Thursday, 12 June

9.15 WELCOME
Markus Kirchhoff (Leipzig) / Gil Rubin (New York)

9.20 INTRODUCTION
Dan Diner (Leipzig/Jerusalem)

9.30 TRADITION AND MODERNITY
Chair: Frauke von Rohden (Leipzig)

Menachem Lorberbaum (Tel Aviv)
The Diasporic Predicament: The Law of the Kingdom is Law

Israel Bartal (Jerusalem/New Brunswick)
Transforming Jewish Politics: From shtadlanut to Diplomacy

11.00 Coffee Break

11.15 MODERN CONJUNCTURES
Chair: Jörg Deventer (Leipzig)

Markus Kirchhoff
Against the Backdrop of Westphalian Order: Leo Gross, the Congress of Vienna and the “Jewish Question”

Carsten Wilke (Budapest)
Competitive Advocacy: The Romanian Committee of Berlin and the Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1872–1878

12.45 Lunch Break

14.00 ORDER IN DECLINE
Chair: Stefan Hofmann (Leipzig)

Eric D. Weitz (New York)
From Congress Diplomacy to the Great War – On the Emergence of Minorities Politics, 1878–1914

Marcos Silber (Haifa)
Politics of Interim: The Jewish National Councils 1917–1919

15.30 Coffee Break

15.45 INTERNATIONALISMS
Chair: Gil Rubin

Abigail Green (Oxford)
What was different about Jewish internationalism?

Samuel Moyn (New York)
Two Concepts of Jewish Internationalism: From the Normative to the Structural

James Loeffler (Charlottesville)
“How We Imagine the Future World”: Rethinking Internationalism in Jewish Political and Legal Thought

18.00 Closure of the first conference day

Friday, 13 June

9.00 INTERWAR
Chair: Markus Kirchhoff

Jaclyn Granick (Geneva)
“Shifting as the Sands”: Jewish Refugee Relief after WW I

David Engel (New York)
The Elite and the Street: Jewish Diplomacy before and after the Schwarzbard Affair, 1926/27

Philipp Graf (Leipzig)
The Bernheim Petition 1933 – Probing the Limits of Jewish Diplomacy

11.15 Coffee Break

11.30 NEGLECTED EXPERIENCES
Chair: Momme Schwarz (Leipzig)

Miriam Rürup (Hamburg)
(Re)defining Citizens: On the Status of Statelessness after Two World Wars

Gil Rubin (New York)
Jewish History as International History: Salo Baron between Politics and Historiography

13.00 Lunch Break

14.15 CONSTRAINTS OF STATEHOOD
Chair: Arndt Engelhardt (Leipzig)

Nathan Kurz (New Haven)
The Jewish Politics of Decolonization: The Case of French Morocco

Carole Fink (Columbus)
Negotiating after Negotiations: Nahum Goldmann and West Germany, 1969–1974

15.45 Concluding Discussion

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Please note: Guests are welcome with prior registration. For questions and to register please email
Lukas Böckmann: boeckmann@dubnow.de

This event has been generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung