Teaching
Winter semester 2023/2024
Lecture: Introduction to the history and politics of the modern Middle East
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke & Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
MA seminar: Reading Class on Ambivalent Enmity
Directed by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke & Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
MA Seminar: Jerusalem - A Political History of the City from the Crusaders to the Present Day
Directed by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke & Prof. Dr. Anna Kollatz
BA Seminar: Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory Palestine
Directed by: Dr. Lily Eilan & Dr. Uri Rosenberg
BA Seminar: Immigration and Diversity in Israel Society
Head: Dr. Hila Zaban
Summer semester 2023
BA Seminar: The Jewish Renewal Movement in Israel - Hebrew Source Reading
Leader: Shulamit Rom
MA seminar: Secular-Jewish Identity in Israel
Leader: Shulamit Rom
Winter semester 2022/23
Lecture: Introduction to the History and Politics of the Modern Middle East
Directed by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke & Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
MA Seminar: Ambivalent Enmity - Antagonistic Relationships in East Asia and the Middle East
Head: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke & Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
BA Seminar: Constitution and Constitutional Reality in Israel, Kurdistan and the Arab World
Led by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke and Dr. Bawar Bammarny
Exercise: Arabic sources on the constitution and constitutional reality in Israel, Kurdistan and the Arab world
Leader: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke and Dr. Bawar Bammarny
BA Seminar: Representations of Jews, Judaism, and Israel in Egyptian Culture
Head: Dr. Menna Abukhadra
MA Seminar: Zionist Thought in Historical Context - From Moses Hess to the Present
Leader: Dr. Nimrod Lind
BA Seminar: Memory Cultures in the Modern Middle East
Head: Dr. Bareez Majid
Summer semester 2022
BA Seminar: Introduction to the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the 20th Century
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
Exercise: Introduction to Israeli Media (Hebrew Source Reading)
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA Seminar: Israeli History since the Six-Day War
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA Seminar: Secularization in Jewish Culture in Europe and Israel
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA-Seminar: Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel/Palestine since 1882
Head: Dr. Nimrod Lin
MA Seminar: Memory Cultures in Israel/Palestine - Art, Museums, and Archives
Directed by: Dr. Omri Grinberg
Winter semester 2021/22
Lecture: Introduction to the History and Politics of the Modern Middle East
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke / Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
Exercise: Hebrew Source Reading - The Yishuv and Mandate Palestine
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
BA Seminar: "Villa in the Jungle" or Middle Eastern State? Israel and European Integration
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA seminar: Holocaust Memory in Israel - Past and Present
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA Seminar: Zionism in European Jewish History
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA Seminar: The British Mandate for Palestine - The Jewish-Arab-British Triangle
Head: Dr. Nimrod Lin
Summer semester 2021
Seminar: Comparing Jewish and Kurdish Nation-Building
Led by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke
Proseminar: Introduction to German-Israeli Relations since 1949
Led by: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
Exercise: Hebrew source reading on German-Israeli relations
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA seminar: Europe in Zionist and Israeli imagination
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
MA Seminar: The Contested Historiography of the Zionist Project
Leader: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
Winter semester 2020/21
Lecture: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
Directed by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke / Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
MA seminar: "Waiting for the Seventh Day": Israel and the Six-Day War
Head: Dr. Lutz Fiedler
MA seminar: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" reconsidered: On the history, impact and controversy of Hannah Arendt's "Report on the Banality of Evil"
Leader: Dr. Lutz Fiedler
MA seminar: Diplomacy without a state. Jewish politics in the modern age
Leader: Dr. Lutz Fiedler
Exercise: New perspectives on the history and present of Zionism
Leader: Dr. Lutz Fiedler
Summer semester 2020
MA seminar: State and religion in the Middle East
Led by: Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke, Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
Exercise: Hebrew source texts on state and religion in Israel
Leader: Junior Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke, Prof. Dr. Viktor Golinets
MA Seminar: Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Modern Middle East
Leader: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke, Prof. Dr. Frederek Musall
Winter semester 2019/20
Lecture: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
Head: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
BA seminar: The State and the Military in Israeli History
Leader: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Summer semester 2019
MA seminar: Language Politics in the History of the Zionist Project
Head: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
BA seminar: Introduction to the Israeli media
Led by: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Winter semester 2018/19
BA seminar: Introduction to Israeli politics and society
Led by: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
MA seminar: History and politics of the Israeli left
Led by: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Summer semester 2018
BA seminar: Nation-building and statehood in the Middle East
Supervision: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke, Prof. Dr. Henning Sievert
Exercise: Nation-Building, Statehood and the Zionist Project
Head: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Winter semester 2017/18
MA Seminar: The History and Politics of Israel's Rule over the Occupied Territories
Head: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Summer semester 2017
MA seminar: Comparative Perspectives on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Leader: Juniorprof. Dr. Johannes Becke
BA-Seminar: Introduction to the History of German-Israeli Relations
Head: Dr. Jenny Hestermann
Winter semester 2016/17
BA seminar: Ethnic conflicts in the Middle East
Leader: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Exercise: Basic Hebrew texts of the Israeli Right
Leader: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Summer semester 2016
BA seminar: State and Language in Israel and Palestine
Led by: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke, Junior Professor Dr. Viktor Golinets
BA seminar: German-Israeli relations in the shadow of the past
Head: Dr. Angelika Timm
Winter semester 2015/16
Lecture: State and Minority in the Middle East
Lecturer: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
BA seminar: Visual arts as a source of Israeli cultural and mental history
Head: Dr. Shelley Harten
Summer semester 2015
BA seminar: Comparative Perspectives on Jewish Nationalism and Israeli Statehood
Head: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke
Exercise: Analyzing Hebrew Documents from Israel's Political History
Leader: Junior Professor Dr. Johannes Becke