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המכון ללימודים מתקדמים The Lester and Sally Entin The Department Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish The Stephen Roth Institute for Minerva Institute The Shirley and Leslie Porter Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Faculty of Humanities of Literature Language, Literature, and Culture the Study of Contemporary for German History School of Cultural Studies ע”ש מורטימר וריימונד סאקלר Tel Aviv University The Lester and Sally Entin The Lester and Sally Entin Antisemitism and Racism The Lester and Sally Entin The Lester and Sally Entin The Center for the Study The Stephen Roth Institute of Advanced Studies Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities of the United States Institute for the Study of Faculty of Humanities in Partnership with the Contemporary Antisemitism Fulbright Program and Racism Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University

Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of בעקבות הלא נודע Language, Literature, and Culture Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University 10:00–10:15 | Opening Remarks: Milette Shamir, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, The Lester and בעקבות הלא נודע Innovations Sally Entin Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University in Holocaust Iris Milner, Literature Department Chair, Tel Aviv University We are pleased to invite you to a symposium to mark the publication of 10:15–11:30 NEW VOICES, NEW MEDIA, NEW MEMORIES Chair: Tamar Setter, Ben Gurion University Testimony Alina Bothe, Freie Universität Berlin Ecologies of Witnessing: The Digital Turn in Shoah Studies: New Perspectives on LANGUAGE, PLACE, AND HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY סיבה לדאגה? Testimonies An International Hannah Pollin-Galay, Tel Aviv University Yale University Press דרק יונתן פנסלר Each Word is an Archive: Yiddish Memories from Chava מגמות חדשות ביחסי יהדות ארה"ב וישראל Rosenfarb to Digital Video Testimony פרופסור ע”ש ויליאם לי פרוסט להיסטוריה יהודית מודרנית Symposium by Hannah Pollin-Galay חשיפת תוצאות הסקר השנתי של ה-AJC בקרב יהודי אמריקה ודיון על עתיד הקשר Nava Barazani, Hebrew University אוניברסיטת הרווארד On Play and Seriousness: Holocaust Memories from Libyan Jewish Children Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University Derek Jonathan Penslar יום חמישי, ה13- ביוני, 2019 | אוניברסיטת תל אביב, בניין גילמן, חדר Thursday 281 11:30–11:45 | Coffee Break William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History Greetings: Leo Corry, Dean, Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University 14:00-13:30| התכנסות וכיבוד th November 15 2018 11:45–13:15 THINKING THEORY WITH HOLOCAUST Harvard University TESTIMONY Iris Milner, Head, Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University הרצאה | Gilman Building Chair: Michèle Bokobza Kahan, Chair of the Shirley and Leslie 14:40-14:00 Lecture :Speakers הצגת תוצאות הסקר השנתי של ה-AJC בנושא יחסי יהודי ארה"ב לישראל Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University ANTI-SEMITISM AND ZIONISM: Igal Halfin, Department of History, Tel Aviv University סא"ל )מיל'( אביטל ליבוביץ', מנכ"ל ה-AJC בישראל Room 496 Iris Milner, Tel Aviv University Towards a New Ethics of Testimony: On Yael Neeman’s Once Carole Kidron, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, There Was a Woman IDEOLOGIES OR EMOTIONS? 15:40-14:40 University of Haifa יו"ר: פרופ' איריס רחמימוב Uri S. Cohen, Tel Aviv University Chair: Prof. Iris Rachamimov David G. Roskies, Department of Jewish Literature, דברי פתיחה: פרופ' מוטי גולני Introductory Remarks: Prof. Motti Golani פאנל בנושא תוצאות הסקר, האנטישמיות באמריקה ועתיד היחסים Witnessing Friendship and the Project of Survival Jewish Theological Seminary and Yiddish Program, Hebrew University ההרצאה תתקיים ביום שלישי, ,The Lecture will be held on Tuesday רחל עזריה, חברת כנסת לשעבר Dana Amir, University of Haifa ;Hana Wirth-Nesher, Department of English and American Studies 23 באוקטובר 2018, בשעה October 23, 2018, at 18:00, ,18:00 פרופ' ג'ונתן קארפ, אוניברסיטת מדינת ניו יורק From the Collapse of Signifiers to the Reconstruction of SUNY-Binghamton Director, Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture חדר 281, בניין גילמן, ,Language: A Close Reading of Robert Antelme’s The Human Room 281, Gilman Building אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, רמת-אביב Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv מנחה: ד"ר יואב פרומר, המרכז לחקר ארה"ב בשיתוף תוכנית פולברייט Race Moderator: Scott Ury, Department of Jewish History; Director, The Stephen Roth Institute for the הרצאה | Lunch Break 16:00-15:40 Lecture | 14:30–13:15 Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism מה ניתן ללמוד מהשיח התקשורתי על ישראל בקרב יהודי ארה"ב? KEYNOTE ADDRESS 16:00–14:30 ?FEAR FROM AFAR ממצאי פרויקט דאטה סיינס מיוחד של המרכז לחקר ארה"ב | אור רפל-קרויזר Dominic Williams, University of Leeds The Matter of Testimony: Language and other Media of AMERICAN JEWRY AND THE 1948 WAR Response: Transmission from the Scrolls of Auschwitz to Shoah Hannah Pollin-Galay יו"ר: פרופ' אניטה שפירא Chair: Prof. Anita Shapira 16:45-16:00 Response: Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University דברי פתיחה: פרופ' אהרון שי Introductory Remarks: Prof. Aaron Shai האם קיים משבר ביחסים עם יהדות אמריקה? Moderator: Hannah Pollin-Galay, Tel Aviv University March 7, 2019 at 18:00 // Gilman building, room 449 ההרצאה תתקיים ביום ראשון, ,The Lecture will be held on Sunday הפרשן המדיני אטילה שומפלבי )ynet( מראיין את פרופ' יוסי שיין 28 באוקטובר 2018, בשעה October 28, 2018, at 16:00, ,16:00 לרגל צאת ספרו החדש "המאה הישראלית" MINI-SEMINAR for the Yiddish Studies Graduate 17:30–16:15 Student Forum Light refreshments will be served from 17:45 אולם 496, בניין גילמן, ,Hall 496, Gilman Building אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, רמת-אביב Alina Bothe, Freie Universität Berlin Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv Translating Yiddish in German(y) כיבוד קל יוגש לפני ההרצאות | Light refreshments will be served before the lectures הציבור מוזמן! Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies לבירורים: [email protected] http://www.tau.ac.il/institutes/advanced/

The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities ISRAELI INTER-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP in Russian and East European Studies The Stephen Roth Institute for the Š‡‡•–‡”ƒ†ƒŽŽ›–‹ ƒ —Ž–›‘ˆ —ƒ‹–‹‡•• Š‡ •”ƒ‡Ž‹ –‡”Ǧ‹˜‡”•‹–›ƒ”–‡”•Š‹’‹—••‹ƒƒ†ƒ•– The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism —”‘’‡ƒ–—†‹‡•• Š‡–‡’Š‡‘–Š •–‹–—–‡ˆ‘”–Š‡–—†›‘ˆ‘–‡’‘”ƒ”›–‹•‡‹–‹•ƒ†ƒ ‹•• Š‡ The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian •–‹–—–‡ˆ‘”–Š‡ ‹•–‘”›‘ˆ‘Ž‹•Š ‡™”›ƒ† •”ƒ‡ŽǦ‘Žƒ†‡Žƒ–‹‘•• Š‡”ƒ‹‹ƒ ‡™‹•Š ‘—–‡” and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ISRAELI INTER-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP in Russian and East European Studies

JEWISH Jews and Non-Jews in East Central אוניברסיטת תל אביב, 6 ביוני 2019, בניין גילמן, חדר 449 9:30 התכנסות SUNDAY • 18:00 MIGRATION IN MODERN TIMES: Europe: Between History and Memory 10:00 ברכות DECEMBER 23, 2018 GILMAN BUILDING • ROOM 458 10:30-12:15 פאנל ראשון: חברה בשגרה ובמלחמה THE CASE OF EASTERN EUROPE TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY The event will be preceded by יו"ר: ורה מיכלין )INSS( a light reception at 17:45 אביגיל וולך "האישה הסובייטית החדשה" תחת מצור: חוויות היומיום של הנשים הנצורות A SYMPOSIUM DEDICATED TO THE PUBLICATION OF A אוניברסיטת תל אביב בלנינגרד 1944-1941 SPECIAL ISSUE OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH AFFAIRS אינה בלייך משפט וחוק בדגסטן הסובייטית 1924-1917 ‘‹–’‡ ‡ ͳ͹ǣ͵Ͳȁ אוניברסיטת בן גוריון אלה איטקין קומוניזם מסביב לשולחן: דירות חדשות בעיר נובוסיבירסק 1964-1953 ‘‹••— •‹†ƒ•‘‹–ƒ–‡•‡” SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH, 16:00-19:30 ͳ͹ǣͶͷǦͳͻǣ͵Ͳȁ אוניברסיטת תל אביב An Evening Program 12:15-13:45 ארוחת צהריים+ הפסקה TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, GILMAN BUILDING, ROOM 458 Dr. Scott Ury Dedicated to the Publication of 13:45-15:45 פאנל שני: גידור של קבוצות ומרחבים Immigrants or Refugees? The Impact of the Holocaust יו"ר: ענת ואתורי )אוניברסיטת חיפה( INTIMATE VIOLENCE ProfŠƒ‹”. Yohananȁ Petrovskyǡ‡Ž˜‹˜-Shtern‹˜‡”•‹–› ANTI-JEWISH POGROMS ON THE EVE OF on the Study of Jewish Migration FIRST PANEL איגור סוקולוב Enslaving books: The roots of the Nazi crimes in Eastern Europe Chair: Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University/IUAP THE HOLOCAUST (Cornell University Press, 2018) 16:15-17:45 Confronting Competing Narratives: Researching סילביה הרשקוביץ פעילותן ואופן התארגנותן של הנשים היהודיות ברומניה במהלך מלחמת העולם ›–‹•”‡˜‹”‡–•‡™Š–”‘IN ENGLISH ǡ אוניברסיטת בר אילן השנייה Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow BY Controversial Issues in Ukrainian-Jewish History נטע ארליך פועלה של המשטרה היהודית בגטו ורשה לפני הגירוש הגדול ודימוייה בקרב Jeffrey S. Kopstein and The Art of Migration: Jewish Refugee Artists in Britain 1933-1955 אוניברסיטת תל אביב הציבור היהודי )נובמבר 1940 – יולי 1942( Marcos Silber, University of Haifa Prof. Bożena Szaynok חיה לואיס בין ביקורת לסובלנות: אלכסנדר צדרבוים )ארז( והחסידות :Jason Wittenberg Migration and Repatriation Between Poland and Israel אוניברסיטת תל אביב Methodological Considerations on Personal Narratives Polish-Jewish RelationsǡWrocław in Communist‹˜‡”•‹–›ǡ‘Žƒ† Poland 15:45-16:15 הפסקת קפה 16:15-17:45 פאנל שלישי: עבר, הווה ומה שביניהם: פירוק משטרים ובניית זכרונות יו"ר: שמואל ברנאי )האוניברסיטה העברית ואוניברסיטת בן גוריון( Changing Directions? Jewish Migration after the Collapse of the Soviet Union אורי גוברניק מדיווחים לעדויות :סובייקטיביות ומשמעות ב"תיעוד גירוש הגרמנים ממזרח ומרכז Je rey S. Kopstein Chair: Semion Goldin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem אוניברסיטת תל אביב אירופה" University of California, Irvine SECOND PANEL Eugene Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University אליזה פרנקל ״הכתובת האחרונה״ :זיכרון הטרור הסטליניסטי במרחב הפוסט סובייטי Š– אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון 18:00-19:30 The Emigration Intentions of Russian Jews: —†ƒ›• ’”‹Ž͹ ǡʹͲͳͻ• ͳ͹ǣ͵ͲǦͳͻǣ͵Ͳ ,IN HEBREW The Role of Socio-Demographic Variables, Social Networks טל ריפא A Supranational-National Day": 'Europe Day' as an EU soft power" אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון agent in Georgia and Ukraine Chair: , Tel Aviv University and Satisfaction in Life ‡Ž˜‹˜‹˜‡”•‹–›• ‹Žƒ—‹Ž†‹‰• ‘‘Ͷͷͺ The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism Hanna Lerner Olena Bagno-Moldavsky, Ins�tute of Na�onal Security Studies The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies Respondent: Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University Media, Politics, and Jewish Migration from East Europe The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations amid the Military Crisis in Ukraine, 2014-2015

The Minerva Institute School of Philosophy, Linguistics The Stephen Roth Institute for for German History and Science Studies the Study of Contemporary FROM JANEK TO JOHANN: Antisemitism and Racism SEMITES: ‘NatioNal iNdiffereNce’ aNd ‘ethNic Towards the History of a Concept GermaN’ Police iN the lodz Ghetto Judaism and Heresy 9:45 Coffee and reception International Conference 10:00 Greetings and Introductory Remarks Raanan Rein Vice President, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University Scott Ury Director, Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University Gilman Building, Room 496 10:15 Semites between Religion and Race 14:45 Muslims and Jews in the Public Discourse Chair: Miriam Eliav-Feldon Chair: Yaron Tsur Tel Aviv University May 27-28 2019 Chair, Historical Society of Israel Tel Aviv University Gustavo Guzman Tel Aviv University The Chilean Right's Changing Attitudes Iris Idelson-Shein Towards Jews and Arabs, 1938-1978 Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Ben Gurion University of the Negev Marcus Funk Centre for Research on Antisemitism, May 27 Semites Avant la Lettre? Jews and Muslims Technical University, Berlin 16:30-17:30 Keynote in European Imagination Before 1800 A History of the Present: Semites vs. Europe and Chair: Yosef Schwartz, TAU the Reconfiguration of the Other Julie Chajes Tel Aviv University Semites, Aryans, and the Invention of Monotheism in the German “Abendland” Discourse Yosef Schwartz and Gilad Sharvit, TAU Welcome Remarks Ofri Ilany The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Yulia Egorova Durham University, UK Sons of Shem, Sons of Ham and Muslims and Jews in Britain Today Niklaus Largier the Birth of Modern Racial Concepts 14:00-15:30 Heresy and Jewish Otherness 16:15 Coffee break University of California, Berkeley Chair: Barbara Meyer, TAU 11:45 Coffee break 16:30 Semites between History and Language The ‘Free Spirits’ and the 12:00 Semites, Pan-Semites and Zionists Chair: Galili Shahar Tel Aviv University Phantasm of Libertinage Menachem Lorberbaum, TAU Chair: Ela Bauer Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv Beyond Heresy and Tradition Felix Wiedemann Freie Universität, Berlin May 28 Hanan Harif Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem "Principal Actors of History”: Karma Ben-Johanan Ashkenazi Semites? Pan-Semitism The Semites as Characters in Historiographical PROF. WINSON CHU 09:30-11:00 Modernity & Antisemitism Polonsky Academy, Van Leer Institute and the Question of Mizrahi Jews and Philological Narratives (1781-1883) Chair: Galili Shahar, TAU The Venom of Heresy: Christianity Stefan Vogt Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Vivian Liska and Modernity in R. Kook's thought Zionist Theories of “Race” Noah Gerber Tel Aviv University UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE Judaism, Islam and the Limits of Fluidity: Hebrew University, Univ. of Antwerp 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break Ahuvia Goren Tel Aviv University Yemenite Jewry in the Historical Imagination Ordinary Heresies in German The Truth or a Trap? Religious-Zionist Reflections 16:00-17:30 Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis on the Jews as a Race Almog Behar The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Jewish Modernism Sister Languages? Bi-Lingual Authors CHAIR: DR. SAGI SCHAEFER, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Chair: Omer Michaelis, TAU Noam Gil, TAU 13:30 Lunch break Imagining Hebrew and Arabic, Past and Future Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Haifa University Poetics of Negativity The Feminine David: Gender, Redemption and Heresy from the Zohar and Lurianic 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Kabbalah to Sabbatianism TH TH MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 , 2018 SUNDAY • MAY 26 , 2019 • 16:00-18:00 11:30-13:00 Philosophy and Mysticism Gilad Sharvit, TAU Chair: Ilit Ferber, TAU The Dialectics of Heresy: Trauma and Jewish History NAFTALI BUILDING, ROOM 527 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY • CARTER BUILDING • ROOM 203 Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Spinoza, a History of Heresy 17:30-18:00 Reception Yosef Schwartz, TAU 18:00-19:30 Keynote Judaism, Heresy and the Making of Chair: Menachem Fisch, TAU THE ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG, TEL AVIV THE LESTER AND SALLY ENTIN FACULTY OF HUMANITIES • THE STEPHEN Modernity: Historiographic THE LESTER AND SALLY ENTIN FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY ROTH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM AND (Re)Considerations Moshe Idel, Hebrew University THE MINERVA INSTITUTE FOR GERMAN HISTORY RACISM • THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWRY AND ISRAEL- Abraham Abulafia: the Apotheosis of THE S. DANIEL ABRAHAM CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES POLAND RELATIONS 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break a Banned Kabbalist in Meah Shearim

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Unfortunately, deadly shootings studying these phenomena in a by graduate students and scholars over the past year from the Tree of common scholarly framework. at TAU, including those who take Life synagogue in Pittsburgh to the As part of its ongoing efforts to part in the Roth Institute’s annual Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, support academic research that will research group which is dedicated New Zealand highlight the extent further our understanding of the to examining a particular aspect of to which antisemitism and racism causes, manifestations and potential antisemitism and racism. continue to be serious social and amelioration of antisemitism and Through these and related political problems that affect a range other forms of prejudice and racism, endeavors, the Roth Institute not of different societies. TAU’s Roth Institute sponsors a only advances scholarship and These and other events also wide range of academic and public knowledge about these critical demonstrate the degree to which programs. issues but also ensures that they are prejudices and hostilities towards In addition to hosting guest researched and discussed in Israel Jews are often related to animosities scholars from leading universities and in universities abroad. towards members of other minority across Europe and North America, groups. the Roth Institute organizes Dr. Scott Ury Tel Aviv University’s Stephen international workshops and Director, The Stephen Roth Institute Roth Institute is one of the few conferences at TAU. Additionally, for the Study of Contemporary academic institutions in the world the Roth Institute supports cutting- Antisemitism and Racism dedicated to researching and edge, academic research conducted Tel Aviv University

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n n Anti-Semitism and Zionism: Ideologies or Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, Emotions? | Fear from Afar? American Jewry and Holocaust Testimony and the 1948 War Dr. Hannah Polin-Galay, Tel Aviv University | Prof. Derek J. Penslar, Harvard University | March 2019 October 2018 n Jews and Non-Jews in East Central Europe: n Innovations in Holocaust Testimony Between History and Memory An International Symposium | November 2018 Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern n University; Prof. Bożena Szaynok, Wrocław Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case University, Poland | April 2019 of Eastern Europe n A Symposium Dedicated to the Publication of a Holocaust Memory through Artistic Means: Special Issue of the Journal East European Jewish Tools and Insights Affairs | November 2018 Dr. Francine Mayran, Council of Europe, n Strasbourg | May 2019 Semites: Towards the History of a Concept n An International Workshop | December 2018 From Janek to Johann: ‘National Indifference’ n and ‘Ethnic German’ Police in the Lodz Ghetto Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on Prof. Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin- the Eve of the Holocaust Milwaukee | May 2019 Prof. Jeffrey Kopstein, University of California, n Irvine | December 2018 Judaism and Heresy n An International Conference | May 2019 Who Will Write Our History? n A Symposium on the Emanuel Ringelblum Archives Cause for Concern? New Directions in | December 2018 Attitudes of American Jews toward Israel A Symposium | June 2019

2 RECENT EVENTS AT THE ROTH INSTITUTE GUEST LECTURES BY PROF. DEREK J. PENSLAR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies

המכון ללימודים מתקדמים Professor of Modern Jewish Emotions?” examined the historical ע”ש מורטימר וריימונד סאקלר History at Harvard University, in foundations of antisemitism and cooperation with TAU’s Sackler Zionism and the emotional

פרופסור ע”ש דרקויליאם לי יונתןפרוסט להיסטוריה פנסלריהודית מודרנית

אוניברסיטת הרווארד Derek Jonathan Penslar Institute of Advanced Studies, and responses that these two concepts William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History Harvard University TAU’s Chaim Weizmann Institute often elicit. This talk is currently Lecture :ZIONISM הרצאה ANTI-SEMITISM | AND IDEOLOGIES OR EMOTIONS? Introductory Chair:Remarks: Prof. Prof. Iris RachamimovMotti Golani for the Study of Zionism and Israel. available for viewing via the Roth יו"ר: פרופ' איריס רחמימוב The Lecture will be held on Tuesday, דברי פתיחה: פרופ' מוטי גולני October 23, 2018, at 18:00, ההרצאה תתקיים ביום שלישי, ,Room 281, Gilman Building , בשעה Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv ,18:00 באוקטובר 2018 , בניין גילמן, 23 חדר 281 .A renowned scholar of modern Institute’s website אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, רמת-אביב Lecture הרצאה | AMERICANFEAR JEWRY FROM AND AFAR? THE 1948 WAR

Introductory Remarks:Chair: Prof. Prof. Anita Aaron Shapira Shai Jewish history and Israel studies, Entitled “Fear from Afar? יו"ר: פרופ' אניטה שפירא ,The Lecture will be held on Sunday דברי פתיחה: פרופ' אהרון שי October 28, 2018, at 16:00, ההרצאה תתקיים ביום ראשון, ,Hall 496, Gilman Building , בשעה Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv ,16:00 באוקטובר 2018 , בניין גילמן, 28 אולם 496 ”,Prof. Penslar delivered two American Jewry and the 1948 War אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, lectures רמת-אביבLight refreshments will be served before the

כיבוד קל יוגש Studies לפני Advancedההרצאות | Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of http://www.tau.ac.il/institutes/advanced/ presentations that analyzed the Prof. Penslar’s second presentation phenomenon of antisemitism analyzed many of the emotional through the burgeoning field of factors behind American Jewry’s In October, 2018, the Roth the history of emotions. connection to and support for the Institute hosted Prof. Derek J. Penslar’s first lecture on “Anti- formation of the State of Israel Penslar, the William Lee Frost Semitism and Zionism: Ideologies or during the 1948 War.

JEWISH MIGRATION IN MODERN TIMES: THE CASE OF EASTERN EUROPE

ISRAELI INTER-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP n November, 2018, the who contributed to the volume in Russian and East European Studies I The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary

Antisemitism and Racism The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian Roth Institute co-sponsored an including Marcos Silber of Haifa JEWISH and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem international symposium dedicated University, Mia Spiro of Glasgow MIGRATION IN MODERN TIMES:

THE CASE OF EASTERN EUROPE A SYMPOSIUM DEDICATED TO THE PUBLICATION OF A to the publication of a special issue University, Yvgeny Tartakovsky SPECIAL ISSUE OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH AFFAIRS of the journal East European Jewish of Tel Aviv University, and Olena TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY,SUNDAY, GILMANNOVEMBER BUILDING, 25TH, 16:00-19:30 ROOM 458

Immigrants or Refugees? The Impact of the Holocaust on the Study of Jewish Migration Affairs on the topic of “Jewish Bagno-Moldavsky of Tel Aviv. Chair: Dina Moyal, Tel Aviv University/IUAP Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow The Art of Migration: Jewish Refugee Artists in Britain 1933-1955FIRST PANEL 16:15-17:45 Migration in Modern Times: The The different presentations Marcos Silber, University of Haifa IN ENGLISH Migration and Repatriation Between Poland and Israel: Case of Eastern Europe.” addressed Jewish migration after Methodological Considerations on Personal Narratives Changing Directions? Jewish Migration after the Collapse of the Soviet Union

SECOND PANEL Chair: Semion Goldin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem The program was conducted in the collapse of the Soviet Union and 18:00-19:30 IN HEBREW Eugene Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University The Role of Socio-DemographicThe Emigration Variables, Intentions Social of RussianNetworks, Jews: cooperation with the Israeli Inter- also questions related to the impact Olena Bagno-Moldavsky, Ins�tute of Na�onal Security Studies and Satisfaction in Life Media, Politics, and Jewish Migration from East Europe University Academic Partnership of the Holocaust and antisemitism amid the Military Crisis in Ukraine, 2014-2015 and the Hebrew University’s Leonid on the history of Jewish migration. Nevzlin Center for the Study of The collection has recently been Russian and East European Jewry. republished as a book and is now The symposium included available through Routledge. presentations by many of the scholars

SEMITES: TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT

SEMITES: In December, 2018, the Roth uses of the term “Semites” over the Towards the History of a Concept 9:45 Coffee and reception 10:00 Greetings and Introductory Remarks Institute hosted an international past two hundred years. Raanan Rein Vice President, Tel Aviv University Scott Ury Director, Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University 10:15 Semites between Religion and Race Chair: Miriam Eliav-Feldon Chair, Historical Society of Israel Tel Aviv University workshop on the topic of “Semites: Participants included leading 14:45 Muslims and Jews in the Public Discourse Iris Idelson-Shein Chair: Yaron Tsur Tel Aviv University Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Ben Gurion University of the Negev Gustavo Guzman Tel Aviv University Semites Avant la Lettre? Jews and Muslims The Chilean Right's Changing Attitudes in European Imagination Before 1800 Towards Jews and Arabs, 1938-1978 Julie Chajes Tel Aviv University Towards the History of a Concept.” researchers from the UK and Semites, Aryans, and the Invention of Monotheism Marcus Funk Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin Ofri Ilany The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute A History of the Present: Semites vs. Europe and Sons of Shem, Sons of Ham and the Reconfiguration of the Other the Birth of Modern Racial Concepts in the German “Abendland” Discourse 11:45 Coffee break Yulia Egorova Durham University, UK Sponsored in cooperation with the Germany as well as scholars from 12:00 Semites, Pan-Semites and Zionists Muslims and Jews in Britain Today Chair: Ela Bauer Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv 16:15 Coffee break Hanan Harif Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem Semites between History and Language Ashkenazi Semites? Pan-Semitism 16:30 and the Question of Mizrahi Jews Chair: Galili Shahar Tel Aviv University Stefan Vogt Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Felix Wiedemann Freie Universität, Berlin Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Tel different universities in Israel. Zionist Theories of “Race” "Principal Actors of History”: The Semites as Characters in Historiographical Ahuvia Goren Tel Aviv University and Philological Narratives (1781-1883) The Truth or a Trap? Religious-Zionist Reflections on the Jews as a Race Noah Gerber Tel Aviv University Judaism, Islam and the Limits of Fluidity: 13:30 Lunch break Yemenite Jewry in the Historical Imagination Aviv, as well as the S. Daniel Abraham The different presentations, Almog Behar The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Sister Languages? Bi-Lingual Authors Imagining Hebrew and Arabic, Past and Future MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 Center and the Minerva Institute which focused on the term NAFTALI BUILDING, ROOM 527 TH, 2018 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY for German History at Tel Aviv “Semites,” probed the concept from THE LESTER AND THESALLY ROSA ENTIN LUXEMBURG FACULTY OFSTIFTUNG, HUMANITIES, TEL AVIVTEL AVIV UNIVERSITY THE S. DANIEL ABRAHAMTHE MINERVA CENTER INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL FOR GERMAN HISTORYAND REGIONAL STUDIES THE STEPHEN ROTH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM AND RACISM University, the workshop focused the perspective of religion, race, on the various interpretations and language, and history.

3 RESEARCH GROUP ON “JEWS AND THE LEFT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”

The Roth Institute’s 2019 Research Group is dedicated to the topic of “Jews and the Left: Past, Present, and Future.” With MA and PhD students from TAU’s departments of History, Jewish History and Literature as well as several post-doctoral fellows from universities abroad, the group is designed to examine the many connections between Jews and political movements, ideologies and organizations on “the Left” in both the past and the present. Sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Tel Aviv, group members meet regularly to discuss key works, host guest seminars and probe the various intersections between Jews and “the Left” over the past hundred and fifty years. The group’s activities over the course of 2019 will help lay the foundations for the development of individual research projects as well as conferences and public events dedicated to examining this important topic.

THE MAX AND HILDE KOCHMANN SUMMER SCHOOL FOR PHD STUDENTS IN EUROPEAN-JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE

In July, 2019, the Roth Institute co-sponsored an intensive, week-long summer school on “European- Jewish History and Culture” in cooperation with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, the Center for Jewish Studies of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, and the Minerva Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University. Hosted by the University of Sussex, the program offered PhD students from leading universities in Europe, Israel and North America the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects in an informal and supportive academic atmosphere with leading scholars in the field. The summer school is part of an ongoing academic collaboration between the Roth Institute and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies in Sussex.

THE ROTH INSTITUTE PROJECT ON TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Over the course of the 2018-2019 academic year, TAU’s Project for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East continued its work of monitoring Arab-language media for expressions and manifestations of antisemitic attitudes as well as discussions regarding Muslim-Jewish relations and the State of Israel. Under the supervision of Dr. Esther (Esti) Webman, the project’s staff identify, catalogue and analyze a wide range of print, visual and social media sources from across the Arab world. Relevant items are then summarized in English and entered into TAU’s Database on Antisemitism and Racism, where they are open and accessible via TAU’s Central library system. INTERNATIONAL BOARD ACADEMIC COMMITTEE INSTITUTE STAFF Sir Peter Roth, Chair Prof. David Assaf Dr. Scott Ury Prof. Yishai Blank Prof. Yishai Blank Director Sir Andrew Burns Prof. Hava Dreifuss Dr. Haim Cohen Baroness Ruth Deech Dr. Barbara Meyer Assistant Director Prof. Menachem Fisch Dr. Yael Sternhell Dr. Esther Webman Prof. Sir Jeffrey Jowell Dr. Scott Ury Head, Project on Tolerance and Mr. Philip Kessler Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher Intolerance in the Middle East Dr. Hanna Lerner Eitan Rom Mr. Martin Paisner Administrative Director Prof. Robert Schwarcz Yarden Ben-Dor Dr. Amir Teicher Research Assistant Ex-Officio: Prof. Leo Corry CONTACT TEL AVIV UNIVERISTY, P.O.BOX 39040, RAMAT AVIV, TEL AVIV 6139001, ISRAEL 4 +972-3-6408383 | [email protected] | http://humanities1.tau.ac.il/roth