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Meerscheinschl\u00f6\u00dfl, Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz<\/span><\/p>\n


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Centrum f\u00fcr J\u00fcdische Studien der Karl-Franzens-Universit\u00e4t Graz <\/span><\/p>\n


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23.05.2016 – 25.05.2016 <\/span><\/p>\n


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World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of the Eastern European Jewish people, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and\/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. In this context, one central and contested field of discussion was the question of Jewish military service, Jewish loyalty, and the Jewish attitude towards warfare. Many Jews in all belligerent countries expected to prove their patriotism and loyalty to the state with their military service. <\/span><\/p>\n


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About as many as 900.000 Jewish soldiers fought in the armies of the Russian Empire, Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, and about 100.000 of them died on various battlefields. Jews as individuals and Jewish communities tried to make sense of the deaths of Jewish soldiers as well as the manifold physical and psychological injuries that had been inflicted upon them during and after the war. They did this in terms of media discourses, in public and private practices of commemoration, by erecting memorials, and in religious rituals.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Commemorating the war has always been a public and political act of creating meaning and justifying the existence of the political unit, the state, the nation, for which the soldiers had died. After the collapse of the Romanov Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy as well as the transition of Germany from monarchy to a democratic republic, references to the no longer existing states became problematic. Furthermore, in Central Europe, a region of structural heterogeneity, the new states were attempting to establish homogeneous nation states. The process of making political meaning of the multitude of deaths in the war thus had to be adapted to the new political realities after 1918. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Therefore, commemorating the war was always a place where social and national belonging and unity were negotiated. <\/span><\/p>\n


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The Conference \u201cJewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe\u201d opens up discussions about Jewish military service in its various forms (soldiers, prisoners of war, refugees, forced laborer, war welfare, \u2026) and war memories in their multifaceted formations during and after World War I. Central Europe is understood as the German Empire, the Austria-Hungarian Monarchy, the western parts of the Russian Empire, and all the successor states of these empires. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Programm<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


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Monday May 23th, 2016 festival room, Meerscheinschl\u00f6ssl, Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz<\/span><\/p>\n


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9.00: Registration<\/span><\/p>\n


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10.00: Conference Opening and Introduction
Begr\u00fc\u00dfung: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Ziegler (Forschungsdekan der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakult\u00e4t der Karl-Franzens-Universit\u00e4t Graz) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Einf\u00fchrung: Gerald Lamprecht (Graz) J\u00fcdische Soldaten im kollektiven Ged\u00e4chtnis Zentraleuropas<\/span><\/p>\n


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10.30: War Experiences
Chair: Dieter J. Hecht (Graz\/Wien)<\/span><\/p>\n


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Katalin Fenyves (Budapest): Erfahrungen und Loyalit\u00e4tskonflikte ungarischer Juden in und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg <\/span><\/p>\n


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Olaf Terpitz (Wien): Shimon Anskis \u201etogbukh fun khurbm\u201c \u2013 Literarische Aufzeichnungen und historisches Dokument <\/span><\/p>\n


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Jason Crouthamel: (Allendale, Michigan) Mutual Perceptions of \u201eComradeship\u201c between Gentile and German-Jewish Front Soldiers during the First World War<\/span><\/p>\n


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12.00: Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n


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12.30: Rabbis and War
Chair: Frank Stern (Graz\/Wien) <\/span><\/p>\n


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G\u00e1bor Schweitzer (Budapest): Hungarian Neolog\/Progressive Rabbis during the \u201eGreat War\u201c (1914\u20131918) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Dieter J. Hecht (Wien): War Memoirs of Jewish Military Chaplains in the Austro-Hungarian Army Autobiographical Writings, Postcards, Photographs<\/span><\/p>\n


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13.30: Lunch<\/span><\/p>\n


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15.00: Jewish Intellectuals at War
Chair: Eleonore Lappin-Eppel (Graz\/Wien)<\/span><\/p>\n


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Barbara Breysach (Berlin): Sigmund Freud: Kriegskritiker und stolzer Vater zweier Soldaten <\/span><\/p>\n


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Frank Stern (Wien\/Graz): \u201eDie Gegens\u00e4tze werden jetzt ausgek\u00e4mpft und bleiben bestehen\u2026\u201c Reichszusammenbr\u00fcche, Islam und europ\u00e4ische Staatsidee im Wirken Franz Rosenzweigs w\u00e4hrend und nach dem Gro\u00dfen Krieg <\/span><\/p>\n


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Eszter Bal\u00e1zs (Budapest): The image of the Jewish Soldier-Intellectual in the Hungarian-Jewish Review M\u00falt \u00e9s J\u00f6v\u0151 (1914-1918)<\/span><\/p>\n


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16.30: Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n


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17.00: Jewish Refugees
Chair: Ursula Mindler-Steiner (Graz\/Budapest) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Ines Koeltzsch (Prag): Familiar Strangers? East European Jewish Refugees in Czech Jewish Cultural Memory during and after the War <\/span><\/p>\n


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Gintar\u0117 Malinauskait\u0117 (Berlin): Wandering Lithuanian Jewish Refugees during the First World War \u2013 Hirsz Abramowicz and His \u201eParticipant Observation\u201c <\/span><\/p>\n


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18.30: Keynote
Hillel Kieval (St. Louis, Missouri): Shatter Zones. The Trauma of War and the Reconfiguration of Jewish Identities in Central Europe<\/span><\/p>\n


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Tuesday May 24th, 2016 festival room, Meerscheinschl\u00f6ssl, Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz<\/span><\/p>\n


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9.00: Anti-Semitism I
Chair: Werner Bergmann (Berlin) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Michal Frankl (Prag): \u201eProvocation\u201c Narratives of anti-Jewish Violence in Bohemia (1917\u20131918) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Miloslav Szab\u00f3 (Bratislava): \u201eJ\u00fcdische Schreckensherrschaft\u201c? Kampagnen gegen j\u00fcdische Soldaten in der Slowakei nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg <\/span><\/p>\n


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Thomas Stoppacher (Graz): Die j\u00fcdischen Soldaten \u00d6sterreich-Ungarns im politischen Diskurs der Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre (1917\u20131920)<\/span><\/p>\n


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10.30: Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n


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11:00: Anti-Semitism II
Chair: Ulrich Wyrwa (Berlin) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Tullia Catalan (Triest): Anti-Semitism and Anti-Slavism in Trieste and Italy during WWI <\/span><\/p>\n


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Raul C\u00e2rstocea (Flensburg): The Turning of the Tide Jewish Emancipation and Anti-Semitism in Romania (1918\u20131923) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Nicole Grom (N\u00fcrnberg): Memoria als Kampf. Die Zeitschrift \u201aDer Schild\u2018 als Spiegel antisemitischer Entwicklungen in Deutschland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg<\/span><\/p>\n


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12.30: Lunch<\/span><\/p>\n


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14.00: Memory \u2013 Discourses
Chair: Werner Suppanz (Graz) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1 (West Lafayette, Indiana): Commemorating the 10.000 <\/span><\/p>\n


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Andrea A. Sinn (Berkeley, California): Remembering War Jewish Women and the German Home Front during World War I<\/span><\/p>\n


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15.30: Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n


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16.00: Art and Literature
Chair: Olaf Terpitz (Wien) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Andrei Corbea-Hoisie (Iasi): Itzik Strul, der Deserteur. J\u00fcdische Soldaten in der rum\u00e4nischen Armee im 1. Weltkrieg \u2013 im Wehrdienst f\u00fcr eine unwirtliche Heimat<\/span><\/p>\n


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Daniel Hoffmann (D\u00fcsseldorf): In \u201eGottes Krieg\u201c. Uriel Birnbaums j\u00fcdisch-katholischer Blick auf den Ersten Weltkrieg <\/span><\/p>\n


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Hildegard Fr\u00fcbis (Berlin\/Graz): Den M\u00fcttern der Zw\u00f6lftausend 1924. Max Liebermann und die Erinnerung an die j\u00fcdischen Frontsoldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg<\/span><\/p>\n


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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016, festival room, Meerscheinschl\u00f6ssl, Mozartgasse 3, 8010 Graz<\/span><\/p>\n


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9.00: Commemoration
Chair: Gerald Lamprecht (Graz) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Ljiljana Dobrov\u0161ak (Zagreb): \u201eForgotten Heroes\u201c. Jewish Soldiers in Croatia during the First World War <\/span><\/p>\n


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Veronika Szeghy-Gayer (Budapest): Jewish War Memory as a Local Community Building Project \u2013 the Heroes\u2019 Memorial of Pre\u0161ov <\/span><\/p>\n


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Kamil Ruszala (Krakow): Jewish War Cemeteries as Sites of Memory in Galicia during the First World War<\/span><\/p>\n


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10.30: Coffee Break<\/span><\/p>\n


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11:00. Conflicts in Transition from War to Postwar
Chair: Helmut Konrad (Graz) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Nino Gude (Wien): Vereint mit allen Kr\u00e4ften. Die j\u00fcdischen Soldaten in der Ukrainisch-Galizischen Armee 1918\/19 <\/span><\/p>\n


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Andr\u00e1s Zima\/Norbert Gl\u00e4sser (Budapest): Changing Frames and National Self-interpretations among Jewish Groups in the Carpathian Basin around the Great War<\/span><\/p>\n


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Ana \u0106iri\u0107 Pavlovi\u0107 (Budapest): Yugoslavs of the Mosaic Faith? Public Discourse about Jewish Loyalty in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)<\/span><\/p>\n


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12.30: Final Commentary
Chair: Helmut Konrad (Graz) <\/span><\/p>\n


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Jay Winter (Newhaven, Connecticut)<\/span><\/p>\n


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