Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Established 1977)
Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi
DirectorProf. Sybille Steinbacher
ChairwomanLatest Slil - Online Journal for History, Film and Television
Online magazine TABUR (in hebrew)
Fields 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, publica-tions 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.