Archives de catégorie : Conférences et séminaires

10 mars 2014, NY : Lost Souls: Retrieving Jewish War Orphans after the Holocaust

Pour celles et ceux qui sont déjà ou seront à NY en mars : Pamela Shatzkes interviendra le 10 mars à 14h au Centre d’Histoire juive (CJH) à NY sur la recherche des orphelins de guerre juifs qui ont survécu à la Shoah en étant cachés dans des familles chrétiennes, des monastères ou des couvents.

Une première présentation de ses recherches est disponible sur le site de la British Academy : Lost Souls: Efforts to retrieve Jewish children after the Holocaust.

Pamela Shatzkes est professeur à la London School of Economics and Political Science et a publié en 2002 aux éditions Palgrave Macmillan : Holocaust and Rescue: Impotent or Indifferent Anglo Jewry 1938-1945.

Pour plus d’informations sur cette conférence : Intervention de P. Shatzkes au CJH.

Présentation de l’ouvrage Un “Plan Marshall juif” – 7 janvier 2014

Laura Hobson FaureMardi 7 janvier à 20h30, le Centre Medem-Arbeter Ring recevra Laura Hobson Faure, docteur en histoire et maître de conférences à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, pour une présentation de son ouvrage Un “Plan Marshall juif”, la présence juive américaine en France après la Shoah, 1944-1954, paru en 2013 aux éditions Armand Colin.

La présentation sera discutée par Renée Poznanski, historienne, professeur à l’Université Ben Gourion du Néguev à Beer Sheva.

Centre Medem-Arbeter Ring, 52 rue René Boulanger, Paris 10e.

Pour plus d’informations sur cet événement, rendez-vous sur la page du Centre Medem – Arbeter Ring.

YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization

bard-yivo_logoPour la troisième année consécutive, le YIVO et le Bard College s’associent pour un séminaire intensif sur la civilisation ashkénaze qui se tiendra du 6 au 23 janvier 2014 au YIVO à New York. Unique en son genre, ce programme présente un évantail de cours sur la culture, l’histoire, la langue et la littérature des Juifs d’Europe de l’Est.

Les cours proposés portent sur :

– “L’autre Sholem Aleichem” (Jonathan Brent)
– “La vie littéraire juive en Union soviétique” (Gennady Estraikh)
– “Introduction à Ashkenaz: fondements de l’histoire juive d’Europe de l’Est” (Samuel Kassow)
– “Les intellectuels new yorkais revisités” (Adam Kirsch)
– “Femmes et mame-loshn : la révolution dans la littérature yiddish et la vie juive” (Agnieszka Legutko)
– “Chaim Grade et le monde de la judéïté lituanienne” (Curt Leviant)
– “Musique et danse ashkénaze – conférence/atelier” (Dmitri Slepovitch)
– “Histoire, mémoire et nostalgie : Les Juifs polonais dans les films” (Magda Teter)

Toutes les informations sont disponibles sur le site internet du séminaire.

Germans and Americans in Israel: Israelis in Germany and the United States

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

International Affairs and the Politics of Memory: German-Jewish-Israeli Relations after the Holocaust. Haifa – 01/2014

Du 12 au 14 janvier 2014 se tiendra à l’Université d’Haifa, la conférence internationale : “International Affairs and the Politics of Memory: German-Jewish-Israeli Relations after the Holocaust”, organisée par le Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhundert et le Haifa Center for German and European Studies.

Au cours de cinq panels thématiques, des chercheurs allemands, israéliens, britanniques et américains présenteront leurs recherches abordant différents aspects des relations “allemandes-juives-israéliennes” depuis 1945.

Argumentaire de la conférence :

“The convenors intend for this event to engage with important historiographical and methodological debates, and to aim at a broad analysis of German-Jewish-Israeli relations that integrates the dynamics of international politics as well as the history of Holocaust memory. In doing so, the conference aspires to forge a new approach to the study of this subject, combining perspectives of political, diplomatic, transnational history, and memory studies. Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel will form a key focus of this conference, complemented by an exploration into East Germany’s relationship with Israel, as well as West Germany’s relations with Jewish diaspora communities.

In addition to providing a comprehensive account of German-Jewish-Israeli relations based on representative case studies, this conference will make a number of significant methodological contributions to the fields of modern political history and the “new” diplomatic/international history. It will link the history of international relations with that of memory and employ a broad, inclusive definition of “politics” that transcends a strictly government-centered perspective, within domestic as well as foreign policy structures. Paying specific attention to intergovernmental relations in this context, the presentations also explore the role of non-governmental organizations and actors as well as their respective influences on government politics. These include political foundations, NGOs, and other actors within civil society. Thus, the conference aims to shed new light on the truly intertwined history of German-Jewish-Israeli relations after the Holocaust.”

Programme de la conférence :

Sunday, January 12, 2014

18.30
Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa
Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

19.00
Keynote Address
Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Language and Belonging: The German-Israeli Encounter in Luxembourg, 1952


Monday, January 13, 2014

9.00
Panel 1: Between Governments and Societies

Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa:
Israel and Germany: Reconciliation, “Normalization”, and Universal Lessons

Lily Gardner Feldman, Johns Hopkins University:
Special Relationship, Reconciliation, Friendship, or Alliance? The Role of Memory and Interests in the German-Israeli Partnership

Katharina Konarek, University of Haifa/University of the Bundeswehr Munich:
Political Foundations and their Influence on German Foreign Policy: The Case of Israel and the Palestinian Territories, 2000-2010

11.15
Panel 2: The Early Decades

Shlomo Aronson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
David Ben-Gurion and the Federal Republic: The Domestic Israeli Scene

Jenny Hestermann, Technical University of Berlin:
Politics of Scandal? Konrad Adenauer’s Visit to Israel in 1966 and His Clash with Levi Eshkol

Kristina Meyer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
The SPD, the Jews, and the State of Israel, 1945-1970

14.30
Panel 3: Diaspora I – American Jewry

Zohar Segev, University of Haifa:
Remembering and Rebuilding: American Jewry, Europe, and Germany in the 1940s and 1950s

Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
Cold War Diplomacy and Holocaust Memory: West German-American Jewish Relations in the 1980s

16.15
Panel 4: Diaspora II – German Jewry

Constantin Goschler, Ruhr University Bochum:
The Securitization of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations in Postwar Germany

Tobias Freimüller, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
Migration, Memory, and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main

19.00
Germany, Israel, and Global Affairs: A Personal Perspective
Manfred Lahnstein in Conversation with Fania Oz-Salzberger


Tuesday, January 14

9.00
Panel 5: Germany, Israel, and the Arab World

Carole Fink, Ohio State University:
“The Most Difficult Journey of All”: Willy Brandt’s Trip to Israel in June 1973

Hubert Leber, Philipps University of Marburg/University of Haifa:
“The Leopard that Forgot the Holocaust”? Israel, West Germany’s Arms Export Policy, and the Saudi Tank Deal Debate in 1981/82

Jan Busse, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin:
Between Historical Responsibility and Two-State Solution: Politics of Memory and the German Foreign Policy towards the Middle East Conflict, 1998-2009

11.15
Panel 6: East Germany and Israel

Lorena De Vita, Aberystwyth University:
The Mistake of Dr. Seydewitz: Reflections on the East and West German Foreign Policies towards Israel in the Long 1950s

Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland:
East Germans at War with Israel during the Cold War

Angelika Timm, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tel Aviv:
The “Third Third”: The Approach of the East German Political Elites to Jewish and Israeli Claims

14.30
Panel 7: Academic Relations I

Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa:
The “First Letters” of Jacob Wahrman in Historical Perspective

Dani Schrire, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Tangled Narratives: German-Israeli Folklore Research, 1955-1970

16.15
Panel 8: Academic Relations II

Ute Deichmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:
The Difficult Beginnings of Israeli-German Collaboration in the Sciences: Scientific Motivations and Political Agendas

Sharon Livne, University of Haifa:
Initial Contacts in the Scientific Relations between Israel and Germany (1945-1965)

17.30
Closing Remarks
Hubert Leber
, Philipps University of Marburg/University of Haifa