EUMAR

Marranism and Western-European Modernity

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-SORBONNE (PARIS IV)    more  Organization address address: RUE VICTOR COUSIN 1 city: PARIS postcode: 75230 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Dominique Cognome: Kreikenmayer Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 53105874
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Totale costo	186˙864 €
EC contributo	186˙864 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-06-01   -   2014-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITE DE PARIS-SORBONNE (PARIS IV)  Organization address address: RUE VICTOR COUSIN 1 city: PARIS postcode: 75230 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Dominique Cognome: Kreikenmayer Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 53105874	FR (PARIS)	coordinator	186˙864.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project „Marranism and Western-European Modernity ” (EuMAR) has a particular approach to European history in modern times analyzing the mode of Jewish existence within this frame. The methodology is innovative and makes use of an exceptional reading of the issue. It is about the specific application of the concept of the 'Marrano', the secret Jew. The construction of a European, trans-national Jewish identity, especially a secular identity, becomes evident. Moreover, a complex texture of “multiple modernities” (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt) within the very core of Western modernity is recognizable trough the prism of a Marrano paradigm. The Marrano does not represent something alien to European culture – and religious traditions – but is commonly assumed to be “the Other within” (Yirmiyahu Yovel) this culture. The thesis of the project EuMAR is that the Marrano is a central feature at the origin of European multicultural complexities, complexities which were augmented in the so-called post-emancipation period (after 1789). Furthermore, the backbone of the project EuMAR is that it delves into history, in particular the history of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), i.e. cultural Enlightenment and Europeanisation, as well as its reception in Western Europe, mainly in France, Italy and in the German speaking countries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turning point of the 19th century. This historical transnational perspective on the Haskalah and its reception is highly innovative, as this Jewish intellectual movement and its interplay with the European Enlightenment have been prevalently studied in national contexts. Haskalah’s protagonists accomplished a “secular intellectual revolution” (Shmuel Feiner) in Western and Eastern Europe, a revolution whose impact becomes graspable if one examines its “entangled history” beyond national borders. Marranism is considered a marginal phenomenon, even though it is precisely the marginality that reinforces this concept.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Looking at the multicultural complexities of a modern Jewish identity provides insight into western European history.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Marrano is a term that was given to Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who were forced to convert to Christianity in the late 15th century. As such, the construction of a European transnational Jewish identity was formed.

The EU-funded project 'Marranism and western-European modernity' (EUMAR) has studied the complexities of the Marrano as a concept representing the 'other' inside a culture. The work also examined the history of the Jewish Enlightenment as well as how it was received in western Europe at the start of the 19th century.

Many key results were achieved. A special issue of a scientific journal was prepared and a successful working team was formed. Proceedings of a conference are set to be published in 2015. Work was also presented at the World Congress of Jewish studies in 2013.

A new theoretical framework is planned regarding Marranism and new Marranism. These results will be useful for European historical research and debates on Europe's global challenges.