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From: "Dr. Rainer Liedtke" <[log in to unmask]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Leo Baeck Institute of London plans to hold an international
conference in Cambridge, England in September 2001, on social and
cultural change within German-speaking Jewry, 1812-1918. The
conference's working title is "Towards Normality?". Participants
will be asked to focus on the issues raised by the varied paths of
Jewish assimilation and acculturation in the territory of the
post-1871 German Empire and post-1867 Cisleithanian Austria.
Papers on the following subjects, as they relate to assimilation and
acculturation, are particularly encouraged:
historiographical disputes
political involvement
social mobility
local and regional studies (major Jewish centres and rural communities)
changing modes of religious observance
educational trends
high and popular culture
gender
intra-Jewish debates
conversion and intermarriage
Proposals for papers in the form of a 2-3 page abstract accompanied
by a brief C.V. are requested (by letter, e-mail or fax) by 31
January 2000. The language of the conference is English but papers
may also be submitted in German.
Contact:
Dr. Rainer Liedtke
Historisches Institut
Neuere Geschichte I
Universitaet Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 C1
35394 Giessen
Germany
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fax: (0641) 992-8169
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