March 20-22, 2013

Participants

  • Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
  • Deborah Holmes, University of Kent
  • Jill Lewis, Swansea University & Vienna, Stadt Wien/IFK Fellow, IFK
  • Wolfgang Maderthaner, Vienna, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
  • Michaela Maier, VGA,Vienna
  • Siegfried Mattl, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vienna

 

Session I | Dilemmas of Assimilation: Fin-de-siècle Socialism, Progressivism, and the Jewish Question

Deborah Holmes | Eugenie Schwarzwald: an “Honest Antisemite”? The Galician Ostjudin as a Fin-de-siècle Viennese Icon

Wolfgang Maderthaner | Otto Bauer as Protagonist for German Culture: Imperial Multinational & German Jewish Subjectivity

 

Session II | Socialist, Feminist & Jewish: Women Subjectivities in Late Imperial Austria

Michaela Maier | Between Father & Son, Jews & Christian: Emma Adler (1852-1938)

Siegfried Mattl | Between Socialism & Feminism: Charlotte Glass (1873-1944)

Jill Lewis | Socialism, Feminism and Jewish Memory: Käthe Leichter (1895-1942)

 

Public PresentationThe Ambiguous Legacy of Continental European Empires: Socialism and the Jewish Question in Late Imperial Russia and Austria

Martin Mill, Duke University | Terrorism, Anarchism, and Pogroms: Russian Autocracy & the Jews

Malachi Hacohen, Duke University | Towards Alternative Histories of Austrian Socialism: Empire, Socialist Women and Jewish European History

 

October 15, 2012