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German Jews in the Middle East | The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

German Jews in the Middle East

Date: 
Mon, 10/02/2014 to Wed, 12/02/2014
Location: 
Jerusalem

An International Conference held by Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German and Central European Jewry. Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg. The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Literature in Exile, Hamburg. The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hamburg University

Monday, February 10, 2014

Venue: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 14 Ibn Gabirol Street

15:45-17:15

Jews as the Orient

Chair and Opening Remarks: Meir M. Bar-Asher (Jerusalem)

Kathrin Wittler (Berlin)

Orients in Contest. The Role of German Jews in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism

Eli Bar-Chen (Tel Aviv)

From Wilhelm Dohm to Hannah Arendt: The Jews of the Muslim World as the Jewish Project of Modernity

Opening Event


Monday, February 10, 2014

Yad Itzhak Ben-Zvi, 14 Ibn Gabirol Street


Supported by the Ministry of Senior Citizens

Hebrew. English simultaneous translation

אירוע פתיחה


יום שני, י' באדר א' תשע"ד. 10.2.14

יד יצחק בן-צבי, רח' אבן גבירול 14

 בחסות המשרד לאזרחים ותיקים

עברית. תרגום סימולטני לאנגלית

17:30 Reception

Chair and Opening Remarks:

Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Chairman of The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem / Bar Ilan University

18:00 Greetings

Prof. Reuven Amitai, Dean of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Meir M. Bar-Asher, Chairman of The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East

Dr. Miriam Ruerup, Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg

Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, Interim Director of The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

17:30 קבלת פנים

יושב ראש ודברי פתיחה:

פרופ' שמואל פיינר, מכון ליאו בק ירושלים ואוניברסיטת בר-אילן

18:00  דברי ברכה

פרופ' ראובן עמיתי, דיקן הפקולטה למדעי הרוח, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים

פרופ' מאיר מ' בר-אשר, ראש מכון בן צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח

ד"ר מרים רורופ, מנהלת המכון לחקר יהודי גרמניה, המבורג

ד"ר עופר אשכנזי, מנהל נכנס של מרכז קבנר להיסטוריה גרמנית, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים

Discussion

Muhammad Asad: From an Austro-Hungarian Jew to Pakistani Ambassador

Moderator: Mr. David Witzthum (Jerusalem)

Discussants: Mr. Hanan Harif (Jerusalem), Mr. Ido Harari (Beer-Sheva), Dr. Dan Tamir (Jerusalem)

 



Concert

Works of Benno Bardi, Paul Ben-Haim, Abel Ehrlich, Hanoch Jacoby

Nitai Zori and Yoram Youngerman - Violins; Gadi Abadi - Viola; Ella Toovy - Cello

Produced by the Institute for Israeli Music

דיון

מוחמד אסד: מיהודי אוסטרו-הונגרי לשגריר פקסיטני

מנחה: מר דויד ויצטום (ירושלים)

בהשתתפות: מר עידו הררי (באר-שבע), מר חנן חריף (ירושלים), ד"ר דן תמיר (ירושלים)

קונצרט

מיצירותיהם של בנו ברדי, פאול בן-חיים, אבל ארליך, חנוך יעקובי

נתי צורי ויורם יונגרמן - כינורות; גדי עבאדי - ויולה; אלה טובי - צ'לו

בהפקת המכון למוסיקה ישראלית

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

 

Venue: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Beit Maiersdorf

10:00-11:30

Perspectives of the Orient

Chair: Michael Glatzer (Jerusalem)

Noah Gerber (Jerusalem)

German-Jewish Philology Encounters the Jews of the Middle East: The Path of Shlomo Dov Goitein

Sebastian Schirrmeister (Hamburg / Jerusalem)

Orientalism Revised and Revisited. M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl and the Pan-Asian Ideal

12:00-13:15

The Image of the Jews of the Orient

Chair: Moshe Zimmermann (Jerusalem)

Natalie Naimark-Goldberg (Ramat-Gan)

Ostjuden and "Oriental Jews" in the Eyes of a German Jewish Woman: Bertha Pappenheim's Anti-White Slavery Mission in Turkey

Amos Morris-Reich (Haifa)

Lerski's Photographs of Yemenites

14:30-15:45

Shelter in the Middle East

Chair: Doerte Bischoff (Hamburg)

Atina Grossmann (New York)

Shelter and Adventure? The Experience of German Jewish Refugees in Iran

Rakefet Zalashik (Potsdam)

Jewish German Medical Refugees and their Impact in Turkey: Scientific Continuity and Habitual Adjustments

16:15-17:30

Contacts with Middle Eastern Jewish Communities

Chair: Reuven Amitai (Jerusalem)

Guy Bracha (Ramat-Gan)

The Germans are Coming! The Jewish Community of Beirut Facing the Question of Jewish Immigration from Germany

Yossi Brill (Tel Aviv)

Between the Palm Tree and the Swastika: The Reflection of the East in the Story of Maximilien Trenner

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Venue: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Beit Maiersdorf

9:30-11:00

Intellectual Life in Istanbul and Cairo

Chair: Benny Ziffer (Tel Aviv)

Irit Youngerman (Jerusalem)

Different Shades of East: Composers Benno Bardi and Hanoch Jacoby in Egypt, Turkey and Palestine

Ruchama Johnston-Bloom (London)

Weimar in Cairo: Orientalism and Cultural Critique in Interwar Egypt

 

11:30-12:15

Ashkenazi Istanbul: The Untold Story

Conversation between Supreme Court Justice [emerita] Dalia Dorner

and Journalist Benny Ziffer



12:30-13:45

Boundaries within the Orient

Chair: Miriam Ruerup (Hambug)

Olivier Baisez (Paris)

“Greater Palestine” as a German-Zionist Idea

Yossi Ben-Artzi (Haifa)

Cyprus: A Destination for Emigration and Settlement in the Eyes of German Jews, 1898-1938

15:00-16:15

Diplomacy and Politics

Chair: Anja Siegemund (Jerusalem)

Dan Tamir (Jerusalem)

When Ibn Saud and Jabotinsky Came Together: Wolfgang von Weisl's Vision for a “New Middle East”

Dror Zeigerman (Jerusalem)

Germany’s Involvement in Early Zionist - Arab Nationalist Negotiations: The Case of Samuel Hochberg

16:30-17:30

Concluding Discussion

Andreas Braemer (Hamburg)

Yossi Ben-Artzi (Haifa)

Atina Grossmann (New York)