Zusammen-leben in Israel …

Givat Haviva Survey on Attitudes Between Jews and Arabs in Israel 2025

„‘The level of fear is very, very high. Our job is to tell them that this is not the time to duck down and wait for the tsunami to end. This is the time to show up,’ said Mohammad Darawshe, director of strategy for Givat Haviva, which organized the survey.“

Bericht von Michele Chain auf RNS

Aus dem Bericht von Givat Haiva:

Das kostbarste aller Güter

© Studiocanal – Trailer

„Wie läßt sich heute einer jungen Generation von der Shoa erzählen? Der Franzose Michel Hazanavicius versucht es in seinem neuen Film »Das kostbarste aller Güter« mit einer mehrfachen Verfremdung: Er nutzt Animation, um keine realen Gräuel darstellen zu müssen, und er erzählt es in Form eines Märchens. Es war einmal … „

Filmkritik von Thomas Abeltshauser auf dem Portal: epd-film.de

Ein Vergleich

Moshe Zuckermann im Overton-Blog vom 1. März 2025 über die AfD und Kahanismus.

„Der Erfolg der AfD bei den diesjährigen Bundestagswahlen darf als Meilenstein der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte gewertet werden. Er ist mit einem israelischen Meilenstein vergleichbar.“

Turning Holocaust Slang into Art: Between K. Tzetnik and Chava Rosenfarb

Prof. Hannah Pollin-Galay, Tel Aviv University – Zoom 3. März 2024 – Details

2025 Annual Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture

Esteemed scholar Hannah Pollin-Galay explores how the Yiddish language evolved in Nazi ghettos and camps, gaining roughly 3,000 new words. Examining the works of K. Tzetnik and Chava Rosenfarb, this talk considers how these writers transformed „Khurbn Yiddish“ into powerful expressions of horror, resilience, and artistic memory.

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The Yiddish language drastically changed in the ghettos and camps of Nazi Europe. By one estimate, roughly 3,000 new words and phrases were added to the language. Many of these neologisms were of a vulgar nature, relating to topics like theft and sex work. While some people found these new words embarrassing, unseemly and just plain ugly, others attempted to uplift them and transform them into art. Among the writers that incorporated Khurbn Yiddish (Yiddish of the Holocaust), into their postwar poetry and prose, the authors K. Tzetnik and Chava Rosenfarb stand out. Each extracted and presented the aesthetic potential of Khurbn Yiddish words in different ways.  K. Tzetnik emphasized the horrifying, bizarre side of Khurbn Yiddish words, molding them into an expressionistic scream. Rosenfarb, by contrast, shined a light onto the small acts of resilience contained within Khurbn Yiddish words, memories of self-expression and communication against the odds. Her ghetto terms become beautiful in the way they invite readers into scenes of everyday life under Nazi rule, moments from the margins of history that are rarely considered worthy of notice. The two authors also clash on the topic of female sexuality—and the ways that words relate to the body.

Hannah Pollin-Galay is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University, where she is also Head of the Jona Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. Pollin-Galay researches and teaches primarily in the fields of Yiddish literature and Holocaust Studies, and has recently begun to foray into the field of ecocriticism. Her first book, Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony came out with Yale University Press in 2018 and her second, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (U Penn Press, 2024) asks how the Holocaust changed the Yiddish language. She is currently working on a project exploring the fraught connections between Jews and non-human nature, across time and space. In addition to being a 2024-2025 Senior Scholar at the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimony at Yale University, Pollin-Galay is also a Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow, where she is translating Yiddish ecopoetry from the Holocaust.

Zum Zustand unserer Debattenkultur

(und der politischen Kultur)

medico international und Amnesty International in Deutschland warnen gemeinsam vor dem Angriff gegen internationale Institutionen des Völkerrechts.

Narrative im Nahost-Konflikt

Ein Vortrag des Islamwissenschaftlers Florian Zemmin: Neue Erzählungen für eine friedlichere Zukunft

Hörsaal – Deutschlandfunk Nova

Die Geschichten, die wir uns über uns erzählen, sind mächtig – und gefährlich. Im Nahostkonflikt etwa sind alle Parteien überzeugt, historisch im Recht zu sein. Narrative könnten aber auch eine Chance sein. Ein Vortrag des Islamwissenschaftlers Dr. Florian Zemmin. Er ist Professor für Islamwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin und Co-Direktor der Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies.

Seinen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Konflikt ohne Ende? Welche Geschichte(n) wir heute für die Zukunft brauchen“ wurde ursprünglich am 19. November 2024 im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung
„Die Vielfalt Palästinas – eine kulturelle Zeitreise:“ an der FU Berlin gehalten und wurde für Deutschlandfunk Nova noch mal eingesprochen.

Future Realities!

You’re invited to a powerful and timely conversation with Hamze Awawde, a Palestinian peace activist, and Rabbi Cat Zavis as they explore the past, present, and future realities of Palestine—and the possibilities for justice, reconciliation, and peace.📅 Tuesday, February 11📍 Lakeshore Baptist Church, 3534 Lakeshore Ave., Oakland🕖 Doors open at 6:45 PM | Talk begins at 7:00 PM (PST)🎥 Live Stream: bit.ly/3E2aKdX

About Hamze Awawde:A lifelong advocate for peace and human dignity, Hamze Awawde is committed to amplifying Palestinian voices and fostering dialogue beyond cycles of violence. His latest initiative, the Center for Palestinian Renewal (CPR), is a groundbreaking think-and-do tank dedicated to empowering Palestinian perspectives and promoting citizen diplomacy.Join us for an evening of deep discussion and hopeful vision-building. Whether in person or online, we hope you can be part of this essential conversation.




From the Ruins of Gaza

In an interview, Pankaj Mishra discusses his forthcoming book on the Palestinians and the Shoah.

Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist who was born in northern India in 1969. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Allahabad University before completing his M.A. in English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Mishra is the author of numerous books, among them From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Picador, 2013), Age of Anger: A History of the Present (Picador, 2017), and a book of essays, titled Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire (Verso, 2020). His most recent book, The World After Gaza: A History, will be published on February 6 by Penguin Press. Diwan interviewed Mishra in late January to discuss his forthcoming book, and more broadly the themes that it addresses.

Diwan

Diwan, a blog from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program and the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, draws on Carnegie scholars to provide insight into and analysis of the region. 

Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi (1944-2025) r.i.p.

Schon am 15. Januar ist „Dr. Mahdi“ gestorben, eine Stimme Jerusalems, eine Stimme der palästinensischen Sache – eine Institution in sich selbst und untrennbar mit PASSIA verbunden … sein Büro in Wadi Joz war ein Anlaufpunkt für Information, für Analyse, für Kontakte, für Dialog und Gespräch …

Khalil Assali hat ihn in wunderbarerweise gewürdigt.

Der Nachruf von PASSIA, auch das Photo oben stammt von (c) PASSIA

Parents Circle Families Forum (PCFF) in Berlin und Potsdam

28.01.2025 um 19:00 Uhr in der Katholischen Akademie Berlin (Hannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin) Moderation: Jörn Böhme, Ko-Vorsitzender des NIF Deutschland e.V.

29.01.2025 um 19:00 Uhr im Einstein Forum (Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam)
Moderation: Dr. Amir Theilhaber, Ko-Vorsitzender des NIF Deutschland e.V.