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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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