Invitation I Einladung I הַזמָנָה

Vortrag von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helga Embacher

Antisemitismus im 21. Jahrhundert: linker Antisemitismus, rechte Bemühungen um Israel und Israels Reaktionen

Grußworte und Moderation: PD Dr. Louise Hecht

Grußworte: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft (Vorständin, Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien)

Wo:  Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien, Campus der Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4/Hof 1.12, 1090 Wien

Wann: 9. April 2024, 18:30 Uhr

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Mit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts wurde weltweit ein Anwachsen des Antisemitismus verzeichnet. Die sehr kontrovers geführte Debatte um einen „neuen Antisemitismus“ fokussierte lange auf einen linken und muslimischen Antisemitismus, mitunter von unterschiedlichen politischen Seiten vereinnahmt. Erst mit dem Terroranschlag auf die Synagoge in Pittsburgh (2018) und in Halle an der Saale (2019) sowie den sich abzeichnenden Wahlerfolgen rechter und rechtsextremer Parteien kam „rechtem Antisemitismus“ größere Aufmerksamkeit zu. Viele dieser Parteien (Front National, Fidesz, die Schwedendemokraten oder die FPÖ) hatten nunmehr eine pro-israelische Position übernommen, allerdings eng verbunden mit Islamfeindlichkeit und antisemitischen Verschwörungserzählungen.

Der Vortrag fokussiert zum einen auf die Rolle des Antizionismus im linken Spektrum und die Frage, wann dieser zum Antisemitismus mutiert und ob sich dabei klare Grenzen ausmachen lassen. Zum anderen werden rechte und rechtsextreme Positionen zu Israel kritisch hinterfragt. Damit stellt sich auch die Frage, wie die israelische Regierung auf linken Antisemitismus sowie die Annäherung von rechten Parteien und Politikern reagiert. Welche Rolle spielen dabei realpolitische Interessen, wann und wie werden Grenzen hinsichtlich der Beziehung zu rechten und rechtsextremen Parteien und Politikern gezogen, welche Rolle kommen dabei Antisemitismus zu und wie wird dieser interpretiert oder auch ignoriert?

Helga Embacher ist seit 2001 ao. Univ. Professorin am Fachbereich Geschichte an der Universität Salzburg. Sie war Gastprofessorin an der University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1997), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2003/04), an der University Innsbruck, Politikwissenschaft (2004) und zuletzt an der University Haifa, Israel (2022). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Nationalsozialismus, Jüdische Geschichte, Israel, Antisemitismus, Exilforschung.

Publikationen (Auswahl)
Antisemitismus in Europa. Fallbeispiele eines globalen Phänomens im 21. Jahrhundert. Wien: Böhlau, Wien 2019 (mit Bernadette Edtmaier und Alexandra Preitschopf).
Herausgeberin von Der Gaza-Krieg 2014 und sein Widerhall in Europa. Pro-Palästina-Demonstrationen und Antisemitismus-Debatten, in: Chilufim 18/2015 (Sonderheft): 105-150.
“Antisemitismus im linken Spektrum und in muslimischen Communities“, in: Europäische Rundschau, 47 (2019/3): 25-32.

In Zusammenarbeit mit

Internationales Forschungszentrum für soziale und ethische Fragen
Universität Wien, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien

Words of Greeting:

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Zöchling-Jud, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Mitchell G. Ash, President, Center for Israel Studies Vienna

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ursula Kriebaum, Department of European, International, and
Comparative Law, University of Vienna

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The on-going war in the Middle East is multifaceted. It encompasses the struggle between the Zionist movement seeking to establish refuge for the Jews in their ancient homeland and the Palestinian people resisting losing theirs. Additionally, there is a battle between extremists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide seeking to undermine the materialization of the two states vision. The far-reaching implications of this conflict challenge the existing international legal framework. International law is often invoked to temper these disputes. However, this too has become a battleground in both the academic and the political spheres, as seen most recently in the debates surrounding the complaint against Israel now being adjudicated at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. In this lecture, Professor Benvenisti will discuss some of the pivotal legal issues involved.

Eyal Benvenisti is the Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge since 2016, and was the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law there until 2024. He is Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the Institut de droit international. A Co-Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, he served on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law (2009-2018). He has held visiting professorships at the law schools at Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto and Yale, and in July 2024 will deliver the General Course at The Hague Academy of International Law.
Selected recent publications: Occupation in International Law, (Oxford University Press, 2022, with Eliav Lieblich); and Between Fragement and Democracy: the Role of National and International Courts. (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with George W. Downs).

Cooperation with the Department of European, International, and Comparative Law, University of Vienna

With the support of:  The Austrian Israeli Society

Abstract:  When people think about the Zionist “New Jew” in early twentieth century Europe, all-male spaces like sporting clubs and dueling fields come to mind. Yet the dance floor was an important proving ground (and site of anxiety) for Jewish men, who demonstrated their adherence to European and Zionist views of masculinity by dancing with women, an activity forbidden by traditional Judaism. This talk examines how Zionist balls could reenact heated debates about German identity and a Jewish state, focusing in particular on Clementine Krämer's 1918 serialized novel, Der Weg des jungen Hermann Kahn.

BIO | Dr. Sonia Gollance is Lecturer in Yiddish at University College London. Her book, It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2021) was a National Jewish Book Awards (USA) finalist.

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The Center for Israel Studies Vienna, in Cooperation with the Vienna School of International Studies, invites you to a

Symposium in Recognition of the 120th Anniversary of the Death of Theodor Herzl

" Remembering What Herzl Stood For: The Past and Future of Zionism"

Date: Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 18:00h (6:00 pm)

Place: Main Hall, Vienna School of International Studies, Favoritenstraße 15A, 1040 Vienna

Theodor Herzl’s vision for a Jewish state was well expressed in Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948: „The state of Israel will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed or sex; will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture; will safeguard the sanctity and inviolability of shrines and holy places of all religions; and will dedicate itself to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations“.

The purpose of this event is to remember that inspiring vision, and to consider its future prospects.

Co-sponsors/Contributors:
Österreichisch - Israelische Gesellschaft, New Israel Fund Austria, Josef F. Shaked Fonds

Words of greeting: Prof. Dr. Emil Brix, Director, Vienna School of International Studies
Moderator: em. Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash, President of the Center for Israel Studies Vienna

Keynote address by Prof. Dr. Arieh Saposnik, Ben Gurion Institute for the Study of
Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheba, Author of  Zionism’s Redemptions: Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism (2021)

Additional remarks by

Senior Scientist Dr. Stephan Wendehorst, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna
em. Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger, University of Haifa, author of Deutschland und Israel nach dem 7. Oktober (2024), and Alon Ishay, President of the Jewish-Austrian Students’ Association.

Discussion among the speakers, followed by questions or comments from the audience.
Language: English

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Prof. Dr. Arieh Saposnik is Associate Professor at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, and Editor of the journal Israel Studies. Before coming to BGU, Saposnik held the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies at UCLA, where he was also the founding director of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He is a historian of Zionism and Jewish nationalism in the broader context of the construction of national cultures and identities. In his current research, Saposnik is working on imagery and symbolism of the sacred in the making of Jewish nationalism, and in Zionism and Israeli culture in particular. He is also studying competing notions of the link between Jews and territory in the modern world.

Prof. Dr. Fania Oz-Salzberger is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, and a leading Israeli intellectual who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 2020. She has published extensively on the political theory of the Scottish enlightenment, German-Israeli relations, and contemporary politics in Israel and the Near East.  Her books include Israelis in Berlin (2001), Jews and Words (with her father Amos Oz) (2012), and The Israeli Nation-State: Political, Constitutional, and Cultural Challenges (ed. with Yedidia Stern 2014).

Senior Scientist Dr. Stephan Wendehorst teaches at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. He works in the fields of legal history in Early Modern Europe, with emphasis on Jewish law; international law; and international humanitarian law. His publications include British Jewry, Zionism and the Jewish State 1936-1956 (2012) and Geschichte jüdischen Rechts vor, mit und jenseits des Nationalstaats (2020). He completed a research project, “Theodor Herzl als österreichischer Staats-und Verfassungsrechtler? Der Einfluss des österreichischen Staats- und Verfassungsrechts auf die jüdische Nationalbewegung und deren verfassungsrechtliche Konzepte” in 2023.