| Time: | June 6, 2019, 7:00 p.m. (CEST) |
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| Venue: | Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart lecture hall on the ground floor Holzgartenstr. 16 70174 Stuttgart |
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Thomas Sparr (Berlin): A German-Jewish Israel. Emigration, past and present
The Berlin-based literary scholar Thomas Sparr follows the scattered traces of German-Jewish intellectual life, which lead – depending on perspective – to tales of emigration, or the search for a new home. Using the Jewish quarter Rechavia – a garden city built based on German models from the 1920s - as an example, Sparr traces the existence of German-Jewish traditions up until the late 20th century. Of importance are the names Else Lasker-Schüler, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Lea Goldberg und Werner Kraft. This lecture gives insight into the gradual extinction of this culture since the 1970s, when the generation of Zionist immigrants and those fleeing the Nazis gradually died out, right up until the present day.
Thomas Sparr, who lived and taught in Jerusalem in the 1980s, and has since regularly worked and researched there, experienced the last phase of this German-Jewish culture and its transformation with the next generation into an Israeli-Jewish culture.
This lecture has been organized by the Deutsch-Israelischen Gesellschaft Region Stuttgart and the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache Zweig Stuttgart, in cooperation with Stuttgart University Library.
Entrance is free of charge.