Jewish Engagement with the Public Sphere: New Perspectives on Jewish Philanthropy
Thursday, 15 June 2017
University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, 65/2117
A conference organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, University of Southampton, in memory of Clemens Nathan
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and Tea and Coffee
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome: Joachim Schlör
10.15 – 11.00 Mirjam Thulin: More than Charity: The Dimensions of Tzedakah, c. 1750-1850
11.00 – 11.15 Tea & Coffee
11.15 – 12.00 Andrea Schatz: Alliances, Frictions, Splits: The Politics of Diaspora in Jewish Reports on the ‘Damascus Affair’
12.00 – 12.45 Björn Siegel, Joseph Ritter von Wertheimer & Baron de Hirsch: Modern Jewish Philanthropists and the Emergence of International Solidarity
12.45 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.00 Micheline Stevens: The Jewish Education Aid Society
15.15 – 16.00 Tobias Metzler: Transnational Gateways: Urban Jewish Philanthropy in the Age of Migration
16.00 – 16.15 Tea & Coffee
16.15– 17.00 Markus Krah: Salman Schocken: Publisher, Patron, Philanthropist
19.00 Evening Dinner at Ceno’s
For further information on The Parkes Institute, please visit http://www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/index.page
or email The Parkes Institute at parkes@southampton.ac.uk.
We are most grateful for the donation we received from the Nathan family that made this workshop possible.