Guests Lecture Series
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Di28Jan20206:30 pmHaus der Geschichte Österreich, Eingang: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Standort: Neue Burg, Heldenplatz, Wien.
To commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we cordially invite to a Special Screening at the House of Austrian History. Bureau 06 - The Architects of the Trial. A documentary film by Yoav Halevy
To commemorate the
International Holocaust Remembrance Day we cordially invite to aSpecial Screening at the House of Austrian History
Bureau 06 - The Architects of the Eichmann Trial
A documentary film by Yoav Halevy (Open Doors Films/Israel)"...This is the dramatic story of Bureau 06, the team of police investigators formed for the sole purpose of investigating and preparing the grave charges brought by the Jewish people
against Adolf Eichmann, during the trial that took place in Jerusalem, 1961..."Welcome: Dr. Monika Sommer, Director House of Austrian History
The screening will be followed by a conversation with H.E. Ambassador Mordechai Rodgold, film director Yoav Halevy and historian Univ. Doz. Dr. Heidemarie Uhl, moderated by Dr. Thomas BallhausenEntrance: Main entrance at the Neue Burg/Heldenplatz/Nationalbibliothek
In cooperation with the Embassy of Israel, the House of Austrian History and the Austrian-Israeli Society
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Mi24Jun20207:30 pmWEB FORUM Center for Israel Studies Vienna
Discourse of Suspicion: Unpacking the Debate between Zionism and Postcolonialism
Join the Web Forum of the Center for Israel Studies Vienna for a controversial debate:
“Discourse of Suspicion: Unpacking the Debate between Zionism and Postcolonialism”
Please register at office@center-for-israel-studies.at (we will send you the link to our Zoom event)These two articles should give short background information
Keywords: Achille Mbembe, controversy, anti-Semitism, BDS movementDW - Deutsche Welle, 30 April 2020. Article by Sabine Peschel
https://www.dw.com/en/why-achille-mbembe-was-accused-of-anti-semitism/a-53293797Die Zeit, 20 May 2020. Interview with Felix Klein, commissioner for the fight against anti-Semitism in Germany
"I See No Need for an Apology"
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2020-05/felix-klein-holocaust-achille-mbembe-protests-english?sort=desc24 June 2020
7:30 pm (CEST)
via ZOOMWelcome: Professor Barbara Prainsack
The discussion will be moderated by Dr Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Vicepresident of the Center for Israel Studies Vienna
This event will be conducted in English. It will be broadcast live at the Center for Israel Studies FB Page.Our virtual panel will be recorded and will be available on our website after the event.
About the panelists:
Dr Dani Kranz: 2009 Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews in St Andrews. Director, Two Foxes Consulting, Germany; Senior Research Affiliate, Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany; External Research Affiliate, Zelikovitz Center for Jewish Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Publications: i.a. “Thinking Big: Classical Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies Past, Present, Presence and Israel Studies Thought Together, in Intersections of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the 21st Century”(eds.) Carsten Schapow and Klaus Hödl, 2019, and “Foreign Europeans in a Post-Colonial Context: The Entanglement of Inclusion and Exclusion on Macro-, Meso-, and Micro Levels of non-Jewish, Foreign Spouses and Partners of Israeli Jews in Israel” https://grenzenlos.hypotheses.org/93, 2015.
Prof Dr Natan Sznaider: 1992 PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in New York, USA; 1993 lecturer in Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; 1994 Associate Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv; 1998–1999 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich. Currently Professor at the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo.
Publications: i.a. “Neuer Antisemitismus? Fortsetzung einer globalen Debatte” (ed. with Doron Rabinovici and Christian Heilbronn); edition suhrkamp, Berlin, 2019; “Herzl reloaded. Kein Märchen” with Doron Rabinovici, edition suhrkamp, Berlin, 2016. “The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age” with Daniel Levy, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006. “Gesellschaften in Israel – Eine Einführung in zehn Bilder“, edition suhrkamp, Berlin, 2017. -
Mi25Nov20207:30 pmWEB FORUM Center for Israel Studies Vienna
Dr Louise Hecht: “Jewish Agency and Austrian Culture in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem”
“Jewish Agency and Austrian Culture in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem”
In 1856, the Lämel-School was set up in Jerusalem as the first modern Jewish school in the city. According to the wish of the donator Elise Herz-Lämel (1788-1868), it should provide modern education to citizens of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Holy City. Elise Herz-Lämel chose the well-known writer and secretary of Vienna’s Jewish community Ludwig August Frankl (1810-1894) to implement the project. Frankl thus embarked on a lengthy journey to the Middle East. An analysis of Frankl’s different missions serves to illustrate the ambivalent position of Jews – as the European Orientals – in the Orient as well as Jewish commitment to academic, social and cultural projects of Austrian society before the era of legal emancipation.
Following the Welcome note of Prof Dr Mitchell Ash and the lecture, the discussion will be moderated by Dr Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Vicepresident of the Center for Israel Studies Vienna
This event will be conducted in English. It will be broadcast live at the Center for Israel Studies FB Page. Our virtual panel will be recorded and will be available on our website after the event.
Please register at: office@center-for-israel-studies.at (we will send you the link to our Zoom event)About the speaker:
Dr Louise Hecht: historian; doctorate summa cum laude in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, habilitation in Jewish cultural history at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, research assistant at the University of Potsdam. Research focus: Central European Jewish history since the 18th century. Publications include: Ein jüdischer Aufklärer in Böhmen (2008) and the edited volume Ludwig August Frankl (1810-1894): Eine jüdische Biographie zwischen Okzident und Orient (2016). -
Di15Dez20207:00 pmWEB FORUM Center for Israel Studies Vienna
Prof David N. Myers "A Chanukah Story: The Birth of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem"
Prof. Dr. David N. Myers, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, Director UCLA Center for History and Policy; President of the New Israel Fund
Tuesday, 15 December 20207:00 PM CEST
“A Chanukah Story: The Birth of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem“
The Institute for Jewish Studies (IJS) of the Hebrew University was inaugurated at Chanukah time 1924. It was intended to serve as a source of illumination to the scholarly world, as well as a harmonious meeting point of east and west. With its birth, Jewish studies in Jerusalem was born.
This talk will explore the arc of the IJS from its humble Chanukah origins to the present.
Following the Welcome note of Dr. Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Vice-president Center for Israel Studies Vienna and the lecture, the discussion will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash, Board Member of the Center for Israel Studies Vienna.
This event will be conducted in English. It will be broadcast live at the Center for Israel Studies FB Page. Our virtual panel will be recorded and will be available on our website after the event.
Please register at: office@center-for-israel-studies.at (we will send you the link to our Zoom event)About the speaker:
David N. Myers is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including a forthcoming book with Nomi Stolzenberg on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York. Myers serves as President of the New Israel Fund.Many thanks to the New Israel Fund Austria for the cooperation and to the University of Vienna Department of Contemporary History for the support.
