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This interdisciplinary panel will focus on the community of Israeli
immigrants in Berlin, the largest community of Israeli immigrants in Germany.
Situating the community within Berlin’s rich multiculturalism, the panel
speakers will juxtapose memory studies along with diaspora, immigration and
integration theories, seeking to understand how, given the particular part
Germany played in Jewish-Israeli history, Israeli immigrants reconcile the
past-present duality faced when living in the city. The panel further aims to
go beyond the hype created around this community, and will provide new
insights and understandings regarding its social and economic networks as
well as its place within German society.
The speakers, both Israeli and German academics, will discuss the influences
of this community on Germany’s memory landscape, and will map the reactions
to the Israeli presence in the German media. The speakers will further
provide an overview of this new Jewish-Israeli cultural revival that centers
around the use of the Hebrew language, and present a nuanced analysis of this
community through an overview of queer (LGBT) Israelis in the city. By taking
a closer look at these questions, the panel seeks to understand what makes
this community unique, and what greater lessons could be drawn regarding
integration and reconciliation.
The event is organized by the WZB research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
The speakers are:
*Dr. Hadas Cohen*, Leibniz-DAAD postdoctoral fellow and WZB guest researcher, Migration Integration and Transnationalization Unit
*Dr. Irit Dekel*, faculty member at Bard College Berlin and research fellow, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt
University of Berlin
*Prof. Dani Kranz*, associate professor of sociology and empirical research methods at Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences
*Dr. Ruth Preser*, affiliated fellow ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and teaching fellow at Haifa University
To register, please reply by September 30, 2015 to Hadas Cohen: hadas.cohen@wzb.eu
