The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Workshop Program
09:45–10:00 Gathering and Opening
Greetings: David Shulman, Director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (Jerusalem)
Introduction: Andreas Kraft, Laura Jockusch, Kim Wünschmann (Jerusalem)
10:00–11:00 Retribution
Chair: Uriel Simonsohn (Jerusalem)
Nurit Tsafrir (Tel Aviv)
Homicide and Blood Revenge: From Arab Custom to Muslim Law
Alon Harel (Jerusalem)
The Case against Privatization
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 Revenge
Chair: Gadi Sagiv (Jerusalem)
Kim Wünschmann (Jerusalem)
Revenge and Justice in the Concentration Camps:
Acting Out Conflicts in the ‘Jew Blocks’
Laura Jockusch (Jerusalem)
Between Revenge and Reconciliation:
Nazi Collaborators Trials in Jewish Courts in Postwar Germany
Andreas Kraft (Jerusalem)
Narratives of Jewish Revenge after the Holocaust
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 Reconciliation
Chair: Liat Hasenfratz (Jerusalem)
Devorah Manekin (Jerusalem)
The Political Legacies of Combat:
Attitudes towards War and Peace among Israeli Ex-Combatants
Ifat Maoz (Jerusalem)
Reconciling through Dialogue?
Reconciliation aimed Encounters in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Carol Kidron (Haifa)
Cambodian Buddhist Acceptance:
Cultural Alterity and the Many Facets of Post-Genocide Reconciliation