Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

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Bucerius Institute for Research of
Contemporary German History and
Society
legal form Academic institute
founding 2001
founder ZEIT Foundation
Seat University of Haifa , Israel
main emphasis Research and Academic Exchange
people Amos Morris-Reich (Director)
Website bucerius.haifa.ac.il

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was founded in 2001 by the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius . The institute works on contemporary history as well as on the social, political and cultural present in Germany. This is intended to encourage more intensive engagement with these topics at the University of Haifa as well as the promotion of academic exchange in Germany, the rest of Europe and in Israel. The founder and first director of the institute was Yfaat Weiss . Amos Morris-Reich has been the director of the Bucerius Institute since 2008.

research

The institute promotes research in the field of contemporary history and the social, cultural and political reality in Germany and works to promote a greater understanding of modern Germany in the academic community. It also supports academic exchange between Germany, Europe and Israel. Thematically and methodologically, it deals with identity formation, migration, integration, multiculturalism , citizenship and liberalism, and increasingly also the topics of "race", "visual history" and the history of science in the German, Israeli and European context. The Bucerius Institute sees itself as a source of information about post-war Germany and current developments in Europe for students and scientists at the University of Haifa and the public.

Academic and public relations

Every year the institute organizes conferences, workshops and guest lectures such as "Queer experiences during the Third Reich and the Holocaust", "Perspectives on Contemporary Iran and Iranian Culture in Germany and Israel" and "Concepts of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities ". In addition, u. a. Rita Süssmuth , Josef Joffe and Wolf Biermann gave lectures as part of special events. The institute organizes special events such as film festivals and music performances at regular intervals. In 2007 the institute took part in the organization of a DEFA / GDR film festival on the subject of "German Cinema from Behind the Iron Curtain" and in 2008 organized a musical drama entitled "The Myth and the Real Life of Marlene Dietrich ".

Scholarships and Academic Exchange

The Bucerius Institute runs a scholarship and exchange program that supports young Israeli and German researchers. At the invitation of the Bucerius Institute, international guest researchers also came to the University of Haifa. The result of this collaboration are collaborations with the Leo Baeck Institute , the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture , the Institute for the History of German Jews , the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , the Working group "Biology Didactics" at the University of Jena , the German foundations represented in Israel and other scientific institutions in Germany.

Publications

In March 2005 the Bucerius Institute published the anthology "Memory and Amnesia: The Holocaust in Germany", edited by Gilad Margalit and Yfaat Weiss in Hebrew. This volume contains the result of the one-week workshop conducted by scholars in the field of the Holocaust in Israel, Germany, Europe and the United States in 2001/2002.
In addition, some essays from the conference "Europe and Israel: What Next?" on the subject of "Remigration" included in the "Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2004". In addition, the institute published the results of its conference "Deadly Neighbors" in an issue of the journal " Mittelweg 36 ".
There are publications by associated members of the institute that deal with the current history of Germany and the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Europe and Israel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter of the University of Haifa, 03/2001, p. 3. (PDF; 855 kB)
  2. ↑ Newsletter of the University of Haifa, 01/2007, p. 11. (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  3. ^ Margalit Gilad and Yfaat Weiss (Eds.): "Memory and Amnesia: The Holocaust in Germany" (In Hebrew), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 2005.
  4. ^ Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. 49, 2004.
  5. ^ "Mittelweg 36th Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, yearbook 13 October / November 2004".