Wiener Library: Past, Present and Future

16:30: Gathering and Reception

17:00: Opening Remarks
Dr. Naama Scheftelowitz, Head of the Central Library; Dr. Laure-Line Yehuda, Head of the Wiener Library; Dr. Amir Teicher, Academic Director of the Wiener Collection

17:10: Address from the German Embassy in Israel

17:15: To Not Lose Hope in the Face of the Catastrophe: Alfred Wiener and the Wiener Library Before, During, and After the Holocaust
Josephine Langer Shohat, Humboldt University, Berlin; Fellow of the Minerva Foundation

17:50: The Positive Emotional Foundations in Nazi Visual Culture, a Case Study: Genealogy and the Family Archive
Mirella Solomon, Department of History, Bar Ilan University

18:10: When Information Becomes Knowledge: Dr. Eva Reichman's War
Dr. Laure-Line Yehuda

18:30: Treasures of the Wiener Collection
Dr. Amir Teicher

18:50 Closing Remarks and a Look to the Future