The workshop aims to introduce the notion of “Jewish commercial cultures” to discussions about networks, mobility, empires, migration and material life. It examines Jewish merchants beyond trading diaspora frameworks, the overly determining contexts of “family” and “community”, and their stereotypical representations in anti-Jewish discourses. Instead, it views Jewish merchants anew as commercial citizens and legal agents in various regional and global settings from the early 18th- to the mid-20th centuries in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.
Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington
Jewish Commercial Cultures in Global Perspective International Workshop
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Cornelia Aust, Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University, USA Kevin Goldberg, Weber School, Atlanta, USA Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton, USA Constanze Kolbe, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Niki Lefebvre, Boston University, USA Matthias Lehmann, University of California, Irvine, USA Pedro Machado, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California, USA Evangelia Mathopoulou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Devi Mays, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Paris Papamichos-Chronakis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Derek Penslar, University of Toronto, Canada Alyssa Reiman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Daniel Rosenthal, Tel Aviv University, Israel Stephanie Seketa, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Hanna Sonkajärvi, Universidad del País Vasco, Brazil Francesca Trivellato, Yale University, USA Ariane Wessel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Mirjam Zadoff, Indiana University Bloomington, USA Nadia Zysman, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
This workshop is made possible with the generous support of the following Indiana University units: Borns Jewish Studies Program; College Arts & Humanities Institute; Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching & Collaboration grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research; Office of Vice President for International Affairs; College of Arts Sciences; College of Arts & Sciences Ostrom Grants Program; Ottoman & Modern Turkish Studies Chair; Institute for European Studies; Department of French & Italian; Center for the Study of Global Change; Department of International Studies, and the Modern Greek Studies Association Initiative Grant.
October 11-12, 2015 Indiana University, Bloomington Dogwood Room, IMU
Papers for this Workshop will be pre-circulated. Please contact
[email protected] if you want to participate in the workshop discussions.
www.indiana.edu/~merchant
Sunday, 11 October 2015 9:00-10:00 am Breakfast, Dogwood Room 10:00 - 10:15 am Welcome & Opening Remarks Paris Papamichos-Chronakis & Constanze Kolbe 10:15 - 11:45 am Panel I: Legal Regimes and Trade Litigation Dogwood Room Discussant: Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Commercial Integration through Law: Jews and Notarization in Moroccan Sharī‘a Courts Jessica Marglin The Business of Religion: Etrogim Trade and Litigation in the Nineteenth Century Adriatic Constanze Kolbe Commerce in the Courts: Italian Jews and the Consular Court System in Nineteenth Century Egypt Alyssa Reiman Commercial Litigation between Alsatian-Jewish Merchants and Non-Jewish Merchants in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Brazil Hanna Sonkajärvi 12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch, State Room West 1:30 - 3:00 pm Panel II: Cross National Networks, Marketing and Consumption Dogwood Room Discusant: Derek Penslar, University of Toronto Jewish, Polish, European: Bankers and Entrepreneurs at the Mid-Nineteenth Century A Warsaw Perspective Cornelia Aust Making Jewish Wine in Central Europe Kevin D. Goldberg Carmel in the Shtetl: Palestinian Wine and the Marketing of Zionist Ideology in Eastern Europe, 1895-1939 Daniel M. Rosenthal 3:15 - 4:45 pm Panel III: Mobility across and beyond the Eastern Mediterranean Dogwood Room Discussant: Matthias Lehmann, UC Irvine Social Advancement in the Period of Globalization. Jewish grain traders at the Berlin commodity exchange 1860-1914 Ariane Wessel Jewish Commercial Practices in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1933-1939 Evangelia Mathopoulou
Cosmopolitans for Empire: Ottoman Jews & Political Economy from the Margins Julia Phillips Cohen 5:30 - 7:00 pm Keynote speech by Francesca Trivellato (Yale University) Dogwood Room Self-Interest, “Difference,” and the Making of Europe’s Commercial Society: Jewish-Christian Credit Relations before Emancipation 7:00 - 7:30 pm Reception (open to public) Oak Room 7:30 – 9:30 pm Dinner, Federal Room
Monday, 12 October 2015 8:00 - 8:55 am Breakfast, Dogwood Room 9:00 - 10:30 am Panel IV: Realigning identities Dogwood Room Discussant: Jonathan Karp, SUNY Binghamton Merchants who Feared the Nation. Jewish Commercial Politics during the Balkan Wars, 19121913 Paris Papamichos-Chronakis Factory, Workshop and Homework: A Spatial Dimension of Labor Flexibility Among Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires Nadia Zysman Economic Nationalism and the Making of a “British” Corporation: J. Lyons versus Thomas Lipton in WWI Britain Stephanie Seketa 10:45 - 12:15 pm Panel V: Marginality Dogwood Room Discussant: Matthias Lehmann, UC Irvine Becoming Illegal: Sephardi Jews in the Transnational Opium Trade Devi Mays “The Other Essential Job of War”: Jewish American Merchants and the European Refugee Crisis after the Anschluss Niki Lefebvre 12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch, Tudor Room 1:30 – 3:00 pm Roundtable Discussion Dogwood Room Francesca Trivellato, Yale; Matthias Lehmann, UC Irvine; Jonathan Karp, SUNY; Derek Penslar, University of Toronto; Mirjam Zadoff, Indiana University
