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Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (established in 1977)
Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi
DirectorProf. Sybille Steinbacher
ChairwomanFields of Research
German History and German-Jewish history
Keywords
Middle Ages; early modern history; 20th century; contemporary history; national socialism; German antisemitism
Research activities and aims
Economic history of the Middle Ages; future expectations of German Jews; Weimar Jewry; continuities and discontinuities in German antisemitism; aspects of history of mentalities and history of ideas as well as history of everday life and social history of Germany. Ongoing activities: scientific conferences, publications in Hebrew; teaching of German history on the highest academic levels (MA and Ph.D.-study program, post-doc-projects); development of a research library; cooperation with German historians.