Nature and Jews – Approaching German-Jewish Environmental History
Annual International Conference of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem | 26-28 January 2021
In the conference, we will discuss the following topics: Enlightenment, Nature and Jews; Perceptions of Nature in Palestine; Between Heimat and Exile.
ATTENTION- The conference will take place on Zoom. For registration, click on the link of the specific date you are interested in.
in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Israel, the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish
Studies, the Open University of Israel, the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and the Academic
Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany
PROGRAM:
Tuesday, 26. January 2021
16:45-17:00
Opening & Greetings
Prof. Galili Shahar
Prof. Vivian Liska
Prof. Miriam Rürup
17:00-17.45: Roundtable: Approaching German-Jewish Environmental History
Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David in conversation with Prof. Guy Miron, Dr. Dominik Hünniger and Prof. Miriam Rürup
18:00-19:30: Enlightenment, Nature and Jews
Chair: Prof. Shmuel Feiner
Prof. Carl Niekerk
Enlightenment Natural History and the Jew as a “parasitic plant”
Dr. Tal Kogman
Nature as Textbook: The Emergence of the Natural World as an Educational Topic in German-Jewish Haskala
Didi Van Trijp
The Fish Books of Marcus Élieser Bloch (1723–1799) and the Politics of Preservation in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Wednesday, 27. January 2021, 17:00-19:30
17:00-18:15: Perceptions of Nature in Palestine
Chair: Hagit Lavsky
Prof. Tal Alon-Mozes
Garden and Nature in the work of landscape architect Haim Latte
Mona Bieling
Ideologies in Nature: The Hebrew University’s Botanical Garden during the Palestinian Mandate Years
Tobias Mörike
Fields of interest. Zionist environmental expertise and Arab agriculture (1916- 1933)
18:30-19:30: Spatial Turn and Environmental History: New Perspectives on the Holocaust
Chair: David Silberklang
A conversation between Prof. Guy Miron and Prof. Helmut Walser Smith at the event of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Thursday, 28.1.2021
16:30-18:45: Between Heimat and Exile
Chair: Prof. Vivian Liska
Dr. Yael Almog
Flipping Homelands: Jews’ Affective Attachment to A Land’s Soil
Philipp Nielsen
German Jewish Agricultural Settlement and the Question which “Heimat” should be cultivated
– 15 minutes break –
Dr. Ofri Ilany
Nature, Eros and Youth Movement: The Case of Walter Moses
Dr. Anna-Dorothea Ludewig/Jan Maruhn/Nina Senger – Hugo Simon (1880-1950) and the Idea of Nature and Landscape
19:00-20:00: Concluding Session
Chair: Steffen Hagemann
Dr. David Schorr (Tel Aviv University)
Nature, the material turn, and German-Jewish History
Concluding Remarks
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