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Rolf Verleger (born December 17, 1951 in Ravensburg ) is a German psychologist and professor emeritus . His research focus in neuropsychology is event-related EEG potentials . He became known to the general public since 2006 as a critic of Israeli politics and the author of non-fiction books on the subject of Judaism and Israel .

Live and act

family

Rolf Verleger was born to survivors of the Shoah . His father, Ernst Jissruel-Jossef Verleger (1899–1965), came back from Auschwitz to Vogtland without his first wife Rosa and three sons . His mother, Helga Verleger, born in Berlin in 1925, was deported with her parents from Berlin to Raasiku in Estonia in 1942, from there to the Jägala concentration camp , and later to the Stutthof concentration camp . She returned to Berlin as an orphan in 1945, where she married Ernst Verleger in 1948. Rolf Verleger grew up in a religious Jewish household in Ravensburg . According to his own statements, he was instructed in Jewish traditions by his father and later by a religion teacher from the Jewish community in Stuttgart and through self-study. His brother and sister immigrated to Israel as teenagers . He is married and has a daughter.

Scientific career

Verleger graduated from the University of Konstanz with a degree in psychology , which he graduated with a diploma in 1976. In 1986 he received his doctorate in social sciences at the University of Tübingen , completed his habilitation in medical psychology at the University of Lübeck in 1993 and received an adjunct professorship there in 1998 . The focus of his research is the investigation of the connections between cognitive processes and physiological processes in the brain using electroencephalography . He is the author of 158 papers in scientific journals. His Hirsch index is 40. He retired in 2017.

From 1999 to 2005 he was President of the German Society for Psychophysiology and Its Application

Functions in the Jewish Community

From 2001 to 2005 Rolf Verleger was on the board of the newly founded Jewish community in Lübeck . In 2005 he became chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Jewish Community (JGSH). He was also sent to the Central Council of Jews in Germany as a member of its board of directors.

In a letter dated July 23, 2006, under the impression of the Lebanon war in the summer of 2006, he expressed himself initially internally to the Central Council, then publicly as a representative of the Central Council, critical of the "military measures of the Israeli government against Lebanon " and of the position in support of Israel of the Central Council on this.

This brought him criticism from the chairwoman of the Central Council, Charlotte Knobloch, and other representatives of Jewish organizations. Central Council General Secretary Stephan Kramer called the publisher's position "absurd" and an "absolute individual opinion". The publisher uses "anti-Israel clichés that are not substantiated by any factual arguments". Verleger told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he was also interested in the welfare of Israel. But he sees the actions of the Ehud Olmert government against Lebanon as harmful to Israel.

In August 2006, in response to his statements, the Lübeck Jewish Community dismissed him as their delegate for the JGSH. He also lost the office of chairman of the JGSH. In June 2009, the JGSH Verleger also withdrew his mandate as a delegate for the Central Council Directorate.

Positions and activism against Israeli politics

On the initiative of Rolf Verleger, the online petition “Berlin Declaration Shalom 5767” was created on November 22, 2006, with which 60 Jewish first signers, including Kurt Goldstein , Ernst Tugendhat , Wolfgang Edelstein , more critical distance of the Federal Government towards the Israeli occupation policy and “the To seriously strive for the realization of a viable Palestinian state ”. According to Micha Brumlik, the proposals corresponded to those of the Israeli peace movement . In view of the demand to end the boycott of the Palestinian Authority, which is ruled by Hamas , at short notice, the signatories could possibly be accused of doing something together with an avowedly anti-Semitic party that rejects Israel's right to exist , or of accepting Hamas' anti-Semitism to take. The Berlin Declaration is an example of how their outrage over Israeli politics is leading Jewish critics to downplay anti-Semitism. Verleger replied that it was the only demand that could be implemented in the short term and that it could show that you mean business. Behind the dispute within the Jewish community about Israel's politics is the question of “what Jewish identity is and can be today”.

In an interview on July 22, 2014 with Deutschlandfunk , Verleger described the military action of the Israeli army against targets in the Gaza Strip after increased rocket fire by Hamas in July 2014 as a “massacre” and made the “terror of Israel” and what he believed was a lack of criticism responsible for the new wave of anti-Semitism in Europe. The Holocaust does not justify that. In the larger historical context, the root of the whole conflict is that 100 years ago Europe could not cope with its Jewish minority and exported this problem there to Palestine. In another interview with WDR 5 , he criticized the behavior of the Israeli government for being incompatible with Judaism: “Judaism was once - to put it in one sentence - a religion of charity. In the SWR interview on August 14, 2014, Verleger repeated his criticism of the Gaza operation and also of the behavior of the German government towards Israel.

Such statements by the publisher on Israel in several German media were criticized by Michael Wuliger in the Jüdische Allgemeine in 2014 . Publishers only represent themselves and an irrelevant minority of German Jews. He was not asked for a comment because of his “in-depth analysis of the Middle East conflict”, but because “Jew criticizes Israel” offers the greater sensational factor.

In July 2016, Verleger and Yazid Shammout, chairman of the Palestinian community in Hanover, founded the Alliance to End the Israeli Occupation (today: Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians ). The Israeli Nirit Sommerfeld is one of the members . Horst Teltschik is an advisory board member of the alliance. In September 2016, during a panel discussion on the BDS campaign in Bremen, Verleger declared that boycott was “legitimate” and accused Israel of being an “ apartheid state ”.

Memberships

The publisher is a member of the advisory board of the German-Arab Society , the German-Palestinian Society and a member of the board of trustees of the Friends of Newe Schalom / Wahat al-Salam . He was also chairman and is now a normal member of the Jewish Voice for Just Peace Association in the Middle East .

reception

Israel's wrong path. A Jewish point of view

Publisher's 2008 book Israels Errweg. A Jewish view is divided into three parts. In the first part, Verleger describes his roots in Judaism - grown up in religious rules - and his view of Jewish traditions: the biblical conflict between religion and Jewish secular power, the central position of the commandment to love one's neighbor, the Zionist movement and Israel. In the second part he reports on his dispute in the Central Council and proposes that in times of dwindling religiosity, nationalism has become a substitute for Jewish identity. In the third part, he describes his version of the tough arguments that his interventions sparked.

Ludwig Watzal wrote in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that publishers did not propagate the "displacement of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine, but rather called for their equality in a multicultural state". The book is an “orientation framework for a debate in which black and white painting predominates; The reader will find shades of gray at Rolf Verleger ”. The publisher's Jewish self-image runs through the book like a red thread, according to Martin Forberg in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Publishers provide food for thought and his point of view makes the Jewish diversity clear. "His approach builds bridges to the Palestinian people".

In the opinion of the sociologist Armin Pfahl-Traughber, publishers deliver a criticism of Israel from a Jewish perspective that has hitherto been unheard of in this country in this sharpness, but very different texts have been strung together rather unsystematically. It is true that behind exaggerated objections to Israel there must not be hostility towards Jews. However, a more differentiated discussion would have been necessary to “distinguish between anti-Semitic and non-anti-Semitic criticism of Israel”. For the new edition of 2009, Karl Pfeifer criticized in Hagalil that publisher Theodor Herzl was quoting third-hand sources or English translations. Even David Ben Gurion was only "a concoction of Ilan Pappe been cited decontextualized" and. Pfeifer accuses publishers of demonizing Israel. The rich to "forgery of its history [and] legitimize anti-Semitic politicians such as London's former mayor Ken Livingstone ."

A hundred years of homeland? Judaism and Israel between charity and nationalism

In his 2017 book Hundred Years of Homeland? Judaism and Israel between charity and nationalism , Verleger first revisits its Jewish roots, family history and the value of charity in the Jewish tradition. In the third and fourth parts, Verleger argues that 100 years ago Europe couldn't cope with its Jewish minority. Part 3 describes the history of the Jews in the Tsarist Empire 1795–1917, the emergence of the Zionist , national- religious , Bundist , socialist and orthodox political movements in Judaism there and the mass emigration to the west, with parallels to today's refugee problem. Building on this, the motifs of the Balfour Declaration are outlined. Part 4 discusses the arguments used by Edwin Montagu , the only Jewish member of the British government in the autumn of 1917, to oppose the declaration. The book ends with the thesis that currently two poles in Judaism still have ideological radiance, namely the national religious "redemption of the land" in Israel and the universalistic human rights idea in US Judaism.

"With his book and his theses, publishers in Jewish and pro-Israeli circles should be offended," said Ina Rottscheidt on Deutschlandfunk . Publishers do not save with criticism: “On the establishment of the Israeli state and current politics. To the predominantly pro-Israeli Jewish communities in Germany and to the turning away from humanism and charity, which he considers to be the true values ​​of Judaism. "One does not have to share every thesis of the publisher, but one can understand his book as food for thought," as a plea for rethinking ”. Pfahl-Traughber, on the other hand, found in the Humanist Press Service that the book was fragmentary and unstructured in terms of both form and content. The publisher opposes "the one-sidedness of an uncritical view of the politics of the Israeli government with its own one-sidedness of ignorance of the political contexts".

Scientific publications

German-language publications
  • The P3 component in the EEG . Profil-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-89019-167-6 .
  • Time measurement of thought processes with event-related EEG potentials , habilitation thesis, Lübeck 1992.
English language publications
  • Event-related potentials and cognition: A critique of the context updating hypothesis and an alternative interpretation of P3 . In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences . tape 11 , 1988, pp. 343-356 .
  • On the utility of P3 latency as an index of mental chronometry . In: Psychophysiology . tape 34 , 1997, pp. 131-156 .
  • Evidence for an integrative role of P3b in linking reaction to perception . In: Journal of Psychophysiology . tape 19 , 2005, pp. 165-181 .
  • Correction of EOG artifacts in event related potentials of the EEG: Aspects of reliability and validity . In: Psychophysiology . tape 19 , 1982, pp. 472-480 .
  • Reduction of P3b in patients with temporo-parietal lesions . In: Cognitive Brain Research . tape 2 , 1994, p. 103-116 .

Political publications

Non-fiction

Articles, essays

items

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Philipp Gessler: The provocateur. In: taz - Edition 8047. August 14, 2006, accessed June 20, 2017 .
  2. ^ Biography on the website of Rolf Verleger .
  3. ↑ "I do believe in 'determination', the way it went ..." , Jewish Museum Munich, January 27, 2015.
    The sources speak : Helga Verleger, Bayerischer Rundfunk, October 31, 2012
  4. ^ Rolf Verleger: One hundred years of homeland? Westend Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-186-1 , Chapter 3: My parents: Logs saved from the fire , p. 30f
  5. ^ Research group cognitive electrophysiology , University of Lübeck.
  6. ↑ Scopus , after logging in an author search for publisher, R.
  7. ↑ Register of Associations of the Giessen District Court , sheet 1367.
  8. ↑ Lübeck District Court : Association register sheet VR 2355 (retirement from the board of directors only entered in 2006).
  9. ↑ Contract between the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Jewish Community of Schleswig-Holstein and the State Association of the Jewish Communities of Schleswig-Holstein ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. which he signed for the Jewish community @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / shvv.juris.de
  10. ^ Philipp Gessler: Representative of the Central Council criticizes Israel . In: taz - issue 8042. August 8, 2006.
  11. ↑ Christopher Stolzenberg: Critique of Israel - Ten Lebanese for a dead Israeli. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Central Council critic must go . In: the daily newspaper of August 24, 2006
  13. ^ Criticism of Israel: Lübeck Jewish Community removes power from chairman of the regional association . ( Memento of March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Report of the Lübecker Nachrichten of August 24, 2006, in which the Jewish Community Schleswig-Holstein is only abbreviated as the "State Association"
  14. ↑ Marlis Prinzing : Jewish Legacy: Portrait, Conversations, Perspektiven , Lahr 2010, ISBN 978-3-7806-3090-2 , p. 65
  15. ↑ Berlin Declaration Shalom 5767 . Wording in: Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik 2/2007
  16. ↑ Sylke Tempel : "Peace for Palestine". Jews demand new Middle East policy. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . December 21, 2006, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Micha Brumlik: Universalism, self-hatred or Jewish anti-Semitism. The dispute about the right solidarity with Israel . In: Jews in Germany - Germany in the Jews. New Perspectives , ed. by Y. Michal Bodemann and Micha Brumlik, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0780-3 , p. 184 f.
  18. ^ Rolf Verleger: “Ethnicity as a substitute for religion.” In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 05/2007, p. 592
  19. ^ Rolf Verleger: Interview on the Gaza shelling by Israel . Deutschlandfunk, July 22, 2014.
  20. ^ An outlet for national feelings in Israel. (No longer available online.) In: WDR5 Morgenecho. WDR 5 , July 25, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on September 14, 2018 .
  21. ↑ SWR 1 "People": "Rolf Verleger, psychologist, lives as a devout Jew in Germany and criticizes the Gaza policy of the Israeli government." Online audio from August 14, 2014
  22. ↑ Michael Wuliger : Critical Jew on duty - The media career of Professor Rolf Verleger. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. August 18, 2014, accessed June 20, 2017 .
  23. ^ Rolf Verleger on anti-Semitism. “It's not a terrorist attack!” Interview by Benno Schirrmeister. In: Taz, September 10, 2016
  24. ↑ Daniel Schacht (Interviewer): "We want words and deeds match" / Rolf Verleger and Yazid Shammout about the Alliance to end the Israeli occupation - which is founded today in Hannover . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 2, 2016, p. 6.
  25. ↑ Carolin Henkenberens: Is Bremen a stronghold of anti-Semitism? , Weser-Kurier , September 14, 2016.
  26. ↑ Advisory board members on the DAG website .
  27. ^ Website of the German-Palestinian Society .
  28. ^ Website of the Friends of Neve Shalom / Wahat as Salam .
  29. ↑ Ludwig Watzal: Israel's Politics as a Danger to Jewish Identity , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 16, 2008.
  30. ↑ Martin Forberg: Bridges to Palestine , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 17, 2010.
  31. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Questions about anti-Semitism and Israel . Humanistic press service of August 6, 2008.
  32. ^ Karl Pfeifer : Anti-Zionist silent mail from Germany . Hagalil July 5, 2009.
  33. ^ Ina Rottscheidt: One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration , Deutschlandfunk, October 30, 2017.
  34. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : One-sided versus other one-sided . Humanistic press service of November 6, 2017.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The article by Micha Brumlik Universalism, Self-hatred or Jewish Anti-Semitism was first published in Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik 4/2007. The publisher's article Ethnicity as a substitute for religion in sheets 5/2007 continued the debate about the right solidarity with Israel .
  2. ↑ Selection of the articles with the most citations in which R. Verleger is named as the first author.
personal data
SURNAME Publisher, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical psychologist, university professor and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg