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CONFERENCE · BERLIN 17 –19 OCTOBER 2009 Opening: 17 October 2009 19:00 Centrum Judaicum In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin and Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts 18 –19 October 2009 9:00 – 18:00 Jewish Museum Berlin Simon & Ida Dubnow, Friends, Berlin Simultaneous interpretation: German, English, Russian © YIVO Archives, New York PROGRAM

SATURDAY Centrum Judaicum 14:00 –15:30 NEGOTIATIONS 11:00 –12:30 TRANSLATIONS Chair: Michael Brenner Chair: Matthias Freise 19:00 OPENING Barry Trachtenberg Weimar and Yiddish Univer- Olaf Terpitz Translatio imperii: How Russian Gertrud Pickhan salism: the making of Di algemeyne entsiklo- Jews negotiated Russia in Berlin pedye Britta Korkowsky The Narrator that Walks by KEYNOTE Vladimir Khazan The Brothers Aaron and Isaak Himself: Šklovskij’s Narrator, Kipling’s Cat Dan Diner The Short Jewish Axial Time: Steinberg’s Contribution to the History of the and the Paradox of Freedom in “ZOO or 1918 –1938 as an Existential Constellation Russian-Jewish Berlin Letters not about Love” Tamara Or Berlin, Nachtasyl and Capital of Zsuzsa Hetényi Nomen est ponem? Names and Hebrew Diaspora Identity in Emigré Literature

15:30 –16:00 COFFEE BREAK 12:30 –13:30 LUNCH

SUNDAY Jewish Museum Berlin 16:00 –17:30 IDENTIFICATIONS 13:30 –15:00 TRANSFORMATIONS Chair: Karl Schlögel Chair: Monika Richarz 9:00 INTRODUCTION Avidov Lipsker Berlin: Heterotopia of Hesitation Susanne Marten-Finnis Artist-Animators: Gertrud Pickhan, Verena Dohrn and Decisiveness. The Case of Benjamin Harz Russian Display Culture in 1920s Berlin and Albert Baumgarten The Russian Identity of the Transformation of Domestic Space in the Russian Jews living in a Third Space: Joseph West 9:30 –11:00 TOPOGRAPHY Bikerman and the Patriotic Union of Russian Rachel Seelig A Yiddish Poet in Berlin: Moishe Chair: Trude Maurer Jews Abroad Kulbak’s “Naye lider” and the Flourishing of Anne-Christin Saß The Scheunenviertel: A Markus Wolf Russian Jews against Jewish Bol- Yiddish Poetry in Exile Transnational Social Space in Weimar Berlin she vism: The Example of the Patriotic Union Anat Feinberg “Wir laden Sie höfl ich ein”: Gennady Estraikh Weimar Berlin as an Inter- in 1920s Berlin The Grüngard Salon and Jewish-Zionist national Yiddish Press Center Sociability in Berlin in the 1920s Shachar Pinsker The Urban Cafés of Berlin as Spaces of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism 15:00 –15:30 COFFEE BREAK MONDAY Jewish Museum Berlin 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 15:30 –17:00 TRANSITIONS 9:00 –10:30 TRANSFERS Chair: Gertrud Pickhan 11:30 –13:00 PERCEPTIONS Chair: Oleg Budnitskii Tobias Brinkmann Passage City: Berlin as Chair: Dan Laor Alexander Ivanov Berlin’s ORT and German Jewry: a Focal Point of Jewish (Trans-)Migration Mikhail Krutikov Afterlives of Weimar Berlin in Communication, Interaction, Cooperation after 1918 Yiddish Literature (1920 / 30s) Gerben Zaagsma The Place of Berlin in the Marc Caplan The Corridors of Berlin: Alexandra Polyan Productive Help in Russian- Transnational Networks of Jewish Migrant Proximity, Peripherality, and Surveillance in Jewish Berlin. The Union of the Russian Jews Radicals Dovid Bergelson’s Boarding House Stories in Germany: Charity and Politics Jeffrey Wallen Migrant Visions: The Scheunen- Karin Neuburger Artifi cial and Real Spaces: Arndt Engelhardt Disseminating Knowledge: viertel and Boyle Heights, Los Angeles Micha Yosef Berdyczewski‘s Life and Work Jewish Intellectuals and the lieu of the Encyc- in Berlin (1912 –1921) lopedia Judaica (1928 –1934) in Weimar Berlin 17:15 –17:45 CONCLUSIONS 13:00-14:00 LUNCH 10:30 –11:00 COFFEE BREAK David Myers