Image from the cover of Carnal Israel A Loving Conduct: Marking 30 Anniversary ofCarnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture A conversation between Dr. Hannah (Omri) Ben Yehuda and Prof. Daniel Boyarin August 24, 2023, 19 h, Katholische Akademie Berlin In 1993 Daniel Boyarin has published his first big success in Talmudic research. Carnal Israel: Reading…
Portable typewriter, Olympia Splendid 66′ © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, CC BY-NC 4.0 Literature in Diaspora: What is the Place of Words? Public Evening – Discussion and ConcertJuly 11, 2023Katholische Akademie BerlinHannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin Intensified processes of migration, voluntary or forced, generate in recent years new diasporic forms of…
Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq (c) Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CC BY-NC 4.0 Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept July 10–11, 2023Katholische Akademie BerlinHannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin The notion of Weltliteratur has a long and rich history. Since Goethe’s reflections on the encounters between different literary traditions, Weltliteratur has been used in a variety of contexts and…
Photo: Safed 1908, Wikipedia Safed: Jewish Exile in Palestine? With Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Oded Schechter (Makhloykes Berlin) and Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), moderated by Elad Lapidot (University of Lille/Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora) May 1, 2023, 19–21h In the 16th century, especially after the Ottomans took over the country, a group of…
Master Class on Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora brings together graduate students and early-career scholars to participate in a master class on modern talmudic hermeneutics, which will take place on December 7-9, 2021, at the Katholische Akademie Berlin. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Elad Lapidot The master class will consist in text study led…
Photo: Weingärtner mit Kalebstraube, Wikipedia Re-Thinking Zion: Altneue Visions of Jewish Politics Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora December 12, 2022 In recent years, various scholars, intellectuals, and authors have been working on projects that re-visit, re-assess, re-interpret, and re-imagine Jewish politics, both in its modern performance and in its…
Politics of Not Speaking Talmud and Contemporary Thought II The Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought is an annual intellectual encounter, which explores ways of how the Talmudic tradition of text may offer a medium for contemporary thought, in the sense of thought that engages on issues of contemporary social, political and cultural concern. The workshop revolves…
Diasporic Knowledge – Rabbinic Dissidence Public panel discussion in English with Prof. Yaacob Dweck (Princeton) and Prof. Marc-Alain Ouaknin (Paris), moderated by Prof. Elad Lapidot (Berlin/Lille). In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed messiah with a large following in the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was imminent. As Jews everywhere…
Opposition to Zionism in Jewish Orthodoxy Public panel discussion in English with Prof. Yakov Rabkin (Montréal) and Dr. Hannah Tzuberi (Berlin), moderated by Prof. Elad Lapidot (Berlin/Lille) Orthodox Jews opposed Zionism when it emerged in the late 19th century. This rejection has not disappeared to this day and represents an important, often unknown aspect of…
Master Class on Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics II The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora holds a master class on modern talmudic hermeneutics, which will take place on September 12-14, 2022, at the Katholische Akademie Berlin. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Elad Lapidot The master class will consist in text study led by two instructors. Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University,…
Diasporic Knowledge – Conference Last decades have seen the rise of “diaspora” as a central category or Denkfigur for critical thinking of contemporary politics, culture and society, which calls into question dominant nation-state models. This conference seeks to examine more specifically the epistemic foundations of diapora, by exploring conceptually and historically the meaning(s) of diasporic knowledge, whereby “knowledge”…
Talmud and Contemporary Thought General The Talmud is an original intellectual heritage of the Jewish tradition. It is not only a text, but a medium of thought, which is both comparable to and fundamentally different from Western traditions such as philosophy, theology or modern science. Talmudic thought has been active and developing for almost two…