Workshop Program
09:00–09:15 Gathering
09:15–09:30
Greetings: Ruth HaCohen, Director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (Jerusalem)
Introduction: Kim Wünschmann (Jerusalem)
09:30–11:00 Panel I
Approaching Visiting Ritual: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Sociological Concepts
Chair: Nitzan Rothem (Jerusalem)
Francesca Fiaschetti (Jerusalem)
Lost in Translation: Diplomacy, Power and Cultural Encounters under Mongol Rule
Tawfiq Da’adli (Jerusalem)
al-Rihla al-Qudsiyya: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi’s Journey to Jerusalem
Orit Gazit (Jerusalem)
Georg Simmel’s “Excursus on the Stranger”: Reflections on the Stranger as a Social Form
11:00–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 Panel II
Official Visits: Diplomacy in Israel and Germany
Chair: Ellinor Morack (Jerusalem)
Gad Yair (Jerusalem)
Israeli Diplomacy: An Oxymoron?
Jenny Hestermann (Berlin/Frankfurt a. M.)
Overcoming the Past? The 1973 Visit of Willy Brandt as a Turning Point in the German-Israeli “Special Relationship”
12:15–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:45 Panel III
Visiting Places of Origin:
Local Politics and German-Jewish Encounters
Chair: Stefanie Mahrer (Jerusalem)
Lina Nikou (Hamburg/Jerusalem)
Between Personal Approach and Administrative Processes – Organized Visits for Jewish Former Citizens of Major German Cities
Kim Wünschmann (Jerusalem)
Returning Home? German-Jewish Encounters in Postwar Rural Hesse
Stefanie Fischer (Berlin/Potsdam)
Visiting the Past: On Shame, Guilt and New Relations of Holocaust Survivors to their Former Hometowns, 1945–1960
14:45–15:15 Coffee Break
15:15–16:16 Panel IV
German-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust: Locality, Memory and Identity
Chair: Stefanie Fischer (Berlin/Potsdam)
Alexandra Tyrolf (Berlin)
Cautious Encounters: Rereading the Memories of First Visits to Germany after the Second World War
Anne C. Schenderlein (Washington DC)
Tentative Travelers: American German Jewish Refugees Finding Identity Through Trips Back to Germany
16:15–17:00 Final Discussion
Moderator: Lina Nikou (Hamburg/Jerusalem)