Former Academic Director
Prof. Amos Morris-Reich
Director of the Bucerius Institute (2008-2018)
Department of Jewish History
University of Haifa
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Research Areas: Jewish History within the Conceptual Foundations of European, particularly German Social Science and Social Thought, The History of Anti-Semitism within Science, and Israeli Cultural Ideology
Prof. Yfaat Weiss
Founder and Former Director of the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society (2001 - 2008)
Former Research Assistant
Dr. Yael Ben Moshe
Research Fellow, Post-Doc
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Yael Ben-Moshe (Ph.D.) is a research fellow at the Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) and at the Bucerius Institute for research of contemporary German history and society, at the Haifa university. She was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for her post-doc research that focuses on terrorism and trauma in the age of the “new wars”, and a DAAD research fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF). As a former fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES) she received her Ph.D. from the Technische Universität in Berlin in 2012. Her dissertation examined the forming of the collective memory on Hitler and National- Socialism in Germany and the USA from 1945 to 2009. Her book was published by the Leipziger Universitätsverlag. She is currently teaching courses on German Film and Culture and Terrorism and Media at the Haifa University and at the Haddash Academic College, Jerusalem. Among her latest publications: 1) This is Your Trauma, Not Mine! Terrorism and Trauma in Recent German Films. In V. Benkert (Hg.), Unsere Väter, unsere Mütter. Deutsche Generation seit 1945. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2019. 2) Ben-Moshe, Y. & Ebbrecht-Hartmann, T. Terror Films: The Socio-Cultural Reconstruction of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli cinema. Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication, 2019. 3) Picturing Hitler: Artificial Tension and the Historical Film. andererseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies, 2019.
Abtract : The Depiction of Hitler: Forming Collective Memory of Hitler in German and American Historical Film-Narratives between 1945-2009
Contribution to Newspapers:
"Trump is only a Symptom" (Haaretz, 25.2.2017)
"Changing Perspectives on the Holocaust" (Haaretz 22.1.2017)
"Swing to the Right - The Threat for Europe is not Terrorism but Populism" (Maariv, 4.12.2016)
Katharina Konarek
Ph.D. Candidate
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Franzizska Tzofim
PhD student
University of California, Irvine. English Department