• March 2011 - The Eichmann Trial. 50 Years Later.
  International Conference in collaboration with David Berg Institute for Law and
  History, Tel Aviv University;
  School of History and the Institute for Holocaust Research, University of Haifa;
  the Ghetto Fighters House Museum and CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
  (in Hebrew)
  


• February 2011 - "Germany and Its Neighbors - Borders, Identities, Relations.
  Short bios and select publications of participants
  
  


• December 2009 - "Aufbruchsstimmung im Herbst 1989 - Die politische Wende in der DDR: Zeitzeugenberichte und Analysen". In conjunction with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (in Hebrew and German).




• June 2009 - "Between 'Mameloshn' and 'Muttersprache': Yiddish and German in Dialogue". In conjunction with the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture.
   

• April 2008 - "Jews and Muslims in Germany: Culture, Law and Politics from the Age of Emancipation to the Time of Multiculturalism". In conjunction with the Taubenschlag Institute of Criminal Law of the Buchmann Faculty of Law.
  Abstracts,  CVs and Conference summary.
   

• January 2007 - "The Holocaust as the Paradigm of Psychic Trauma in the 20th Century".
  On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
  Abstracts of presentations
   

• April 2006 - "The Churches and the Holocaust".
  Holocaust Remembrance Day Symposium
  In conjunction with the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and the Diaspora Museum

• November 2005 - "Compensation for Holocaust Survivors from Today's Perspective: A German-Israeli Research Dialogue".
  An International Workshop hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History as part of the GIF project "Practices of Wiedergutmachung".
  Workshop Rationale and Abstracts of Papers

• May 2004 - "German Enterprises in the Era of the 'Economic Miracle' - Mentalities and Biographies".
  Documentary films, lectures and panel discussions.
  In cooperation with the Goethe Institute.

 
• November 2003 - "Theodor W. Adorno - A Philosopher of Damaged Life".
  In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Tel Aviv and the Goethe Institute.
  Theodor W. Adorno - Philosoph des beschädigten Lebens



• April 2003 - "Hannah Arendt - Half a Century of Controversy" (Hebrew) / (English)
  In cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
  חנה ארנדט - חצי מאה של פולמוס



• June 2002 - "20th Century German History as reflected in German-Speaking Literature".
  In cooperation with and with the support of Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv and the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv.
  Deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur



• May 2002 - "Opposing Oppression, Occupation and Persecution - The Resistance against the Nazi Regime".
  Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv.
  
  
• November 2001 - "Wagner in Context - Art, Ideology, Politics".
  In cooperation with the Goethe Institut Tel Aviv and the Music Academy, Tel Aviv University.
  Some of the lectures delivered at the symposium "Wagner in Context" have been assembled in Zmanim 79, Summer 2002 (Hebrew).
  Contributions by: Moshe Zuckermann, Na'ama Sheffi, Haim Gans, Hartmut Zelinsky, Shimon Kagan, Gad Kaynar, Susanne Vill, Jochen Hoerisch Papers by Na'ama Sheffi, Haim Gans, Gad Kaynar and Bazon Brock appeared in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 2003 (in German) - see under Publications



• June 2001 - "Ethnicity, Modernism and the Eclipse of Tradition".
  Supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Israel.
  Conference papers have been published in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 2002



• November 2000 - "Between Politics and Culture - Jews in the GDR".
  In cooperation with the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
  Zwischen Politik und Kultur - Juden in der DDR



• March 2000 - Workshop "Vom Nationalsozialismus zur Bundesrepublik - Verdraengung und Erfolg?"
  In cooperation with the Goethe Institute.



• November 1999 - "Czernowitz as Paradigm - Cultural Pluralism and the Nationalities Question".  
  In cooperation with Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna.
  Supported by the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv and by the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv.



• February 1999 - "Transforming Europe - Legacies of '68 and Changing Political Cultures".
  In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.



• June 1998 - "Critical Theory in Contexts - On the History, Legacy and Impact of the Frankfurt School".
  Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, the Goethe Institute Tel-Aviv, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.



• May 1997 - "Mirroring Germany - Imagination, Representation, Memory".
  Supported by the Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh.



• January 1997 - "Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt - A Conference in Legal History".
  In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/M.



• December 1996 - "German-Israeli Relations: History, Culture and Politics".



• October 1996 - "Between Germany and Russia: The Legacy of East-Central Europe".
  In Cooperation with the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University



• December 1995 - "The Last Nationality Question? Social Democracy, National Identity and Jewish Emancipation".



• April 1995 - "German Historiography at Era's End - The 19th and 20th Century".

• January 2012- Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence.
  "Karl Lueger and Ritual Murder in late Imperial Austrian Jewish
  Legislation", Lecture by Prof. Jess Olson, Yeshiva University,
  New York. In conjunction with the Cummings Institute for Russian
  and East European Studies, the Roth Institute for the Study of
  Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism More details to follow.
  
  
• December 2011- Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence.
  "Consumption and Destruction: The Jewish Department Store as a Site of
  Violence in early 20th Century", Prof. Paul Lerner, University of Southern
  California et al. In conjunction with the Cummings Institute for Russian and
  East European Studies, the Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary
  Antisemitism and Racism and the School of History.
  
  
• May 2011- "The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty". Lecture evening in conjunction with the Cohn Institute for the History and
  Philosophy of Science and Ideas and the Minerva Humanities Center.
  
  
• March 2011 - The Minerva Annual Lecture on Human Rights.
  Lecture and Symposium with Prof. Ulrich Beck, Dr. Yishai Blank,
  Dr. Nissim Mizrahi, Dr. Hila Shamir, Prof. Natan Sznaider.
  In collaboration with the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University.
  
  
• January 2011 - "Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel".
  Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History,
  Jerusalem, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center,
  the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German
  History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History
  of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University), the Center for German Studies,
  Beer-Sheva, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.
  
  
• December 2010 - "Writing German History in Israel -- Questions, Approaches,Generations." Symposium in honor of the 40^th anniversary of the Institute and in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
  
  
• May 2010 - "Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus".
  Lecture evening in conjunction with the Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature.
  
  
• January 2010 - "Young Scholars' Workshop on German History in Israel". Together with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University), the Center for German Studies, Beer-Sheva, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.
  
  
• January 2010 - "Actor and Satan: The Drama of Evil in Goethe's Faust". Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
• November 2009 - "Valkyrie - German Resistance To Hitler"
  Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of Danny Orbach's book (in Hebrew).
  
  

• April 2009 - "Double Unification: German and Europe after 1989"
  Symposium. In conjunction with the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies and the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies. 
   

• March 2009 - 6th International Seminar for Research Students of the Leo Baeck Institute
  Day 3 - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History.
   

• February 2009 - "Young Scholars'  Workshop on German History in Israel". Together  with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University) and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.
  
  

• December 2008 - "1848" . Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
   

• November 2008 - "The Power that Dwells Between Politics and Religion";
  Symposium. In cooperation with the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies.
   

• April  2008 - Young Scholars'  Workshop on German History in Israel". Together  with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia (Bar-Ilan University) and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.
   

• March 2008 - "Hans Jonas: Rethinking the Meaning of God, Evil and Faith after Auschwitz". Symposium. View Abstracts.
   

• January 2008 - "Napoleon, the Revolution, and Modern France - Myths, Symbols and Rituals". Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
   

• November  2007 -   "Communist East Germany - A Historical, Social and Cineastic View"
  Lecture morning at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque (in Hebrew).
  Held on the occasion of the 60^th anniversary of the foundation of DEFA (the state owned film company of the German Democratic Republic).
  In conjunction with the retrospective of DEFA films at the Cinematheques of Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, November 11-25, 2007, and in cooperation with the Bucerius Institute of Contemporary German History and Society (University of Haifa), the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The Center for German Studies (Ben-Gurion University). Full programme of the DEFA film retrospective and accompanying lecture programme.
   

• May 2007 - "German-Jewish Utopias".
  Symposium.
   

• April 2007 - Lecture evening on the occasion of Eran Rolnik's book.
  "Freud in Zion - History of Psychoanalysis in Jewish Palestine/Israel 1918-1948".
   
• February 2007 - 5th International Seminar for Research Students of the Leo Baeck Institute
  Day 2 - Monday, February 26, 2007 - hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History.
   
• December 2006 - "Constitutive Pasts: Between the French Revolution and the Holocaust".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.
   
• May 2006 - "Body, Technology, Society in Prewar Germany".
  International Workshop.
   
• May 2006 - "Civilization and its Discontents".
  Symposium on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 150^th birthday.
  In conjunction with the Sigmund Freud Center (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the Israeli Association for Psychoanalysis and the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv.
  Begin Center, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
   
• March 2006 - Young Scholars'  Workshop on German History in Israel.

Together  with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Jerusalem, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Haifa, and the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem.
 
• December 2005 - "The Jewish Question in German Philosophy - From Idealism to Materialism".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

 
• March 2005 - Victor Klemperer - The man, the documentation, the time

Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of "Diaries 1933 - 1945" in Hebrew.


• December 2004 - "Heinrich Heine - Poet and Intellectual".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.



• October 2004 - "Dyonisos at the Center - Theatre, History and the Urban Space".
  Lecture evening on the stage adaptation of Tamar Berger's Book on the history of the Dizengoff Center site.



• May 2004 - "History and Memory", Lecture evening in connection with the exhibition
  Synagogues in Germany: Virtual Reconstructions.
  In cooperation with the Diaspora Museum.



• January 2004 - "Karl Marx - On Nature and Utopia".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.



• January 2003 - "Liberty and Violence in the French Revolution".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.



• October 2002 - "Vicious Circle - Jews, Anti-Semites, and other Germans".
  Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of Shulamit Volkov's book.



• March 2002 - "The German Presence in Latin America".
  In cooperation with the Institute for the History and Culture of Latin America, TAU.



• January 2002 - "Jews and Germans - Cultural Encounters".
  Symposium with young Israeli scholars, organized by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. In cooperation with the Institute for German History.



• December 2001 - "Georg Büchner - Revolutionary and Artist".
  Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.



• May 2001 - A Symposium on the occasion of the publication of "Like an Egyptian Movie" by Ron Barkai.



• March 2001 - "In the Name of Liberty and Equality".
  Symposium in memory of Prof. Walter Grab (1919-2000).



• January 2001 - "On Robbers, Tyranny and Liberty".
  Symposium on the occasion of the Hebrew translation of "Die Räuber" by Friedrich Schiller.
  In cooperation with the School of Cultural Studies.



• January 2001 - "Heldenplatz and Other Tales From Austria": A Symposium on the Austrian Writer Thomas Bernhard.
  In cooperation with the Austrian Embassy Tel Aviv and Schocken Publishing House Ltd.



• January 2001 - Symposium gathering former participants of the student exchange program between the University of Munich and TAU, presenting their current research.
  In cooperation with the Chair of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich and the Konrad Adenauer Chair for Comparative European History.



• March 2000 - "Austria 2000 - Resurrection of the Past?".
  In cooperation with the Curiel Center for International Studies, Tel Aviv University.



• December 1998 - Book presentation:
  "Flucht nach Eretz Israel - Die Bricha und der jdische Exodus durch ?sterreich nach 1945" by Dr. Thomas Albrich, Innsbruck University, Austria.
  (In the framework of the Austria-Israel project)



• November 1998 - Meeting with the German author Ernst Loest on:
  "Bilanz und Ausblick einer neuen gesamtdeutschen Identität".

• December 2008 - The Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature
  Festive opening:
  "Heinrich  Heine - Poetry, Love and the ?Poet's Love"
  Lecture by Prof. Moshe Zuckermann, followed by Robert Schumann’s lied cycle “A Poet’s Love”. Daniella Lugassy, soprano; Xu Yi-An, piano.
   
• May 2000 - Guest Lecture by Prof. Jeffrey Herf, Ohio University, Athens
  "Divided Memory - The Holocaust in the Political Cultures of the Two Germanys".
   
• April 2000 - Guest Lecture by Prof. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel
  "Marx: Dialektik im Primat der Praxis".
  In cooperation with the School of Philosophy.

 
• November 1999 - Guest lecture by Dr. Michael Minkenberg, Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder):
  "The New Radical Right in Western Democracies - Comparative Observations".



• June 1999 - Guest lecture by Prof. Derek J. Penslar, University of Toronto, Canada:
  "Rabbis and Stockbrokers - Jews and the 'Spirit of Capitalism' in 19th Century Germany".



• June 1999 - Guest lecture by Prof. Lutz Niethammer, Jena University and European University Institute, Florence, Italy:
  "Collective Identity - Skeptic Remarks on the Roots and Uses of the Concept".

Fritz Thyssen Lectures

Dan Diner and Moshe Zimmermann (eds.), Disseminating German Tradition. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2009.

The Thyssen Lecture Series on the German tradition in culture and science was held by the Institute for German History, in collaboration with the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and with the support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, over four years.

• December 1999 - Prof. Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago
  "Remaking Faces: German Medicine, Jewish Physicians, and the Rise of Aesthetic Surgery, 1890-1933".

 
• November 1998 - Prof. Charles Maier, Harvard University
  "Volk, Class, Bürger: The Imaginaries of German Social History".

 
• November 1997 - Prof. Reinhart Kosellek, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  "Concepts of History - History of Concepts".



• November 1996 - Professor George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "The Universal Meaning of the Concept of Bildung".