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There Is No Return To Egypt
(2013)
Who are those Polish Jews, who in the wake of the Antizionist Campaign of the year 1968 left their home country and migrated to Israel? How do they, 40 years after these traumatic events, look back at their own history? Which development have they made in the Jewish State, a society torn by wars and inner political tensions? How do they live in Israel at the beginning of the 21st century? In the documentary There Is No Return To Egypt seven members of the Polish-Jewish migration cohort of the late 1960s, early 1970s and there todays environment are represented. These people, while being on camera in their mid-fifties till late seventies of age, allow an intimate view into their Israeli-Polish daily-life and into their world of memories. Interestingly, having survived the atrocities of the Shoah and being forced out of Poland some twenty years later, the older interviewees draw their very own conclusions for their further lives in Israel. In contrast, the younger interviewees deal very differently with the loss of their home and the break in their career life caused by the Antizionist Campaign. The personalities presented in this documentary have various professions: There is a successful musician, a former employee at the Israeli broadcasting service, and there are skilled workers. Their religious identities widely vary: from Jewish orthodox and national-religious to atheist to Judeo-Christian. The protagonists in There Is No Return To Egypt do also represent the political spectrum of Israel: from members of the chauvinist-militarist camp through to members of the peace movement. At the same time, the shooting locations in the documentary are important stages of life for the seven 1968ers: the home being decorated for Shabbat or for Israels national holiday Yom ha-atzmaut, the working place, an army museum, a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian Westbank, a Shoah memorial event at the university campus, a pop concert and a peace demonstration.
Die Idee für den Workshop war entstanden im Rahmen der Nachwuchstagung Judaistik/Jüdische Studien der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V., die im Februar 2012 in Bamberg stattgefunden hatte. Dort äußerte sich ein großer Bedarf nach größerer überregionaler Vernetzung. Als sehr wünschenswert wurde festgehalten, in Ergänzung zur Nachwuchstagung auch regelmäßige Treffen in kleineren Arbeitsgruppen zu etablieren. Der Workshop in Veitshöchheim war die erste Veranstaltung, die diese Idee zeitnah, acht Monate nach der Nachwuchstagung, umsetzte. Der Workshop fand in Kooperation zwischen der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien mit dem Lehrstuhl für fränkische Landesgeschichte an der Universität Würzburg statt.
Rezensiertes Werk: von der Krone, Kerstin: Wissenschaft in Öffentlichkeit. Die Wissenschaft des Judentums und ihre Zeitschriften. - Berlin: de Gruyter 2012. X, 539 S. - (=Studia Judaica, Bd. 65) Thulin, Mirjam: Kaufmanns Nachrichtendienst. Ein jüdisches Gelehrtennetzwerk im 19. Jahrhundert. - Göttingen: vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012. 424 S., 14 Abb., 6 Karten, 6 Tabellen. - (=Schriften des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts, Bd.16)
Rezensiertes Werk: Timm, Erika; Birnbaum, Eleazar und Birnbaum, David(Hg.): Ein Leben für die Wissenschaft/A Lifetime of Achievement. Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze aus sechs Jahrzehnten von Salomo A. Birnbaum/Six Decades of Scholarly Articles by Solomon A. Birnbaum. 2 Bde. - Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter 2011. Band 1, 540 S., Band 2. XXVII, 458 S.