Sunday, June 11
17:45-18:00 Welcoming Remarks
Mihály Kálmán (Budapest)
András Kovács (Budapest)
18:00-19:30 Keynote
Chair: Michael L. Miller (Budapest)
Michael K. Silber (Jerusalem) and Israel Bartal (Jerusalem): Three Stages of Emancipation in Two Empires
19:30-20:30 Reception
Monday, June 12
9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Andreas Brämer (Hamburg)
Nicholas Dreyer (Altdorf): From Galicia to St. Petersburg: Austrian ‘Shtetl’ Literature and the Russian-Jewish Journal Voskhod
Tamás Kende (Budapest): Geistesgeschichte of (Soviet-) Russian and Central European Jewry in Light of Anti-Anti-Semitic Traditions
Mihály Kálmán (Budapest): Jewish Emancipation in Austria-Hungary and the Russian Jewish Intelligentsia
11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Imperial Bureaucracies
Chair: Tadas Janušauskas (Budapest)
Israel Bartal (Jerusalem): "But if our Master Alexander will Triumph,...": Hasidism, Emancipation, and Enlightened Absolutism.
Vassili Shchedrin (Kingston, Ontario): Jewish Policy and Jewish Bureaucracy in Imperial Russia, Independent Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
Pablo Vivanco (Vienna): Austrian Jews and Liberal Constitutionalism in the Bach Era
14:00-15:30 Panel 3: Social Mobility
Chair: Mária M. Kovács (Budapest)
Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg): How to Avoid Jewish Impact on Local Affairs? Securitizing Debates on Galician communal law
Alex Valdman (Jerusalem): Selective Disintegration: Social Mobility and the Emergence of Jewish-Russian Intelligentsia
16:00-17:00 Panel 4: Material Culture
Chair: Carsten Wilke (Budapest)
Jonathan Kaplan (Sydney): Viennese Gentlemen: Jewish Men and Sartorial Self-Fashioning during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Ilya Vovshin (Haifa): Evzel Gintsburg’s Vodka Trade and its Impact on the Integration of Jews in the Russian Empire in the 1850s
Tuesday, June 13
9:30-11:00 Panel 5: National Agendas
Chair: Victor Karády (Budapest)
Alessandro Grazi (Amsterdam): Emancipation and Italian Nationalism among the Jews in Habsburg Italy during the Risorgimento
Miklós Konrád (Budapest): The Long Road to Unconditional Emancipation of All Jews: The Hungarian Case
Andrea Feldman (Zagreb): The Magnificent Ehrlichs: A Jewish Family History from Austria-Hungary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
11:30-12:30 Panel 6: Cultural Identities
Chair: Szonja Komoróczy (Budapest)
Katalin Fenyves (Budapest): “I’m Different, Therefore I Am” (Ignotus) – From Nation-Building to Cultural Homogenization in fin-de-siècle Hungary
Gil Ribak (Tucson, Arizona): “Why Replace a Cow with a Donkey?”: Yiddish and Hebrew Writers and the Question of Cultural Hierarchy in Galicia and Tsarist Russia
13:00 – 13:30 Concluding Round-Table Discussion
