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