Workshop: Jewish Borderlands – Language, Literature and Culture, 1900 to the Present

This workshop took place on may 22 and 23, 2014, and was organized by Kata Gellen (Fellow of the Volkswagen Stiftung and the Andrew W. Mellon foundation) in cooperation with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University.

Program

Thursday, May 22, 2014
9:30-10:00	Welcome & Introduction
10:00-12:30	Doreen Densky (Tufts University) Between Involvement and Detachment: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Art of Negotiation in Modern German-Jewish Writings Sylvia Jaworski (ETH Zürich) Writing Along the Edge. Assimilation, Liminality, and Authenticity in the Writing of Artur Sandauer (1913-1989) Susanne Zepp (Freie Universität Berlin/Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig) Límites y fronteras. Max Aub’s Poems on Borders
14:30-16:00	Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University) A Disenchanted Elijah: Language, Voice, and the Dissimulation of Self in S. Ansky’s Destruction of Galicia Arnd Wedemeyer (ICI Berlin) Max Brod’s War Games, 1918/1948

17:00

Reading by Barbara Honigmann

Friday, May 23, 2014
9:30-11:00	Rachel Seelig (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Gertrud Kolmar’s Orientalist Expedition Kata Gellen (Duke University) Narration Against Tone: The Violent Harmony of Soma Morgenstern’s Sparks in the Abyss
11:30-13:00	William C. Donahue (Duke University) “Das überirdische Licht”: Barbara Honigmann and the Transcendence of the Religious-Secular Divide Malte Kleinwort (FernUniversität Hagen) Jewish Non-Identity in Imre Kertész’ Fatelessness
15:00-16:30	Elke Dubbels (Universität Bonn) Holy, but Living: Franz Rosenzweig on the Hebrew Language Ann-Kathrin Pollmann (Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig) Conservation Room of History. Günther Anders in American Exile
17:00-18:30	Natasha Gordinsky (University of Haifa) Writing in a Jewish (post-)Soviet Language: Anya Ulinich’s Petropolis Jan Schwarz (Lund University) Performing Yiddish Culture in Poland in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
18:30-19:00	Concluding Discussion

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