Conference Email: [email protected] International Conference Ben-Zvi Institute: 14 Ibn Gabirol Street, Jerusalem, 92425, Tel. +972-2-5398844, Email: [email protected] German Jews in Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem: 33 Bustenai Street, Jerusalem, 9108201, the Middle East Tel. +972-2- 5633790, Email: [email protected] ,Beit Maiersdorf: Tel: +972-2-5819266 יהודים גרמנים במזרח התיכון Jerusalem | Monday-Wednesday, Fax: +972-2-5829085, February 10-12, 2014 Email: [email protected]

Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German and Central European Jewry. Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg. The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Literature in Exile, Hamburg. The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hamburg University

Monday, February 10, 2014 Venue: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 14 Ibn Gabirol Streetֿֿֿ 15:45-17:15 Jews as the Orient Chair and Opening Remarks: Meir M. Bar-Asher (Jerusalem), Kathrin Wittler (Berlin) Orients in Contest: The Role of German Jews in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism Eli Bar-Chen () From Wilhelm Dohm to Hannah Arendt: The Jews of the Muslim World as the Jewish Project of Modernity

Opening Event אירוע פתיחה Monday, February 10, 2014 יום שני, י' באדר א' תשע"ד. 10.2.14 Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi, 14 Ibn Gabirol Street יד יצחק בן-צבי, רח' אבן גבירול 14 Supported by the Ministry of Senior Citizens בחסות המשרד לאזרחים ותיקים Hebrew. English Simultaneous Translation עברית. תרגום סימולטני לאנגלית Reception 17:30 17:30 קבלת פנים :Chair and Opening Remarks יושב ראש ודברי ברכה: Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Chairman of The Leo Baeck פרופ' שמואל פיינר, יו״ר מכון ליאו בק ירושלים / Institute Jerusalem / Bar Ilan University אוניברסיטת בר-אילן Greetings 18:00 18:00 דברי ברכה Prof. Reuven Amitai, Dean of Humanities, The Hebrew פרופ' ראובן עמיתי, דיקן הפקולטה למדעי הרוח, University of Jerusalem האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים Prof. Meir M. Bar-Asher, Chairman of The Ben-Zvi פרופ' מאיר מ׳ בר-אשר, ראש מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East ישראל במזרח Dr. Miriam Ruerup, Director of the Institute for the ד"ר מרים רורופ, מנהלת המכון לחקר יהודי גרמניה, History of the German Jews, Hamburg המבורג Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, Interim Director of The Richard ד"ר עופר אשכנזי, המנהל הנכנס של מרכז קבנר Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew להיסטוריה גרמנית, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים University of Jerusalem Discussion דיון Muhammad Asad: From an Austro-Hungarian Jew to מוחמד אסד: מיהודי אוסטרו-הונגרי לשגריר פקסיטני Pakistani Ambassador מנחה: מר דויד ויצטום )ירושלים( (Moderator: Mr. David Witzthum (Jerusalem בהשתתפות: מר חנן חריף )ירושלים(, (Discussants: Mr. Hanan Harif (Jerusalem מר עידו הררי )באר-שבע(, (Mr. Ido Harari (Beer-Sheva), Dr. Dan Tamir (Jerusalem ד״ר דן תמיר )ירושלים( Concert קונצרט ,Works of Benno Bardi, Paul Ben-Haim, Abel Ehrlich מיצירותיהם של בנו ברדי, פאול בן-חיים, אבל ארליך, Hanoch Jacoby חנוך יעקובי ;Nitai Zori and Yoram Youngerman - Violins נתאי צרי ויורם יונגרמן - כינורות; גדי עבאדי - ויולה; Gadi Abadi - Viola; Ella Toovy - Cello אלה טובי - צ'לו Produced by the Institute for Israeli Music בהפקת המכון למוסיקה ישראלית Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Venue: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Venue: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Beit Maiersdorf Mount Scopus, Beit Maiersdorf 10:00-11:30 14:30-15:45 9:30-11:00 Yossi Ben-Artzi Perspectives of the Shelter in the Middle Intellectual Life in () Orient East Istanbul and Cairo Cyprus: A Destination for Emigration and Chair: Michael Glatzer Chair: Doerte Bischoff Chair: Benny Ziffer Settlement in the Eyes (Jerusalem) (Hamburg) (Tel Aviv) of German Jews, 1898- Noah Gerber Atina Grossmann Irit Youngerman 1938 (Jerusalem) (New-York) (Jerusalem) German-Jewish Philology Shelter and Adventure? Different Shades of East: 15:00-16:15 Encounters the Jews The Experience of Composers Benno Bardi of the Middle East: The German Jewish and Hanoch Jacoby Diplomacy and Politics Path of Shlomo Dov Refugees in Iran in Egypt, Turkey and Chair: Anja Siegemund Goitein Rakefet Zalashik Palestine (Jerusalem) Sebastian (Potsdam) Ruchama Johnston- Dan Tamir Schirrmeister Jewish German Medical Bloom (London) (Jerusalem) (Hamburg / Jerusalem) Refugees and their Weimar in Cairo: When Ibn Saud and Orientalism Revised and Impact in Turkey: Orientalism and Cultural Jabotinsky Came Revisited: Scientific Continuity and Critique in Interwar Egypt Together: Wolfgang von M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl and the Habitual Adjustments Weisl's Vision for a “New Pan-Asian Ideal Middle East” Dror Zeigerman 16:15-17:30 11:30-12:15 12:00-13:15 (Jerusalem) Contacts with Middle Ashkenazi Istanbul: Germany’s Involvement The Image of the Jews Eastern Jewish The Untold Story of the Orient Communities in Early Conversation between Zionist - Arab Nationalist Chair: Moshe Chair: Reuven Amitai Supreme Negotiations: Zimmermann (Jerusalem) Court Justice [emerita] The Case of Samuel (Jerusalem) Guy Bracha Dalia Dorner and Hochberg Natalie Naimark- (Ramat-Gan) Journalist Benny Ziffer Goldberg The Germans are 16:30-17:30 (Ramat-Gan) Coming! The Jewish Concluding Discussion Ostjuden and "Oriental Community of Beirut 12:30-13:45 Andreas Braemer Jews" in the Eyes of a Facing the Question of Boundaries within the (Hamburg) German Jewish Woman: Jewish Immigration from Orient Bertha Pappenheim's Germany Yossi Ben-Artzi (Haifa) Anti-White Slavery Chair: Miriam Ruerup Yossi Brill (Tel Aviv) (Hamburg) Atina Grossmann Mission in Turkey (New York) Between the Palm Tree Olivier Baisez (Paris) Amos Morris-Reich and the Swastika: The (Haifa) Reflection of the East in “Greater Palestine” as a Lerski's Photographs of the Story of Maximilien German-Zionist Idea Yemenites Trenner

Oragnazing Committee Participants Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Menashe Anzi Ofer Ashkenzi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ofer Ashkenzi Olivier Baisez (Université Paris-8) Doerte Bischoff Meir M. Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Ben Zvi Institute) Andreas Braemer Eli Bar-Chen (Kibbutzim College) Michael Glatzer Yossi Ben-Artzi (The University of Haifa) Sharon Gordon Doerte Bischoff (Hamburg University) Guy Bracha (Bar-Ilan University) Sarit Noy Andreas Braemer (Institute for the History of German Miriam Ruerup Jews, Hamburg) Joachim Schlor Yossi Brill (Ben-Zvi Institute / Tel-Aviv University) Anja Siegemund Dalia Dorner Supreme Court Justice [emerita] Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University / Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem) Noah Gerber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Michael Glatzer (Ben-Zvi Institute) Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York City) Ido Harari () Hanan Harif (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ruchama Johnston-Bloom (New York University, London) Amos Morris-Reich (The University of Haifa) Natalie Naimark-Goldberg (Bar-Ilan University / Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem) Miriam Ruerup (Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg) Sebastian Schirrmeister (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Hamburg University) Dan Tamir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Kathrin Wittler (Humboldt University Berlin) David Witzthum (Israeli TV Chanel 1) Irit Youngerman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Rakefet Zalashik (Potsdam University) Ambassador Dror Zeigerman Anja Siegemund (Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem) Benny Ziffer( daily / Sapir College) Moshe Zimmermann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)