Center for Jewish Studies

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The Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) is a research facility at the University of Graz . The predecessor was the David Herzog Center for Jewish Studies (DHC), which existed from 2000 to 2001 and was named after David Herzog, the state rabbi for Styria and Carinthia . It conducts research on Jewish history, culture, literature and religion, especially in Israel and the USA . The historian Klaus Hödl was the founding director of the institution from 2001 to 2007 .

Education

The CJS is a member of the Working Group for Jewish Studies in Austria (AGJÖ). It offers the cross-faculty, four-semester humanities and cultural studies joint degree course Jewish Studies - History of Jewish Cultures ( Master of Arts ) with the University for Jewish Studies (HfJS) in Heidelberg. He has been funded by the DAAD since 2007 . The Catholic theologian Irmtraud Fischer is the chairwoman of the curriculum commission for the inter-faculty course Jewish Studies in Graz .

Visiting professorship

In addition to the David Herzog Fund , which has existed at the University of Graz since the 1980s, there is a cooperation with the Kurt David Brühl Guest Professorship for Jewish Studies , which was created in 2001. It was built after the entrepreneur, honorary president of the Israelite cultural community in Graz and sponsor of the visiting professorship, consul Kurt David Brühl . The following national and international scientists have received these so far: Gerold Necker , Elisabeth Hollender , Stefan Litt , Liliane Weissberg , Eric Jacobson , Trude Maurer , Mona Körte , Thomas Meyer , Ulrich Wyrwa , Hildegard Frübis and Joachim Schlör .

research

The CJS houses a biographical archive of the Jews from Styria . It is also the editor of the magazine Transversal , the lectures of the Center for Jewish Studies and the writings of the Center for Jewish Studies (2013: 23 volumes with articles by Evelyn Adunka , Daniel Hoffmann and Klaus Hödl).

Completed and ongoing research projects are funded by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research , the Jubilee Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank , the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria , the Federal Ministry of Science and Research , the Department of Science and Research of the State of Styria and the Cultural Office of the City of Graz . Currently, the First World War from a Jewish perspective, popular culture in Vienna and Jewish migration to Palestine are being discussed.

Events

In the past, the CJS curated exhibitions a. a. in the Heilandskirche (2010) and in the Academic Gymnasium Graz (2012). Lectures are regularly organized in Graz and the surrounding area such as the GrazMuseum , Pavelhaus , Literaturhaus Graz , Styrian State Archives , Afro-Asian Institute , Graz Synagogue , ORF State Studio Styria and Meerscheinschlössl . Together with other institutions, they took part in conferences and workshops such as in the Jewish Museum Berlin (“Not just education, not just citizens. Jews in popular culture”) and in the University of Budapest (“Jewish life in the Hungarian-Austrian border region of the 19th and 20th centuries”) . Century ") part. In 2013 the International Conference “European-Jewish Literatures and World War I” took place at the University of Graz with guests such as Alfred Bodenheimer , Małgorzata Dubrowska , Claudia Erdheim and Jay Winter .

literature

  • University of Graz (Ed.): Speeches and lectures on the occasion of the opening of the Kurt David Brühl Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the Karl Franzens University Graz (= Graz University Speeches , Volume 77). Kienreich, Graz 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Center for Jewish Studies in Graz , Science ORF.at , accessed on May 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Gerald Lamprecht: The Austrian Jewish Museums in a Contemporary History Context . In: Dirk Rupnow , Heidemarie Uhl (Hrsg.): Exhibiting contemporary history in Austria. Museums - memorials - exhibitions . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78531-6 , p. 217.
  3. ^ All courses , DAAD, accessed on May 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Dieter A. Binder: Jewish Styria - Styrian Judaism . In: Alfred Ableitinger, Dieter A. Binder (Hrsg.): Steiermark. Overcoming the periphery (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg , Volume 6 / History of the Austrian Federal States since 1945 , Volume 7). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99217-2 , p. 543.
  5. ↑ Gerald Lamprecht: Jewish Studies in Graz and Austria since 1945 . In: Helmut Konrad , Stefan Benedik (eds.): 25 years of contemporary history at the University of Graz (= Mapping Contemporary History , Volume 2). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78518-7 , p. 289.
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  8. ↑ Cooperation event between the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Scientific Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute , the Center for Jewish Studies Graz and the Institute for the History of German Jews Hamburg, conference program (PDF, 152 kB)
  9. ^ Organizer: Center for Jewish Studies of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz; Faculty of Central European Studies at Andrássy University Budapest; Center for German -‐ speaking Jewish Culture in Central Europe at the Eötvös -‐ Loránd -‐ University Budapest, conference program ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.andrassyuni.eu