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Stefan Litt
Dr Stefan Litt, received his PhD from the Hebrew University in 2001, archival expert. Since 2010 he works at the archives department and is responsible for European language holdings.
Diaspora
During those years, an underground organization of activists from the radical German left was established, which operated against the West German government by carrying out a long series of terrorist acts, kidnappings, hijackings and robberies
Land of Israel
Not only did many German citizens have reservations about the agreement-in-process. Considerable portions of the Israeli public were also unprepared to accept neither the very concept of negotiations with Germany nor the funds from the “land of the murderers,” which was defined by opponents as “blood money.”
Buber’s winning the prize made many waves in the German media, and it can be assumed that the event was a paving stone in the path to the establishment of official relations between West Germany and Israel
The incidents in the various events that were part of “German Culture Week” proved just how complex – over 40 years ago – the encounter was between German artists and the Israeli public
After the wall was constructed, the East German population was trapped inside its country. Trips abroad were possible only to Communist Bloc countries
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