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The Compensation Project: Reparations for Historical Wrongs in Europe after 1945 - MA

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2025

In 1952, West Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference signed the groundbreaking Holocaust Reparations Agreement in Luxembourg. Since then, and increasingly after the end of the Cold War, the Luxembourg Agreement has served as a model for addressing past wrongs for both former victims and perpetrators of severe human rights violations. This seminar explores the negotiations that led to the Agreement, the Agreement itself, and the German-Jewish-Israeli relations that emerged from it. Additionally, the seminar examines other case studies of compensation for historical wrongs in Europe since 1945, focusing on both their theoretical and practical aspects.

Law in Times of Crises: The Jurist Jacob Robinson (1889-1977) - MA

Semester: 
2nd semester
Offered: 
2024
https://shnaton.huji.ac.il/index.php/NewSyl/39826/2/2024/

The seminar examines the life, work and times of the Jewish jurist Jacob Robinson who was born in Lithuania in 1889 and died in New York in 1977. In doing so, special attention is given to his engagement for the protection of minority rights. The seminar’s approach is multidisciplinary, combining elements from history, law, and political science.

 

The Compensation Project: Reparations for Historical Wrongs in Europe after 1945 - MA

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2023
https://shnaton.huji.ac.il/index.php/NewSyl/39856/2/2023/

The year 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the Reparations Agreement between Germany, Israel and the Jewish Claims Conference. Ever since 1952, and more so since the end of the Cold War, the Agreement serves many former victims and perpetrators of grave human rights violations as model for dealing with past wrongs. This seminar examines the negotiations that preceded the Agreement, the Agreement itself, and the German-Jewish-Israeli relations that grew out of it. In addition, the seminar studies theoretical and practical aspects of other reparations cases for historical wrongs in Europe since 1945.

 

Law in Times of Crises: The Jurist Jacob Robinson (1889-1977) - MA

Semester: 
1st semester
Offered: 
2022
https://shnaton.huji.ac.il/index.php/NewSyl/39826/2/2022/

The seminar examines the life, work and times of the Jewish jurist Jacob Robinson who was born in Lithuania in 1889 and died in New York in 1977. Special attention is given to his engagement for the protection of minority rights. The seminar’s approach is multidisciplinary, combining elements from history, law, and political science.

The seminar aims to study Robinson’s involvement in key international institutions and issues, for instance: the European Congress of Nationalities, Institute of Jewish Affairs, United Nations, Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, Refugee Convention, compensation agreement between West Germany and Israel.