News 2024 

• Our Researcher Niv Perelsztejn is a Visiting Doctoral Researcher in Potsdam

• Congratulations for our Adjunct Researcher Christoph Hopp for winning the Miriam Gillis-Carlebach Fellowship 2025

• The Bucerius Institute is deeply bereaved by the death of Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr (1941-2024)

• Our Adjunct Researcher Hendrik Hebauf spoke about: “A. Dirk Moses And The “Catechism-Debate”: Shifts In Holocaust Memory?”

• Dr. Cohen-Skalli concluded a week seminar on intellectual history at Technische Universität Berlin.

• “A Zionist Ambivalence: Post-Zionist Debates on Holocaust Memory after October 7th” and “A. Dirk Moses And The ‘Catechism-Debate’:  Shifts In Holocaust Memory?”- Lectures of our Researcher Hendrik Hebauf

• Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli gave a laudatory speech on the Farewell Event for Prof. Christop Schulte in Potsdam

• Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli gave a lecture on the Conference: Cultural Optimism. Perspective on Ruthless Despair

• Congratulations for our Research Fellow Dr. Silvana Kandel Lamdan, who has been awarded the Minerva Postdoctoral Fellowship

• – הרצאה של החוקרת שלנו ד”ר סילבנה קנדל למדן: ירושלים באמריקה הלטינית: השורשים היהודיים של תיאולוגיית השחרור

• Dr. Silvana Kandel Lamdan gave as a visiting scholar at the ZRKG two lectures on the Jewish roots of liberation theology and peace movements in Israel and the Palestinian Authority

• The Bucerius Institute congratulates its Researcher Mr. Christoph Hopp for winning the CONWAY price

• New Publication of our Research Fellow, Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel – Defamiliarization and Memory Traces: Georges Perec’s Analytic Memoir 

• Prof. Christoph Schulte our recent guest from Germany wrote about his experience at the University of Haifa

• New Book for the Bucerius Institute! – Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis. Interpretation, Heresy, and History

• Congratulations to our Research Fellow Dr. Silvana Kandel Lamdan for the approval of her PhD thesis

• The Bucerius Institute is mourning the passing of Prof. Ehud Luz.

• Lecture of Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli: ”Paris années 1930, une rencontre manquée entre études juives, musulmanes et chrétiennes”

• Congratulations for our Research Fellow Viola Alianov-Rautenberg for winning the Yonathan Shapiro Best Book Award

News 2023

• 22.11.23 – ערב השקת גיליון 25.2 לכתב העת חידושים

• Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli visited Germany and gave lectures in two events

• Lecture by our Research Fellow, Dr. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg: “No Longer Ladies And Gentlemen: Gender And The German-Jewish Migration To Mandatory Palestine”

• Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli and Dr. Orr Scharf have participated in the Conference: “Questions of Understandingץ Translations between Israel and Germany, Germany and Israel.” 13th International Joseph Carlebach Conference

• “New Universities in Beirut, Cairo and Jerusalem: toward a comparative intellectual history”. A Panel of our team in the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies – 2023

• “Samuel Burr Yampol and the Fight against Nazis in the United States”, a lecture of our Research Fellow, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan

• Welcome Cassandre Lesnik, our new Adjunct Researcher

• Launch of the 1st. Manfred Lahnstein Lecture: Dr. Fabian Weber: ”Exceptional Jews’: Jewish interactions with Germany’s New Right”

• “Die verborgene Theologie von Hanna Arendt”, a lecture of our Raeserch Fellow Dr. Yotam Hotam

• Our Research Fellow, Dr. Viola Alinaov-Rautenberg gave a lecture on: No longer Ladies and Gentlemen. Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine, in the Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies in Berlin

• Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli gave a lecture at the University of Hamburg, in the seminar: Jewish Thought, European Thought in the Italy of the Long Renaissance

• Our Adjunct Researches Niv Perelsztejn and Hendrik Hebauf participated in the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies: “Israel at 75: Archives, History and Society”, at the University of New York

• חוקרת המכון סילבנה קנדל-למדן דיברה בכנס: בנדיקטוס השישה-עשר: הגות ,מורשת ומחלוקת

• Overview in to the work of the German Friends of the University of Haifa, with the greatest engagement of Sonja and Manfred Lahnstein

• Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli gave a lecture on: “The Circle of Love – A Short History of Transcendence” in a conference at the University of Nottingham

• New Book Review of our Research Fellow Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel for the Book of Mikkel Borch-Jacobson: Freud’s Patients: A Book of Lives

• לצפייה בהרצאתה של ד”ר ענת צור מהלאל: על סף השבר: הדימוי ומחשבת החלום בהגותם המאוחרת של זיגמונד פרויד וולטר בנימיןֿ 

• Congratulation to our Adjunct Researcher Marie Behrendt for winning the 2023 Kimmerling Award for Best Graduate Paper from the AIS

• Overview in to the work of the German Friends of the University of Haifa, with the greatest engagement of Sonja and Manfred Lahnstein

• Our Adjunct Researchers Christoph Hopp and Niv Perelsztejn gave two papers in a conference in Jerusalem

• Interview with our Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg for the Jewish History Podcast “Juedische Geschichte Kompakt”

• 1.3-31.3.2023 – Visiting Fellow from the University of Potsdam – Prof. Christoph Schulte

• Welcome to our new Research Fellow: Dr. Marc Volovici 

• Welcome Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, our new Manfred Lahnstein’s Research Fellow

• Welcome Dr. Fabian Weber, our new Manfred Lahnstein’s Research Fellow 

News 2022

• Our Adjunct Researcher Silvana Kandel Lamdan came back from an important visit to the Vatican and meeting with the Pope

• Welcome and Bruchim Ha-Baim, Sarah, Christoph and Hendrik

• We congratulate Hendrik Hebauf for wining the Research Scholarship of the Israeli Embassy in Berlin

• We congratulate our new Research Fellow Dr. Gilad Shenhav for joining our research team

• 23.11.2022 – Our Research Fellow, Dr. Natasha Gordinsky gave a lecture in the conference Family Constellations and Transnational Historical Imaginaries in Contemporary Ibero-Americanand Slavic Literatures (23-24.11.2002, University of Leipzig) about: Genre and Its Discontents: Family Novel in Post-Soviet Jewish Literature

• 24-26.10.22 –The Revival of Philosophy in the 19th and early 20th Century Middle East: An Untold Story – Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli gave this lecture in the Inaugural Workshop at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more details

• 6.7. 2022 –  Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli gave a lecture “Levinas from migrations and captivity to the liberative figure of the other” in the international Conference Levinas and the Real organized at Europa-Universität

• 30.6-24.7.22 – Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli was visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam teaching a class “Romantik und Neo-Romantik im deutschen und osteuropäischen Zionismus und ihr Einfluß auf den Yischuv in Palästina” together with Prof. Christoph Schulte.

• Our Adjunct Researcher Niv Perelsztejn participated in the “Salzburger Hochsculwochen 2022”

• International Conference: Jewish Responses to Nationalism in Central and East Europe

• “From Activist Writer to Critical Observer: Changes in the Journalist Professional Image of Gerda Luft” – Lecture of our Adjunct Researcher, Marie Behrendt

• Congratulations for Marie Behrendt for winning the Ursula Lachnit-Fixson Fellowship

News 2021

New Book

 סיפרו של אהוד לוז: בין אמת לנאמנות – פילוסופיה פוליטית בהגותו של ליאו שטראוס 

Published with the support of Bucerius Institute  

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Book review from Tomer Persico 

Congratulations! Book Prize Award for our Research Fellow Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel

The Bucerius Institute congratulates Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli on being chosen to the Board of Members of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem

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Our Research Fellow Mrs. Silvana Kandel-Lamdan won a grant from the Minerva Stiftung for the Project “What Do We Mean When We Talk About Jewish-Christian Dialogue?“

ראיון בעיתון הארץ עם חוקרת המכון ד”ר ענת צור מהלאל על סיפרה “אנליזה מן העבר האחר מטופלי פרויד כותבים

“Kindred Spirits in the Levant? German Jews in British Palestine”. New article from our Research Fellow Dr. des. Viola Alianov-Rautenberg

לכתוב כמו כלב שחופר לעצמו בור, כמו חולדה שחופרת לעצמה מחילה” נרטיבים של פרידה מנקודת המבט של מטופלי פרויד. מאמר מאת חוקרת המכון, ד”ר ענת צור מהלאל

סוד הדבר בכיסויו: קריאה משווה בתיאור המקרה ובממואר של “איש הזאבים”. מאמר מאת חוקרת המכון ד”ר ענת צור מהלאל

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Cohen’s Jewish and Imperial Politics during World War I. New article from Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli

20 Years Bucerius Institute and 10th Bucerius Lecture

Night of Philosophy on 10.6.2021

“Longing for the British. German-Jewish Nostalgia for the Mandate”… and “Buber’s Incipient Bi-National View of the Land of Israel and the War Debate with Cohen”….

Hebrew publication of the book of our Research Fellow, Dr. Anat Tzur Mahalel

„Wir haben sie lange gesucht“: Drobizki Jar, 1941–2016. New Article for our Research Fellow, Dr. Natasha GordinskyRead More »

PhD price of the 53th German Historikertag for our Research Fellow Marie Ch. Behrendt

“Are we dead?”: time in H. D.’s dialogue with Freud

From Cravat to Khaki: Gender, Sexuality, and Change in the Immigration of Fritz Wolf to Mandate Palestine

1700 Years of Jewish Community in GermanyRead More »

Podcast: Literatur im Dialog (Natasha Gordinsky und Katja Petrowskaja)

New Article for our Adjunct Researcher Marie Behrendt

CONGRATULATION!

Farewell to Revolution! Gustav Landauer’s Death and the Funerary Shaping of His Legacy

Den Ort erzählen: Babij Jar in dem Roman Vielleicht Esther von Katja Petrwoskaja

Doctoral Fellowship for our Adjunct Researcher Silvana Kandel Lamdan

Reading Freud’s Patients Memoir, Narrative and the Analysand

News 2020

We are happy to share an important contribution of Prof. Schulte (University of Potsdam) on the state of the Jewish Studies in Germany. Prof. Schulte taught several times at the University of Haifa in the framework of the DAAD exchange Program between the universities of Potsdam and Haifa.

To read the Article: 

Dr. Cedric Cohen Skali taught from February 20th to February 28th 2020 the course: “A brief history of Israel through a few seminal intellectual and political debates” at the distinguished University – Sciences Po Bordeaux. 

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