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 הסרט כשלון אנושי יוקרן במסגרת סדרת הקולנוע של מכון ליאו בק ירושלים, מרכז קבנר להיסטוריה גרמנית באוניברסיטה העברית וסינמטק ירושלים, ביום שני, ג' ניסן תשע"ב, 26.3.12 בשעה 19:00. 

 הרצאה לפני הסרט: פרופ' דנה אריאלי-הורוביץ

The movie "Wagner & Me" (United Kingdom, 2010) will be screened within Koebner Center, Leo Baeck Institute and Cinematheque of Jerusalem Film Series, "Jews and Germans – A Journey through Time"

On Monday, 19.12.2011, 19:00.

Mr. David  Witzthum will lecture before the movie.

About the movie:

We are acquainted with British star Steven Fry thanks to the long list of roles he has
portrayed in film and British television. He also has forty best-selling novels to his
credit. The son of a family of Holocaust survivors, Fry takes us on a personal journey
to the world of one of the more controversial classical composers, at least from our
point of view. How can someone with a biography such Fry’s love Hitler’s favorite
composer, a man disgraced by his vicious anti-Semitic rhetoric? Thanks to Fry’s wit
and abundant intelligence, we attend the Bayreuth Festival, a monument to the 19th
century composer, an extravaganza that is still partly run by members of Wagner’s
family. From there, we continue to Switzerland where Wagner conceived Der Ring
des Nibelungen, and to St. Petersburg where we encounter one of his modern
interpreters, conductor Valery Gergiev. Toward the end, we confront the interface
between Nazism and the Wagnerian tradition: in Nuremberg where the two came
together, in an encounter with a Holocaust survivor who played in the orchestra at
Auschwitz. (89 min., Eng. only)

The movie "Rosenstrasse" (Germany, 2003) will be screened within Koebner Center, Leo Baeck Institute and Cinematheque of Jerusalem Film Series, "Jews and Germans – A Journey through Time"

On Monday, 21.11.2011, 19:00.

Professor Moshe Zimmermann will lecture before the movie.

About this film:

Ruth Weinstein, a New York woman, has just buried her husband. To add conflict to the family's sorrow, she also disapproves of the marriage of her daughter, Hannah. Not understanding her mother's obstinacy, Hannah decides to go to Berlin, to search for clues. There she uncovers the truth. Back in 1943, hundreds of German women protested the deportation of their Jewish husbands. Margarethe von Trotta movingly tells the story of heroism, love and motherhood, on the backdrop of the Rosenstrasse demonstration-one of the only known public demonstrations against the deportation of Jews in Nazi Germany.

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem invite the public to a Symposium:

Marking, Deportation, Extermination

Seventy Years to the Deportation of German Jewry

On Thursday, November 3, 2011, at the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, 33 Bustenai Street. The event will be held in Hebrew.

In honor of Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi's new book, A Walk into the Night: Reason and Identity in Weimar Film, the public is invited to a book launch event. The event will take place at in The Jerusalem Cinematheque, June 22nd, at 20:30.

The Koebner Minerva Center invites the public to an international workshop for doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars towards "New Research on German and Central European Zionism". 

The workshop will take place at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, May 31-June 2, 2011.

The Koebner Center together with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation are inviting the public to a symposium on 20 years of German Unity. The symposium will take place at The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 20th Radak St., Jerusalem on 15 November 2010 at 17:00.

The 6th annual workshop for German history will meet on 24 January 2011. Please click here to download the call for papers.

The Koebner Center invites the public to a conference held in memory of Jacob Talmon to take place on 13 -14 June 2010.

The Koebner Center together with the Franz Rosenzweig Center, Leo Baeck Institute and the Mosse Program are inviting the public to a lecture series in honor of Prof. Steven Aschheim to take place in Jerusalem on 9 - 10 June 2010.

Please click here to download the program and invitation.
 

On Monday, 24 May 2010, the Koebner Center colloquium will host Prof. de Torro. The talk will take place at Mt. Scopus, room 2335 (Humanities) at 18:15.

The third edition of Tabur, dealing with environmentalism,  is now available.  

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History cordially invites the public to a symposium on the German Jewish Tradition of Liberliasm to be held at Beit Maiersdorf, Mt. Scopus on 22 February 2010.

The Koebner Center kindly invites you to participate in the Fifth Annual Israeli Workshop for German History and Culture to take place at Yad Hasmona on 25 January 2010. To register, please send an e-mail to: sadna.german@gmail.com
 
Please click here for the Workshop's program.

On thursday, 26 November 2009, Achbar Hair Online, the local edition of Haaretz, published a favorable review of the second volume of Tabur on "Crime and Madness in Modern Germany" (guest) edited by Ofer Ashkenazi, Udi Greenberg and Jonathan Lewy. For the link in Hebrew, pleach click here.

The Koebner Center is sponsoring a lecture series at the Megid Center in Giva'at Ram, Jerusalem. For a complete program in Hebrew, please click here.

In honor of the publication of Prof. Dan Diner's book, Das Jahrhundert Verstehen in Hebrew, the Van Leer Institute is hosting a discussion on 17 November 2009.

The Koebner Center and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung have ordered a poll on how Israelis view Germany. This poll, with a sample of 1200 Jews and 800 Arabs, is the first poll of its kind and reveals the opinions Israelis currently hold towards Germany, including whether they are willing to buy German products, whether they are pleased with the German roll in the Middle East, and whether the Israeli-German relations are normal. The results of the poll, conducted in July 2009, can be downloaded here.

The Koebner Center and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung are organizing a conference on German-Israeli relations titled: "In the Eyes of the Beholder: Israel and Germany from Nazism, the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Tokyo Hotel" to take place at Beit Maiersdorf, Hebrew University on September 10, 2009. The public is invited. 

For an invitation, please click here.  

The Israeli Forum for German History has issued a call for papers for its 5th Annual Workshop on German History. Applications are due 11 October 2009. For further details, please click here.

The center for Deutsche Presseforschung at the University of Bremen in cooperation with the Richard Koebner Center for German History is sponsoring a conference on "Five Hundred Years of Jew-Hatred and Anti-Semetism in the German Press" which will take place in Bremen on 23 - 26 May, 2010:

The development of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism in modern times is closely linked to the press as a medium for the dissemination of anti-Jewish prejudice. This conference intends to study this link and its contemporary and long-term manifestations. The focus of the conference will be on negative images of Jews and on anti-Semitic utterances and tendencies in the German press and the German language press outside Germany from its origins in the sixteenth century to the present. Starting with examples from sixteenth and seventeenth century pamphlets, the seventeenth century periodical press, and debates on the social status of Jews in the Age of Enlightenment, the conference endeavours to bring together contributions on anti-Jewish stereotypes and images disseminated through the press right up to the present day. Special attention will be paid to the rise of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism as a mainstream trend within the nineteenth century German popular press, and its aggravation during the twentieth century, especially during the Weimar period and the era of National Socialism. A second focus will be on anti-Semitic tendencies in the period after the Second World War all the way through to the present day and including the new electronic media.

Organization:
-Travel and accommodation costs will be refunded by the organizers (subject to sufficient funding of the conference, final confirmation by November 1st, 2009).
-Papers may be delivered in German or in English
-Please send abstract + curriculum vitae until May 15th, 2009 (abstract max. 500 words)

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel

mskoeb@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

Universität Bremen, Deutsche Presseforschung, Postf. 330160, D-28359 Bremen

wieking@uni-bremen.de 

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History cordially invites the public to a lecture by Hans Mommse, Porfessor (emeritus) of Modern History at the University of the Ruhr in Bochum.

The lecture will take place at the Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, room 2205 (Humanities) on 16 March 2009 at 18:30.

The Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem invites the public to a discussion on Prof. Moshe Zimmermann's new book, Germans against Germans: The Fate of German Jewry, 1938 - 1945, with the participation of the author, Prof. Dan Diner and Prof. Yfaat Weiss, chaired by Ms. Sharon Gordon.

The event will take place on Tuesday, 3 February 2009 at 19:30.
Address: 33 Bustenai St., Jerusalem.
Telephone: 02-5633790
E-mail: leobaeck@netvision.net.il

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History is proud to present a lecture by Prof. Konrad H. Jarausch of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on "The 70's as History." 

The lecture will take place on 19 January 2009 at 12:30 in room 29 of the Media center of the Mt. Scopus library.

In honor of Adi Gordon's new book, Brith Shalom and Bi-National Zionism, you are invited to a discussion on the 'Arab Question' as a Jewish Question. It will take place at the Leo Baeck Institute (33 Bustenai St., Jerusalem) on Thursday, 11 December 2008 at 19:30.

On Thursday, 13 November 2008, a round table discussion will take place at the Leo Baeck Institute in honor of Dr. Yotam Hotam's new book, The Age of Youth: German-Jewish Generation and Modern Times.

Address:

Leo Baeck Institute

33 Bustenai St.

Jerusalem

Tel: 02 - 5633790

Fax:02 - 5669505

Entrance is free, but seating is limited. Please confirm your participation. 

On April 28 this year the Third Annual Workshop of Young Israeli Scholars on German History will take place at the Binyamina winery. 

Click here for an invitation and a schedule.  

'Slil' - a new online journal on history, film and television will publish students' papers on topics regarding the interrelations between audio-visual images and the societies that produced and consumed them. The editors are looking for submissions of articles up to 7000 words in length in either English or Hebrew, as well as reviews of up to 3000 words.

Suggested papers and further inquiries should be sent to Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, ofer.ashkenazi@mail.huji.ac.il

This coming Monday, the 21th of January, the Koebner Center in cooperation with the Media Studies Department hosts Prof. Anton Kaes of UC Berkeley for a lecture on "How to Read Films Historically?" the lecture will be held at the Media section of the Mt. Scopus library at 6:30pm.

In case the university will close its gates, the lecture shall take place elsewhere.

The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History is publishing a new journal. More information about the yearbook may be found in the new Journal section of website.

On 4 November 2007, Haaretz online published a book review on Dr. Yotam Hotam's book Modern Gnosis and the "Jew".

Marking the 60th anniversary of the foundation of DEFA (the state-owned film company of the German Democratic Republic), a retrospective on the East-German film industry will be held in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Beer-Sheba on 11 – 25 November 2007.

On 19 November 2007, the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center will proudly host Prof. Sabine Hake, who will talk about “Melancholy Antifascism,” representations of Fascism in post-WWI cinema, at the Hebrew University. Following the lecture, students and scholars will hold a round table discussion on the history of cinema in East Germany. For more information and invitations, please contact Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi: ofer.ashkenazi@mail.huji.ac.il.

 

Dr. Boaz Neumann of Tel Aviv University has reviewed Gideon Reuveni's book Reading Germany: Reading Culture and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 in Haaretz online.

Prof. Yehuda Shenhav of Tel Aviv university has reviewed Hanna Arendt in Jerusalem in Haaretz online.

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