Dr. Enrico Lucca (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig)

Hugo Bergmann has been one of the protagonists of the transfer of European philosophy to Palestine. At the same time, in particular in the aftermath of the Second World War, Bergmann has been responsible for the creation of a canon of modern (European) Jewish thought. As a case study, I would like to dedicate my seminar to Bergmann’s different readings of the work of Franz Rosenzweig. Covering more than 40 publications and a time span of 65 years, an analysis of Bergmann’s different interpretations of Rosenzweig can be very instructive, helping to understand the process accompanying the shaping of the canon of Modern Jewish thought in its historical, political, and cultural context.
Enrico Lucca works at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig as a Research Associate since January 2018. He studied Philosophy and History at the University of Milan (Phd 2012). Post-graduate Specialization in Cultural Studies at the Scuola Alti Studi in Modena (2009). Between 2012 and 2017 he has been Research Associate at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University. Between 2016 and 2017 he has been Postdoctoral Fellow within the project »German-Jewish Knowledge and Cultural Transfer 1918–1948: The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem«. He has published a monograph on Edmond Jabès and he is currently writing on a biography of Hugo Bergmann.
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