Lecture Series: Beyond Borders: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad

10/4/2004

Howard Room, Faculty Club

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley
with the generous support of
The Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Holocaust Studies
proudly sponsors the Fall 2004 Pell Lecture Series

Professor Steven Aschheim
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Beyond Borders: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad

As time recedes, the interest and influence of a number of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals becomes, surprisingly, ever greater. This series will examine their resonance outside their German borders: in an attempt to recast Zionism and humanize nationalism; in creation of a new kind of cultural and intellectual history able to grasp National Socialism; and in the crucial ways they have made their mark upon Anglo-American culture. The series will analyze the fate of these intellectuals and their thought both beyond their own literal borders (whether in voluntary or forced exile) and the ways in which at the same time their sensibilities have questioned, and often subverted, conventional cognitive ad conceptual boundaries.

Monday, 4:00pm, October 4, 2004

Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Bi-Nationalism and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism

Howard Room, The Faculty Club

Tuesday, 4:00pm, October 5, 2004

The Tensions of Historical Wissenschaft: The Émigré Historians and the Making of German Cultural History

O'Neill Room, The Faculty Club

Monday, 4:00pm, October 11, 2004

Icons Beyond the Border: Why do we Love/(Hate) Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem,
Leo Strauss??

Howard Room, The Faculty Club

Information about this lecture series or other program information may be sent electronically to info@jewishstudies.berkeley.edu.