Safed: Jewish Exile in Falastin?
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, Katholische Akademie Berlin
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 important Jewish figures gathered in Safed and reshaped Judaism. The recent book by Raz-Krakotzkin, Mishnah Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness: Safed and the Zionist Culture (Jerusalem 2022) examines the consciousness of Safed in the 16th century and the modern Zionist consciousness and presents them as two theological-political models of the settlement of the Land of Israel. The Safed model relied on the Mishnah and envisioned the land after the destruction of the Temple. The Zionist conception, on the other hand, looked to the period of occupation and settlement by Joshua and the Judges, much like the fantasy of the modern Christian West.
The discussion will consider how the contrast between Zionism and Safed opens new avenues to a renewed formulation of Jewish-Israeli culture and Falastin’s future.
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Safed: Jewish Exile in Palestine?
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Meeting-ID: 898 0550 7277
Kenncode: 995313
Participants
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin teaches in the Department of Jewish History, Ben Gurion University. He was a fellow at Wiko 2003-4. His recent book “Mishnaic Consciousness, Biblica Consciousness deals with Zionist ambivalent attitude towards the heritage of sixteenth century Safed.
Oded Schechter is a philosopher and talmudist. He lives in Berlin and is the co-founder of the Berlin Makhloykes Center.
Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His main contributions to the political theology debates are found in The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003) and in Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia UP, 2014).
Elad Lapidot is professor for Culture Studies at the University of Lille, France. He specializes in philosophy, Jewish thought and Talmud and was teaching at the University of Bern, Switzerland, the Humboldt Universität Berlin and the Freie Univeristät Berlin. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowledge and politics. Among his publications: Jews Out of the Question. A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism (SUNY Press, 2020), Hebrew translation with introduction and commentary of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes, Vol. 1 (Resling, 2020), Heidegger and Jewish Thought. Difficult Others, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Etre sans mot dire : La logiqe de ‘Sein und Zeit’ (Zeta Books, 2010).
