En avril 2013, s’est tenue à Washington la troisième conférence de doctorants sur l’histoire juive allemande avec pour thématique cette année : “Germans and Americans in Israel: Israelis in Germany and the United States”.

Cette conférence a été organisée par l’American University – Washington D.C., le Deutsches Historisches Institut du Washington D.C., l’Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden à Hamburg et le Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts en Allemagne.

Daniel Hilgert de l’Humboldt-Universität de Berlin a mis ligne son compte-rendu de cette conférence :

– un en anglais sur le site du German Historical Institute Washington, DC ;

– et un allemand sur le site H-Soz-u-Kult.

Programme de la conférence :
(nous mettons en gris les interventions dont le thème concerne l’histoire des Juifs après 1945)

Session 1: Cultural Relationships – Cultural Reflections

Katrin Stoll (Warsaw): What about the German Obsession with Israel and “the Jews”? Tuvia Tenenbom’s Travelogue on Contemporary Germany

Patricia Pientka (Berlin): Berlin and Tel Aviv: Dynamic Relationships between the Spree and the Yarkon

Session 2: Inside and Outside Views on Israel

Eva Maria Verst (Mainz): Pilgrimage after the Holocaust: Western German Christians in the “Holy Land” after the Second World War

Shaul Mitelpunkt (Chicago): “This is Not an Israeli Film, But an American One”: American Patronage and Film Production in 1960s Israel

Session 3: Visiting Places of Jewish Heritage

Lina Nikou (Hamburg): In Search of Home? Visits by Jewish Emigrants and their Descendants to their Former Hometowns in Germany

Gal Engelhard (Tel Aviv): An “In-Between” Heritage: Organized Visits for Former German Jews and Their Descendants to Their Cities of Origin

Session 4: Jewish Refugees

Shira Klein (Orange): Networks of Nostalgia: Italian and German Jewish Refugees in World War II America

Mary Kirsh (Madison/Arlington): The Great Experiment of the “Greatest Pioneers”: Youth Aliyah and the Confluence of American and German Social Work Traditions in Palestine / Israel

Session 5: Israelis Abroad

Jannis Panagiotidis (Berlin): “The First Israelis”: Yordim in 1950s West Germany

Dani Kranz (Erfurt): Israeli Jews in Contemporary Germany: Social Integration and the Construction of Group Identity

Ori Yehudai (Chicago): Between Israel and America: Germany as a Transit Station for Israeli Emigrants, 1949–1957

Lunch Talk: The Flight of the Nazis to America
Talk: Eric Lichtblau (New York/Washington)

Round Table: Michael Brenner, Stefan Hördler, Miriam Rürup

Final Comments and Concluding Discussion
Chair: Michael Brenner, Stefan Hördler, Miriam Rürup

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