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The November 1938 Pogroms (“Kristallnacht”) - Background and Impact

International Conference Marking the 70th Anniversary of the 1938 Events

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Jerusalem

in cooperation with the

The Dr. Otto Georg Chair in European Studies

at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya

Program

09:00 Registration and Gathering

Arison-Lauder Lobby

09:30 Opening Session

Greetings

Amb. Avi Primor, Director of the Center for European Studies, IDC Herzliya

Dr. Otto Georg, Founder of the Dr. Otto Georg Chair in European Studies

Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel

Screening of the Movie

“The Ninth of November”

(16 Minutes)

By courtesy of the Federal Central Office

for Political Education, Bonn

10:00 Lecture

Pogrom and the German People

(Volksgemeinschaft) between Disgust

and Participation: The Public of

November 9th, 1938

Prof. Wolfgang Benz, Head of the Center for the Research of Antisemitism,

Technical University Berlin

Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

Arison-Lauder Lobby

11:30 Morning Session II

Chair

Prof. Eveline Goodman-Thau, Director of the Hermann Cohen Academy,

Jerusalem and Buchen/Odenwald

The Planned End of the German Jews: The Meeting of November 12th, 1938, in Goering’s Reichs-Aviation Ministry

Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, Head of the Richard C. Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“Can the Church Let this Happen?” The Reaction of the German Churches to the November 1938 Pogrom

Prof. Ursula Büttner, Research

Department for Contemporary History in

Hamburg and Historical Seminar,

Hamburg University

The Reaction of German Anti-Nazis to the Anti-Semitic Policy of 1938

Prof. David Bankier, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem and Yad Vashem

Discussion

13:30 Lunch

Sculpture Garden

14:45 A German Perspective

Dr. Harald Kindermann, Ambassador to Israel of the Federal Republic of Germany

15:00 Lecture

“Kristallnacht”, the World War and the Holocaust

Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, and Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem

15:45 Afternoon Session

Chair

Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel

The Uncertainty Facing Developments and the Certainty of an End: The Experiences of German Jews in 1938

Prof. Trude Maurer, Institute for

Medieval and Modern History, Georg

August University, Göttingen

“Kristallnacht”: A View from Eretz Israel

Prof. Shulamit Volkov, School of

History, Tel Aviv University

The Impact of the “Kristallnacht” on the Jewish Communities Worldwide

Prof. Dina Porat, Head of the

Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of

Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

16:45 Coffee Break

Arison-Lauder Lobby

17:15 Continuation of the Afternoon Session

Discussion

18:15 Lecture

The November Pogroms as the End of Enlightenment?

Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, IDC Herzliya

Concluding Remarks

Germany – The Culture of Remembrance and Lessons from the Past as the

Foundation for German-Israeli Relations

Amb. Avi Primor

Overall Moderator: Amb. Avi Primor

An exhibit on the November Pogroms will be shown in the Arison-Lauder Lobby

Bus transportation

from

• Tel Aviv (“Park and Drive” parking lot at the

• Jerusalem (Hotel Inbal), departure at 07:15

RSVP required for conference participation and transportation:

Tel: 09-9527367 or email: rsvp1@idc.ac.il

Atara Kaufman Auditorium (A206)

Arison-Lauder Building

IDC Herzliya

Kanfei Nesharim St.

Herzliya

The conference will be conducted in German and Hebrew with simultaneous translation into

English, German and Hebrew.