Dr. Jenny Hestermann

Monographie

Inszenierte Versöhnung (2016). Reisediplomatie und die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen von 1957 bis 1984 (Dissertationsschrift). Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts. Frankfurt/Main.  

Wissenschaftliche Artikel

‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ and the Limits of Normalization: On the History and Politics of Israel Studies in Germany (2023), in: Israel Studies as a Global Discipline”, ed. By Johannes Becke and Derek Penslar, in: Journal of Israeli History. Politics. Society. Culture, Volume 41, 2023, published online 16.5.2024, S. 171-202.

Israel-Studien (2021, mit Johannes Becke), in: Christina von Braun/Micha Brumlik (Hg.): Handbuch Jüdische Studien, Köln 2021, S. 403-419.

Israel-Studien in Deutschland nach 1945 - Eine kurze Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2020), in: Michael Brenner, Daniel Mahla, Johannes Becke (Hg.): Israel-Studien. Geschichte, Methoden, Paradigmen. Göttingen Wallstein-Verlag, S. 60-74.

Israels Weg nach Europa. Die frühen deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen im Kontext europäischer Politik (2019), in: Doron Kiesel (Hg): Perspektiven jüdischer Bildung: Diskurse – Erkenntnisse – Positionen (Schriftenreihe der Bildungsabteilung des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland). Berlin. Hentrich & Hentrich, S. 98-111.

Beyond atonement. Remarks on the research paradigms in German- Israeli relations (2016), in: Trumah, Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Issue 23, pp. 37- 45.

Before diplomacy: German-Israeli academic relations as "bridge builders"? (2017), in: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute vol. 15, Göttingen, pp. 399-418.

Ein "Tag der tiefen Trauer"- Israelische Reaktionen auf den Umbruch in der DDR und die deutsche Wiedervereinigung (2015) in: Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): Deutschland Archiv 2014. Bonn. S.112-125.

Atonement or Self-Experience? On the Motivations of the First Generation of Volunteers of Action Reconciliation for Peace (2014), in: Working Papers European Forum at the Hebrew University, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Jerusalem 2014.
 

Traumatisiert. Die israelische Gesellschaft nach dem 7. Oktober, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), Heft: Naher Osten, 15.3.2024. https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/naher-osten-2024/546376/traumatisiert/

Im Schatten der Shoah. Deutsch-israelische Beziehungen gestern und heute, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) Sonderheft ‘75 Jahre Israel’ (2023), 2.Mai 2023. 

Bertelsmann-Studie: Deutschland und Israel heute. Verbindende Vergangenheit, trennende Gegenwart (2022), mit Stephan Stetter and Roby Nathanson, hrsg. von der Bertelsmann-Stiftung.

Deutsch-israelische Beziehungen, in: Informationen zur politischen Bildung 336, 1/2018, Sonderheft Israel. Herausgegeben von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, S. 76-80, Berlin 2018. 

Deutschland und Israel. Stationen eines einzigartigen Verhältnisses. Eine kommentierte Quellensammlung für den Geschichts- und Politikunterricht, eine Lehrerhandreichung.  Im Auftrag der Kultusministerkonferenz und der Israelischen Botschaft Berlin (Hg.), November 2015. https://www.kmk.org/fileadmin/Dateien/pdf/PresseUndAktuelles/2015/KMK_Brosch_DeIsrael_Handreichung_Web.pdf

Was war eigentlich mit der DDR?, in: Dossier: 50 Jahre Deutsch-Israelische Beziehungen, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung 2015 (online), www.boell.de/de/50-jahre-deutsch-israelische-beziehungen.
Mehr als nur Konflikte. Israel in deutschen Schulbüchern, Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung,  5.11.2015.
 

1948- The turning point. About Benny Morris. 1948. The first Arab-Israeli war, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06.05.2024, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/1948-der-wendepunkt-19701701.html

Pnina Lahav (2022): The Only Woman in the Room. Golda Meir and her Path to Power, Princeton UP, In: Historische Zeitschrift, 1.2.2024, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2024-1043/html?lang=de

Eva Maria Verst-Lizius (2022): Travels to Jerusalem. West German Christians in the "Holy Land" and Israel (1950s to 1970s) (= Publications of the Institute of European History Mainz 266), in: H-Soz-Kult, 28.04.2023, https://www.hsozkult.de/index.php/publicationreview/id/reb-118341

Frontex. The constitution of Europe. About Bernd Kasparek (2021): Europe as Border. An ethnography of the border protection agency Frontex, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21.03.2022, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/die-konstituierung-europas-17895299.html

Narratives of decline. About: Lutz Raphael: Beyond coal and steel. A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom, Berlin 2019, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 17.12.2019, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/erzaehlungen-vom-niedergang-eine-geschichte-westeuropas-16527484.html

Born out of fear. About: Kiran Klaus Patel: Project Europe. A critical history. Munich 2018, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18.12.2018, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/leidensdruck-15946396.html

The life of a lonely man. About: Tom Segev: David Ben Gurion. A state at any price. Munich 2018, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.09.2018, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/politische-buecher/gruendervater-15780991.html

Katharina Hoba: Generation in transition. Homecoming processes of German Jews in Israel. (Series Jüdische Moderne, vol. 17) Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2017, in: Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 307, issue 3 (December 2018), 5.12.2018, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2018-1592/html?lang=de

Anja Siegemund (ed.): German and Central European Jews in Palestine and Israel. Cultural transfers, lifeworlds, identities. Examples from Haifa, in: Insight 18, Bulletin of the Fritz Bauer Institute, 2017.

Karin Orth: The Nazi Expulsion of Jewish Scholars. The policy of the German Research Foundation and the reactions of those affected, in: Einsicht 17, 2017.

Klaus Hillenbrand: Strangers in a new land. German Jews in Palestine and their view of Germany after 1945, in: Medaon. Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education, 11 (2017).

Michael Brenner: Israel. Dream and Reality of the Jewish State. Munich 2016, in: Insight 16, 2016.

Ethnocracy Israel? Eva Illouz: Israel. Sociological Essays. Berlin 2015, in: Insight 14, 2015.

Carole Fink: 'The Most Difficult Journey of All', Willy Brandt's Trip to Israel in June 1973, The International History Review 37:3, 2015, online on H-Net.

Scientific lectures

12/2024 Don't mention the war. German-Israeli academic relations after the Holocaust. Lecture at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute, FU Berlin, at the invitation of the Chair of Didactics of History, 17.12.2024.

07/2024 'Don't mention the war'. German-Israeli relations in the Humanities in the 20th Century, 40th Annual Conference of the AIS/12th Annual Conference of the EAIS, 1.-3.7.2024, Charles University, Prague.

02/2024 Masculinities in Rebuilding Post-War German Democracy After the War, at the Conference: Governing Masculinity, Queen Mary University of London, 21-22.2.2024.

07/2023 Putting Israel Studies into Practice: Notes on the Promotion of Civil Society in Israel European Association for Jewish Studies, 16-20.7.2023.

09/2022 Staged Reconciliation. German Politicians visiting Israel in the Post-War Era, 14.09.2022, Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

10/2021 52nd German Historians' Conference: From Europe but not in Europe? Changing images of Europe in Israeli discourse from the 1950s to the 1970s, in the panel Contested Visions of Europe in Israeli History, Chair Miriam Rürup, postponed from 2020.

01/2021 A piece of Eastern Europe in the Middle East? Zum Wandel der israelischen Europa-Diskurse, online lecture at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Studien, in cooperation with the Department of Islamic Studies at Heidelberg University, January 27, 2021.

11/2020 Farewell to Europe? Israeli Discourses on Europe in Transition, Research Colloquium of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, 20.11.2020.

10/2019 Identity and Identification in the Making of History, at: Identities and Politics throughout History. 5th Workshop of the Political History PhD Network, European University Institute, Florence.

06/2019 The Intellectual History of Israel Studies in Germany, at the conference: Grey Areas. Two Centuries of Wissenschaft des Judentums, Heidelberg, 16-19.6.2019.

06/2018 Rhetorics of Guilt in Moments of Crisis: The Case of German-Israeli Relations as well as Discourses on the Decline of the European and German Diaspora in Israel - Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, University of CA, Berkeley, June 25-27, 2018.

03/2017 Staged reconciliation. German Politicians in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s. Book presentation as part of the public event No red carpets. German-Israeli Diplomacy through Visits and Missions, organized by the Minerva Center for German History, Tel Aviv University.

07/2017 The biographies of David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir and their relations with Germany in comparison - an Israeli perspective. In the lecture series: Jewish Lives. Biographische Forschungen zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte in der Moderne, Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg, July 11, 2017.

06/2014 Anti-German but Pro-Zionist: On the politics and ideology of the Antideutsche, Israel Institute, University of Oxford, 12.6.2014.

09/2016 51st German Historians' Conference, Hamburg: Funding at eye level? The role of foundations in German-Israeli cooperation in the humanities, in the section on contemporary history and history of science using the example of German-Israeli scientific relations, in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

02/2015 פוליטיקה סביב שולחן ארוחת ערב: ביקורי פוליטיקאים מערב גרמנים בישראל בשנות ה-60 וה-70
(Lecture in Hebrew), Seminar for Young Academics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Conference organization

11/2021 Graduate Workshop Paradigm Shifts in the European-Israeli Relations, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, in cooperation with the Chair of Eastern European History at Heidelberg University and the European Association for Israel Studies

04-06/2021 Lecture series Shifts in European-Israeli Relations, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies

07/2016 Conference Generations and Transfer of Knowledge. German History and Literature between Germany and Israel, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 18-19.7.2017.

11/2015 Colloquium: The Humanities between Germany and Israel. Historical perspectives, 1.-2.11.2015, Jerusalem, together with the Van Leer Institute Jerusalem and the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center.

Television

Israel 75- Promised Land, Threatened State, 14.05.2023, Terra X History, ZDF, interview and expert advice on the program, www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x-history/israel-gelobtes-land-bedrohter-staat-100.html

Podcasts

Is democracy in Israel on the brink of collapse? 07.04.2023, Der Pragmaticus, https://www.derpragmaticus.com/r/israel-demokratie

What's going on in Israel? On judicial reform and the dismantling of democracy by the Netanyahu VI cabinet, 27.02.2023, Die Wochendämmerung, https://wochendaemmerung.de/was-ist-los-in-israel-ueber-die-justizreform-und-den-abbau-der-demokratie-durch-das-kabinett-netanjahu-vi/

Why Israel studies? christina von Braun in conversation with Jenny Hestermann, Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Brandenburg, February 2021, https://www.selma-stern-zentrum.de/podcast/Israelstudien/index.html

Israel Studies after 1945 - A Brief History of Science, 29.10.2020, German-Israeli Society Cologne/Bonn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDX5nCtKC8&ab_channel=Deutsch-IsraelischeGesellschaftAGK%C3%B6ln

Radio interviews (selection)

How could there be peace in the Middle East, interview with RBB Radio Eins, 8.10.2024, www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der_schoene_morgen/_/wie-koennte-es-frieden-in-nahost-geben.html

Israel's domestic policy one year after October 7, interview with Radio Bern, 7.10.2024
rabe.ch/2024/10/07/israels-innenpolitik-ein-jahr-nach-dem-7-oktober/

Netanyahu in the USA, interview with Radio Bremen Zwei, 25.07.2024

Ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel, interview with Radio Bern, 04.07.2024, rabe.ch/2024/07/04/die-saekularen-kreise-unterstuetzen-dieses-neue-gesetz/

Justice law in Israel: Soul of the country taken, 25.07.2023, WDR5, https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/justizreform-israel-auswirkungen-100.html

Day of Disturbance in Israel: This is an extremely critical moment, 18.07.2023, SWR aktuell, https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/radio/tag-stoerung-israel-proteste-justizreform-100.html

Israel expert: Middle East conflict in the midst of escalation, interview with RBB Inforadio, 06.07.2023,
www.inforadio.de/rubriken/interviews/2023/07/06/isreal-dschenin-militaereinsatz-westjordanland-jenny-hestermann.html

Conflict in Jenin, 4.07.2023, interview on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-zu-nahost-mit-dr-jenny-hestermann-heinrich-boell-stiftung-tel-aviv-dlf-8a796026-100.html

Concern for the rule of law, 30.01.2023, interview on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/wie-es-um-israels-rechtsstaat-nach-der-gewalteskalation-steht-dlf-kultur-c5ba2bdd-100.html

Controversial judicial reform in Israel, 25.01.2023, Interview with Radio Bern, https://rabe.ch/2023/01/25/umstrittene-justizreform-in-israel/

Twenty years ago: Ezer Weizman's speech to the German parliament, interview on Deutschlandfunk 16.1.2016, https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/vor-20-jahren-ezer-weizmans-rede-vor-dem-deutschen-parlament-100.html

Newspaper interviews

Palestinians criticize the Förintelsen's influence on the country, Article by Lovisa Herold, 5.12.2023, www.dn.se/varlden/ilska-och-sorg-bland-palestinier-i-berlin-vi-maste-befria-oss-fran-den-tyska-skulden/

Israel 'neocolonial'? This shows blind spots in the postcolonial glasses, 9.12.2022, Interwelt mit der WELT, https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus242602783/Blick-auf-Israel-Israel-neokolonial-Das-zeigt-blinde-Flecken-in-der-postkolonialen-Brille.html

"Signs of a possible alienation" - How young Germans view Israel, interview with WELT, 15.09.2022, www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article241073787/Junge-Deutsche-und-Israel-Anzeichen-einer-moeglichen-Entfremdung-Wie-junge-Deutsche-auf-Israel-blicken.html

Hamas has exploited the discontent, interview in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 26.5.2021.