Yfaat Weiss

Yfaat Weiss (* 1962 in Haifa ) is an Israeli historian and director of the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig .

Life

After completing her doctorate at Tel Aviv University, Yfaat Weiss worked from 1997 to 2000 as a research assistant at the History Department of the University of Munich . She was the founder and between 2001 and 2008 head of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa . In 2008 she was appointed professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where she headed the Faculty of History until 2011. From 2010 to 2017 she was director of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University and has been director of the Simon Dubnow Institute since 2017 (since 2018: Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow).

Weiss was a fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna in 2003 , a guest at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig in 2004, a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research from 2005 to 2006, a fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University in 2007, and at the International Institute for Holocaust from 2007 to 2008 Research - Yad Vashem , 2008 visiting scholar at the Berlin Social Science Center , visiting professor and Anna Lindh Fellow at the Europe Center of Stanford University , 2014 to 2015 EURIAS Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and 2017 Honorary Fellow at the Historical College in Munich. She has been a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) since 2017 .

Awards

In 2012, Yfaat Weiss received the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thinking, endowed with 7,500 euros . The occasion was the publication of the German translation of your book Verdrängte Nachbarn. Wadi Salib - Haifa's expropriated memory , using the example of a district of Haifa to describe the displacement, expropriation and settlement of various ethnic and religious minorities and the civil society disputes associated with them. "Through her research, Ms. Weiss opens up new ways of thinking about the coexistence of ethnic groups and minorities in Israel," the jury judged as the reason.

In 2015 Weiss received the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines for Lea Goldberg's Hebrew translation . Apprenticeship years in Germany 1930-1933 .

Weiss has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2019 .

Fonts (selection)

Elisabeth Gallas , Anna Holzer-Kawalko, Caroline Jessen, Yfaat Weiss (eds.): Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-525-31083-0 (English, free full text in Open Access [PDF; 24.3 MB ]).
Displaced neighbors. Wadi Salib - Haifa's dispossessed memory. From the Heb. by Barbara Linner. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition HIS, 2012 (2007, he)
Lea Goldberg: Apprenticeship years in Germany 1930–1933. Translated from the Hebrew by Liliane Meilinger. With a foreword by Dan Diner , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010
Y. Weiss; M. Gilad (Ed.): Memory and Amnesia: The Holocaust in Germany. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2005 (he)
D. Levy; Y. Weiss (Ed.): Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002 (en)
Citizenship and Ethnicity. German and Polish Jews on the eve of the Holocaust. From the Heb. trans. by Matthias Schmidt. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000. Tel Aviv, Univ., Diss., 1997
M. Brenner ; Y. Weiss (Ed.): Zionist Utopia - Israeli Reality. Religion and Politics in Israel. Munich: CH Beck, 1999
A changing community of fate. Jewish education in National Socialist Germany. 1933-1938. Hamburg: Christians, 1991