Center for Jewish Studies, Univ. of Graz: Susanne Korbel and Aleksandra Jakubczak (POLIN Museum, Warsaw) (Web)
Time: 16.10.2023, 12:00-18.30 Uhr
Venue: University of Graz
Program
- Welcome: Aleksandra Jakubczak (Warsawa) and Susanne Korbel (Graz)
- Keynote: Aleksandra Jakubczak: The Economic Crises of the Interwar Years and Their Impact on the Intimate Lives of Polish Jewish Women
- Mariusz Kałczewiak (Los Angeles): Jewish Homosexual Men in Interwar Poland. Between Crime, Malady, and Individual Subjectivities
- Martina Niedhammer (Munich): An Uncommon Gender Gap? The Question of Central European Jewish Cookbooks and their Authors
- Susanne Korbel: Intimacies in Budapest and Vienna around 1900
- Journal Launch: Eleonore Lappin-Eppel (Vienna/Graz): Nashim special issue „Jewish Women in Post-War Central and Eastern Europe“
- Final discussion
- Workshop Dinner
For the past few decades, flourishing gender studies have provided new heuristic tools, theoretical reflections, and methodological approaches that have brought fruitful results also in historical research. Cross- and intercategorial angles based on concepts such as intersectionality expanded conventional historiographical narratives and thus, not least, contributed significantly to new findings in Jewish studies. Perspectives on Jewish history and culture drifted towards more open, mutual, and sensitive understandings of categorizing individuals and groups. The inclusion of gender helped to reflect on how encounters, exchanges, and diverse forms of togetherness unfolded in different historical pasts. This has particularly fostered microhistorical case studies that contributed to a more nuanced understanding of the everyday life of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. Continue reading