We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 16, No. 1].

This issue includes the first scholarly study of the author’s library of German-Hebrew aphoristic poet Elazar Benyoëtz, which the Rosenzweig Minerva Center received as a gift last year.

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We are happy to announce the new fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year:

Sarah Stoll (Ph.D. Student, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Yonatan Harel (Ph.D. student, HUJI)

Dr. Tal Giladi (Post-Doctoral Fellow)

pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 15, Issue 2].

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 15, Issue 1].

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow are delighted to invite you to the online launch of the focal point (Schwerpunkt) "The Return to the Archive: Dispersal, Transmission, and Anticipation in Personal Archives between Germany and Israel", which appeared recently in Volume XVII of the Dubnow Institute Yearbook.

The following article was posted in the Haaretz Newspaper regarding Leo Aryeh Mayer that the arrangement of his estate was made as part of the Traces and Treasures project.

See the article on the Haaretz website here [in Hebrew].

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center (FRMRC) and Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History are delighted to invite you to the first annual Naharaim Symposium, which will take place online on Thursday, January 14, 2021, at 20:00 (UTC+2). Aimed at hosting leading and promising scholars, the Naharaim Symposium is a platform for discussing topics and methodologies in the study of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. 

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 14, Issue 2].

The production is the culmination of an artist-research project, which developed in several stages over the past five years. Thereby, for the first time, Frankl‘s play was translated into Hebrew and staged in a dramatic reading with professional actors under the artistic direction of Prof. Shimon Levy, an eminent theatre scholar and director.

 The production is available as a podcast:

We are happy to present before you the updated catalogue of "The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University: German-Jewish Knowledge and Cultural Transfer, 1918-1948"

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 14, Issue 1].

Click here to listen to the reading. 

We welcome you to read the book review by Prof. Barak Medina, Rector of the Hebrew University, of the Hebrew translation of Ernst Fraenkel's "The Dual State- A contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship", In the Makor Rishon News Paper. The Hebrew translation was published in cooperation with the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center. 

Link to the book Review on the Makor Rishon Website. 

The following book review was posted in the Haaretz Newspaper regarding the new Hebrew translation of Walter Benjamin's "Das Passagen-Werk ", published in cooperation with the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center.

See the book review on the Haaretz website here.

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center is Happy to in invite you to the virtual reading of "Synchronisation in Birkenwald" by Viktor Frankl.

The event will take place on Tuesday April 21st 2020 at 6:00 PM. 

For further details click here.