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גוסטב לנדאואר: מיסטיקה, ספרות ומהפכה
ההרצאה השנתית בהיסטוריה גרמנית ע"ש בעז נוימן
Innovations in Holocaust Testimony
Karl Löwith International Workshop
The Destructive Order: The Berlin Wall, Mobility, and Social Control 1961-1989
The 2018 Annual Workshop for Young Researches in German History
The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). [View Program]
An evening in honor of Vivian Liska's new book
In Search of New Angels: German Jewish Thought and its Afterlife
The Annual Boaz Neuman Lecture in Germany History
2018 Annual Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair Lecture
Prof. Oliver Lubrich: "Alexander von Humboldt and Travel Literature"
Demons in World Literature
2017 Annual Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair Lecture:
Prof. Nitzan Lebovic, "The last European: Walter Benjamin's Time".
Lecture and Workshop
Prof. Amir Eshel, "Birkenau: Thinking with Gerhard Richter"
German Thought and Literature: Between Mysticism and Idealism
Non Knowledge Workshop
Gerschom Scholem's lamentations translations
The Book of Lamentations: An evening honoring the publication of the bilingual edition of Scholem's kinot (lamentations) translations.
German Desires
German Desires: 14-15 December
"The Search After the Hebrew People" - an evening honoring the publication of Ofri Ilani's book
Hans Blumenberg Workshop
With Prof. Daniel Wiedner, ZfL Berlin and Pini Ifergan, Bar-Ilan University
2016 Annual Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair Lecture:
Prof. Kader Konuk, Duisberg-Essen University, "Auerbach in Istanbul"
Tuvia Rübner Conference
Ikvot Yamim - a conference in honor of the poet Tuvia Rübner (in Hebrew).
"States of Division" - An evening for the publication of Sagi Schaefr's book
In conjunction with the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Eyal Zisser, "A False Dawn of a New Age: The Middle East following the Great War".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"The Dislocation of German and Yiddish Modernism"
A Guest lecture by Prof. Andrew Marc Caplan, The Center for Jewish History, New York
In conjunction with with The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
"Towards Reconciliation: Confronting the Past and Accepting Accountability in the International Arena"
In conjunction with the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust [Details to Follow].
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Doreen Lustig, "The End of WWII: A Turning Point in Human Rights Law?".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
Annual Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair Lecture:
Prof. Vivian Liska, "Of Language and Destiny. Paul Celan and Franz Kafka".
"Trauer and Kinah: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem on Lamentation"
Keynote lecture presented by Prof. Sigrid Weigel, Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin
"Praise and Mourning. Poetics and Thought in the Early Writings of Gershom Scholem"
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Aron Shai, "The End of WWII, the Beginning of the Asian Era?".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Raphael Vago, "Eastern Europe between Liberation and Occupation".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Dina Porat, "Survivors, 1944-1948: Returning to Life after the Holocaust".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Ronit Peleg, "'After Auschwitz': The Moment when Philosophy Lost its Course".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Literary Cabaret: The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth"
In conjunction with the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). [View Program]
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2015)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). [View Program]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Sagi Schaefer, "What to do with Germany? Plans for a German Future after the War".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Matitiahu Mayzel, "Joseph Stalin the Savior(?): the Soviet Union and the World Order After WWII".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Ernst Jüger: Writing and War"
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Eyal Naveh, "'The American Century': From a 'Good' War to a Cold War".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Alon Kadish, "The End of the Military Campaign: Lessons and so-called Lessons".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Textures of War: Writing the First World War"
"Dialogical Textures: Theory and the German-Jewish Literary Tradition"
A research workshop in conjunction with the Freie Universität Berlin. At the Freie Universität Berlin
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Billie Melman, "Cities in a Total War".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Dialogical Textures: Theory and the German-Jewish Literary Tradition"
A research workshop in conjunction with the Freie Universität Berlin. [view Poster]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Shaul Katzir, "Science in the Service of Technology and State
during the War and Its Aftermath In conjunction with the Kantor Center for
the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library
and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"After Wagner: the Politics of Music in the 20th Century"
In conjunction with the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University and the School of Arts and the Musicology Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [View Program]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Moshe Zuckermann, "The Impact of World War I on Art in Europe".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary
European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for
the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Raphael Vago, "Expectations and Disappointments: Shock Waves from World War I with the Establishment of 'Independent Eastern Europe'World War I with the Establishment of 'Independent Eastern Europe'".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Germans Against Germans: The Fate of the Jews 1938-1945"
A lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of Prof. Moshe Zimmermann's new book.
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary
European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Iris Rachamimov, "Prisoners of War Camps and Concentration Camps, 1914-1922".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2014)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). [View CFP]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
José Brunner, "When the War Became a Trauma: On the Helplessness of Soldiers and Psychiatrists On the Helplessness of Soldiers and Psychiatrists".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Shulamit Volkov, "An Observer's Viewpoint: Walter Rathenau in World War I".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
Annual Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair Lecture (2013)
"Futurity: Literature and the Quest for the Past", Prof. Amir Eshel. Stanford University, California.
In conjunction with the Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature,
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust and the
Literature Department (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Eyal Zisser, "The Middle East in the Shadow of World War I".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Autonomous Histories and Studies of the Holocaust"
International conference in conjunction with the Kantor Center for the
Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Wiener Library,
Tel Aviv University; Bar Ilan University and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Shlomo Aveneri, "World War I: A Formative Event of the Twentieth Century"of the Twentieth Century".
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
The Influence of Raoul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews on the Historiography of the Shoah, discussion following the publication of the book in Hebrew.
Chair: Galili Shahar
Participants: Dina Porat, Boaz Neumann, Raphael Vago and Roni Stauber
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
Research Seminar of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
in collaboration with the Minerva Institute for German History. [View Program]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Natalia Skradol, "Prohibited Areas and Areas of Prohibitions: The Rhetoric of Closed Areas"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Historische Dinge - Vom Umgang mit Objekten in Museen, Sammlungen, Gedenkstätten und Archiven"
International Workshop (in German).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Doron Avraham, "The Racist Identity of Germany's Jews under the Nazi Regime - Compulsory or Voluntary?"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Mourning and Silent Syllables: on Laments and Translations of Piyyutim by Gershom Scholem and Franz Rosenzweig"
Symposium in conjunction with the Department of Literature and the
Department of Philosophy (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Moshe Zimmerman, "The German Foreign Ministry and the Shoah - Active Collaborator, Neutral Collaborator?"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel (2013)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew). [View Program]
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Dan Michman, "The Ghettoes during the Shoah - Why Were They Really Created?"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
Violence and Politics in Germany: Origins and Consequences of Nazism
International Conference in conjunction with Bar Ilan University and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Jürgen Matthäus, "The Racist Policy of the Nazi Regime in Its First Years"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in English).
"Wiener Lecture Series":
Yehuda Bauer, "Why Did World War II Break Out?"
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Wiener Lecture Series" - Opening Lecture
"Writing About Nazism and the Holocaust- 80 Years Later"
Lecture by Prof. Shulamit Volkov, opening the "Wiener lecture series" on the occasion of the re-opening of the Wiener Collection.
In conjunction with the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and Sourasky Central Library (in Hebrew).
"Dinge dichten und denken" - Mensch-Objekt-Beziehungen in der modernen deutschsprachigen Literatur
International Workshop (in German).
Sports, Multiculturalism, and (Trans)Nationalism.
In conjunction with the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University and the European Studies Center at Ben Gurion University. [View Program]
Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel (2012)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence
"Karl Lueger and Ritual Murder in late Imperial Austrian Jewish Legislation", Lecture by Prof. Jess Olson, Yeshiva University, New York.
In conjunction with the Cummings Institute for Russian and East European Studies, the Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism.
Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence
"Consumption and Destruction: The Jewish Department Store as a Site of Violence in early 20th Century", Prof. Paul Lerner, University of Southern California et al.
In conjunction with the Cummings Institute for Russian and
East European Studies, the Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary
Antisemitism and Racism and the School of History.
"The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty"
Lecture evening in conjunction with the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and the Minerva Humanities Center. [View Poster]
The Minerva Annual Lecture on Human Rights
Lecture and Symposium with Prof. Ulrich Beck, Dr. Yishai Blank, Dr. Nissim Mizrahi, Dr. Hila Shamir, Prof. Natan Sznaider.
In collaboration with the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University.
The Eichmann Trial. 50 Years Later
International Conference in collaboration with David Berg Institute for Law and History, Tel Aviv University; School of History and the Institute for Holocaust Research, University of Haifa; the Ghetto Fighters House Museum and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). (in Hebrew)
"Germany and Its Neighbors - Borders, Identities, Relations"
Conference Program
Short bios and select publications of participants
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2011)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University), the Center for German Studies, Beer-Sheva, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
"Writing German History in Israel -- Questions, Approaches,Generations."
Symposium in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Institute and in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
"Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus"
Lecture evening in conjunction with the Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature.
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2010)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University), the Center for German Studies, Beer-Sheva, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
"Actor and Satan: The Drama of Evil in Goethe's Faust"
Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
"Aufbruchsstimmung im Herbst 1989 - Die politische Wende in der DDR: Zeitzeugenberichte und Analysen"
In conjunction with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (in Hebrew and German). [view poster]
"Valkyrie - German Resistance To Hitler"
Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of Danny Orbach's book (in Hebrew).
"Between 'Mameloshn' and 'Muttersprache': Yiddish and German in Dialogue"
In conjunction with the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. [view poster]
"Double Unification: German and Europe after 1989"
Symposium. In conjunction with the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies and the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies.
6th International Seminar for Research Students of the Leo Baeck Institute
Day 3 - Tuesday,March 17, 2009 - hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History.
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2009)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University) and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
"1848"
Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab
The Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature
Festive opening:
"Heinrich Heine - Poetry, Love and the ?Poet's Love"
Lecture by Prof. Moshe Zuckermann, followed by Robert Schumann’s lied cycle “A Poet’s Love”. Daniella Lugassy, soprano; Xu Yi-An, piano.
"The Power that Dwells Between Politics and Religion"
Symposium. In cooperation with the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies.
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2008)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University) and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
"Jews and Muslims in Germany: Culture, Law and Politics from the Age of Emancipation to the Time of Multiculturalism"
In conjunction with the Taubenschlag Institute of Criminal Law of the Buchmann Faculty of Law. [View poster]
Abstracts, CVs and Conference summary.
"Napoleon, the Revolution, and Modern France - Myths, Symbols and Rituals"
Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
"Communist East Germany - A Historical, Social and Cineastic View"
Lecture morning at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque (in Hebrew).
Held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of DEFA (the state owned film company of the German Democratic Republic).
In conjunction with the retrospective of DEFA films at the Cinematheques of Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, November 11-25, 2007, and in cooperation with the Bucerius Institute of Contemporary German History and Society (University of Haifa), the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Center for German Studies (Ben-Gurion University). Full programme of the DEFA film retrospective and accompanying lecture programme.
"German-Jewish Utopias"
Lecture evening on the occasion of Eran Rolnik's book.
"Freud in Zion - History of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine/Israel 1918-1948".
5th International Seminar for Research Students of the Leo Baeck Institute
Day 2 - Monday, February 26, 2007 - hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History.
"The Holocaust as the Paradigm of Psychic Trauma in the 20th Century"
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day [View Poster]
"Constitutive Pasts: Between the French Revolution and the Holocaust"
Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
"Body, Technology, Society in Prewar Germany"
"Civilization and its Discontents"
Symposium on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 150th birthday.
In conjunction with the Sigmund Freud Center (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the Israeli Association for Psychoanalysis and the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv.
Begin Center, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
"The Churches and the Holocaust"
Holocaust Remembrance Day Symposium
In conjunction with the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and the Diaspora Museum
"Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel" (2006)
Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. [View Program]
