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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
history of jewish people & contemporary jewry
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Yfaat Weiss
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 12:00-14:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Yfaat Weiss
Course/Module description:
The seminar offers a forum for the fellows of the FRMRC, affiliated researchers and research students from the Hebrew University to present and discuss their research projects.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
write research proposals and start their own research project
Attendance requirements(%):
80
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Guest lectures, oral presentations
Course/Module Content:
German History; Modern Jewish-German Literature; German-Jewish Thought; Cultural Property
Required Reading:
Reading materials will be chosen by the presenters and sent 2 week before each meeting.
Additional Reading Material:
Monday, 07.11.2016
Dr. Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan and Dr. Samuel Barnai
Presentation of the GIF project:
"At their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe"
Sunday-Monday, 13-14.11.2016
International Conference:
"Universities and Nation Building"
Monday, 21.11.2016
Guest Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Weidner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin)
"Total Democracy". Hermann Broch, Totalitarianism and Human Rights
Monday, 28.11.2016
- Ahuva Liberles-Noiman (FRMRC)
"'Almost Antonious Margaritha': Being a Covert in Late Middle Ages"
- Tzafrir Barzilay (Postdoctoral fellow, ERC Beyond the Elite, HUJI)
"Well-poisoning accusations against Jews in 1349 - why did they take place mostly in the German Empire?"
Wednesday, 30.11.2016
Book launch
"In Three Landscapes: Lea Goldberg's Early Writings" by Natasha Gordinsky
in Hebrew)
Monday, 05.12.2016
Ann-Kathrin Pollmann
"Fragemts from the End of Times. Günther Anders on the loss of History"
Wednesday-Thursday, 7-8.12.2016
Workshop:
"1976: Zwischen Exodus und Ausbürgerung"
Sunday-Monday, 11-12.12.2016
A reading and a seminar with Zafer Senocak
Monday, 19.12.2016
- Andrea Kirchner (FRMRC)
"Like an Island in the Stormy Sea. Richard Lichtheim in Geneva (1939–1946)"
- Maja Krüger (FRMRC)
"Vom "jüdischen Juden" zum Kritischen Theoretiker. Eine intellektuelle Biographie Leo Löwenthals"
Thursday, 29.12.2016
International Conference in Honor of Prof. Dan Diner
Monday, 09.01.2017
TBA
Wednesday-Thursday, 11-12.01.2017
Workshop:
"Die Zeitschrift 'Die Kreatur' als intellektuelles Netzwerk und Diskursmedium"
Monday, 16.01.2017
- Miriam Szamet (FRMRC)
"Practice Versus Theory in the Hebrew Education Discourse in Palestine, 1900 - 1935"
- Silja Behre (FRMRC)
"German-Jewish Intellectual Relations beyond the 'Icons of the Weimar Republic' - The example of Jochanan Bloch (1919-1979) between Berlin and Beer Sheva"
Monday, 23.01.2017
Guest Lecutre:
Anne-Kathrin Reulecke (University of Graz)
"Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900"
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 30 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 40 %
Project work 30 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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