Institute for Jewish-Christian Research

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Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF)
founding 1971/1976
Sponsorship public / private
place Lucerne
country Switzerland
management Verena Lenzen
Website www.unilu.ch/ijcf

The Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF) is a scientific institute of the University of Lucerne , Switzerland . At the IJCF, Jewish Studies or Jewish Studies can be studied within the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences. The institute is open to all students, regardless of their religious affiliation or ideology.

history

Lucerne was the first place in Switzerland to introduce Jewish Studies as a university subject in 1971. Five years later (1976) the Institute for Jewish-Christian Research (IJCF) was founded here by Clemens Thoma , which has been headed by Verena Lenzen since 2001 . The special profile of the IJCF includes the study of Jewish studies and the Judeo-Christian dialogue.

Focus in research and teaching

Jewish ethics

Fundamental questions of Jewish ethics from biblical times to modern times are discussed, including current discussions of interreligious ethics, feminist ethics, and issues of medical ethics.

Jewish-Christian dialogue

Differences and similarities between the two religions are discussed from a Judaic, theological, ethical and cultural-scientific point of view.

Modern Jewish history and cultural history

In addition to an introduction to Jewish literary and contemporary history from different epochs, the modern history of Judaism from the dissolution of traditional Jewish worlds to the founding of the state of Israel after the Shoah - the Holocaust - is taught.

Jewish law - Halacha

The focus is on the importance of the Jewish religious law in the life of the Jews and its historical development, as well as statements by the Halacha on current issues and their significance in the modern State of Israel.

Modern Hebrew - Ivrit

In the modern Hebrew courses, the basics of the modern Hebrew language are taught. There is a close cooperation with the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the exams at the IJCF are measured against their standard.

courses

  • Bachelor's degree as a major or minor within the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences
  • Master’s degree as a major or minor within the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences
  • As part of the integrated master's and bachelor's degree program in “Social and Communication Sciences” within the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences
  • Bachelor's degree as a minor within the theology course
  • Master's degree as a minor within the theology degree
  • As a non-law elective subject within the law faculty

Lecturers and teachers

  • Verena Lenzen , Dr. theol., Professor of Jewish Studies and Theology / Christian-Jewish Conversation, Head of the IJCF
  • David Bollag , Rabbi, Ph.D., teaching and research fellow
  • Simon Erlanger, Dr. phil., lecturer and researcher
  • Martin Steiner, Mag. Theol., Assistant and SNSF doctoral candidate
  • Shlomit Wehrli-Nasielski, lecturer in Modern Hebrew
  • Simone Rosenkranz Verhelst, Dr. phil., Visiting Lecturer IJCF

Foundations

The Otto-Herz-Studienstiftung, founded in 1992, supports students of the IJCF in studying the modern Hebrew language and Jewish studies in Israel with its scholarships .

As part of your studies at the IJCF, you have the opportunity to take part in the annual study trip to Israel, which is financially supported by the Judaism / Christianity Foundation (SJC).

The IJCF is also home to the Mount Zion Foundation, which awards the Mount Zion Award every two years . This renowned peace prize honors people and institutions who have made a name for themselves in interreligious understanding and in the Middle East peace process.

Visiting professors

Every year since 1974 a Jewish visiting professor from Israel, America or Europe has held lectures and seminars in Jewish studies at the University of Lucerne.

  • 1974/75 Benjamin Uffenheimer (Jerusalem): The prophetic experience
  • 1975/76 David Flusser (Jerusalem): The words of Jesus in the light of Judaism at that time
  • 1976/77 Jacob Katz (Jerusalem): The crises and new beginnings in Judaism from the 16th century until today
  • 1977/78 Moshe Schwarcz ( Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan ): Religious German Judaism in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Determinations of the situation in the face of dominant non-Jewish intellectual currents
  • 1978/79 Jacob Levinger : Moses Maimonides, the important Jewish religious philosopher of the Middle Ages: work and philosophy
  • 1979/80 Yehoshua Amir (Jerusalem): The Jewish Hellenism of Late Antiquity: Contents and Effects
  • 1980/81 Jacob Licht (Jerusalem): Qumran - a Jewish sect in the age of Jesus
  • 1981/82 Shemaryahu Talmon (Jerusalem): The new awakening of Israel after the Babylonian exile
  • 1982/83 Michael Wyschogrod (New York): The speaking of one God among Jews and Christians
  • 1984/85 Jakob J. Petuchowski (Cincinnati): The Jewish community administration: origins, forms and effects
  • 1985/86 Leon Feldman (New York): The religious and cultural situation of the Jews in Christian Spain in the Middle Ages
  • 1986/87 Hayim Goren Perelmuter (Chicago): The History of Jewish Sermon and Exegesis
  • 1988/89 Ruth Link-Salinger (New York): Jewish thinkers of the modern age
  • 1989/90 Haim Beinart (Princetown NY): Jews and Christians in Spain, their expulsion and their consequences
  • 1990/91 Daniel R. Schwartz (Jerusalem): The 1st Century AD in Jewish History and Historiography
  • 1991/92 Shmuel Safrai (Jerusalem): Tradition as a source of faith in Judaism: Compare with traditions in the New Testament
  • 1992/93 Michael Graetz (University for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg): Jewish Religion and Society in Modern Europe
  • 1993/94 Joshua Blau (Jerusalem): Personalities and problems of the Jewish-Arab culture based on texts
  • 1994/95 Moshe David Herr (Jerusalem): The polemics of rabbinic Judaism against the evolving church
  • 1995/96 Isaac Kalimi (Brookline MA, USA): The second chronicle book
  • 1996/97 Aharon Openheimer (Tel Aviv): The Bar Kochba uprising (132–135 AD): its prerequisites and consequences
  • 1997/98 Jonah Fraenkel (Jerusalem): Rabbinical Scripture Interpretation: Formal and Content
  • 1998/99 Joachim Braun : Music in the Bible and in the Ancient Orient
  • 1999/2000 Michael Mach (Jerusalem): Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Judaism (lecture); Different formulations of monotheism at the time of Hellenism (seminar)
  • 2000/01 Kalman Yaron (Jerusalem): Judaism and Nationalism: The Collective Identity in Israel
  • 2001/02 Almut Sh. Bruckstein (Jerusalem): Work on the Midrash: Introduction to Jewish Hermeneutics
  • 2002/03 Dan Diner ( Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig; Hebrew University Jerusalem): Jewish history and general history: narratives, theory and method
  • 2003/04 Anat Feinberg (University for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg): “Letters from the Hinterland”: Hebrew women authors 1880–2000
  • 2003/04 Jonathan Magonet (Leo Baeck College, London): How a rabbi reads his Bible. Jewish art of interpretation and storytelling from the Middle Ages to the modern age
  • 2004/05 Jakob Hessing (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The price of secularization. Theses on German-Jewish literature
  • 2005/06 Anat Feinberg (University for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg): Between the Bible and bestsellers: History of Hebrew and Israeli literature
  • 2006/07 Moshe Zuckermann (Tel-Aviv University): Richard Wagner - art, politics, ideology (lecture); The modern state of Israel - society, politics, culture (seminar)
  • 2007 Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University Beer Sheva): The psychosocial aftermath of the Holocaust on the descendants of Nazi victims and perpetrators (lecture); "Storytelling" as a way to dialogue in conflict situations using the example of Israel and Palestine (seminar)
  • 2009 (FS) Michael Brenner (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich): Pictures of Jewish History (Lecture), Jewish Life in Europe since 1945 (Seminar)
  • 2009 (HS) Itta Shedletzky Existence and Tradition. Facets of the 'Jewish' in German-language literature (lecture), Else Lasker-Schüler's Hebrew Ballads. Poetic dialogue with text and language of the Tanach (seminar)
  • 2010 (HS) Avinoam Shalem: Jerusalem: The creation of a holy place (lecture), In the field of tension between religions: The conflict between paganism and monotheism and the struggle for the one God (seminar)
  • 2012 (FS) Shmuel Feiner: The Cultural Revolution of the Jewish Enlightenment (seminar / lecture)
  • 2012 (HS) Uri R. Kaufmann: Towards a cultural and social history of rural Jewry in Switzerland and Central Europe, 1500–1933 (seminar)
  • 2013 (FS) Günter Stemberger (University of Vienna): Introduction to rabbinical literature (lecture), The Pharisees (seminar)
  • 2013 (HS) Doron Rabinovici (University of Vienna): Cooperation and resistance in the face of destruction. The debate about the «Jewish councils». A current examination of the film "Hannah Arendt" (lecture), anti-Semitism after Auschwitz. Continuity and discontinuity of a resentment (seminar)
  • 2014 (HS) Ronny Reich (University of Haifa): Everyday life in Judea and Jerusalem at the turn of the ages (2nd century BC to 1st century AD) - An archaeological overview (lecture), selected chapters in the archeology of the ancient Jerusalem (from its beginnings to the end of the Byzantine era) (seminary)
  • 2015 (HS) Jutta Schumacher: Yiddish literature from its beginnings in the 13th century until today (lecture), discovery of the Yiddish language and culture (seminar)
  • 2017 (FS) Federico Dal Bo (Berlin / Bologna): Introduction to Talmud and Kabbalah. Focus: Gender research and Judaism-Christianity (lecture and seminar)
  • 2017 (HS) Aleida and Jan Assmann : Memory - remembering and forgetting (lecture), memory, history and identity (seminar)
  • 2018 (HS) Daniel Hoffmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Forms of modern Jewish and Christian religiosity in theology and literature (lecture), memory of the Holocaust - historical and moral aspects in internal family and public discourse (seminar)
  • 2019 (HS) Tom Segev (historian and journalist): David Ben Gurion and the history of the State of Israel (lecture)

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