Research Fellow
Dr. Sharon Livne
Sharon Livne is a teaching associate and research fellow at the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society and at the Jewish History department at the University of Haifa. Her research interests encompass German-Israeli relations in the fields of academy, education, economy and culture.
She has been engaged in several activities in the fields of Oral History, as the academic head of the Oral History Division at the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as in organizing conferences and research projects in the subject area.
2002-2007 PhD in Jewish History, University of Haifa. Topic:
״Education and Re-education: Victim and Perpetrator in Children and Youth
Newspapers in Post War Germany (1945-1952)”. Supervisor: Prof. Yfaat Weiss
1998 – 2001 M.A. in Jewish History, University of Haifa. Topic:
“Memories Writers: Youth Literature about the Holocaust in Israel 1948-1967”.
Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Gutwein
1994 – 1997 BA in Jewish History and Political Science, University of Haifa.
Book
mit Irene Aue-Ben-David, “Nicht Alles Ist Erlaubt, Nicht Alles Ist Verboten”: Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen in den Geisteswissenschaften. (forthcoming in Fink Verlag).
Articles
- “האוניברסיטה של האומה: האוניברסיטה העברית ויחסיה עם מוסדות מתחרים בארץ”, בתוך: יפעת וייס ועוזי רבהון (עורכים), תולדות האוניברסיטה העברית 1948-1967. (יראה אור בשנת 2022).
- Sharon Livne and Amit Kama, “Whose Holocaust is it anyway?”: The LGBT Memorial Service at Yad Vashem, 1994, Yad Va-Shem Studies, No. 49.1, 2021 (forthcoming).
- Sharon Livne, “One get used to everything, even to turbulent days” German-Jewish Bankers in Palestine 1933-1948, Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry, Volume 22, 2020. Pp. 97-131. [Hebrew]
- Sharon Livne and Amos Morris-Reich, Fundraising and Collaboration: The Hebrew University and the German Question, 1959–1965, Naharaim 11:1-2 (2017), pp. 47-66.
- Sharon Livne and Amos Morris-Reich, Early Contacts in Genetics, 1949-1965: A Historical-Sociological Perspective. Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 15 (2016), pp. 371-398.
- Sharon Livne, Solidarity Hereafter: The Politics of Emotions in Postwar German Youth Magazines. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte. XXXVIII (2010), 167-180.