Public round table discussion with Prof. Dr. G. Daniel Cohen (Rice University, Houston), Prof. Dr. Jan T. Gross (Princeton University), Prof. Dr. Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York) and Dr. Tobias Freimüller (Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main); Chair: Dr. Elisabeth Gallas (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
The roundtable is followed by a public a »wine and cheese« reception.
The topic of the panel discussion will be continued by the international conference:
Building from Ashes. Jews in Postwar Europe (1945–1950)
Questions and Debates in Academic Research
Monday, December 4 to Tuesday, December 5, 2017
The international conference, with about twenty well-known researchers from all around the world, will feature the state of the art of academic research on the postwar history of European Jews. As the vast majority of surviving European Jews endured Nazi occupation, the focus of the symposium will be on those who experienced the war in different countries of the continent.
In the postwar years, Europe was a »savage continent«, trying to come to terms with perhaps the most lethal moment in modern human history. Amidst the ruins, poverty and destruction, surviving Jews were trying to rebuild their lives and communities, find their postwar identities, and face the recent Jewish catastrophe. The presentations will address these diverse postwar Jewish experiences.
The conference and the panel discussion will be held in English and are open to the public.
The complete program:
› Conference flyer (pdf-file)
A collaboration of the Fritz Bauer Institute with the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University and the Seminar for Judaism at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Supported by: Daimler AG, European Association for Jewish Studies, Hannelore Krempa Stiftung, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Nassauische Sparkasse, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen
Kontakt
Fritz Bauer Institut
An-Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 069.798 322-40
info(at)fritz-bauer-institut.de