At Home Jews and Muslims in Eastern Europe

Workshop 28-29 June 2018

In our two-day workshop we would like to address and map out the experiences of the adherents of two large non-Christian religions, of Jews and Muslims in Eastern and Southeast Europe from around 1800 to this date. We are interested in the historical legacies of empire, Ottoman, Russian, Austro-Hungarian or Soviet, in the trajectories of reform and orthodoxies, in processes of confessionalisation and seculariza-tion, in the politics of religion and minorities, the ways nation states accommodated religious and ethnic pluralism. How did Muslims and Jews ima-gine their place in empire, nation and society, as individuals, as citizens, as communities? Though not neglecting multiple experiences of discrimination and violence that members of these two large non-Christian religions were and are exposed to, we are especially keen on learning examples of integration and symbiotic relations between Muslims and Jews as well as between those two religious groups and other communities.

With keynote lectures by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the Northwestern Univer-sity in Evanston and Chicago, and by Armina Omerika, Professor of Intellectual History of Islam at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Main).

A cooperation of Prisma Ukraïna – Research Net-work Eastern Europe and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO).

The Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eas-tern Europe provides space for the research of recent developments in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their historical, cultural and social conditions. It connects research expertise in Berlin, Brandenburg and beyond, and invites scholars from Eastern Europe as fellows.

Contact:

Prisma Ukraïna c/o Forum Transregionale Studien Ewa Dąbrowska Wallotstraße 14 14193 Berlin

Tel. +49 30 89001-428 Fax +49 30 89001-440

prisma@trafo-berlin.de www.prisma-ukraina.de

Thursday, 28 June 2018 Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, 14193 Berlin

10.00 - 10.15 Introduction

Andrii Portnov (European University Viadrina Frank-furt/Oder; Prisma Ukraïna) & Ewa Dąbrowska (Prisma Ukraïna)

10.15–11.45 Keynote Lecture

Secularization, Ethnicization, Restoration: The Big Turns of the Modern Muslim History in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Armina Omerika (Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Chair: Georges Khalil (Forum Transregionale Studien)

12.00–13.45

Law and the Politics of Religious Diversity in the Russian Empire

Zeev Levin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Issues in Russian Civic Legislation on Muslims and Jews in the Caucasus and Central Asia (Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries)

Rozaliya Garipova (Nazarbayev University, Astana) Legacy of the Empire and the Impact of the Russian Legal Culture on Shari‘a Among the Volga-Ural Muslims

Chair: Jesko Schmoller (European University St. Petersburg; Perm State University)

13.45–14.45 Lunch

14.45–16.30

Entangled Histories

Vladimir Levin (University of Jerusalem) Parting the Ways: Jews and Muslims of the Russian Empire

Daria Vasyutinsky Shapira (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba) Muslims in the Early Russian Oriental Studies, and their Influence on the Beginnings of the Russian Jewish Studies

Chair: Gabriele Freitag (German Association for East European Studies)

17:00–18.30 Keynote Lecture

Jewish Museum in Lviv: Its History, Present-day, and Future

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago)

Chair: Andrii Portnov (Viadrina; Prisma)

Friday, 29 June 2018 Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

9.15–11.15

Between Enlightenment and Revolution

Harun Buljina (Columbia University, New York) The Journal Biser: Islamic Reformism and Print Cosmo-politanism in Early 20th-Century Bosnia-Herzegovina

Viktoria Venherska (Ivan Franko State University in Zhytomyr) From Traditionalism to Modern Ideologies: Jews in the Russian Empire on the Eve of and During Revolutions (1905–1917)

Chair: Lili di Puppo (NRU Higher School of Econo-mics, Moscow)

At Home Jews and Muslims in Eastern EuropeWorkshop 28-29 June 2018

11.30–13.30

Sovietization of Judaism and Islam

Olha Kolesnyk (University of Warsaw) Jews and Judeo-Bolshevism in the Official Rhetoric in Soviet Lviv in 1939–1941: “Czerwony Sztandar” Newspaper Case

Mansur Gazimzyanov (European University St. Petersburg) Defining the Boundaries of the Islamic and Un-Islamic: Discourses on “Survivals” and “Innovations” in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

Thomas Loy (Humboldt University, Berlin) The Chala – “Jewish Muslims” in Soviet Central Asia

Chair: Olga Linkiewicz (Prisma Ukraïna Fellow)

13.30–14.30 Lunch

14.30–16.30

Tradition as Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

Diliara Brileva (Kazan Federal University) Constructing the Concept of “Traditional Islam” in the Republic of Tatarstan after the Collapse of the USSR

Lili di Puppo (NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Jesko Schmoller (European University St. Petersburg; Perm State University) Hidden in Open Sight: Sufism in Volga-Ural and the In/Visibility of Islam in Russia

Galina, Zelenina (University of Bremen) Usable Past for an Old New “Traditional Religion”: Russian Chabad Experiment

Chair: Ewa Dąbrowska (Prisma)