The Gerd Bucerius Institute for Research in Contemporary German History and Society is an academic institute at the University of Haifa . Created in 2001 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Foundation and its chairman, Professor Manfred Lanshtein [2] [3] . It bears the name of Gerd Bucerius . The Institute is engaged in the study of social and historical problems of modern Germany. The founder and first director of the institute was Professor Ifat Weiss [1] . Since 2008, the Director of the Institute is Dr. Amos Morris-Reich.
| Gerd Bucerius Institute for the Study of Contemporary German History and Society | |
|---|---|
| Type of | academic institute |
| Year of foundation | 2001 |
| Founders | ZEIT-Stiftung Foundation |
| Location |  Israel , Haifa University , Education Building, Room 645 |
| Key figures | Director: Amos Morris-Reich Founder and first director: Professor Ifat Weiss [1] |
| Field of activity | research and academic exchange |
| Site | bucerius.haifa.ac.il |
Research
The Institute sponsors research on contemporary history and the social, cultural and political realities of Germany and is actively working to increase the awareness and understanding of modern Germany among the academic community. In addition, the Institute promotes the intensification of academic exchange between Germany, Europe and Israel.
The thematic and methodological differences between the Institute’s research programs over the past decade include studies on identity, migration, integration, multiculturalism, citizenship and liberalism, “races”, visual history and the history of science in German, Israeli and European contexts. The Institute seeks in its studies to attract various disciplinary topics and methodologies, historical periods and geographical contexts, highlighting various aspects of modern German and Jewish history, which can reveal the complex problems of the confused history of modern Germany.
The Institute has become an important source of information on specific events in post-war Germany and Europe as a whole. University research results are regularly used by students and scientists of the University of Haifa, as well as ordinary people.
Scientific and social activities
The Institute annually organizes conferences, seminars and lectures by invited specialists, among which, for example, were lectures on the theme “Queer Identities in the Third Reich and the Holocaust” and “Concepts of the“ race ”in the humanities, dealing with a wide range of topics in areas of undoubted scientific interest and facilitating the organization of subsequent scientific discussions. In addition, during these events at the institute, lectures were given by prominent German public figures such as Rita Suessmouth, Josef Joffe and Wolf Birman . [four]
From time to time, the Institute organizes special events, such as film festivals and music shows, which attract a wide audience outside the university. In 2007, the institute took part in the organization of the DEFA / GDR film festival dedicated to “German cinema behind the Iron Curtain”, and in 2008 , the premiere of a musical drama entitled “The Myth and True Life of Marlene Dietrich ” took place.
Scholarships and Academic Exchange
The Bucerius Institute has an active exchange program for graduate and doctoral students, providing them with grants and scholarships. Under the auspices of the Institute, many lectures were given, sponsored by leading scientists. The institute contributes to the research of modern Germany conducted in Israel, and to collaboration with scientists from Israel and other countries.
The Institute’s partners are a number of international research institutions, such as the Leo Beck Institute, the German-Israeli Foundation for Research and Development (GIF), the Simon Dubnov Institute of Jewish History and Culture, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research , the Institute for the History of German Jews, and the Research Group "Didactics of Biology" from the University of Jena , various German foundations in Israel, as well as other academic institutions in Germany and Israel.
Publications
In March 2005, the Institute published Memory and Amnesia: The Holocaust in Germany, edited by Gilad Margalit and Ifat Weiss (in Hebrew). [5] This publication is the result of weekly workshops organized by the Bucerius Institute in 2001/2002. with leading Holocaust researchers in Israel, Germany, Europe and the United States. The workshops used historiography, groundwork in the field of fiction and cinematography to analyze the main narratives of victims, criminals and eyewitnesses in works on the history of the Holocaust.
In addition, some of the publications of the conference “Europe and Israel: what next?”, Concerning the issues of “re-emigration”, were included in the “Yearbook of the Leo Beck Institute 2004”. [6] In addition, the Institute published the results of its conference “Deadly Neighbors” in one of the issues of the magazine “Mittelweg 36. Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research”. [7]
Among other publications of the Institute, one can also mention a large number of publications by associate members of the Institute on the current history of Germany and the relations between Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Europe and Israel.
See also
- Buterius Institute
- Haifa University
- Zeit-stiftung
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 de: Yfaat Weiss
- ↑ Neues Bucerius-Zentrum: Zeit-Studien (German) (PDF). Newsletter von Universität Haifa P. 3. University of Haifa (März 2001). Date of treatment June 7, 2013. Archived on June 7, 2013.
- ↑ de: Manfred Lahnstein
- ↑ Newsletter der Universität Haifa, 01/2007, S. 11, in German.
- ↑ Margalit Gilad and Yfaat Weiss (Hrsg.): “Memory and Amnesia: The Holocaust in Germany” (in Hebrew), Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 2005.
- ↑ Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. 49, 2004, in English.
- ↑ "Mittelweg 36. Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, Jahrbuch 13 Oktober / November 2004", in German.