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“One of our aims is to explore the extent to which political motives interfered with scientific interests in the humanities”, explains Irene Aue-Ben-David, who coordinates the project, which started this spring, at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Aue-Ben-David has already authored a history of science doctoral thesis on Selma Stern, the historian and co-founder of the Leo Baeck Institute. As a postdoc she has researched Constantin Brunner, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. The research material, which Aue-Ben-David and other scientists study in the “The German-Israeli-Cooperation in the Humanities (1970-2000)” project, mainly comprises archive material, for example, correspondence and conference reports as well as partly planned and partly actual interviews with leading representatives of history and German studies, who had been involved in establishing the German-Israeli research cooperation at the time.
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