Anarchists and Jews
story of an encounter

International Study Conference
Venice, May 5-6-7 2000

Auditorium Campo Santa Margherita

FRIDAY MAY 5 - 14,30 - 19,00
OPENING

Giovanni Levi (Department of History, Venice University)
Amedeo Bertolo (Centro Studi libertari, Milan)

SESSION 1
MODERATOR AMEDEO BERTOLO (CSL)

Chaim Seeligmann (Yad Tabenkin Center, Tel Aviv)
Utopianism, Messianism and Secular Messianism
Furio Biagini (University of Lecce)
Social Utopia and Jewish Spirituality
Eric Jacobson (Freie Universität, Berlin)
The Anarchism of Jewish Tradition:
Scholem, Benjamin and Political Theology

Jacob Goren (Yad Tabenkin Center, Tel Aviv)
Anarchic Elements in Proto-Judaism
Enrico Ferri (University of Roma Tre)
The Jewish Question in Max Stirner and in the Libertarian Perspective

SATURDAY MAY 6 - 9,30 - 13,00
SESSION 2
MODERATOR PIERO BRUNELLO (DEPT. HISTORY)

Daniel Grinberg (University of Bialystok)
The Radical Jews of Poland: challenges and responses
Michael Löwy (CNRS, Paris)
Judaism and Anarchism in Mitteleuropa.
The Franz Kafka Case

Rudolf De Jong (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam)
Anarchism, Zionism and a case of Anti-Semitism in the Netherlands
Gregorio Rawin (Biblioteca José Ingenieros, Buenos Aires)
The Jewish Rationalist League and Anarchism in Argentina
Sylvain Boulouque (University of Reims)
Libertarian Jews between assimilation and rupture

 

SATURDAY MAY 6 - 15,00 - 19,00
SESSION 3
MODERATOR MARIANNE ENCKELL (CIRA)

Siegbert Wolf (University of Frankfurt a/M)
"The real place for realization is the community".
The intellectual relationship between Landauer and Buber

Mina Graur (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Anarchism and Zionism: the Debate on Jewish Nationalism
Yaacov Oved (Tel Aviv University and Yad Tabenkin Center)
Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement
Birgit Seemann (University of Frankfurt a/M)
Anarcha-feminism and Judaism. Some topics
Francis Shor (Wayne State University, Detroit)
Jewish Anarchism and Communitarianism in the US: from Stelton to Sunrise

 

SUNDAY MAY 7 - 10,00 - 13,00
SESSION 4
MODERATOR PIETRO ADAMO (CSL)

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: The Double Identity

with Audrey Goodfriend (San Francisco), Jean-Marc Izrine (Toulouse), Judith Malina (New York), Hanon Reznikov (New York), Arturo Schwarz (Milan)

Simultaneous translation Italian/English/French