Jacob S. Eder
Sunday, January 12
18.00
Reception
18.30
Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa
Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
19.00
Keynote Address
Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Language and Belonging: The German-Israeli Encounter in Luxembourg, 1952
20.00
Welcome Dinner
Monday, January 13
9.00
Panel 1: Between Governments and Societies
Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa:
Israel and Germany: Reconciliation, “Normalization”, and Universal Lessons
Lily Gardner Feldman, Johns Hopkins University:
Special Relationship, Reconciliation, Friendship, or Alliance? The Role of Memory and Interests in the German-Israeli Partnership
Katharina Konarek, University of Haifa/University of the Bundeswehr Munich:
Political Foundations and their Influence on German Foreign Policy: The Case of Israel and the Palestinian Territories, 2000–2010
10.45
Coffee Break
11.15
Panel 2: The Early Decades
Shlomo Aronson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
David Ben-Gurion and the Federal Republic: The Domestic Israeli Scene
Jenny Hestermann, Technical University of Berlin:
Politics of Scandal? Konrad Adenauer’s Visit to Israel in 1966 and His Clash with Levi Eshkol
Kristina Meyer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
The SPD, the Jews, and the State of Israel, 1945–1970
13.00
Lunch Break
14.30
Panel 3: Diaspora I – American Jewry
Zohar Segev, University of Haifa:
Remembering and Rebuilding: American Jewry, Europe, and Germany in the 1940s and 1950s
Jacob S. Eder, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
Cold War Diplomacy and Holocaust Memory: West German-American Jewish Relations in the 1980s
15.45
Coffee Break
16.15
Panel 4: Diaspora II – German Jewry
Constantin Goschler, Ruhr University Bochum:
The Securitization of German-Jewish-Israeli Relations in Postwar Germany
Tobias Freimüller, Friedrich Schiller University Jena:
Migration, Memory, and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main
18.00
Reception
19.00
Germany, Israel, and Global Affairs: A Personal Perspective
Manfred Lahnstein in Conversation with Fania Oz-Salzberger
Tuesday, January 14
9.00
Panel 5: Germany, Israel, and the Arab World
Carole Fink, Ohio State University:
“The Most Difficult Journey of All”: Willy Brandt’s Trip to Israel in June 1973
Hubert Leber, Philipps University of Marburg/University of Haifa:
“The Leopard that Forgot the Holocaust”? Israel, West Germany’s Arms Export Policy, and the Saudi Tank Deal Debate in 1981/82
Jan Busse, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin:
Between Historical Responsibility and Two-State Solution: Politics of Memory and the German Foreign Policy towards the Middle East Conflict, 1998–2009
10.45
Coffee Break
11.15
Panel 6: East Germany and Israel
Lorena De Vita, Aberystwyth University:
The Mistake of Dr. Seydewitz: Reflections on the East and West German Foreign Policies towards Israel in the Long 1950s
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland:
East Germans at War with Israel during the Cold War
Angelika Timm, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tel Aviv:
The “Third Third”: The Approach of the East German Political Elites to Jewish and Israeli Claims
13.00
Lunch Break
14.30
Panel 7: Academic Relations I
Amos Morris-Reich, University of Haifa:
The “First Letters” of Jacob Wahrman in Historical Perspective
Dani Schrire, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
Tangled Narratives: German-Israeli Folklore Research, 1955–1970
15.45
Coffee Break
16.15
Panel 8: Academic Relations II
Ute Deichmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:
The Difficult Beginnings of Israeli-German Collaboration in the Sciences: Scientific Motivations and Political Agendas
Sharon Livne, University of Haifa:
Initial Contacts in the Scientific Relations between Israel and Germany (1945–1965)
17.30
Closing Remarks
Hubert Leber, Philipps University of Marburg/University of Haifa