The Goethe-Universität Frankfurt is looking for a Judaica librarian (E11). The position requires a degree in Information and Library Science (or equivalent) and substantial knowledge in Jewish Studies or a degree in Jewish Studies (at least B.A. or equivalent) and experience as a librarian. Good com...

Spotlight JudaicaLink und FID Jüdische Studien

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Katrin Moeller (29 sept. 2021)

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Kerstin von der Krone (Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main), Kai Eckert und Benjamin Schnabel (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart)Montag, 4. Oktober 2021, 14:30-15:00 Uhr JudaicaLink (http://judaicalink.org) ist ein Datenportal des Fachinformationsdienstes Jüdische Studien (http://jewishstudies.de...

Ein ideales Online-Portal für die jüdische Geschichte. Gedankenexperiment im Rahmen der vDHd2021

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Netzwerk Jüdische Geschichte digital (23 août 2021)

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Wie sieht es aus, das ideale Portal zur jüdischen Geschichte? Diese Frage soll in die Community der zukünftigen Nutzer*innen mit einem digitalen Brainstormingprozess weitergegeben werden. Wünsche, Anregungen aber auch Bedenken können ab dem 30. August 2021 um 8 Uhr auf der Flinga-Plattform gesammelt...

CFP Multilingual and Multicultural (Munich July 2020)

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Kerstin von der Krone (18 févr. 2020)

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Follow up project: Tal Kogman (Tel Aviv University) and Evita Wiecki (LMU Munich) are organizing a Workshop exploring Hebrew and Yiddish Texts for Jewish Children and Youth, from 1880 through the 1920s Here is the Call for Papers: Between the two last decades of the 19th century and the end of the F...

Impressions from our Conference "Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900”

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Kerstin von der Krone (22 oct. 2018)

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Conference “Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900”

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Kerstin von der Krone (5 oct. 2018)

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Conference Program Monday, October 8, 2018 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Welcome & Introduction SIMONE LÄSSIG ZOHAR SHAVIT KERSTIN VON DER KRONE 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. PANEL I: CHALLENGING AUTHORITY CHAIR: STEFANO VILLANI (University of...

Upcoming Conference "Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and Other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900"

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Kerstin von der Krone (6 juin 2018)

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On October 8–10, 2018 the German Historical Institute Washington DC (GHI) will host the concluding conference of our research project. Organized by Simone Lässig, Zohar Shavit and Kerstin von der Krone the conference will provide an opportunity to discuss our findings with a group of international...

The Duty to Know: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Catechisms and Manuals and the Making of Jewish Religious Knowledge

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Kerstin von der Krone (3 juin 2018)

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A contribution to the blog series "Learning by the book" at the GHI's History of Knowledge Blog and in anticipation of a presentation at the conference "Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge" at Princeton University, June 6-10, 2018: In 1878 Moritz Daniel Oppenheim...

"Inside and Outside the Home: Childhood, Nature and the Animal World" – Workshop at Tel Aviv University, May 8, 2018 [Hebrew]

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Kerstin von der Krone (3 mai 2018)

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Together with their colleagues of Tel Aviv University's Youth Culture Studies Program Zohar Shavit and Tal Kogman are organizing an annual workshop on May 8th, 2018 that will discuss how Children encounter the nature and the animal world, placing this workshop at the intersection of a cultural histo...

Upcoming Conference: "Religious Knowledge and Position Taking in the 19th Century" – May 22-23, 2018 (Frankfurt am Main)

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Kerstin von der Krone (23 mars 2018)

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Simone Lässig, Zohar Shavit, Kerstin von der Krone and Tal Kogman will participate in the conference "Religious Knowledge and Position Taking in the 19th Century: The Case of Educational Media" that will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on May 22-23, 2018. The Conference is organize...

Session at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 17–19, 2017

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Kerstin von der Krone (7 déc. 2017)

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Kerstin von der Krone organized a panel session on Jewish Thought in Social Context for the upcoming Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies that will take place from December 17–19, 2017 in Washington DC. The session will feature presentations by Alexandra Zirkle, a fellow at the Le...

Agents of Cultural Change: Jewish and other Responses to Modernity, ca. 1750–1900

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Kerstin von der Krone (12 sept. 2017)

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CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 8–10, 2018 Conveners: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute, Washington DC), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Kerstin von der Krone (German Historical Institute, Washington DC) Deadline: Novem...

17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017

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Kerstin von der Krone (29 juil. 2017)

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Tal Kogman and Kerstin von der Krone will present their research in Jerusalem at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, a conference organized by the World Union for Jewish Studies every four years. This year's congress will take place August 6-10, 2017 at the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew U...

Archive Fellowship for Kerstin von der Krone

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Kerstin von der Krone (6 juin 2017)

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Kerstin von der Krone was awarded the The Joseph and Eva R. Dave Fellowship at the The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati (OH) for the 2017–2018 academic year. This fellowship allows her to broaden her research on nineteenth-century Jewish religious education b...

"Civilizing the other and civilizing the self" - Simone Lässig at Yale‘s Jewish History Colloquium

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Kerstin von der Krone (2 mai 2017)

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Simone Lässig presented her recent research on nineteenth-century German-Jewish history at Yale‘s Jewish History Colloquium on May 2nd, 2017. Her talk "Civilizing the other and civilizing the self: Religion, social knowledge, and cultural practices in Jewish sermons of the early 19th century” looked...