The German-Jewish Tradition of Liberalism The Legacy of Friedrich Naumann and Hugo Preuss

This is the title of a symposium, which will be organized by the Foundation’s office in Jerusalem in cooperation with the „Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History“ and which will be held in the premises of the Hebrew University Jerusalem on February 22nd 2010.

[SinglePic not found]The foundation conducts the event on the occasion of the 150th birthday of its patron, Friedrich Naumann. Within the framework of the conference we commemorate the 150th birthday anniversary of another significant liberal personality and Jewish contemporary of Friedrich Naumann: Hugo Preuss, who also carries the title “the father of the German constitution of the Weimar Republic”.

The Foundation’s office in Jerusalem takes this „double-birthday” as an opportunity, to illuminate the life and work of both of these liberal politicians and thinkers.

At the same time the conference will address the German-Jewish tradition of liberalism and its continuation its historical consequences in the time before and after the foundation of the State of Israel.

On the occasion of this anniversary year the Friedrich Naumann Foundation-Jerusalem will also translate the Foundation’s publication about the life and work of Friedrich Naumann into Hebrew. In the framework of the conference the Hebrew-edition of the Foundation’s publication about Naumann, which has been extended by an article written by Prof. Moshe Zimmermann dealing with Naumann’s relation towards the Jews, will be presented to the public for the first time.