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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).
The 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
PROGRAM
OPENING 14:00-14:30 TERESA BERNHEIMER & ANNA BUSA (LMU Munich)
I MONDAY 14:30-16:30 (RONNY VOLLANDT, LMU Munich)
Ariel Fein: I, the bookcase speak to you (Princeton University Art Museum)
Tal Hever-Chybowski: Betsalel Frenkel’s Yiddish Book Collection in Alexandria (MLU, Halle)
Özge Yildirim: Journey of an Arabic Astronomy Manuscript: Ottoman-Jewish Intellectuals as Transmitters of Knowledge (LMU, Munich)
Miriam Goldstein: Materiality of Near Eastern copies of Toledot Yeshu in Judeo- Arabic (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
COFFEE 16:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE: MONDAY 18:00 c.t.
ORIT BASHKIN (University of Chicago): Arab Jewish Relations in the 19th and 20th century: materiality, memory, and periodization
II TUESDAY 9:30-11:00 (OTTFRIED FRAISSE, MLU, Halle)
Sawsan Marwan: Visual Power, Material Poster, A Zionist lithograph of 1900 and the construction of Jewish-Arab relations (independent artist, Israel)
Lily Eilan: Unturned stones? Preservation of Palestine homes in Galilee’s Kibbutzim: a case study (University of Heidelberg)
Tamar Novick/Lee Rotbart: Burdened: The donkey and power relations in Palestine/Israel in the 20th century (TUM, Munich)
COFFEE 11:00-11:30
III TUESDAY 11:30-12:30 (ANNA BUSA, LMU Munich)
Nadia Vidro: Jewish copies of classical Arabic grammars as loci of Muslim-Jewish entanglement (UCL, London)
Yoram Meital: Material dialogues: Jewish, Islamic, and Coptic interactions in Ben Ezra Synagogue (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
LUNCH 12:30-14:00 UHR
IV TUESDAY 14:00-15:30 (JOHANNES BECKE, University of Heidelberg)
Tamir Karkason: Binding the Twansa: Material politics of Jewish belonging in 1890’s colonial Tunis (MLU, Halle)
Gregor Schwarb: From Abbassid Chanceries to Wissenschaft des Judentums: Qaraite manuscripts and the shifting of Jewish-Arab relations (LMU, Munich)
Moshe Yagur: Documenting Qaraite Endowments in 16th century Jerusalem through their 20th Century Reflections (Bar Ilan University)
16:30 GUIDED TOUR, JÜDISCHES MUSEUM MUNICH (https://www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de/)
V WEDNESDAY 9:30-11:00 (ILSE STURKENBOOM, LMU Munich): Objects on the move
Anna 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)
Tom Fogel: Tradition in motion: Preservation and change in Yemeni Jewish Amulets (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Artemis Ignatidou: Of music records in Ottoman Salonika: local musical culture, interfaith debates, and the introduction of a new technology (University of Bayreuth)
COFFEE 11:00-11:30
VI WEDNESDAY 11:30-13:00 (TERESA BERNHEIMER, LMU Munich)
Rhea 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)
Yair Wallach: Ashkenazim wearing the Fez: appropriation, assimilation, masquerade? (SOAS, London)
Ali Satilmis: Minarets in the window. A Minaret form Hanukkiah and Jewish-Arab relations (Kocaeli University, Istanbul)
LUNCH 13:00-14:30
VII WEDNESDAY 14:30-15:30 (JULIA SCHNEIDAWIND, LMU Munich)
Michal Ohana: A Morrocan Jew’s gaze upon his native land from 1830’s London (MLU, Halle)
Julia Hauser: The Nakba in Focus: Photographs of destroyed Arab Towns and Villages in a German Archive (Kassel University)
CLOSING WEDNESDAY 15:30 (TERESA BERNHEIMER, LMU Munich, ANNA BUSA, LMU Munich)
