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Cycle of VWI Fellows’ Colloquia
The VWI fellows present their intermediary research results in the context of colloquia which are announced to a small audience and are open to a public audience with an academic and topical interest. The lectures are complemented by a response or commentary by an expert in the given field and are discussed with the other fellows.
Due to the previous lack of an appropriate space, the colloquia were held at other Viennese research and cultural institutions with a topical or regional connection to the given subject. From this circumstance was born the “VWI goes to …” format.
With the move to a new institute building at Rabensteig 3, the spatial circumstances have changed, so that the VWI is now happily able to invite other research and cultural institutions. Therefore, the VWI is now conducting its colloquia both externally and within its own building, in the framework of continued co-operation with other institutions.
The new cycle of fellows’ colloquia “VWI invites/goes to …” is not only able to reach a broader circle of interested persons, but moreover integrates the VWI further into the Viennese scholarly establishment, perhaps even crossing borders into the greater regional research landscape.
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| !!!CANCELLED!!! David Lebovitch-Dahl: Antisemitism, Nationalism and the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus, 1918-1939, in a Comparative Perspective !!!CANCELLED!!! | |||
Wednesday, 22. January 2014, 15:00 - 16:30 Institut für Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Universität Wien, Schenkenstraße 8-10, 1010 Wien, Seminarraum 1
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VWI goes to the Department of Church History, University of Vienna
The presentation addresses the problem of the attitudes of the Austrian Jesuits to antisemitism and nationalism in the Interwar Period. This question is important because of the significance of Catholicism for Austrian politics and because of the prominent role played by Austrians in the Holocaust.
The study is part of a broader ongoing project on the variations in the positions towards nationalism and racism within the Jesuit Order in Europe. It is the assumption of the research that the Jesuits' postures were influenced both by supra-national doctrinal concerns and by more local pastoral concerns and that the analysis of differences, tensions and debates within the Order regarding nationalism and antisemitism might increase our understanding of factors determining the support of or resistance to antisemitism within Catholic institutions. In addition, by studying the developments in the positions of the Jesuits in the interwar period, the project addresses the question of the continuity of antisemitism in the period from the late nineteenth century to World War II.
The presentation will analyze attitudes to Jews, "the Jewish question" and antisemitism of Jesuits in Italy, Germany, England and Austria, pointing at differences in their positions, and attempting to identify some of the factors that might have determined such differences. To conclude, it will be discussed what might have been specific in the approaches of the Austrian Jesuits, and what a comparative study of the transnational Society of Jesus might add to the existing scholarly literature on the Roman Catholic Church and antisemitism.
Comments by Rupert Klieber
David Lebovitch Dahl is Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).
Rupert Klieber is Professor a the Institute for Church History (University of Vienna).
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