The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

Supervised by Prof. Dan Diner

• Sharon Gordon - Exchange and Transformation: Jewish Conversion to Christianity in the 19th and early 20th century German Discourse of Modernity.

Supervised by Prof. Moshe Zimmermann

• Ilana Bendet - The Reception of Nazism in the Newspapers of Mandatory Palestine, 1933 - 1939.
• Jonathan Lewy - The Drug Policies of the United States, United Kingdom and Germany in the Modern Era.
• Gilad Nathan - The Leadership of the Catholic Church in Germany and the War.
• David Witzthum - The German Image in Israel: Television.

Supervised by Prof. Steven Aschheim

• Udi E. Greenberg - 'Like a Moth to the Fire':The Memory of Weimar
  

Austria Israel Relations since 1945

The Richard Koebner Centre is conducting a research project "Austria-Israel: Political and Cultural relations since 1945" in cooperation with The Institute for German History (Tel Aviv) and the institute for Contemporary History at the Leopold-Franzens University (Innsbruck).

Initially, the project includes mapping of all documentary materials concerning the two countries and societies. The research embraces all relevant archives and libraries, private and official. The final index of existing documents containing all aspects of the relations will serve as a basis for further research on the subject.

Concluding articles are in preparation.

"Deutsch-juedische Erinnerungskultur", 19th-20th Centuries

The Richard Koebner Centre in corporation with the Justus-Liebig University (Giessen) and as part of SFB 434 (Erinnerungskulturen) is conducting a research project: "German-Jewish collective memory".

This Project is conducted under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Zimmermann (Jerusalem) and Professor Jürgen Reulecke (Siegen). The Project aims on researching aspects in cultural life and collective memory patterns of German-Jews in Germany and after emigration to Palestine/Israel.

In this framework, the research period 2003-2006 is dedicated to deutsch-jüdische Jugendbewegungen.

The Research embraces all relevant archives and libraries, (private and official) interviews, biographies and films.

As part of the working activity the publication: Populäre Konstruktionen von Erinnerung - im deutschen Judentum und nach der Emigration is published (co Editors: Joachim Jacob and Yotam Hotam (Vanderhoeck u. Rüprecht, Tübingen, 2003) and the international Conference The Age of Youth: German Jewish Young Generation and Modern Time is in preparation.