Events

Jewish Sports in Germany – Between Inclusion and Exclusion

A study day at Beit Hatfutsot in partnership with The Richard Koebner Center
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

On the occasion of the exhibition The Game of their Lives - Achievements in Spirit and Sport, Jewish Athletes prior to 1948

Program:

Session I, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. (in Hebrew)

• Between German Sports Tradition and Muscular Judaism  – Prof. Moshe Zimmerman
• Jewish Football in the Weimar Era – Dr. Nathan Marcus
• Sports Relations between the Third Reich and Eretz Israel -  Dr. Eyal Gertman
• Adi Rubinstein, curator of the exhibition The Game of Their Lives – introduction to the exhibition 

Intermission and a free visit of the exhibition The Game of Their Lives 
 

Session II, (in German) 4.30 p.m. – 6 p.m.

• Bayern Munich as a “Jewish” Football Club - Mr. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling
• Jewish Sports under the Third Reich - Renaissance within Extinction - Prof. Lorenz Pfeiffer

Intermission
 

Session III, 6.30 p.m.

• Antisemitism in German Sports from the Second to the Third Reich. Dr. Ralph Schafer
• Screening of the Film "Berlin 36", the story of Gretel Bergmann, the German-Jewish
  high-jump record-holder (90 minutes, German with Hebrew subtitles)

Simultaneous translation from German to Hebrew
 

Information and Registration:  02-5880135 mskoeb@mscc.huji.ac.il 

Free Admittance
 

Monday, January 16 2012, Bnai Zion Auditorium