Vortrag: Holocaust, Memory, Migration: The Burden of Catastrophe among Israelis in Germany

The lecture offers a critical analysis of Israeli Jewish migration to Germany. Informed by the view of many Israelis who associate Germany with the most tragic chapter in Jewish history, it combines complementary approaches to track migrants’ reasons for making the move, families’ reactions, social and cultural integration, identity construction, and perceptions of antiSemitism in Germany.

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Helga Embacher

Prof. Uzi Rebhun (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations, and Head of the Division of Jewish Demography at the A. Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry.

Uzi Rebhun completed his doctorate studies in 1997 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was trained as a post-doc at the Center for the Study of World Religions of Harvard University (1997-98). He has written on Jewish migration, the Jewish family, group identity, Israel-diaspora relations, and
anti-Semitism. His books include, among others, Migration, Community, and Identification (Magnes Press, 2001), Jews and the American Religious Landscape (Columbia University Press, 2016), and A Double Burden: Israeli Jews in Contemporary Germany (with D. Kranz and H. Sünker) due in 2022 by
SUNY Press.