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Becoming a Jew, Becoming a Muslim

Dialogical lecture series Judaism and Islam in the Diaspora (video recording available, in English and German)

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The borders of religious communities are fluid, and they are reformulated constantly. One way to cross the frontier from outside to inside is conversion. Whereas Islam solicits new believers, Judaism takes a rather cautious attitude to conversion. What motivates people who convert to Judaism or Islam in Germany, and how do converts in Germany position themselves vis-à-vis people who were born Jewish or Muslim?

Past event

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)

Recording of the presentations and panel discussion Becoming a Jew, Becoming a Muslim on 18 February 2016, in German and English; Jewish Museum Berlin

Tobias Jona Simon, a graduate of the Abraham Geiger Kolleg in Potsdam, is the rabbi of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony.

Esra Özyürek holds the chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics. Among her research interests is conversion to Islam in Germany.

Dialogical lecture Series in the Context of the Jewish-Islamic Forum of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy

Where, when, what?

  • When18 Feb 2016
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium
    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)
    See location on map
  • Entry fee

    free

  • Please noteThe lectures are held in German and English, with simultaneous interpretation provided.

Lecture Series 2015/16: Judaism & Islam in the Diaspora (5)

  • Judaism & Islam in the Diaspora

    Video recordings of the series of panel discussions explored topical questions that Jews and Muslims in the diaspora confront in their everyday religious practice. Each event featured two academics presenting the Jewish and Islamic perspectives.

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    Organic Meets Kosher and Halal

    With Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University) and Sarra Tlili (University of Florida), in English

    Video Recording
    1 Jun 2016

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    Feminist Approaches to Judaism and Islam

    With Judith Plaskow (religious scholar and author) and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, researcher on Islamic law and gender, in English

    Video Recording
    14 Apr 2016

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    Becoming a Jew, Becoming a Muslim

    With Tobias Jona Simon (Rabbi of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony) and Esra Özyürek (London School of Economics), in German and English

    Video Recording
    18 Feb 2016

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    Religious Law and Secular State

    With Ronen Reichman (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) and Mathias Rohe (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg), in German

    Video Recording
    9 Dec 2015

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    What Does Diaspora Mean for Jews and Muslims?

    With Michael L. Satlow (Brown University, Providence) and Sarah Albrecht (Free University Berlin), in German and English

    Video Recording
    29 Oct 2015

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