10th Conference of the Association for European Jewish Literature Studies / Gesellschaft für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien e.V. (EJLS)
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
33 Bustenai Street, Jerusalem
This conference organized by the Association for European Jewish Literature Studies together with the Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) and Dr. Chiara Caradonna (Romance Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem aims at critically reflecting on the achievements, challenges and expectations in the discourse on European Jewish Literatures since the inception of this area of literary studies. The conference encourages a reconstructive approach that illuminates the developments in the field over the past decades, but also intends to go beyond mere literary history. It is conceived as a forum in which to reassess and evaluate the scope and stakes of actual and potential activities, goals and concerns of this field of research, and venture an outlook for the future. It thus invites participants to bring to this meeting their own preoccupations and situate them in the larger context of the field. We thereby intend to create a shared space for a critical discussion that both looks back and points to new directions – a room with many views.
Free admission.
To register: mail to ijs@uantwerpen.be. The study day will be livestreamed.
Image above: © National Library of Israel. Franz Kafka Archive
Program
- 10:00-10:30 Opening
Alfred Bodenheimer (Universität Basel) and Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp) - 10:30-12:00 Session I: Revising the Past
Chair: Chiara Caradonna (Romance Studies, Hebrew University)
Leena Eilittä (University of Helsinki)
Viennese Modernist Literature and Glocalism: History and New Perspectives
Orr Scharf (The University of Haifa)
The Zionist Kant: S.H. Bergman’s Renegotiation of Cultural Hierarchies with Post-Imperial Europe
Asif Rahamim (Rosenzweig Center, Hebrew University)
Becoming-Jewish: The Reception of Paul Celan as a Jewish Poet - 12:00-12:15 Coffee break
- 12:15-13:30 Session II: Returning to the Present
Chair: Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp)
Chiara Caradonna (Romance Studies, Hebrew University)
A Shrill Outcry: The Human, Jewish and Animal Voices in Franco Fortini’s “I cani del Sinai” (1967)
Amir Engel (German Studies, Hebrew University)
The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature: A Reading of Maxim Biller, Olga Grjasnowa, and Mati Shemoelof - 13:30-15:00 Lunch (conference participants only)
- 15:00-16:00 Session III: Reviewing Poetic Experiences
Chair: Mark H. Gelber (Ben-Gurion University)
Jan Kühne (Rosenzweig Center, Hebrew University)
German-Hebrew Homophonic Translation
Michal Ben-Horin (Bar-Ilan University)
The Shores of Lampedusa: Reviewing Tuvia Rübner's Poetry in Light of (Literary) History - 16:00-16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30-17:30 Concluding Discussion: Overview and Future Perspectives
Moderator: Mark H. Gelber - 19:00 Dinner (conference participants only)
Poster
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Abstracts
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