The colloquium is the opening event of the research project »German-Israeli Research Cooperation in the Humanities (1970–2000)«, which focuses on studying this cooperation in the field of German Literature and History. The project is a joint initiative of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute with the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt.
The participants are scholars in the fields of History, German Literature and the History of Science. Their research lies at the interface between the German and Israeli scientific communities.
The aim of the colloquium is to discuss major questions of the research project: why and how German literature and language as well as German history became part of the Israeli university curriculum? Did the cooperation between the two states, which has gathered pace since the 1970s, exert an influence on the disciplines and their canon in both states?
What were the political implications of the German-Israeli cooperation, and were there also political consequences? The link between politics and academia is one of the questions to be addressed. Moreover, methodological questions of transfer and migration of knowledge will be discussed.

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Contact Germany
Dr. des. Jenny Hestermann
Fritz Bauer Institute
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
phone: +49.69.79832232
j.hestermann(at)fritz-bauer-institut.de

Contact Israel
Dr. des. Irene Aue-Ben-David
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
43 Jabotinsky Street
Jerusalem 9214116
phone: +972.2.5605222
irenea(at)vanleer.org.il
www.vanleer.org.il