Monday 13th December 2004
15:00 – 15:30 Welcome Address
Richard Whatmore/ Head of Department (History), University of Sussex
Yfaat Weiss/ Director of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa
Raphael Gross/ Director of the Leo Baeck Institute, London and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
15: 30 - 16:30 The New Golem and the Russian Jew in Germany Today
Harriet Murav/ Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois
16:30 -17:00 TEA, Lounge
17:00 -18:00 Russian Jewish Authors in Germany After 1989: Between ‘Russendisko’ and the ‘Jewish Peninsula’; The Different Artistic and ‘Lebensweltliche’ Concepts of Wladimir Kaminer and Oleg Jurev
Olaf Terpitz/ Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig and Bucerius Institute, Haifa University
Chair: Stella Rock/ University of Sussex
18:00 -19:00 Young Russian Jewish Immigrants in Berlin – the Process of Adaptation and Acculturation over time
Yvonne Schûtze/ Professor, Humboldt University Berlin
Chair: Nils Roemer/ University of Southampton, School of Humanities- (History)
19:00 DINNER, conference centre
Tuesday 14th December 2004
9:00 -10:00 Jewish immigrants from the FSU in Germany and Israel: Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics
Yinon Cohen/ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University
Paper co-authored with Irena Kogan, University of Mannheim.
Chair: Andrea Hammel/ University of Sussex
10:00 -10:30 COFFEE, Lounge
10:30 - 11:30 Coping with ‘Capitalism’: How Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany experience and interpret their new Societies
Julia Bernstein/ Ph.D. student, Department of sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
11:30 - 12:30 Historical Responsibility’ vs. ‘Freedom’- A Comparative study of Settlement Patterns among Soviet Jewish Migrants in Berlin and Chicago
Victoria Hegner/ Ph.D. candidate, Humboldt University Berlin
Chair: Irena Kogan/ University of Mannheim.
12:30 -13:30 LUNCH, Lounge
13:30 -14:30 ‘We live in Germany, but our heart is in Israel’: Identity Seeking and Cultural Preservation among the participants of Nash Dom Club in Köln
Nelly Elias/ Department of Mass Communication, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Sapir Academic College
14:30 -15:30 The Dawn of a New Diaspora: Simon Dubnovs Autonomism from St. Petersburg to Berlin
Simon Rabinovitch/ Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University
Chair: Rudolf Muhs/ Lecturer in European History, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
15:30 Closing comments