Minerva Institute for German History and Wiener Library

Tel Aviv University (established in 1971)

Minerva Institute for German History and Wiener Library

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Keywords

Cultural history; history of ideas; legal history; history of migration; nazism; holocaust; Kaiserreich; Weimar; Federal Republic

Research activities and aims

The Minerva Institute focuses on the following objectives:

• To introduce young Israeli students to German history, culture and ideas;
• To promote research in this field;
• To exchange students and researchers;
• To organize workshops and symposiums;
• To publish a yearbook in German history and a book-series which presents Israeli research in German history;
• To promote cooperation with German and non-German universities.

During the last years, the institute opened up its activities in the field of central European history and German culture. The German-Jewish encounter in the 19th and 20th century is a strategic topic. The Wiener Library - although not part of the institute - cooperates very closely with the former.