Workshop “Educational Media and Cultural Translations” – May 5-6, 2015 – Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig (Germany)

Organized as part of our research project, this workshop is intended to discuss the concept of “cultural translation” in relation to the history of Jewish education and processes of cultural transformation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Central Europe. We will present initial findings of our research and discuss with scholars from the fields of history and […]

A Second Project Meeting in Tel Aviv

A fortunate coincidence made it possible that almost the entire research group met on December 1, 2014 in Tel Aviv for the second time. A conference of the German Israeli Textbook committee brought Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig and Dr. Dirk Sadowski to Israel. Together with Dr. Kerstin von der Krone, who was on a research […]

Jewish Educational Media in Tel Aviv, June 2014

The Israeli and German researchers of the DFG-research project „Innovation through Tradition?“ met for the first time at Tel Aviv University for a two-days workshop on June 8-9, 2014. They dealt with a number of questions related to the entire research project including the further development of the project during the initial funding period of […]