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| 2011/12 |
| Group Projects |
Rethinking the History of Capitalism: How Emotions Became Commodities
Head of project: Prof. Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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| Individual Projects |
Perspectives of Otherness: Muslims in Europe between assimilation and polarization
Shiri Relevy
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"The EU in Motion through Emotions": the influence of fear on the EU Migration Policy towards the Mediterranean
Emmanuelle Blanc
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Globalization and Resentment of Migrants: Evidence from the European Union, 2002-2010
Michael Freedman
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Early Contats, Long Effects. Historicity of intergovernmental relations through the example of German-Israeli state visits 1957-1965
Jennifer Hestermann
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Paul Celan in Hebrew
Einat Ohana
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The Extent of Preservation and Aspects of Modification of the `Solita forma' in Nineteenth Century Italian Opera Seria (1810-1870)
Sonia Mazar
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Muslim Youth in Germany and the Question of Secondary Antisemitism: Marginalization, Identities, and Educational Opening
Julia Eksner
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Memory and Memorialization in Germany after 1945 and their Embodiment in the Monument Discourse
Moran Pearl
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| 2010/11 |
| Group Projects |
The Hero as Resistor: Beyond 'Die Gedanken sind Frei' Theme in German Culture
Head of project: Prof. Gad Yair, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
In cooperation with Dr. Samira Alayan, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen
Research Assistants:
Yaron Girsh, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Shiri Shapira, M.A. student, Department of General and Comparative Literature
Elad Or, M.A. student, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Itamar Tehar Lev, M.A. student, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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| Individual Projects |
Once More, With Feeling: The Reinterpretation of German Classics in Robert Wilson's Rock Musicals
Keren Cohen
The purpose of this research is to examine Robert Wilson’s adaptations of German classics into rock musicals. These works are of key importance for understanding the aesthetics of the American master of visual theatre, since they present a triple meeting point between Wilson’s hauntingly beautiful stage images; the classical German text, which has played an increasingly significant role in the director’s theatre; and music, which has always been of particular importance to his work. Like a substantial part of the director’s stage visions created during the past three decades, the two musicals which are the focus of this research – The Black Rider (1989) and Leonce und Lena (2005) – premiered on the German stage and are the fruits of intercultural German-American collaboration. The research will investigate the interactions created between the visual, textual and musical layers, as well as wider issues concerning theatre history and aesthetics, current performance practice and German-American interculturalism.
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12th Century Labyrinth Pavements in French Cathedrals
Shiri Fridman
In Medieval times, Chartres cathedral served as a prominent place of worship and housed some of the more influential attractions for pilgrims in France - its Marianic relics and its 13th century paved floor depicting a labyrinth. This large scale labyrinth allowed the pilgrims to walk along its enigmatic path as part of a meditative liturgical performance. They saw it as the route to salvation, its winding paths guiding one away from sin and perhaps as mapping an imagined pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This is the only Gothic church labyrinth to have survived, and thus is at the heart of the recent years "labyrinth revival". This revival attracts tourists from all over the who wish to walk the path. This research will examine and both phenomena and compare between the Medieval pilgrims to the presents day ones, in attempt to understand the latter through the first and reveal the symbolism and hidden meanings of the labyrinth.
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A European Single Market in Healthcare Services by Stealth?
Dr. Lior Herman
The research explores why and how a European market in healthcare services is emerging despite EU Member States’ reluctance to expand the Single Market into the area of healthcare services. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the themes of market construction and market integration, this project explores whether de facto or spontaneous market integration is taking place in healthcare services. The analysis combines economic measurement of trade through the conceptual framework of the four modes of services supply with a political, sociological and legal assessment of the creation of market institutions and rules of the game. It is argued that while political disagreement persists, market forces push towards greater integration as indicated by the growth of healthcare trade between the Member States.
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Anti-Terrorism-Diplomacy: German-Israeli Relations in the 1970s
Simon Hilber
Since September 11, 2001, terrorism has become a central concern of public and scholarly discourse alike. Missing from the discussion, however, has been the perspective on the historical conditions of terrorism and counterterrorism – and the aspect of foreign policy and diplomacy regarding the fight against terrorism. This paper focuses on how terrorism has influenced interstate relations and how states have cooperated in their fight against terrorism. Not only have states tried to combat terrorism diplomatically and on the international level, terrorism has sometimes directly influenced states’ relations. German-Israeli relations are a prime example, especially during the 1970s, which was the birth epoch of modern terrorism and the period where the first tools and methods were developed to deal with it.
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A Bridge Between Orient and Occident: The Case of the Ottoman-Sephardi Jews of the Habsburg Monarchy During the 17th-19th Century
Moshe Maggid
Little work has been done so far on the thriving Sephardic communities within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The Turkish-Sephardic Jewish community in Vienna was the most important and probably best documented. This study is exploring this community from its earliest beginnings until the start of the twentieth century, when it was one of the major loci for Ladino literature.
The founders of the community – former Marranos and Jews from Turkey, mainly Istanbul – were involved in trade and tax collection, and were part of a vast, tightly-knit network of Sephardic communities both in the Occident and the Orient. The communal organization, its institutions and the models according to which they were founded and functioned are of great interest. Sources consulted include minute books, registries and other archival materials, including municipal and governmental documents.
The results of the research will shed light on the creation and the shaping of this important community as well as on its communal life and its place within the late Sephardic world, and would assist us in understanding “sister communities” of Sephardic Jewry in other locations of the monarchy.
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The Reception of Contemporary Israeli Literature in Germany
Dr. Karin Neuburger
In his book Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America, Alan Mintz remarks that since the early 1990s, the sales of Israeli literature translated into German have been steadily increasing. The question arises: why is it that Israeli literature of the last two or three decades goes from strength to strength on the German book-market?
The research project proposed herewith is meant to provide an answer to this question by analyzing reviews published in German newspapers, journals and websites in response to a couple of Israeli novels. Such an analysis may allow a characterization of the way Germans relate to Israel and Israeli culture.
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Challenges for the European Integration: Legitimacy Problem, Community Deficit and National Pride
Odelia Oshri
The European Union traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC) formed by six countries in the 1950s. Since then the EU has not just grown from 6 to 27 member states but also has broadened and deepened the cooperation between its members. At the same time, some are calling to restrict the process of deepening/broadening the cooperation between the EU’s members. Such calls are significantly evident in the Euro-barometer and EVS surveys conducted among European citizens and are manifested in the difficulties some members face in ratifying the EU treaties. From this standpoint, it seems that during the years of integration a community deficit emerged, whereby a mismatch exists between ever higher levels of integration and a shortage of community building.
This project will study the sources of the gap between the scope and level of integration and the community deficit. The research examines three potential sources of this gap by addressing three different though interconnected research questions: (1). Is there an evident convergence over time in democratic values between European citizens and European institutions? (2). Is there an evident convergence over time in democratic values among the EU’s member states? (3). Is national pride an obstacle to further integration? The three questions offer a “bottom-up perspective” for understanding the integration process; that is, they highlight the importance of the people as a decisive factor in the integration, while deviating from conventional integration theories.
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Political Culture in Transition: FSU Immigrants in Israel and Germany
Michael Philippov
This research aims to enlarge empirical and theoretical knowledge in political adaptation studies by focusing on political transferability from an undemocratic cultural space to a democratic one and by evaluating political adaptation of immigrants from the FSU in Israel and in Germany depending on personal socioeconomic and general sociopolitical conditions.
Using a concept of cultural “tool kit” and viewing immigrants’ political culture as a hybrid of “old” and “new,” this research uses a multilevel approach where the political experience of the immigrants and their personal conditions create two separate levels. For the first level, the following research questions are explored: what are the differences between the cultural repertoires of immigrants in Israel and in Germany? Which cultural tools form the current political-cultural repertoire of immigrants in Israel and in Germany? The main question on the second level is: is there a statistical relationship between the level of socioeconomic adaptation of immigrants in Israel and in Germany and their political views in the following areas: alternatives to democracy, liberalism, and the relationship between state and citizens?
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The Connection between Political Activity in the Social Democratic Party in Germany and the Historical Memory and the Collective Responsibility of the Third
Ido Porat
The research explores the impact of collective memory on individuals in Germany today. It focuses on the collective guilt and responsibility of German society, led by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (the S.P.D) under Willy Brandt in the 1960s and 1970s, and its expression in the third generation since the Holocaust via the case study of political activity. The new generations, regardless of their own private past, identify with the heritage of the S.P.D as a solidarity party that fought for equality and justice and stood against the Nazis, and they join the party with the motivation to change German society in the name of history. The research considers domestic aspects such as the stand against the Neo-Nazis or the work for integration, and foreign issues such as the guaranteed support for Israel or the reconciliation with Poland. In analyzing the influence of memory on the first and second generations, together with interviews and surveys of the third generation, the research examines the changes in the Social Democratic trend in Germany, (West Germany until 1990), and examines the motivation for political activism today.
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The Use of the Legend of the "Wandering Jew" in Germany and Austria at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Tuvia Singer
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The EU's External Trade Policy: Between Self Interests and Normative Agenda
Rotem Tal-Grizmann
The European Union perceives its external role as normative and aspires to export its norms and values to its wider region. Nonetheless, some of its self-interests (mainly security ones) may contradict this normative discourse, especially in its relations with its southern neighbors in the Mediterranean. This research explores the gap, if there is one, between the EU’s normative discourse and its self-interest as manifested in EU-Southern Mediterranean relations. As a part of the research I try to assess to what extent EU ambitions in the Mediterranean context were met in the fields of economy and political-social-cultural reform, which includes democracy and human rights promotion. Referring to recent events in North Africa and the removal of authoritarian regimes there, I focus on Egypt and Tunisia as case studies. My objective is to compare the formal normative discourse of the EU with its self-interests and thereby draw conclusions on the dynamics that shapes EU policy towards the Mediterranean region, and North Africa in particular.
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| 2009/10 |
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Consuming Memory and Constructing Identities in Modern Germany and Europe
Prof. Bianca Kühnel, Dr. Irit Dekel, The European Forum
In 2008 a group of graduate students from various disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities started a project dedicated to memory. . In their first year of work, which concluded in a four day international seminar, the group focused on discussion of the relationship between consumption, shelf life and collective memory, analyzed through the different methodologies represented by the team members: history, literature, sociology, art history, media and culture studies.
The progress made in the first year led at the beginning of the academic year 2009-2010 to the formation of two complementary clusters of work. The original focus on post 1945 Germany shifted to encompass a wider chronological and geographical scope, with the cluster topics forming the meeting ground. One cluster focuses on movement and place, linking motion to emotion in relation to personal and collective past, and analyzing the universal role of place as a catalyst of motion, emotion and memory. The second cluster is testing the relevance of various polarities such as personal/collective, synchronic/diachronic, which will be examined as possible linking themes during the coming semester.
The sponsorship of the Center for German Studies is contributing to improvement of personal research through feedback and criticism of the interdisciplinary forum. The work in clusters will lead to the articulation of a common frame-work for different case studies, culminating in the writing of essays which all relate to one another in terms of super-structures and terminology, while finding common ground between different topics. The essays will be edited by an editorial board for a European Forum publication. Thus the group hopes that by the end of the year they will not only have contributed to their different subject matters, but will have test-piloted a way of working, writing and publishing as a team. The group aims at conceiving a research proposal to be submitted to an external fund.
Participants:
Dr. Markus Helmut Lenhart, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
Yonatan Amir, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Adi Kantor, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Avraham Rot, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Mark Volovici, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Neta Bar-Yosef Bodner, M.A. student, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Michal Goren, M.A student, Department for Comparative Literature
Gal Engelhard, PhD candidate, Haifa University, Department of Communication
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Narrative, Dreams, Imagination: Israeli and German Youth Imagine their Future
Dr. Jennifer Glaser, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education, Melton Center
In cooperation with:
Prof. Dr. Baruch Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education
Dr. Zvi Beckerman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education
Dr. Nicole Hochner, Hebrew University, Department of Political Science
Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb, University of Regensburg, Institute for Political Sciences
Dr. Barbara Weber, University of Regensburg, Institute for Political Sciences
Prof. Dr. Eva Marsal, University of Education Karlsruhe, Institute for Philosophy and Theology
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| Individual Projects |
Unpacking the Suitcase: Jewish Life and Identity in Germany
Susanne Cohen-Weisz
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Homeward Bound? The Role of Israel in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature
Yaniv Feller
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"Willing Suspension of Belief " and "Dissimulation of Absence" – Comparison in the Theatrical Reception of "Nathan the Wise" in Israel and Germany, after 1945
Jan Kühne
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Ordnungswidrigkeitenrecht: A "Governmentality" Perspective on the Emergence of the Administrative Power to Punish in Post-War Germany
Dr. Daniel Ohana
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Images in Transformation: Representations of Germany and Germans in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Ido Ramati
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| 2008/9 |
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Consuming Memory and Constructing Identities in Modern Germany and Europe
Prof. Bianca Kühnel, Dr. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Dr. Irit Dekel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Organizer: Avraham Rot
Collective memory has played a significant role throughout the 20th century, especially in constructing and de-constructing contemporary European identities. The group explores the “shelf life” of memory in modern Europe and maps its various representations. By creating an interdisciplinary work platform, the group is able to broaden and deepen the new study on memory frameworking and consuming processes. The research focuses on memory as a product, consumed and shared by others.
Participants:
Dr. Markus Helmut Lenhart, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
Yonatan Amir, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Mor Aram, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Adi Kantor, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Avraham Rot, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Mark Volovici, M.A. student, Center for German Studies
Neta Bar-Yosef Bodner, M.A. student, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Racheli Eden, M.A. student, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Iris Gerlitz, PhD candidate, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Michal Goren, M.A student, Department for Comparative Literature
Meetings:
1.4.2009, 16:15-18:00
22.4.2009, 18:15-19:45
6.5.2009, 16:15-18:00
20.5.2009, 16:15-18:00
3.6.2009, 16:15-18:00
17.6.2009, 16:15-18:00
24.6.2009, 16:15-18:00
July- August: Summer Break
2.9.2009, 16:15-18:00
16.9.2009, 16:15-18:00
14.10.2009, 16:15-18:00
Faculty of Humanities, Mt. Scopus, room 5815
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The Holy Land and Europe
Prof. Bianca Kühnel, The European Forum
Participants:
Dr. Galit Noga-Banai, Department of the History of Art
Dr. Anastasia Keshman, Department of the History of Art
Pnina Arad, PhD candidate, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Neta Bar-Yosef Bodner, M.A. student, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Renana Bartal, PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art
Ira Chernetzky, PhD candidate, Department of the History of Art
Iris Gerlitz, PhD candidate, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Yamit Rachman-Schrire, PhD candidate, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Tsafra Siew, PhD candidate, European Forum at the Hebrew University
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The Dialectic of Secularization and Religion in Contemporary Europe
Prof. Christoph Schmidt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
In cooperation with:
Prof. Immanuel Gutmann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Remy Brague, University Paris I
Prof. Axel Hutter, University of Munich
Prof. Angelika Neuwirth, FU Berlin
Prof. Wolfgang Palaver, University of Innsbruck
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Culture and Conflict:
The Overcoming of Crisis, Radicalism and Instability in Germany after 1945
Prof. Jacob Hessing, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
In cooperation with:
Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Dan Diner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Leipzig
Prof. Christian Kohlross, Walter Benjamin Chair, DAAD
Prof. Ulfried Reichardt, University of Mannheim
Prof. Christina von Braun, Humboldt University Berlin |
Trauma, Memory and Repair in Psychoanalysis and Judaism (Freud and Judaism)
Dr. Zvi Carmeli and Nurith Novis-Deutsch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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From Multiethnic Empire to National State; the Balkans and the Middle East
Dr. Eyal Ginio, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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| Individual Projects |
Conception of Civic and Democratic Education in Germany: Coping with Anti-Semitism and Racism
Tuvia Rosenberg
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Are Security Concerns Taking Over the International Sustainable Development Discussion?
Focusing on Energy
Gad Schaffer
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Renewable Energy in the EU and Germany: Fighting Climate Change or Changing Foreign Policy?
Etai Fiedelman
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No More UnDutchables: Reasons for the Dramatic Change of the Dutch Immigration Policy
Hezy Asher
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Religion in Europe
Michael Pellivert
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The Causes and Consequences of Hostilities to the Russian Language in
Selected East European Countries: Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary
Uri Krentsis
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French-Jewish Thought in the Light of French Contemporary Philosophy
Rony Boaz Klein
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Prescribing Love: Italian Jewish Physicians Writing on Love Sickness in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Michal Altbauer Rudnik
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The Connection Between S?ndor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud
in the Perspective of Fin-de Si?cle Vienna and Budapest (Aharon Menczer Fund)
Andras Sziklai
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Jewish Intellectuals in Vienna Between the Two World Wars (Aharon Menczer Fund)
Anat Varon
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The Habsburgs and the Jewish Philanthropy in Jerusalem during the Crimea War (1853-6) (Aharon Menczer Fund)
Yochai Ben Ghedalia
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The Perception of Modernity in Anselm Kiefer’s Angel of History
Kobi Ben Meir
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Davos Disputation: New Aspects
Irit Katzur
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The Fluctuating Jewish-German Identity of Berlin Theater Critic Arthur Eloesser
Jonah Mandel
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“What is Enlightenment?” of Who and Why deconstructed the “Aufkl?rung“:
Post 1945 Conception of the Idea of Enlightenment in German Historiography and Thought
Amir Marmor
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Framing the Catholic Narrative after 1945
Gilad Nathan
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A Voice for Muteness – A Benjaminian Concept of Modern Silence
Naama Tsal |
| 2007/8 |
| Individual Projects |
On Forgetfulness and the Forgetfulness of Being
Ynon Wygoda, Department of Philosophy
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Contemporary British Jewry's Rejection of Israel and Zionism
Hila Elroy, Department of Political Science
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Life-Worlds and Moral Orders: Russian Jewish Immigrants in (Eastern) Germany
Svetlana Roberman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Does Fascism still Exist in Contemporary European Politics? A Study of Football and Politucs
Yonit Rucki, European Forum at the Hebrew University
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The Image of Jerusalem in the Austro-Hungarian Pilgrim's Hospice in Jerusalem
Dr. Lily Arad, Department of Art History
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Jerusalem of San Vivaldo: A Mental City in Europe
Tsafra Siew, European Forum at the Hebrew University
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Modern Geopolitical Circumstances as the Factor of the Russian Eurasianism
and the Western Geopolitics of Eurasia
Max Ostrovsky, Department of General History
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Greta Wolf-Krakauer. Art, Gender and Immigration (Aharon Menczer Fund)
Smadar Sheffi, Department of Art History
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The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Vienna. Jewish, Viennese-Jewish and European-Jewish
Identity in Vienna (Aharon Menczer Fund)
Susanne Cohen-Weisz, Department of Political Science |
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