Tal Kogman and Kerstin von der Krone will present their research in Jerusalem at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, a conference organized by the World Union for Jewish Studies every four years. This year’s congress will take place August 6-10, 2017 at the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tal Kogmann will speak about “The Birth of a New Ritual of Childhood: Birthday Celebrations in Ashkenaz in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” (in Hebrew) as part of session 266, “Jewish Life in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” on the morning of August 9th. In the afternoon, Kerstin von der Krone will give a talk entitled “Translating Judaism: Jewish Catechisms and Manuals and the Re-Definition of Jewish Religious Knowledge in the 19th Century” (in English) as part of session 398,  “Pedagogic Innovations, Jewish Education and Modern Jewish thought”.