Jewish Philosophical Heritage as Baltic Second Culture

Dissemination and Reception of Jewish Thought through Samizdat in the late Soviet Period
Malin Norrby

Thinking Past Tradition

Ulrika Björk

The Marrano Approach

Jewish 'Hidden Tradition' and Modernity
Agata Bielik-Robson

Baltic Rabbinic Thought

Elad Lapidot

Translating Untranslatability

Words from the Verges of Tradition in Modern Jewish Thought
Sophie Bäärnhielm Pousette

Between the Jewish Baltic and the Black Atlantic

Women Narrating the Diaspora
Fanny Söderbäck

Diasporic Homeland(s)

Lena Roos

Philosophy as Redemption and Illumination

Hans Ruin

Grand project founded by The Foundation of Baltic and East European Studies. Experimenting with Traditions is an interdisciplinary research collaboration based at Södertörn University. It brings together scholars and doctoral candidates from Philosophy, The Study of Religions, Jewish Studies, and Theology.

The project started in 2024 and lasts until 2028.

Events

International Symposium in Lund
Time and Redemption: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
May 25, 2026 – May 26, 2026
The Rosenzweig Reading Circle
With Benjamin Pollock
May 7, 2026
Evening Seminar with Laila Seri
Talmudic Readings of Benjamin’s Kafka
May 6, 2026
International Symposium in Berlin
Conversations in Apocalyptic Times: At the End of the World
January 27, 2026
International Workshop
Talmud and Contemporary Thought – Thinking War
November 13, 2025 – November 16, 2025
International Symposium on Philosophy and War
With Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Anoush Ganjipour, Yasmeen Daher, Elad Lapidot, and Daniel Boyarin
November 11, 2025
Evening Seminar in the Swedish History Museum
Weimar Readings of Kafka’s The Castel with Howard Caygill
October 22, 2025
International Workshop
Between the Jewish Baltic and the Black Atlantic
October 9, 2025 – October 10, 2025
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