Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 18, 2018
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Marion Aptroot <[email protected]> Date: May 3, 2018 Conference: Thinking Europe in Yiddish, June 4–6 2018 International Conference, Haus der Universität, Dusseldorf, 4–6 June 2018 In contrast to most national cultures in Europe, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Despite many differences, this culture maintained its unity throughout disparate majority cultures and beyond the borders of nation states. Internationally acknowledged scholars will explore different blueprints of a European culture conceived by Yiddish speaking intellectuals and artists between 1890 and 1939. The geographically fragmented cultural space and the idea of “Yiddishland”, the linguistic and the ideological connections of this transnational community will be sketched and the question how Yiddish visions of “culture” and “nation” compare to other programs and utopias of the period will be addressed. The Jewish Renaissance in Europe emerged in close contact with the reigning cultures, especially those of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The polyglot Jewish Europeans understood Yiddish culture to be transcultural: beyond a conflict between their own and other cultures. They were engaged in favor of a transnational vision of a “culture nation without a state” and at the same time took part in different European social, political and cultural movements. Increasingly nationalistic and anti-Semitic majority cultures predominantly dismissed and rejected the contribution of the Yiddish-speaking community. The conference draws attention to the cultural forms of expression of“Yiddish Europe”. It is intended to suggest considering the Yiddish concepts as an integral part of the European history of ideas and to enrich the image of Europe shaped by the historical canon with a little known but significant narrative. Organisation: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed (Yiddish Studies, Institute for Jewish Studies) and Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Institute for Art History), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Contact: jiddisch(at)hhu.de June 4, 2018 09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 09:45 – 10:45 Keynote David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York): How Yiddish Became a European Culture 11:15 – 12:45 Early Concepts and Visions François Guesnet (University College London): Places and Spaces of Eastern European Jewish Identity – the Impact of the 19th Century Kenneth B. Moss (Johns Hopkins University): Europeans, Israelites, Indigenes, or African-Americans: the Yiddish Intelligentsia, the European Horizon, and Other Horizons Good and Bad, 1900–1939 14:30 – 16:00 Concepts in Literature Marc Caplan (Yale University): Y. L. Peretz, Beyond a Boundary: Warsaw as Border Between ‘Shtetl’ and ‘Europe’ Sabine Koller (Universität Regensburg): Dovid Hofshteyn’s Early Poetry Between Yidishkayt and Eyropeishkayt 18:00 – 19:00 Exhibition (Goethe Museum) Opening of the Exhibition “Jüdische Künstler in jiddischen Büchern und Zeitschriften. Russische Künstler aus der Sammlung LS des Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven” Reception 19:00 Public Lecture (Goethe Museum) Efrat Gal-Ed (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Jiddischland – Verheißung einer Zugehörigkeit June 5, 2018 09:30 – 11:00 The First World War and Its Aftermath Samuel Kassow (Trinity College, Hartford): Yiddish Europe from a Vilna Perspective, 1915–1921 Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw): Debates on Poland and Europe in Yiddish Literary Discourse in the Interwar Period 11:30 – 12:30 Keynote Mikhail Krutikov (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): Reading Europe in Yiddish: A Literary History of Space 14:00 – 15:30 Avant-Garde Movements Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): The Impact of Transnational Yiddish Culture on Jankel Adler’s Artistic Expression and His Struggle for Jewish Art in the Rhineland Inna Goudz (Düsseldorf): Kultur-lige – Jewish Art between Zionism and Yiddishism 16:00 – 17:30 Yiddish Periodicals Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): The Interwar Yiddish Press: A Pan-European Network? Aleksandra Geller (Rehovot): Literarishe bleter – Mapping an Intellectual Community 19:30 Concert Zwischentöne – Poetry and Songs from Yiddishland Bavat Marom (mezzo-soprano) Eyal Bat (piano) June 6, 2018 09:30 – 11:00 On the Eve of the Second World War Nick Underwood (University of Colorado Boulder): The Kultur-lige, the World’s Fair, and the Making of Yiddish Paris Gennady Estraikh (New York University): The Controversies of the 1937 Yiddish Congress in Paris 11:30 – 13:00 Marion Aptroot (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Reflections on the Conference Discussion: Gennady Estraikh, Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Mikhail Krutikov, Kenneth B. Moss Venues: - Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf - Goethe Museum Düsseldorf, Schloss Jägerhof, Jacobistraße 2, 40211 Düsseldorf (Monday evening) The conference, the exhibition and the concert were made possible through the generous support of Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Heinrich Heine University, Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der HHU Düsseldorf, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Goethe Museum Düsseldorf, Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, NRW Kultursekretariat, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
