Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Usually the afetr effects of the Holocaust on German-Jewish relationships after the Holocaust are discussed separately from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. This paper (panel?) tries to discuss the tense triangle of Germans-Jews and Palestinians. The author provides some evidence from his research to present this tense triangle and to discuss the relevance of triangles in current conflicts, suggesting that there is a "hidden particpant" that should be discussed openly in order to understand the dynamic that nurtures them.

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation)
Abstract: In this research we tested how parental values and children's ethnic identity (Tajfel, 1981; Brewer, 1991) contribute to their children's values (Schwartz, 1992), at the ages of 15-18. 105 Israeli families participated in the research 55 of them were Jewish and 50 Arabic families. In addition 418 German families participated in the research, 368 of them were Christians and 50 Jewish families. The values were devided into four subgroups (according to Schwartz, 1992): conservation values, openness to change, self enhancement and self transcendence values.
The dominant variable in predicting children's conservation values was parental conservation values but in predicting children's openness to change values the parental values explained only little of the variance. It is possible that parents try to transmit conservation values in various cultural contexts, in contrast to openness to change values which seem to be less important to parental transmission. In addition we found that children's ethnic identity with orientation of differentiation from their in group reduced parental impact of their self enhancement values on their children's self enhancement values. Finally, we found that conservation and self enhancement values were significantly higher among families belonging to minority groups in Israel and Germany as well.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Homeland-Diaspora relations often implies a request by the former that Diaspora populations maintain a degree of loyalty to the homeland, but the precise direction and ends of this loyalty are often contested in both places. This means that there are open

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Communications researchers have spent considerable time examining the political impacts of exposure to late night comedy programs like The Daily Show. Research has yet to consider how Jon Stewart expresses his Jewish identity in his role as host of The Daily Show. This article explores how Stewart uses the text of the program to express his Jewishiness and also examines how young Jewish audiences receive and interpret Stewart’s performance. The findings presented in this article suggest that Stewart represents a powerful force in the New Jew Revolution or the movement to identify with all things “Jewish and cool.”

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation)
Abstract: During the Holocaust, only two European states occupied by or aligned with Hitler’s Reich effectively protected Jews within their national borders from export to death camps. The case of Denmark has been lauded analyzed, and recently become the center of debate about motivations for courageous resistance/ rescue activities. In contrast, the case of Bulgaria, which had even greater success in terms of saving the lives of Jews within the nation’s historic boundaries, has been relatively unexamined and the two cases have never been systematically compared. With primary documents, only recently available in translation, we conduct a closer examination of what messages political, religious and community leaders (i.e. the King, members of Parliament, religious leaders, civic actors and organizations, Jewish actors and organizations and foreign leaders and actors) were using as they tried to influence responses to Nazi pressure. We look at how protecting Bulgarian Jews was framed in speeches and documents, categorizing responses in terms of orientations to authority (using Kelman and Hamilton’s rule-, role- and value-orientations, with some refinement of their value orientation categorization) and of nationalistic and pragmatic orientations (perceived view of the national way of behaving, national reputation in the international community, future consequences of acquiescing or resisting Nazi requests, and perceived risk from the targeted group). Somewhat surprisingly (especially considering the marginal international human rights regime of the time), our analysis suggests that the perceived power of international norms and consequences was the most powerful and common framework employed in the Bulgarian debates, echoing new Danish analysis of their own history.