__JOS? BRUNNER - The Buchmann Faculty of Law

JOSÉ BRUNNER
CV
July 2015
ADDRESS:
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv Campus
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel: +972-3-6408362
Mail: [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION:
2002-present Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science and History of Ideas, Joint appointment
at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University.
PRIOR TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:
1996-02
Senior Lecturer, Buchmann Faculty of Law and Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University.
1995-96
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Buchmann Faculty of Law and Cohn Institute of the
History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University.
1988-95
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University.
1984-88
Instructor, Tel Aviv University, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University.
1983-85
Instructor (external teacher), Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
ACADEMIC DIRECTORSHIPS:
2015 (fall)
Director, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv
University.
2012-present Director, Eva & Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness, Tel
Aviv University.
2010-present Founding Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Law and Humanities, Tel Aviv
University.
2011-14
Founding Academic Supervisor, Israel's first Legal Clinic for the Rights of Holocaust
Survivors, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (Founding Clinical
Supervisor: Attorney Yossi Hayut).
2011-13
Founding Director, Research Group “Therapy in Translation: Knowledge, Culture,
Politics”. Minerva Center for the Humanities, Tel Aviv University.
2005-13
Director, Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University.
1996-98
Co-Director, Research Project “Europe in the Middle East: Political Key Concepts in
the Dialogue of Cultures”. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in cooperation with the
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. Sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.
With Rivka Feldhay.
VISITING TEACHING POSITIONS:
2011
Visiting Professor, ”Wissenschaft und Judentum”, Competence Center “History of
Knowledge”, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich (fall semester).
2008
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Jena Center 20th Century History, Friedrich-Schiller
University, Jena (summer semester).
1998-99
Visiting Hannah Foundation Professor. Department of Social Studies of Medicine,
McGill University, Montreal.
1992
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, Northwestern
University (summer semester).
FELLOWSHIPS:
2015 (fall)
Senior Faculty Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University.
2015 (summer) Fellow, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe
University, Frankfurt/Main.
1994-95
Visiting Scholar, Sigmund Freud Center for Research and Study in Psychoanalysis,
Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1990-91
Postdoctoral Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard
University.
EDUCATION:
1987
D. Phil. in Politics. St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
1977
B.A. in Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1973
Matriculation, Wirtschaftsgymnasium Freudenberg, Zürich.
EXTERNAL GRANTS (since 2005):
2012-15
Academic Director. Grant for Curriculum Innovation by Humanities Fund of the
National Council of Higher Education in Israel, for Development of Interdisciplinary
Studies Program in Law and Humanities. NIS 1,8 million.
2011-12
Sole PI. Research grant by Minerva Foundation for Project “The Meaning of Things:
Human-Thing Relations in German Literature, History and Memory”. Euro 93,520.
2010-12
Sole PI. Research grant by Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Project “Komplizierte
Begegnungen. Jüdische Lebenswelten und deutsche Rechtskategorien im Ringen um
Entschädigung nach dem Holocaust“. Euro 76,700.
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2008-11
Joint PI with Norbert Frei, Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena, and Constantin Goschler,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum . Research grant by German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific
Research and Development (GIF) for Project “The Globalization of
Wiedergutmachung”. Euro 168,070.
2004-07
Joint PI with Norbert Frei, Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena. Research grant by
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) for
Project “The Practice of Wiedergutmachung: NS-Victims and Indemnification in
Israel and Germany, 1952-2002”. Euro 205,600.
INTERNAL GRANTS (since 2005):
2013-14
Sole PI. Research Award by Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, for Project "The
New Social Contract and the Techniques of Resilience". US-$ 14,000.
2011-13
Sole PI. Research Encouragement Award by Fund of the Vice-President, Tel Aviv
University. NIS 19,000.
2007-08
Sole PI. Research Encouragement Award by Fund of the Vice-President, Tel Aviv
University. NIS 10,900.
2005
Sole PI. Research Award by Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law
for Project “The Concepts of Time and Law: The German Tradition v. the AngloSaxon Tradition”. NIS 6,000
COOPERATION PARTNER IN EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (since 2005):
2013-present Working Group “Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert”, Fritz Thyssen Foundation,
Cologne. Director: Norbert Frei, Friedrich Schiller-Universität, Jena.
2011-present International Cooperation Partner. With Klaus Christian Köhnke, Leipzig University.
Director: Matthias Berek, Leipzig University. Research Project funded by Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), “The Proto-Sociologist Moritz Lazarus within the
Context of German-Jewish Life-Worlds”.
2008-11
International Cooperation Partner. With Philippe Ther, European University
Institute, Florence, and Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Willi-Brandt Center, Wroclaw
University. Director: Constantin Goschler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Research
Project funded by Foundation „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ)”,
“Practice, Results and Effects of Forced Labor Compensation”.
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY ACTIVITIES (since 2005):
2014-present Scientific Board of Trustees, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials
Foundation.
2012-present Senior Editor, History & Memory.
2012-present Scientific Advisory Committee, Entresol – Network for Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
and Sciences of the Mind, Zürich.
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2007-present Editorial Advisory Board, The Richard Koebner Minerva Center Yearbook for
European History, Society, Culture and Thought [Hebrew].
2003-present Editorial Advisory Board, Psychoanalysis and History.
2001-present International Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Social Research (Institut
für Sozialforschung), Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main.
2005-14
Editor-in-Chief, Tel Aviv Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte.
2005-13
Series Editor, Schriftenreihe des Minerva Instituts für deutsche Geschichte.
2008
Expert Advisor, State Commission of Inquiry on Financial Support for Holocaust
Survivors (Chaired by Retired Supreme Court Judge Dalia Dorner; January-April).
2001-08
Editorial Board, Hagar: International Social Science Review.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (since 2005):
2012-present Academic Advisory Committee, Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the
Holocaust, Tel Aviv University.
2013-14
Chair, Research Students Committee, Buchmann Faculty of Law.
2013-14
Academic Board, The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies.
2012-13
Convener, Faculty Colloquium, Buchmann Faculty of Law.
2011-12
Helsinki Committee, Buchmann Faculty of Law
2007-08
LLB Committee, Buchmann Faculty of Law.
2006–08
Coordinator, Research Track, MA Degree, Cohn Institute.
2006-07
Planning and Development Committee, Buchmann Faculty of Law.
2005-13
Academic Advisory Board, Daniel S. Abraham Center for International and Regional
Studies.
2005-12
PhD Committee, Buchmann Faculty of Law (except 2008-2010, while on leave from
teaching).
2005-06
PhD Committee, School of Cultural Studies.
2005-06
Convener and Editor of Quality Self-Assessment Report (8 vols.), submitted by the
Buchmann Faculty of Law to the Council of Higher Education of Israel.
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (since 2005):
2013
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, “Judging Human Rights
Violations: Pondering Past and Future after Kiobel”, Tel Aviv University, December
15-16. With Leora Bilsky.
2013
Academic Co-Organizer of International Workshop, "Historische Dinge. Vom
Umgang mit Objekten in Museen, Sammlungen, Gedenkstätten und Archiven". Tel
Aviv University, May 5-6. With Gal Hertz.
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2013
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, “Violence and Politics in
Germany: Origins and Consequences of Nazism.” Bar-Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities,
January. With Doron Avraham and Marianne Zepp.
2012
Academic Co-Organizer of German-Israeli Weimar Summer School, September,
Israel. With Volkhard Knigge and Axel Dossmann.
2012
Academic Co-Organizer of International Workshop, “Dinge denken und dichten:
Mensch-Ding-Beziehungen in der modernen deutschen Literatur.“ Tel Aviv
University, June 17-18. With Iris Nachum.
2011
Academic Organizer of International Conference, “Trauma in Israel-Palestine:
Science, Politics, Images”. Federal Technological Institute (ETH), Zürich, October 2729.
2011
Academic Co-Organizer of German-Israeli Weimar Summer School, July 13-22,
Weimar. With Volkhard Knigge and Axel Dossmann.
2011
Head of Advisory Committee of International Conference. “The Modern Experience
and the Performance of Paranoia”, at Sonnenstein-Pirna, Germany. Joint event of
Tel Aviv University, Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten and ZfL-Berlin, April.
2011
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, "The Eichmann Trial: Event and
Legacy", at the Museum of the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Kibbutz Lohamei
Hageta'ot, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, March 6-8. With Hanna Yablonka
and Arieh Kochavi.
2011
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, “Germany and Its Neighbors:
Borders, Identities, Relations”. Tel Aviv University, February. With Iris Nachum.
2011
Scientific Committee of International Conference, "Le procès Eichmann: Réceptions,
médiations, posterités." Organized by HiCSA (Histoire culturelle et sociale de l’art)
and IRICE (Identités, relations internationales et civilisation de l’Europe), Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. June 7-9, Paris.
2009
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference “Aufbruchsstimmung im Herbst
1989 – Die politische Wende in der DDR: Zeitzeugenberichte und Analysen“Tel Aviv
University, 17 December. With Angelika Timm.
2009
Academic Co-Organizer of German-Israeli Weimar Summer School, July 21-30,
Weimar. With Volkhard Knigge and Axel Dossmann.
2009
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, “Between Mameloshn and
Muttersprache: Yiddish and German in Dialogue,” June 1-2, Tel Aviv University. With
Hana Wirth-Nesher.
2009
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, “Double Unification: Germany
and Europe after 1989”. April 23, Tel Aviv University. With Miriam Eliav-Feldon.
2008
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, "Jews and Muslims in
Germany: Culture, Law and Politics from the Age of Enlightenment to the Time of
Multiculturalism." April 6-8, Tel Aviv University. With Shai Lavi.
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2007
Academic Co-Organizer of International Conference, "The Holocaust as Paradigm of
Trauma for the 20th Century". 23-27 January, Tel Aviv University. With Nathalie
Zajde.
2006
International Steering Committee of the 3rd International Conference of the Trauma
Research Net, 14-17 September, St. Moritz.
2006
Academic Co-Organizer, International Workshop, "Body, Technology, Society in
Prewar Germany," 28 May, Tel Aviv University. With Nitzan Lebovic.
2005
Academic Organizer, International Workshop, "Compensation for Holocaust
Survivors from Today’s Perspective: A German-Israeli Research Dialogue," 21-23
November, Tel Aviv University.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 2005):
May 2015
“A right to closure? Narrating ‘the truth’ in the aftermath of gross human rights
violations”. International Research Workshop: The Politics of Law and the Behavioral
Sciences: Historical Contexts and Conceptual Sources. Florence.
Jan 2015
“A narrative turn in human rights discourse? Victims of gross human rights
violations between truth commissions and the right to the truth”. Opening Lecture
at International Conference: Testimony/Bearing Witness: Current Controversies and
Historical Perspectives. Berlin.
Oct 2014
“When War Turned Into Trauma”. International Workshop: Textures of War:
Writing the First World War. Tel Aviv.
March 2014
"Law's Polyphony: The Variety of Voices in Israel's Holocaust-Related Legislation".
Conference: Social Identities and Cleavages in Mandate Palestine and Israel:
Perspectives in Legal History. Tel Aviv [Hebrew].
Dec 2013
"Framing the Slave Labor Class Action Suits: A Paradigm Shift, an Exception, or
More of the Same?" International Conference: Judging Human Rights Violations.
Pondering Past and Future after Kiobel. Tel Aviv.
Nov 2012
"Deutsches Recht auf Hebräisch – Zur Entschädigung für NS-Verfolgte in Israel".
International Conference: Deutschland und Israel/Palästina von 1945 bis heute,
Paris.
Sept 2012
"National Socialism on the American Couch: Prejudice, Projection and the
Flourishing of Psychoanalysis in Post-War USA". International Conference:
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism, London.
June 2012
"The Right to Closure: A New Human Right for the Twenty-first Century?"
International Conference: Bridging the Divide in Holocaust and Genocide Studies:
Towards a Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Haifa.
May 2012
"Das Recht zu trauern – ein neues Menschenrecht am Anfang des 21.
Jahrhunderts?" International Conference: Entschädigung als Menschenrecht?
Theorie und Praxis des Umgangs mit den Opfern kollektiver Gewalt. Bochum.
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July 2009
"How does difference turn into otherness? Conceptualizing changing responses
to social diversity". International workshop: Regulating Freedoms – Legal
Incorporation of Jews and Muslims in Europe. Goettingen.
Dec 2008
"Die Medikalisierung des Zeitzeugen. Politische Gewalt, Erinnerung und
Trauma". International Conference: Die Geburt des Zeitzeugen nach 1945, Jena.
May 2008
"Why and how did Holocaust survivors in Israel prove that they belonged to the
'Circle of German Language and Culture'”? Annual Conference of the Law and
Business Journal, Herzliah. With Iris Nachum.
Sept. 2007
"Beyond one-dimensional identification with trauma victims". International
Workshop: Historical trauma between Family, Civil Society and State in Israel and
Palestine, European University Institute, Florence. With Arnona Zahavi.
May 2007
"In the shadow of totalitarianism: Democracy and humility". International
Conference: Philosophy's Moods: Exploring the Affective Dimension of Thinking. Tel
Aviv.
Jan. 2007
"Trauma as the paradigm of the Holocaust". International Conference: The
Holocaust as the Paradigm of Psychic Trauma in the 20th Century. Tel Aviv.
Sept 2006
"Wie israelische Antragsteller ihre Zugehörigkeit zum deutschen Sprach- und
Kulturkreis beweisen mussten". 46. Deutscher Historikertag Konstanz, Germany.
June 2006
"The competition of victims in Israel/Palestine: The politics of trauma in the shadow
of the two Intifadas". International Conference: Healing the war: psychosocial
perspectives and experiences in war-torn societies, Rome.
May 2006
"The naked mother, or: Why Freud did not write about railway accidents".
International Workshop: Body, Technology and Society in Prewar Germany. Tel
Aviv.
INVITED PAPERS (since 2005):
July 2015
„Das Recht zur Wahrheit: Psychologie und Geschichte eines neuen
Menschenrechts“. Fellow-Paper, Cluster of Excellence „The Constitution of
Normative Orders“, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main.
Jan 2015
„Die Politik der psychischen Stärkung des Westens nach 9/11“, Colloquium of the
Dept. of History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg.
Nov 2014
„Die Politik der psychischen Stärkung des Westens nach 9/11“. Joint Colloquium of
the Departments of Contemporary History, Mediterranean History and NorthAmerican History at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum.
Sept 2014
„Traumatische Orte – Traumatische Zeiten. Kontexte seelischer Verletzlichkeit“.
Keynote Lecture at Friedländer Gespräche, „Unsichtbares Gepäck“ – Zur
Bewältigung von Kriegs- und Fluchterfahrungen seit 1945, Friedland.
June 2014
"Die Politik der Resilienz. Die psychische Stärkung des Westens nach 9/11".
Ringvorlesung: Umkämpfte Psyche. Zur Rekontextualisierung psychischen Leids im
Kapitalismus. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main.
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Jan 2014
"When war turned into trauma. On the helplessness of soldiers and psychiatrists".
Wiener Library Lecture Series: The First World War and its Consequences. Tel Aviv
[Hebrew].
Feb 2013
"Die Politik des Traumas in Israel und Palästina - Zwei verfeindete Nationen auf der
Suche nach innerer Stärke". Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna.
Dec 2012
"How Freud attempted to read pictures". International Conference: Representing
the Inner and Outer World in Art and Science. Tel Aviv University.
Oct 2011
"Heidnische Strategien: Von Freuds Versuchen, die Glaubwürdigkeit einer
Wissenschaft des Unbewussten zu etablieren", 26 October, Colloquium of Centre
“History of Knowledge”, Zürich University and ETH.
Oct 2011
"Freud und die Bilder: Verbot, Versuch, Versuchung". Lecture in series: Text und Bild
als Wissensformen im Judentum, Zürich University.
Nov 2009
"Die Politik des Traumas. Gewalt, Ohnmacht und der Staat". Adorno Lectures,
Institute for Social Research, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main.
June 2008
"Geschichte als Kriminalroman. Historiographie nach Freud und Hitler". FriedrichSchiller University, Jena.
May 2008
"Breaking points: Representing the traumatization of Israeli soldiers". International
Conference: Psychology on the Couch. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Nov.2007
"On trauma and collective identity in Israel". Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Psychology on Sociology’s Couch [Hebrew].
June 2007
"Erfahrungen ohne Ende: Wie verursachen traumatische Ereignisse chronische
Krankheiten und warum ist das eine moralische Frage?" Gesellschaft für
hermeneutische Anthropologie und Daseinsanalyse. Zürich.
March 2007
"Efficient naiveté: Fetishism and political consciousness in Israel". Lecture series:
Desire and Perversion, Jerusalem [Hebrew].
March 2007
"Trauma in Jerusalem? Die Zeugenaussagen im Eichmann-Prozess". International
Conference: Zeugenschaft des Holocaust: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge aus Polen, Israel
und Deutschland. Fritz Bauer Institut, Arnoldshain.
Nov 2006
"Broken soldiers: Guilt, shame and pleasure in the professional discourse on PTSD
from the Yom Kippur War to the First Intifada". Guest Lecture at First Student
Research Conference of the Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat
Gan [Hebrew].
Sept 2006
"How do posttraumatic disorders become chronic, and why is this a moral question?
On emotions, ethics, and excess". Plenary Lecture at the 3rd International Trauma
Research Net Conference. Trauma—Stigma and Distinction. Social Ambivalences in
the Face of Extreme Suffering. St. Moritz.
May 2006
"Railways in discontent: Freud on traumatic technology". Symposium at the
th
occasion of Freud's 150 birthday. The Sigmund Freud Chair of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, The Israel Psychoanalytic Association, The Austrian Cultural
Forum and the Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University. Jerusalem.
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April 2006
"Moments of rupture: Soldiers' traumas in the eyes of mental health professionals
from the Yom Kippur War to the first Intifada". Independence Conference, held
under the auspices of the rector of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv [Hebrew].
June 2005
"The competition of victims in Israel-Palestine: On the politics of trauma discourse
in the shadow of the Intifadas". Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem [Hebrew].
TEACHING SINCE 2005 (selected):
BUCHMAN FACULTY OF LAW:
 Legal truth: Right, duty and remedy
 The rights of Holocaust survivors: Legislation,
compensation
 Time, happiness and law in 20th century thought
 Introduction to ethics and political philosophy
 Human rights, political violence and psychic trauma
 Liberal rights
 Identity, memory and the law
adjudication,
COHN INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND IDEAS:
 An anthropology of truth
 Freud in a philosophical context
 Research, ethics and politics in the human sciences
 The politics of trauma in Israel and Palestine
 The psychology of Nazism and genocide: Approaches and theories
 Who’s a hero? On values and courage, crime and madness
SUPERVISION:
PhD:
2014-present Gal Kachman. Depression in American Psychoanalysis. School of Historical Studies.
2014-present Nir Yehudai. A History of the Psychopath. School of Historical Studies.
2012-present Nitzana Ben David. With Orit Rozin. Between the Legal and the Therapeutic:
Boundary Disputes in the Origins of the Youth Courts in Israel. School of Historical
Studies.
2012-present Nathan Friedenberg. The Third Reich in the German-Language Press in Mandatory
Palestine. School of Historical Studies.
2010-present Aaron Mor. Weakness and Persistence: A History of the World Jewish Restitution
Organization (WJRO) in the Years 1989-2010. School of Historical Studies.
2007-present Iris Nachum. “National Property and “Wiedergutmachung”. The Career of Two
Combat Concepts in the German Bohemian/Sudeten German Discourse [German].
School of Historical Studies.
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2006-12
Yehonatan Alsheh. With Yair Oron. The Intellectual and Political Origins of the
United Nations' Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, 1933-1948. School of Historical Studies.
2004-11
Galia Plotkin-Amrami. National Conflict and Mental Trauma: The Construction of
National-Traumatic Narratives in the Israeli Therapeutic Field. Cohn Institute for the
History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of Cultural Studies).
2003-09
Zohar Rubinstein. From Shell Shock to Combat Reaction: The History of Paradigm
Transition from the Yom Kippur War to the Lebanon War. Cohn Institute for the
History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of History).
2003-07
Mical Raz. Contextualizing Lobotomy: On the Boundaries of Somatic and Behavioral
Therapy for Mental Illness in America (1935-1955). Faculty of Medicine.
2002-09
Sarah Shachaf. With Hava Golander. Between Ethos and Practice: Contextualizing
Nursing in Israel (1970-2000): Contradictions and Cognitive Dissonance. Cohn
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of Philosophy).
2002-08
Orna Ophir-Shacham. The Paradox of Madness in American Psychoanalysis:
Liberating Ethos,
Practice under Siege. Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of History).
2000-07
Dorit Szykierski. Anxiety and Defense on the Boundaries: A Psychoanalytic
Perspective on the Development of Ideas in the Psychoanalytic Movement. Cohn
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of History).
1996-01
Aner Govrin. From Positivism to Post-Modernism in American Psychoanalysis. Cohn
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas (School of History).
MA:
2005-08
Tamar Kaplanski. The "Big Secret" of the Holocaust in the Israeli "Second
Generation" Literature. Comp. Literature.
2005-08
Reut Begas. With Neta Ziv. Employment as Resource -- Being Made Redundant as
Loss: The Principle of Fairness as a Defense of the Workplace. Buchmann Faculty of
Law.
2005-06
Ariela Sabag. With Avner Ben Amos. Debates on Compensation Payments for
Holocaust Survivors in the Kibbutzim (1950s to 1970s). School of Education.
2002-04
Sandrine Djian-Brenner. From Individual Trauma to Cultural Trauma: Terrorism and
Trauma in the Israeli Newspapers, 1993-2003. Cohn Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science.
2001-04
Noam Ordan. Reasons of Unreason: On Three Readings in "Memoirs of My Nervous
Illness" by Daniel Paul Schreber. Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas.
2001-03
Naamah Akavia. The Case of Ellen West: Between Psychotherapy and Existentialism.
Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.
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1998-01
Nili Dayan-Gussarsky. With Avigdor Feldman. False Confessions: The Roles of the
Defendant, Interrogator and Judge in the Generation of False Confessions in
Criminal Trials. Buchman Faculty of Law.
1998-01
Orit Wasserman-Rabi. The Concept of Guilt in the Literary Oeuvre of Albert Camus:
A Philosophical-Psychoanalytic Reading Buchmann Faculty of Law.
1995-98
Naomi Alon. With Eyal Chowers. Politics of the Body: A Performative Reading of
Beauvoir, Kristeva and Butler. Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University.
1992-95
Ze'ev Emmerich. With Yoav Peled. Metaphysical Pessimism in Question: Knowledge,
Ethics and Politics in Rousseau. Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University.
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
In Preparation:
2016
Geschichte als Kriminalroman. Psycho-historische Fragen nach Freud und Hitler. Jena
Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vorträge und Kolloquien 4 (Göttingen:
Wallstein).
Published:
2014
Die Politik des Traumas. Gewalterfahrungen und psychisches Leid in den USA, in
Deutschland und im Israel/Palästina Konflikt (Frankfurter Adorno Vorlesungen 2009;
Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp).
2001
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis, with a new introduction (New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction).
2001
Psyche und Macht: Freud politisch lesen (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta).
1995
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis (Oxford: Blackwell).
EDITED VOLUMES:
In Preparation:
2016
Das “Recht auf Wahrheit”. Zur Genese eines neuen Menschenrechts. Co-edited with
Daniel Stahl (Göttingen: Wallstein)
2016
Personal Compensation for Holocaust Survivors: History, Procedures and Effects in
Germany and Israel. (Bne Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. Forthcoming in spring) [Hebrew].
Co-edited with Norbert Frei and Constantin Goschler.
In Print:
2015
Beyond the Walls of the Consulting Room: Translations and Reconfigurations of
st
Therapeutic Discourse in the Beginning of the 21 Century. (Tel Aviv: Resling.
Forthcoming in fall 2015) [Hebrew]. Co-Edited with Galia Plotkin-Amrami,
Published:
2015
Erzählte Dinge: Mensch-Objekt Beziehungen in der deutschen Literatur (Göttingen:
Wallstein).
2014
Politische Gewalt in Deutschland: Ursprünge - Ausprägungen – Konsequenzen. Tel Aviver
Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 42 (Göttingen:
Wallstein). Co-edited with Doron Avraham and Marianne Zepp.
2013
Globalisierung der Wiedergutmachung: Politik, Moral, Moralpolitik. (Göttingen:
Wallstein). Co-edited with Constantin Goschler and Norbert Frei.
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2013
Deutsche(s) in Palästina und Israel: Alltag, Kultur, Politik. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für
deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 41 (Göttingen: Wallstein).
2012
Entschädigung von NS-Zwangsarbeit am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Stiftung
„Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft“und ihre Partnerorganisationen. 4 vols.
(Göttingen: Wallstein). Main Editor: Constantin Goschler, Co-Editors: Philippe Ther and
Krzysztof Ruchniewicz.
2012
"Die Deutschen" als die Anderen. Deutschland als Objekt nachbarlicher Imagination. Tel
Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 40
(Göttingen: Wallstein). Co-edited with Iris Nachum.
2011
Double Unification: Germany and Europe after 1989. Guest Editor of Zmanim: A
Historical Quarterly 114 (Spring) [Hebrew].
2011
Holocaust und Trauma: Kritische Perspektiven zur Entstehung und Wirkung eines
Paradigmas. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German
History 39 (Göttingen: Wallstein). Co-edited with Nathalie Zajde.
2011
Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the 21st Century. A Collection of Essays by Ulrich
Beck (Bne Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad) [Hebrew].
2010
Politische Leidenschaften: Zur Verknüpfung von Macht, Gefühl und Vernunft in
Deutschland. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German
History 38 (Göttingen: Wallstein).
2009
Die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung: Geschichte, Erfahrung und Wirkung in Deutschland
und Israel (Göttingen: Wallstein). Co-edited with Norbert Frei and Constantin Goschler.
2009
Juden und Muslime in Deutschland: Recht, Religion, Identität. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für
deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 37 (Göttingen: Wallstein).
Co-edited with Shai Lavi.
2009
Disrespect and Recognition: Toward a New Critical Theory. A Collection of Essays by Axel
Honneth (Bne Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad) [Hebrew].
2008
Väterliche Autorität und mütterliche Macht. Elternbilder im deutschen Diskurs. Tel Aviver
Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 36 (Göttingen:
Wallstein).
2007
Demographie—Demokratie—Geschichte. Deutschland und Israel. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für
deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 35 (Göttingen: Wallstein).
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
Accepted for Publication:
2014
Making up “National Trauma” in Israel: From collective identity to collective
vulnerability. Forthcoming in Social Studies of Science. With Galia Plotkin-Amrami.
Published:
2012
Psychoanalysis as a weapon. The Third Reich on the American couch. Theory and
Criticism: An Israeli Forum 40, 507-529 [Hebrew].
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2011
With Orna Ophir. “In good times and in bad”: Boundary relations of psychoanalysis in
postwar USA. History of Psychiatry 22, 215 - 231.
2009
Ironies of Spanish history: Remarks on the post-Franco politics of forgetting and
remembering. Revista de Historia Contemporanea 38, 163-183 [Spanish].
2009
With Iris Nachum. The value of culture: On the German legislation and Israeli practices
of examination regarding the Germanness of Holocaust survivors. Law and Business
Journal 10, 279-303 [Hebrew].
2008
Liberal laws v. the law of large numbers: How demography arouses anxiety (in
Germany). Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights 2, 54-87.
2007
Modern times: Law, temporality and happiness in Hobbes, Locke and Bentham.
Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8, 105-138.
2007
The naked mother, or Why Freud did not write about railway accidents. History and
Psychoanalysis, 9, 71-82.
2003
Trauma in court: Medico-legal dialectics in the late 19th century German discourse on
mental injuries. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 4, 713-743.
2002
Identifications, suspicions, and the history of traumatic disorders. Harvard Review of
Psychiatry 10, 179-184.
2001
Wordly powers: A political reading of the Rat Man. American Imago 58, 501-524.
2001
”Oh those crazy cards again:” A history of the debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 19462001. Political Psychology 22, 233-261.
2000
Will, desire and experience: Etiology and ideology in the German and Austrian medical
discourse on war neuroses, 1914-1922. Transcultural Psychiatry 37, 295-320.
2000
Eichmann’s mind: Psychological, philosophical and legal perspectives. Theoretical
Inquiries in Law 1, 429-464.
1998
With Yoav Peled. Das Elend des liberalen Multikulturalismus: Kymlicka und seine Kritiker.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 46, 369-391.
1997/98 Pride and memory: Nationalism, narcissism and the historians' debates in Germany and
Israel. History & Memory 9, 256-300.
1997
Fear and envy: Sexual difference and the economies of feminist critique in
psychoanalytic discourse. Science in Context 10, 129-170.
1996
With Yoav Peled. Rawls on respect and self-respect: An Israeli perspective. Political
Studies 44, 287-302.
1996
Eichmann, Arendt and Freud in Jerusalem: On the pleasures of thoughtlessness and the
evils of narcissism. History & Memory 8, 61-88.
1995
With Yoav Peled. Staatsbürgerliche Identität und Selbstachtung im jüdischen Staat: eine
Rawls'sche Perspektive. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 43, 329-348.
1994
Looking into the hearts of the workers, or: How Erich Fromm transformed critical theory
into empirical research. Political Psychology 15, 631-650.
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1994
”Every path must end in darkness,” or: Why psychoanalysis needs metapsychology.
Science in Context 7, 83-101.
1992
Toward a political economy of evils: responding to Ophir's "Plea for a hermeneutic
ethics." Philosophical Forum 23, 231-247.
1991
Psychiatry, psychoanalysis and politics during the First World War. Journal of the History
of the Behavioral Sciences 27, 323-336.
1991
The (ir)relevance of Freud's Jewish identity to the origins of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 14, 655-684.
1991
From Rousseau to “totalitarian democracy”: The French Revolution in J. L. Talmon's
historiography. History & Memory 3, 60-85.
1984
On the political rhetoric of Freud's individual psychology. History of Political Thought 5,
315-332.
ARTICLES IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS
Published:
2007
Trauma in Jerusalem? Zur Polyphonie der Zeugenaussagen im Eichmann-Prozess,
Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, Zeugenschaft des Holocaust:
Zwischen Trauma, Tradierung und Ermittlung. (Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag), 92-115.
2006
Die nackte Mutter, oder: Warum Freud nicht über Eisenbahnunglücke schrieb.
WestEnd:Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 3:2, 114-124.
2005
Trauma, Ideologie und Erinnerung im jüdischen Staat: Zur Politik der Verletzbarkeit in
der israelischen Fachliteratur. Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre
Anwendungen, 59, 91-105.
2005
On the history of the vulnerable individual: Medicine, law and politics in the discourse
on traumatic disorders. Shiso 972, 5-43 [Japanese].
2004
Die Politik der Traumatisierung. Zur Geschichte des verletzbaren Individuums. WestEnd:
Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 1, 7-24.
2002
Freud’s (de)construction of the conflictual mind. Thesis Eleven 71, 21-36.
1999
Yigal Amir, Theory and Criticism: An Israeli Forum 12-13 (Special Issue, Fifty to FortyEight: Critical Moments in the History of the State of Israel, 441-449 [Hebrew].
1996
Die Macht der Phantasie – die Phantasie der Macht: Freud und die Politik der Religion.
Psyche: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 50 (Special issue 9/10,
September / October), 786-816.
1991
Comments on political evil. Theory and Critique: An Israeli Forum 1, 79-90 [Hebrew].
ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES:
In Preparation:
2015
“And what you see depends on where you stand”. American v. German perspectives on
slave labor compensation. Forthcoming in: Compensating National Socialist Forced Labor
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in the Beginning of the 20th Century. The Foundation “Memory, Responsibility and
Future” and its Partner Organizations. Main Editor: Constantin Goschler, Co-Editors: José
Brunner, Philippe Ther and Krzysztof Ruchniewicz.
Published:
2012
Medikalisierte Zeugenschaft. Trauma, Institutionen, Nachträglichkeit. In: Martin Sabrow
und Norbert Frei (eds.), Die Geburt des Zeitzeugen nach 1945 (Göttingen: Wallstein), 93110.
2011
From religious fantasies of omnipotence to scientific myths of emancipation: Freud and
the dialectics of psychohistory. In: Jörn Rüsen and Jürgen Straub (eds.), Dark Traces of
the Past: Psychoanalysis and Historical Thinking (Oxford: Berghahn), 159-185.
2011
Us and Them. On similarity, difference and otherness. In: Silvina Schammah-Gesser and
Raanan Rein (eds.), El Otro en la España Contemporánea: Entre la búsqueda de la
identidad, el rechazo a las minorías y el desafío a la diferencia (Sevilla: Fundación Tres
Culturas), 83-103 [Spanish].
2011
Gesetze, Gutachter, Geld: Das Trauma als Paradigma des Holocaust. In José Brunner and
Nathalie Zajde (eds.). Holocaust und Trauma: Kritische Perspektiven zur Entstehung und
Wirkung eines Paradigmas. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv
Yearbook for German History 39 (Göttingen: Wallstein), 40-71.
2009
With Iris Nachum. “Vor dem Gesetz steht ein Türhüter”. Wie jüdische Antragsteller in
Israel ihre Zugehörigkeit zum deutschen Sprach- und Kulturkreis beweisen mussten. In:
Norbert Frei, José Brunner and Constantin Goschler (eds.), Die Praxis der
Wiedergutmachung: Geschichte, Erfahrung und Wirkung in Deutschland und Israel
(Göttingen: Wallstein), 352- 389.
2009
Eichmann’s mind: Psychological, philosophical and legal perspectives. In: R.
Satyanarayana (ed.), Criminal Responsibility—A Psychological Evaluation (Hyderabad:
The Icfai UP), 25-63.
2008
The naked mother, or why Freud wrote of railway accidents only once. In: Gaby Sheffler
(ed.), Freud: Culture and Psychoanalysis (Jerusalem: Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir), 81-97
[Hebrew].
2007
Trauma and justice: The moral grammar of trauma discourse from Wilhelmine Germany
to post-Apartheid South Africa. In: Austin Sarat, Michal Alberstein and Nadav Davidovich
(eds.), Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing and Making Law (Stanford: Stanford UP),
98-118.
2005
Critique of pure banality: On Arendt’s dehumanization of Eichmann. In: Idith Zertal and
Moshe Zuckermann (eds.), Hannah Arendt: A Half-Century of Polemics (Bne Brak:
Hakibbutz Hameuchad), 81-106 [Hebrew].
2004
Humanizing Hitler: Psychohistory and the making of a monster. In: Psychoanalyse und
Geschichte, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte/Tel Aviv Yearbook for German
History 32 (Göttingen: Wallstein), 148-174.
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2003
English shock: Railway accidents, medical experts and tort law in late nineteenth century
Britain. In: Shai Lavi (ed.), Technologies of Justice: Law, Science and Culture (Tel Aviv:
Ramot – Tel Aviv UP), 89-122 [Hebrew].
2002
Contentious origins: Psychoanalytic comments on the debate over Israel’s creation. In:
John Bunzl and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (eds.), Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology:
Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine Case (Boston: Kluwer), 107-135.
2000
Freud and the rule of law: From Totem and Taboo to psychoanalytic jurisprudence. In:
Michael Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (London:
Routledge), 277-293.
2000
With Yoav Peled. Culture is not enough: A democratic critique of liberal multiculturalism.
In: Shlomo Ben-Ami, Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorovski (eds.), Ethnic Challenges to the
Modern Nation-State (Basingstoke: Macmillan), 65-92.
1998
Oedipus Politicus: Freud's paradigm of social relations. In: Michael Roth (ed.), Sigmund
Freud: Conflict and Culture (New York: Alfred Knopf), 80-93.
1998
Die Macht der Vergangenheit: Freud und die Religion. In: Jörn Rüsen and Jürgen Straub
(eds.), Die dunkle Spur der Vergangenheit: Psychoanalytische Zugänge zum
Geschichtsbewusstsein (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp), 82-100.
1998
With Yoav Peled. On autonomy, capabilities and democracy: A Critique of Liberal
Multiculturalism. In: Menahem Mautner, Avi Sagi and Ronen Shamir (eds.),
Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State (Tel Aviv: Ramot Press), 107-132
[Hebrew].
1997
Pride and memory: Nationalism, narcissism and the historians' debates in Germany and
Israel. In: Gulie Ne’eman Arad (ed.), Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust
Beyond Memory (Bloomington: Indiana UP), 256-300.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Published:
2006
Review of Mental Health in Terror's Shadow: The Israeli Experience, Eli Somer and Avi
Bleich, eds., Theory and Critique: An Israeli Forum, 28, 231-239 [Hebrew].
2005
Review of The Limits of Nationalism, Chaim Gans, European Legacy, 10, 648-649.
2004
Review of The Limits of Nationalism, Chaim Gans, Tel Aviv University Law Review 28,
593-601 [Hebrew].
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Accepted for Publication:
2015
Resilience, society, education. The new social contract and the techniques for
strengthening of the minds of Israeli schildren. Forthcoming in Odyssey – Journey Among
Ideas [Hebrew].
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2015
Therapy in Culture. Outline of a Research Program. Forthcoming in Therapy in Culture:
Knowledge, Cure, Politics. José Brunner and Galia Plotkin-Amrami (eds.) Scheduled for
fall [Hebrew]. With Galia Plotkin-Amrami.
Published:
2013
Bedürftig und “populär”. Wie Holocaust-Überlebende in Israel altern, Alter: Jüdischer
Almanach, 92-106.
2013
A Map without a Territory: American psychiatry at a loss, Odyssey – Journey among
Ideas 14:14-22 [Hebrew].
2013
With Constantin Goschler and Norbert Frei. Vernetzte Wiedergutmachung. Die Praxis
der Entschädigung von NS-Verbrechen nach dem Kalten Krieg. In: José Brunner,
Constantin Goschler and Norbert Frei (eds.). Globalisierung der Wiedergutmachung:
Politik, Moral, Moralpolitik. (Göttingen: Wallstein), 7-33.
2013
With Constantin Goschler and Norbert Frei. Globalisierung der Wiedergutmachung, Aus
Politik und Zeitgeschichte 65:25-26, 23-30.
2011
The year 1989 – Intersecting narratives. Introduction to Double Unification: Germany
and Europe after 1989. Guest Editor of Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, 114 (Spring), 4-5
[Hebrew].
2010
Putting the thing in a new light: Reframing the memory of the Holocaust, DAPIM: Studies
on the Shoah, 24, 291-301, 345-357 [English and Hebrew].
2009
With Norbert Frei and Constantin Goschler. Komplizierte Lernprozesse. Zur Aktualität
und Geschichte der Wiedergutmachung. Introduction to José Brunner, Norbert Frei and
Constantin Goschler (eds.). Die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung: Geschichte, Erfahrung und
Wirkung in Deutschland und Israel (Göttingen: Wallstein), 9-47.
2009
Property, solidarity and (German) history. Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum 10:1, 9-16.
2008
An ethics of claiming and giving. In Axel Honneth, Disrespect and Recognition: Toward a
New Critical Theory (Bne Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad), 7-34 [Hebrew].
2007
The Eichmann trial between history and genealogy. Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, No.
98 (May): 71-80 [Hebrew]
2006
In Glück und Leid. Zum westlichen Vokabular des (Un-)Glücklichseins. In: Norbert Frei
(ed.), Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts?
(Göttingen: Wallstein), 218-225.
2004
Freud’s Jewishness: From reduction to deconstruction. Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly
88, 35-43 [Hebrew].
2003
Preface to Blackwell edition of Ernest Gellner’s The Psychoanalytic Movement (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers), x-xxx.
2001
Freud and the politics of the mind, 1900 – 2000. New introduction to Jose Brunner,
Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction), vii-xxxi.
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2001
Die Freudsche Dialektik. Oder: jenseits der Kontroverse Hermeneutik-oderWissenschaft. Introduction to José Brunner, Psyche und Macht: Freud politisch lesen
(Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta), 7-33.
1994
Ernest Gellner: Fox and hedgehog. Postscript to the Hebrew edition of Ernest Gellner's
Nations and Nationalism (Tel Aviv: The Open University of Israel), 182-187 [Hebrew].
1993
The mother's voice: Dialectics of feminist self-consciousness. Zmanim: A Historical
Quarterly 46-47, 4-17 [Hebrew].
1993
Erich Fromm: From critical theory to empirical research. Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly
44, 92-102 [Hebrew].
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