A Confiscated Memory – Wadi Salib and Haifa's Lost Heritage

Monday, September 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
(Pacific)
Philippines Conference Room
Speaker: 
  • Yfaat Weiss

 

 

Haifa, the so-called "mixed city" of Jews and Arabs during the British Mandate period, also called the city of "co-existence" in the minds of its Jewish residents today, this city real and imagined will be the focus of this lecture, which suggests an archeology of memory of a conflict which is over and a conflict which still lingers.

Yfaat Weiss is professor in the department of the History of the Jewish People and Head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various studies on German and Central European History, as well as on Jewish and Israeli History.