nTranscending Communal Boundaries (II) \nPanel IV \nChair: Paul Fenton (University Paris-Sorbonne) \nEhud Krinis (Ben-Gurion University)\, The Kuzari and the Islamicate Genre of the Signs of Prophecy \nNoya Duanis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, Early Letter Speculations in Kitāb Khawāṣṣ al-Ḥurūf and the Commentary on Sefer Yeṣirah \nNicolas Hintermann (University of Tübingen)\, Philosophy in the Margins – Marginal Philosophy? The Case of the Bookseller Muḥammad b. Ḥasan al-Nihmī \nGideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University)\, Christian Hagiographa in Jewish Hands: The Life of John of the Golden Gospel \n  \n12:30 am – 1:15 pm \nLunch \n  \n1:15 pm – 3:30 pm \nPhilosophy (I) \nPanel V \nChair: Haggai Ben-Shammai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nPaul Fenton (University Paris-Sorbonne)\, A Fragment of a Mystical-Philosophical Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Talmudic ’Aggadōth from the Pietist Circle \nDavid Torollo (Complutense University of Madrid)\, Unearthing Judeo-Arabic Wisdom Texts \n  \n2:15 pm – 2:30 pm \nCoffee break \n  \nBarak Avirbach (Oranim College)\, Towards a new edition of Baḥya’s al-Hidāya ilā Farāʾiḍ al-Qulūb \nYair Shifman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, David Yellin College of Education)\, Falaquera – Averrores’ commentator \n  \n4:30 pm – 6:00 pm \nGuided tour through the Jewish Museum Munich (Sankt-Jakobs-Platz 16) \n  \nWednesday\, 2nd of August\n  \nVenue: main building of the LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Senatssaal (E 110\, upper floor) \n  \n9:00 am – 11:00 am \nPhilosophy (II) \nPanel VI \nChair: Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) \nDong Xiuyuan (Shandong University)\, Between East and West: Epistemology in Jewish Kalām \nMaxim Roozen (Freie Universität Berlin)\, Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī and Saʿadya Gaon on the sources of knowledge \nGideon Libson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Zefat Academic College)\, On Knowledge and Perplexity – Why Maimonides called his Philosophical book “The Guide of the Perplexed” \nLenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University)\, Knowledge and Belief: Maimonides’ Thirteen Articles in the Light of the Guide to the Perplexed \n  \n11:00 am – 11:30 am \nCoffee break \n  \n11:30 am – 1:00 pm \nFolk Literature and Poetry\n \nPanel VII \nChair: Zvi Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nRachel Hasson (Ben-Gurion University)\, Ibn Miʿmār’s Judaeo-Arabic poems \nUri Melammed (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, Mnemonic Qaṣīdah on the Slaughter and Inspection Laws of R. Abraham bar Yitshaq bar Mevorakh bar Jacob \nMiriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, Judeo-Arabic Toledot Yeshu in the Near East and Mediterranean \n  \n1:00 pm – 2:30 pm \nLunch \n  \n2:30 pm – 6:00 pm \nOn Genre and Structure \nPanel VIII \nChair: Ofra Tirosh-Becker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nZvi Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, The genre of Introduction in Judaeo-Arabic Judicial works and its origin \nFriederike S. Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, The muqaddima in Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ’s commentary on the Pentateuch \nLea Gzella (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, Front matters: how Ibn Janāḥ used introductions as a means of communication \n  \n4:00 pm – 4:30 pm \nCoffee break \n  \nNadia Vidro (University College London)\, On the genre of Saadya Gaon’s calendar treatise Kitāb al-Tamyīz \nGeoffrey Khan (Cambridge University)\, The genre of literature represented by the work Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ  \nDavid Sklare\, The Intellectual and Religious Context of the Early Development of Systematic Judeo-Arabic Biblical Exegesis in the Ninth and Tenth centuries \n  \n6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (directly after the last panel) \nMeeting of the executive committee \n  \nThursday\, 3rd of August\n  \nVenue: main building of the LMU\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, Senatssaal (E 110\, upper floor) \n  \n8:00 am – 9:00 am \nGeneral assembly \n  \n9:00 am – 10:30 am \nInstitutions and Texts \nPanel IX \nChair: Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) \nElinoar Bareket (Achva Academic College)\, The Jerusalem Yeshiva under Fatimid rule \nNadine Urbiczek (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, Determined Debaters: Disputations at the Qaraite dār al-ʿilm \nTamar Zewi (University of Haifa)\, Early Genizah Fragments of Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch: Codices and Scribes \n  \n10:30 am – 11:00 am \nCoffee break \n  \n11:00 am – 12:30 am \nLinguistic Thought (II) \nPanel X \nChair: Nadia Vidro (University College London) \nElnatan Chen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\, On Yitzḥak Ben Barūn’s grammatical thought in light of Dan Becker’s new edition of Kitāb al-Muwāzana \nShlomo Alon (National Academy for Arabic Language\, Achva Academic College)\, R. Moses b. Maimon Responsa in Judeo-Arabic: Using Verbs – Morphology and Glossary \nJosé Martinez Delgado (University of Granada) & Amir Ashur (University of Haifa)\, The Daily Life of the Jews of Alandalus according to the Cairo Genizah (Cambridge University Collection)  \n  \n12:30 am – 1:30 pm \nLunch \n  \n1:30 pm – 3:30 pm \nBible Exegesis \nPanel XI \nChair: Friederike S. Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) \nMarzena Zawanowska (University of Warsaw\, Jewish Historical Institute)\, A Medieval Religious Meritocracy: Converts in Karaite Bible Exegesis \nMeirav Nadler-Akirav (Bar-Ilan University)\, Samuel’s Dedication to Prophecy – A Study on Yefet ben ʿEli’s Commentary on Samuel 1\, 1:3 \nZakka Labib (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, The Structure of Commentaries. A Comparison of Judeo-Arabic and Christian-Arabic Exegesis on the Book of Psalms \nGregor Schwarb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)\, Writing between the genres: Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s Book of Covert Ambiguity (Kitāb al-Tawriya) as a ‘hybrid genre’ \n  \n3:30 pm – 3:45 pm \nCoffee break \n  \n3:45 pm – 4:30 pm \nWrap-up & farewell \n  \n  \nThe conference is funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung\, the ERC\, and the LMU Munich. \n  \n \n \n \n \nWith the kind support of
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/genres-and-disciplines-of-learning-in-judaeo-arabic-literature/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:International Workshop on Arabic Biblical Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 20th 2023\n09:00 – 09:10\nWelcome\nJoseph Faragalla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n  \nChristian-Arabic Bible Interpretation\nSession 1: Text and Manuscripts \n09:10 – 09:40\nBL\, Arundel Or. 15 – A very modern mediaeval Bible project\nMiriam Hjälm (University College Stockholm) \n09:40 – 10:10\nThe skin of text: Explanatory translation strategies in the ‘arcaic section’ of the Gospels (Cod. Vat. Ar. 13)\nJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Cordoba) \n  \n10:10 – 10:40 \nCoffee Break \n  \nSession 2: Commentators \n10:40 – 11:10\nSāwīrus b. al-Muqaffaʿ: Exegesis of the Bible in his canons and theological works\nRocio Daga Portillo (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n11:10 – 11:40\nSeeking the Star: Unveiling the Magi Narrative in the Gospel of Matthew through Ibn Kalīl’s Commentary\nJoseph Faragalla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n11:40 – 12:10\nDivine Adoption in Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim Scriptures: Al-Jāḥiẓ’s View\nNathan Gibson (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) \n  \n12:10 – 14:00 \nLunch break \n  \n14:00 – 14:30\nIbn al-Ṭayyib Exegetical Works on Psalms: Sources\, Classification\, and Genres\nZakka Labib (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n14:00 – 15:00\nHidden Commentaries: The Introduction of al-Muʼtaman ibn al-ʻAssāl to the Arabic translations of the Pauline Epistles\nVevian Zaki (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n  \n15:00 – 15:30 \nCoffee Break \n  \nSession 3: Biblical Books \n15:30 – 16:00\nReciting and Writing: Ritualization and Biblical Interpretation in the Christian Arabic Guide to the Psalms\nStephen Davis (Yale University) \n16:00 – 16:30\nTranslation Techniques of Christian Arabic Versions of Isaiah. An Analysis of the Servant Songs’ Pluses and Minuses\nPeter Gadalla (Pontifical Biblical Institute) \n16:30 – 17:00\nThe Bible in Early Christian Arabic Monastic Multiple-Text-Manuscripts: The Example of the Book of Job\nPeter Tarras (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) \n  \nFriday\, July 21st 2023\nJudeo-Arabic Bible Interpretation\nSession 1: Commentators\n \n09:00 – 09:30\nYaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī’s Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Kitāb al-Riyāḍ wa-l-Ḥadāʾiq)\nMiriam Goldstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n \n09:30 – 10:00\nNarrative expansion in Qaraite exegesis – some examples from Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ’s (10th c. CE) commentary on Genesis\nFriederike S. Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)\n \n10:00 – 10:30\nThe intellectual historical setting of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s (11th c.) scriptural hermeneutics\nGregor Schwarb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)\n \n  \n10:30 – 11:00 \nCoffee Break \n  \nSession 2: Commentary and Language\n \n11:00 – 11:30\nJudaeo-Arabic Exegesis of Psalm 68\nJoseph Habib (University of Cambridge)\n \n11:30 – 12:00\nStudy of Language in the Service of Theology: Linguistic Justifications of Theological Conundrums in Medieval Karaite Bible Commentaries\nMarzena Zawanowska (University of Warsaw)  \n  \n12:00 – 14:30 \nLunch break \n  \nSamaritan-Arabic Bible Interpretation\nSession 3 \n14:30 – 15:00\nLeader\, Head and Pious Man: The Verses on Joseph (Gen 49:22–26 and Deut 33:13–17) as a Reference Point for the Formation of Samaritan Religious Identity\nJasper Bernhofer (Martin-Luther-Universität\, Halle-Wittenberg)\n \n15:00 – 15:30\nCentralism of Mount Gerizim in the Samaritan Arabic commentary to the Book of Exodus (Šarḥ Sifr al-Ḫurūǧ) of the Samaritan Thinker Ġazāl ad-Duwayk (13th c.)\nHaitham Ismaeil (Martin-Luther-Universität\, Halle-Wittenberg)
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/international-workshop-on-arabic-biblical-interpretation/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Bible Exegesis in Arabic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/bible-exegesis-in-arabic/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Writing Christian History in the Abbasid Empire: The Chronicle of Dionysius of Tell-Mahre (d. 845) in its Byzantine and Arab Context
DESCRIPTION:A lecture from Marianna Mazzola (LMU München) in the 4MZ-Reihe “Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung”\nThe Chronicle of Dionysius of Tell-Mahre\, a history in Syriac covering the years 582 to 842 AD\, reflects the adaptation of the Syriac Miaphysite Church to the Islamic rule\, allowing to probe into the often-neglected perspective of religious minorities in the Islamic empire.\nHis representation of the past as well as of contemporary events reveals socially and culturally conditioned ideas of Syriac ecclesiastical elites in the Abbasid age: he puts much emphasis on the relations with the Islamic authorities and on conflicts resolution and patriarchal control within the church in a period in which a generally nonchalant attitude of Islamic authorities contributed to the outbreaks of numerous schisms. Dionysius also situates himself in a very competitive historiographical field\, embedding Byzantine and Syriac sources into his work and adapting them to convey his own vision of Christian history in the new context of a non-Christian political setting. \nProgram of the 4MZ-Reihe “Kulturen des Islam: Aktuelle Forschung”
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/writing-christian-history-in-the-abbasid-empire-the-chronicle-of-dionysius-of-tell-mahre-d-845-in-its-byzantine-and-arab-context/
LOCATION:Room 2.33\, Herzogliches Georgianum\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Masterclass on Geonic Responsa in Munich with Dr. Zvi Stampfer (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
DESCRIPTION:The Responsa literature (Heb. she’elot u-teshuvot\, „questions and answers“) has been an important Jewish literary genre since the eighth century. As the name indicates\, Responsa are queries sent by individuals and communities to a Jewish authority\, and the responses the latter sent back. The Islamic conquest brought most of the world’s Jews under the aegis of one political regime\, thereby enabling rabbinic Jews to establish and maintain a central authority in the form of two Jewish academies (Heb. yeshivot) in Baghdad. The head of each rabbinic academy in Baghdad was called Gaon (pl. geonim). Hence\, Geonic Responsa stand for the correspondence of individuals and communities with the central yeshivot in Baghdad during the 8th-11th centuries. \nOver the course of the Middle Ages\, many thousands of questions and answers in the lands of Islam were compiled into collections and in this form constituted a source for study. The topics discussed cover all aspects of Jewish life\, including law\, theology\, language\, biblical and Talmudic interpretation. Hence\, the Responsa literature represents an extraordinary resource for knowledge about the history and culture of Jews in the Medieval Islamic countries. \n  \nIn this workshop\, we will examine various aspects of the Geonic Responsa\, including their physical features\, their cultural contexts\, and their contribution to the study of medieval Jewish scholarship and of Jewish history. During each session\, different sources will be used. Participants will work with reference material and samples of both published and unpublished responsa. \n  \nOn Wednesday\, 10 May 2023\, the workshop will take place at Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 9\, Room A 119\, and on Thursday\, 11 May 2023\, it will take place at Edmund-Rumpler-Straße 13\, Room B 109. \n  \nWednesday\, 10 May 2023 \n10:00-12:30 First Session \nThe Characteristics of Geonic Responsa \n  \n12:30-14:00 Break \n  \n14:00-15:30 Second Session \nResponsa as a Source for Medieval History \n  \nThursday\, 11 May 2023 \n  \n10:00-12:30 Third Session \nDossier Reconstruction: The Circulation of Geonic Responsa in the Middle Ages \n  \n12:30-14:00 Break \n  \n14:00-15:30 Fourth Session \nResponsa on Theology and Biblical Interpretation
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/masterclass-on-geonic-responsa/
LOCATION:Edmund-Rumpler-Strasse 9\, Room A 119\, Edmund-Rumpler-Strasse 9\, Raum 119\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80939\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230216T181500
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Zahiye Kundos (Freie Universität\, Berlin): Between Religion and Literature: Reimagining Muhammad Abduh's Religious Thought in Arabic Literature
DESCRIPTION:Where? Hybrid: Zoom AND Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg \nTo join for the online sessions\, and receive information for the on-site session\, please register in advance at the following link: \nhttps://lmu-munich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOiurz8qGNPLAIQ7oHaG1mMwU7o2J5ix \n  \nLecture Series: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations\nLudwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich ++ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ++ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg \nThe lecture series is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the research project: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/public-lecture-with-zahiye-kundos-freie-universitat-berlin-between-religion-and-literature-reimagining-muhammad-abduhs-religious-thought-in-arabic-literature/
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230207T181500
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Oren Barak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): How Israel Became a Middle Eastern State
DESCRIPTION:Where? Hybrid: Zoom AND Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg \nTo join for the online sessions\, and receive information for the on-site session\, please register in advance at the following link: \nhttps://lmu-munich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOiurz8qGNPLAIQ7oHaG1mMwU7o2J5ix \n  \nLecture Series: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations\nLudwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich ++ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ++ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg \nThe lecture series is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the research project: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/public-lecture-with-oren-barak-hebrew-university-of-jerusalem-how-israel-became-a-middle-eastern-state/
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230207T130000
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Jewish-Arab Transculturation
DESCRIPTION:Workshop at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies\n \nSupported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research \nOrganized by Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) in cooperation with Assaf David (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\, Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies)\, and Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies) \n  \nTuesday 7 February \n01:00pm – 02:00pm LUNCH \n02:00pm – 02:15pm WELCOME (Werner Arnold\, Dean of the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) \n02:15pm – 02:30pm INTRODUCTION (Assaf David\, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute\, and Johannes Becke\, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) \n02:30pm – 04:30pm AMBIVALENT ENMITY Chair: Elisabeth Becker-Topkara\, Heidelberg University \n\nPerforming Zionism by Performing Arabness: A Theory of Hista’arvut Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg University)\nLearning from the Enemy: The Invention of Israel Studies in the Arab World Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg University)\nThe Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Passing in Israel Liora Sion (Copenhagen University)\nWhen Arabs love Dead Jews: The Politics of Memory in Egypt Tom Würdemann (Heidelberg University)\n\n04:30pm – 05:00pm COFFEE BREAK \n04:30pm – 06:00pm HYBRIDIZATION IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE Chair: Bareez Majid\, Heidelberg University \n\nModern Jerusalem’s Religious Shrines\, Festivals and Customs: Toward Theorizing Jewish-Arab/Muslim Transculturation and Its Break Menachem Klein (Bar Ilan University)\nTransculturation and Hybridization as Characteristics of Identity and Belonging Among South-Lebanese\nSecond-Generation Children Residing in Israel Lilach Grunfeld-Yona (University of Haifa)\nThe Beginning of the Raise of the Shekhina is in Tiberias: Zahir al-Umar\, the Urbanization of the Galilee\, and Eighteenth-Century Jewish Perceptions of the Land Avi-Ram Tzoreff (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\n\n06:30pm – 07:00pm BREAK \n07:00pm – 08:00pm KEYNOTE (Alte Aula\, Grabengasse 1) How Israel Became a Middle Eastern State Oren Barak \n(Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \n08:00pm – 10:00pm DINNER BUFFET (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) \n  \nWednesday 8 February \n09:00am – 10:30am TRANSLATION AND EXCHANGE \n\nRelationality and Translation: Jewish Knowledge Production in the MENA Countries Ottfried Fraisse (Halle University)\nHow Do You Say “Kibbutz Megiddo” in Arabic? The Problematics of Translating Zionist Children’s Literature into Arabic Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv University)\nThree Models of Cultural and Intellectual Relationship between Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century North Africa David Guedj (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n\n10:30am – 11:00am COFFEE BREAK\n \n11:00am – 12:30pm TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chair: Susanne Härtel\, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies \n\nThe Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Egypt 1914-1956 Taqadum al-Khatib (Heidelberg University)\nCultural Revivalism in Israel and China: Living Lives against the Present Johannes Becke & Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies & Heidelberg University)\nThe Turkish Diaspora in Israel: Long-Distance Nationalism and Intra-MENA Divergences Tamir Karkason (Halle University) and Aviad Moreno (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)\n\n12:30pm – 02:00pm LUNCH (optional: Guided Tour through Heidelberg’s old town\, 45 minutes) \n02:30pm – 04:30pm JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS BEFORE NATIONALISM Chair: Henning Sievert \,Heidelberg University\n \n\nBlack\, White\, and Blue? Colour Terms in Medieval Judaism and Islam Teresa Bernheimer (University of Munich)\nPerspectives from a Tenth-Century Jewish Academy in the Muslim World Ronny Vollandt (University of Munich)\nTransculturation and Neoculturation among Jewish Physicians in Fatimid Cairo Nathan Gibson (University of Munich)\nMeshovah Niẓaḥat: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Kaf Naki by R. Kalifa Ben-Malka (1650–­­1750) of Agadir Michal Ohana (Halle University)\n\n04:30pm – 05:00pm COFFEE BREAK \n05:00pm – 06:30pm CONTESTED SPACES IN ISRAEL \n\nTransculturation Through the Construction of a Cultural Nexus of Place-Based Interdependency Ameer Fakhoury (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\nA Folkloric Civil Sphere? Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims in Israeli Symbolic Space Hizky Shoham (Bar-Ilan University)\nBlurring and Expanding: Cultural Processes and the Advancement of Peace Limor Yehuda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n\n06:30pm – 08:30pm DINNER AND DISCUSSION \n  \nThursday 9 February \n09:00am – 10:30am JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS IN CULTURE AND ARTS Chair: Anna Kollatz\, Heidelberg University \n\nZouj: Dialogical Interactions in Judeo-Arab Maghribi Popular Culture Sami Everett (University of Southampton)\nKhawaga Cohen: The Representations of Egyptian Jews in Egyptian Cinema Eyal Bizawe (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\nCinema as a Transcultural Event: Exploring ‘Memories of Pleasure’ Sigal Yona (Ghent University)\n\n10:30am – 11:00am COFFEE BREAK\n \n11:00am – 12:30pm ROUND TABLE: THEORIZING TRANSCULTURATION BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA \n                                    Chairs: Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) and Assaf David (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) \n                                    Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg University) \n                                    Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University) \n                                    Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg University) \n                                    Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg University) \n12:30pm – 01:00pm BREAK \n01:00pm – 02:00pm LUNCH AND DEPARTURE \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/theorizing-jewish-arab-transculturation/
LOCATION:Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies\, Landfriedstraße 12\, Heidelberg\, Baden-Württemberg\, 69117\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Aviad Moreno (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Reconsidering Jewish Migration from Muslim Countries: A Socio-Spatial Perspective from Morocco
DESCRIPTION:Where? Hybrid: Zoom AND Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg \nTo join for the online sessions\, and receive information for the on-site session\, please register in advance at the following link: \nhttps://lmu-munich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOiurz8qGNPLAIQ7oHaG1mMwU7o2J5ix \n  \nLecture Series: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations\nLudwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich ++ Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ++ Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg \nThe lecture series is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the research project: Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled Histories of Jewish-Arab Relations.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/public-lecture-with-aviad-moreno-ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev-reconsidering-jewish-migration-from-muslim-countries-a-socio-spatial-perspective-from-morocco/
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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