Events
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2024
27.-28.5.2024 – Conference: Israel Deutsche Projektionen (Israel German Projections)
19.5.2024 – N E V E R A G A I N. Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
1.5.2024 – פאנל לרגל השקת הספר: The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German Jewish Thought
27.3.2024 – Scepticism towards Progress among Modern Jewish Philosophers
2023
17.-18.7.2023 – CONFERENCE: WOMEN WRITE BUBER: 100 ANNIVERSARY OF I AND THOU (1923)
10.-11.7.2023 – WELTLITERATUR: CONTEMPORARY READINGS OF A CONTESTED CONCEPT
29.6.2023 – הכנס השנתי ללימודים גרמניים: שפה, תרבות חברה
19.4.2023 – BOOK LAUNCH – SKEPSIS AND ANTIPOLITICS: THE ALTERNATIVE OF GUSTAV LANDAUER
15.3.2023 – RESEARCH SEMINAR: DISINTEGRATION OR GERMAN JEWRY 2.0? RESENT JEWISH DEBATES IN GERMANY
8.3.2023 – Bucerius Research Workshop with Prof. Christoph Schulte (University of Potsdam)
21.-22.2.2023 – Workshop – Die “Jekkes”: Deutsches Leben in Palästina/Israel von 1933 bis zur Gegenwart
2022
20-22.9.2022 – Workshop -WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE?
1.-2.6.2022 – Conference: THE MOMENT OF CRISIS AND JEWISH THOUGHT: INTERPRETATION, HERESY, AND MESSIANISM
10.4.2022 – Research Seminar: Prof. Elad Lapidot: “עמנואל לוינס ויסודות המחשבה היהודית הפוסטקולוניאלית”
2021
22.12.2021 – Book Launch of our research fellow, Dr. Gilad Sharvit
תרפויטיקה וגאולה: פרויד ושלינג על החירות .-9.12.2021
21.-22.11.2021 – האם יש מקום לתיקון עולם? כנס לכבוד פרופ’ פול מנדס –
21.11.2021 – YEKKES & YEMENITES
November 2021 – Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli was invited to give three lectures in Italy
10.11.2021 – Book Launch at the TAU of our Research Fellow Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel Read More
5-6.7.2021- The Annual Conference for German Studies
16.6.2021 – 10th Bucerius Lecture
10.6.2021 – The Night of Philosophy in Israel
5.5.2021 – Masculinity among the German Jews
2019
10.6.2019 – International Conference: Kafka Today
6.6.2019 – Research Seminar: Prof. Thomas Meyer (University of Munich) “Nature, History, Politics. Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt on the Problems of Modernity”
16.5.2019 – International Conference: Europ Day – Migration in Europe: Past, Present, FutureMigration in Europe: Past, Present, Future
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25.4.3 – 4.4.2019 – Research Seminar: Dr. Ulrike Schneider (University of Potsdam), Jewish-German literature in different contexts
27.3.2019 – Research Seminar: Prof. Danny Trom (EHESS, Paris), Towards a Theory of Jewish Political Practice, Research Seminar Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
24.-26.3.2019 – International Conference: Perspectives on Terrorism and Migration in Germany, Europe and Israel: From Discourse to Policy. Haifa and Jer
usalem,
31.12.2018 – 4.1.2019 – International Week Seminar: 1968 Between East and West, North an South – A Comperative Approach .
2018
6.12.2018 – Public Lecture: Prof. Gareth Stedman Jones: When did Marx think capitalism would fall?
6.11.2018 – Public Lecture: Dr. Ralf Balke: The Self-Nazification of the the German Colonies in Palestine.November 6th, 2018, Panel 14:00-16:00, Hecht Auditorium, University of Haifa
9.5.2019 – Ninth Annual Bucerius Lecture – Keynote Spekaer: Mr. Christian Wulff, the Former German President
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15.4.2018 – Film Screening – “We are Jews from Breslau”, Haifa Cinematheque
2017
12.12.2017 – Prof. Kirk Wetters (Yale University): Dominic Word Literature
23.3.2017 – Prof. Christoph Schulte:The Haskalah and the Jewish Salonières of Berlin: No Mismatch
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6.9-26.10. 2017 – Masada School Exhibition in Prague
27.7 2017 – “Jewish Holocaust survivors from the prewar first Czechoslovak Republic” – lecture and discussion with Lea Dror-Batalion and Andriy Drach
2016
1,12,2016 – Dr. Stefan Vogt: “Subaltern Positioning: German Zionism in the Field of Nationalism in Germany, 1890-1933”
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27.-28.11.2016 The 4th Annual Conference of the International Consortiumfor Research on Anti-Semitism and Racism (ICRAR): “The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing Societies in the Modern Era”.
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26.11.2016 – Dr. Tamar Gazit: In the Talons of the Third Reich. Willy Cohn’s Diary 1933-1941
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27.10. 2016 – Book Presentation: Dr. Anja Siegmund (Ed.): “German and Middle- European Jews in Palestine and Israel. Transfer of Culture, living environments and Identities – Haifa as an Example”
12.10.2016 –Masada School Exhibition in Ingolstadt, Germany
16.6.2016 – Dr. Angelika Timm (Berlin): “Politics and Memory: Israel, the two German states and Austria”
31.3. 2016 – Dr. Giacomo Petrarca: The concept of silence in Franz Rosenzweig and Henri Bergson: a comparison
17.3. 2016 – Prof. Derek Penslar: Theodor Herzl, Race and Empire
15.3. 2016 – Dr. Herbert Lappe: The Holocaust Remembrance in Former East Germany (GDR)
16.3. 2016 – Conference: New Gatekeeper in a Globalized World? The Israeli Transparency Bill
7.1, 2016 – Prof. Richard Wolin: Metapolitics”. Anti-Semtism and the History of Being in Heidegger’s Black Note Books
2015
June 17th, 2015 – Dr. Fernando Vidal: Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture
June 11th, 2015 – Prof. Margaret Olin, Yale University: The Art of Describing. Redundancy, Transformation, Impersonation
June 3rd, 2015 – Eight Annual Bucerius Lecture – Prof. Manfred Lahnstein50 Years German-Israeli Relations & 15 Years Bucerius Institute
June 3rd, 2015 – Farewell for Lea Dror Batalion
May 6/7th, 2015 – Europe Day 2015, hosted by the HCGES in cooperation with the Bucerius Institute and the School of Politics Gallery
March 19th, 2015 – Prof. Sander Gilman, Emory University Atlanta:The Jewish Body and the other Protruding Organs
Book review in Hebrew: www.haptiliya.com, www.news1.co.il, www.bac.org.il, www.alaxon.co.il
March 11th, 2015 – Tuvia Tenenbom: Jewish Theater of New York: Catch the Jew
January 28th, 2015 – Prof. Pierre Jorris: Two Folds. A Poetry Reading with NIcole Peyrafitte and Pierre Jorris
January 15th, 2015 – Prof. Atina Grosmann, The New York University: Defining “Survivors”. Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Union and Iran
January 8th, 2015 – Prof. Jack Jacob, The New York University: The Frankfurt School, Jewis Lives and Antisemitism
2014
December 18th, 2014 – Prof. Robert Howse, The New York University: Leo Strauss, A Man of Piece
December 11th, 2014 – Dr. Elad Lapidot, Freie Universität Berlin, “The Translation of Philosophy from German into Hebrew: Sein und Geist”
December 4th, 2014 – Dr. Michael Dauderstaedt, Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Inequality and Growth: The Case of Germany
November 11th, 2014 – Dr. Cathy Gelbin, University of Manchester: Hotel Patriots? German-Speaking Jews in Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought
November 6th, 2014 – Prof. Wolfgang Lauterbach, University of Potsdam: Educational, Social Mobility and Wealth
June 12th, 2014 – Law Enforcement and Free Speech in the Information Ecosystem
May 26th-28th, 2014 –Photographic Imagination: “Influence of Photography on the Imagination by Historians, Historians of Art and Historians of Science”
May 15th, 2014 – Europe Day 2014 hosted by the HCGES in cooperation with the Bucerius Institute, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the International School and the DAAD at the University of Haifa
January 12th-14th, 2014 – International Affairs and the Politics of Memory: German-Jewish-Israeli Relations after the Holocaust
2013
November 14th, 2013 – A pipe organ recital performed by Steffen Schlandt, hosted by the Bucerius Institute and the HCGES in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute
June 9th, 2013 – A film by David Bloom “Stolpersteine” (2013)
June 2nd, 2013 – Tribute in Honor of Prof. Manfred Lahnstein at the Festive Opening Plenary Session of the 41st Meeting of the Board of Governors
February 26th, 2013 – Daniela Dahn, Journalist and author, Presentation of her movie Zeitschleifen: Im Dialog mit Christa Wolf, with following discussion
2012
November 12th, 2012 – Georg Simmel: How is Society Possible? Published by Hakibbutz Ha-Meuchad pub. house, 2012, editor and introduction: Dr. Amos Morris-Reich.
December 10th, 2012 – Screening of “Der Ruf” at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival (9.-14.12.2012); Cinematheque Jerusalem, hosted by the Bucerius Institute, Haifa; The Goethe Institute, Israel; The Richard Koebner Minerva Center, Jeruslaem; The Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem
November 8th, 2012 – Exhibition “Keep Me in Mind” by Prof. Christina Friedrich (Berlin), recovering the testimonies of Holocaust survivors in the form of drawings
October 31st, 2012 – Theater Perfromance: “Unruhige Zeiten”זמנים לא שקטים by the Yafo Theater and the Fleischerei Theater, Vienna; under the direction of Eva Brenner
October 15th-16th, 2012 – The 2012 Minerva-Gentner Symposium: The Study of Jewish Biological Difference After 1945
June 27th-28th, 2012 –Literature and Hybridity: Literature of the Jeckes
June 21st, 2012 – “Denken mit Hermann Cohen” – Judaism as a Question: A Philosophical Revolution in Judaism and a Jewish Revolution in Philosophy?
June 3rd , 2012 – Seventh Annual Bucerius Lecture – Prof. Manfred Lahnstein, ISRAEL-GERMANY: Evolving Basis of a Special Relationship
May 29th, 2012 – The Holocaust Survivor Caught between the Juridical and Medical Professions
May 16th, 2012 – Intermediary Liability in the Digital Age
May 9th, 2012 – Literary Evening with Dr. Maximiliane Jäger-Gogoll and Dr. Johannes M. Becker in cooperation with the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, “Schlage die Trommel und fürchte dich nicht…!”
April 18th, 2012 – Mr. Oren Cahanovitc, Haifa, Lecture in cooperation with the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, “From the Normandy to Stalingrad: An Attempt to Follow the Trail of the Second World War“
April 18th, 2012 – Festive Opening of the Exhibition The Jewish Vocational School Masada Darmstadt 1947-48 at the Museum of Science (Madatech) in Haifa
March 14th, 2012 – Mr. Gil Gordon, architect and city planner, Jerusalem, Lecture in cooperation with the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, “About the Conservation Works of the Schneller Compound in Jerusalem“
February 15th, 2012 – Dr. Giora Sarid, Academic Coordinator of the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, University of Haifa, Lecture in cooperation with the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, “On Prussian Historians and German National Identity“
January 11th, 2012 – Malka Haguel-Spitzberg, Am HaZikaron, Institute of Science and Heritage of the Jewish People, Lecture in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv and the Gottlieb Schumacher Institute, “The Families of the Frankfurt Ghetto and their Descendants Today“
January 4th-5th, 2012 – Global Memory of the Holocaust? Memories of the Destruction of European Jews in Global Context (II)
2010
November 17th, 2010 – German Memorial Landscape of the Holocaust and WWII
October 26th-28th, 2010 – Concepts of “Race” in the Humanities
March 21st, 2010 – Globalization, Migration, Multiculturalism in Contemporary German-Speaking Literature
January 5th, 2010 – Childhood During the Holocaust and After: Germany, Palestine, Poland
2009
December 17th, 2009 – The Legal Protection of the State: Offences Against the State
May 7th, 2009 – Queer experiences during the Third Reich and the Holocaust
March 28th – 31st, 2009 – Looking at Iran: Perspectives on Contemporary Iran and Iranian Culture in Germany and Israel (included cultural events at the Haifa Cinemateque)
2007
January 17th, 2007 – Liberalism – a Bold Expression? Reception of Liberalism in the Israeli Intellectual Discourse
2006
December 19th, 2006
Jews and Poles in the Public Space
June 22th, 2006
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
May 21st, 2006
Beyond Enlightenment – Iconic Jews Entrapped in the 20th Century
2005
May 9th, 2005
Encounters: Germans between the Holy and the Lande
2004
December 13th-14th, 2004
Russian Jews in Germany in the 20th and 21st Century
Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Bucerius Institute, Leo Baeck Institute London
December 19th-20th, 2004
Jews in a Multi-Ethnic Network
June, 4th-5th, 2004
2003
June 1st, 2003
Migration and Remigration: Jews in Germany after 1945
November 2th-3rd, 2003
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December 11th-12th, 2003
GIF: German-Jews-Czech: The Case of the Czech Lands
2002
July. 1st-2nd, 2002
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration.