Program_Empire-Socialism-and-Jews

Workshop
Empire, Socialism, and Jews:
1848, 1867, 1889 – Revolution, Emancipation, and Mass Politics
May 28–29, 2015
IFK
Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Vienna
One contemporary paradox of Austrian national identity is that its narrative became so potent that
parents these days cannot tell their children stories from before 1918. Can the Austrian Empire be
written back into Austrian history?
The workshop, the third in a series, represents an ongoing project to reconceptualize the Austrian
Empire’s place in Central European history by focusing on the interaction of imperial institutions, the
socialist movement, and Austrian Jewry. This workshop will focus on the transformations of the 1848
revolutions, the 1867 emancipation of the Jews, and the founding of the socialist party in 1889.
Participants will discuss German-Jewish educational reform in the Czech Crownlands, the role of
socialism in the 1848 revolutions, Jewish intellectuals before emancipation, the Grundgesetz and
Jewish property rights, the founding of the socialist party as an imperial event, and the ArbeiterZeitung’s attitude toward the empire in its early years. Some of the field’s basic premises will be
questioned: Was Jewish imperial patriotism limited to Franz Joseph? Was the Grundgesetz truly
revolutionary? Was Austrian socialism anti-imperial? The workshop seeks to write the empire back
into the Austrian national narrative.
IFK
15.00
Thu., May 28, 2015
Welcome Address
Helmut Lethen, Malachi Hacohen
PANEL I: 1848
Chair: Amy Vargas-Tonsi
Commentator: Gerhard Milchram
This panel on the 1848 Revolution is dedicated to the memory of Siegfried Mattl (1954–
2015), who passed away on April 25. Béla Rásky will deliver the paper, on which the two of
them have begun working together.
15.15
Louise Hecht
Between Toleration and Emancipation: The Self-empowerment of Jewish Intellectuals
in the Habsburg Monarchy
16.15
Béla Rásky
Antisemitism in 1848
17.15
Coffee break
KEYNOTE
18.00
Malachi Hacohen
The Abiding Imperial Tradition: Austrian Socialism, the Jews, the Monarchy, and Europe
Respondent: Helmut Konrad
IFK
Fri., May 29, 2015
PANEL II: 1867
Chair: Serena Bazemore
Commentators: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek , Ingo Zechner
10.00
Dieter Hecht
Self-Assertion in the Public Sphere: Jewish Press on the Eve of Legal Emancipation
11.00
Lisa Silverman
Jews, Property, and the Staatsgrundgesetz
12.00
Lunch break
PANEL III: 1889
A. Metropole
Chair: Martina Steer
Commentators: Georg Spitaler, Jill Lewis
14.00
Wolfgang Maderthaner
1889 in the History of Austrian Socialism: The Founding of an Imperial Party?
15.00
Deborah Holmes
The Arbeiter-Zeitung 1889–1895 in the context of contemporary feuilleton journalism
16.00
Coffee break
B. Provinces
Chair: Jill Lewis
Commentators: Martina Steer, Werner Michael Schwarz
16.30
Joshua Shanes
Galician Jewish Socialism – Imperially Embedded?
17.30
Thomas Prendergast
„Die Sozialdemokraten der Wissenschaft”: Austrian Jewish Ethnologists and the Quest
for a Science of Nationality, 1880–1900
18.30
End
CONCEPT
Malachi Hacohen (Department of History, Duke University)
PARTICIPANTS
Serena Bazemore (Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University)
Malachi Hacohen (Department of History, Duke University)
Dieter Hecht (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Louise Hecht (Kurt-and-Ursula-Schubert Center for Jewish Studies, Palacký University Olomouc)
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Vienna)
Deborah Holmes (Vienna / Department of German, University of Kent)
Helmut Konrad (Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
Jill Lewis (Swansea)
Wolfgang Maderthaner (Austrian State Archives, Vienna)
Gerhard Milchram (Wien Museum, Vienna)
Thomas Prendergast (Department of History, Duke University)
Béla Rásky (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna)
Werner Michael Schwarz (Wien Museum, Vienna)
Joshua Shanes (Jewish Studies, College of Charleston)
Lisa Silverman (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Georg Spitaler (Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Vienna)
Martina Steer (Department of History, University of Vienna)
Amy Vargas-Tonsi (Council for European Studies, Duke University)
Ingo Zechner (IFK, Vienna)
In cooperation with the Council for European Studies at Duke University
IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, The University of Art and Design Linz
1010 Vienna, Reichsratsstraße 17, Phone: +43 1 504 11 26, Fax: +43 1 504 11 32,
e-mail: [email protected], www.ifk.ac.at

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