Alfred Landecker Feature Dr. Marietta van der Tol Landecker Lecturer
We are thrilled to welcome @marietta1.bsky.social as a #Landecker Lecturer! 🎉
Based at the @uniofcam.bsky.social, she will receive funding for her five-year project, “Imagining Sacred Lands: the ‘Russian World’, ‘Hungarian World’, and ‘Holy Serbia’”.
➡️ More info: bit.ly/4ld7xcz
Landecker-Hillel Leadership Incubator Mascha Raykhman
Was hat dich dazu inspiriert, dich zu bewerben? Der Wunsch, mich mehr mit meiner jüdischen Identität und meinen Möglichkeiten, in der Community aktiv zu sein, auseinanderzusetzen.
Wie hat dich das Programm als jüdische Führungsperson geprägt? Es hat die ersten Grundlagen für diese Rolle geschaffen und mich auf meinem Weg dorthin mit Rat und Tat begleitet.
Welchen Rat würdest du zukünftigen Fellows geben? In sich gehen und verstehen, wonach man sich selbst sehnt und welche Veränderung man sich wünscht; die eigenen Werte und Skills herausarbeiten, sich überlegen, wie man seine Ziele erreichen kann und Gleichgesinnte suchen.
Was bedeutet es, jüdisch zu sein?
Nach ihrer Teilnahme am #Landecker - Hillel Leadership Incubator gründete Mascha Raykhman die „Lost Jew Crew“: einen Ort für urteilsfreien Austausch zu jüdischem Leben.
Mehr dazu: bit.ly/4hEVkug
We met with members of the Lab team (...) to discuss how different forms of AI interact with diverse types of historical knowledge (...) and what the challenges of studying these interactions are, as well as how we can try to nudge these interactions into more constructive directions. Mykola Makhortykh Landecker Lecturer Interview with the Landecker Digital Memory Lab
✨We are excited to see synergies emerging between our projects!
🤝 #Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova (@unibern.bsky.social) spent time as visiting researchers at the @ldml.bsky.social (@sussex.ac.uk).
Read about their experiences
👉 www.digitalmemorylab.com/the-view-fro...
What can Rudolf Vrba’s escape from Auschwitz teach us about our role in a post-truth world?
📺 Find out in this year's Alfred #Landecker Memorial Lecture, delivered by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social at the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk
👉 www.alfredlandecker.org/en/article/2...
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The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture 2025 3 Questions to Jonathan Freedland
What was your motivation for writing The Escape Artist and more broadly, for engaging with Holocaust history? The increasing sense that we were slipping into a post-truth world. Rudolf Vrba understood that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death. And in the post-truth era after 2016 it seemed more important than ever to tell the story of a man who saw that danger in the most direct way imaginable.
What impact did you hope to have on readers? I hope readers come away from this book committed not only to remembering the Holocaust and fighting the menace of antisemitism, but also with an understanding of just how easy it is for a society to drift away from the norms and values that underpin democracy - and to slide into the abyss.
How can these lessons help us confront modern challenges? Whether it's the Russian invasion of Ukraine or the climate crisis: Campaigners and activists cannot think it is enough simply to lay out the data. The lesson of Rudolf Vrba's extraordinary life is that the facts alone are insuffi-cient: people also have to believe those facts - and that is a much harder task.
On Jan 28, @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social will give this year's Alfred #Landecker Memorial Lecture, hosted by @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk.
To register, visit ➡️ bit.ly/4h1S1hr
We spoke to him about his book "The Escape Artist" and the lessons we can learn from it: bit.ly/3C4tx7R 👇
Before the Holocaust, Jewish culture thrived in Europe. 🕍
Dr. Victoria Grace Walden (@ldml.bsky.social) argues that understanding this lost heritage is crucial to grasping the Holocaust's profound impact on Europe today.
More about #Landecker Digital Memory Lab here: bit.ly/4gJnuEV
Alfred Landecker 1884-1942
Alfred #Landecker, Namensgeber unserer Stiftung, war ein Mannheimer Prokurist und Familienmensch, der als Jude von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt und ermordet wurde. Nun ist seine Biografie erschienen. Autorin Annette Prosinger zeichnet darin die wichtigsten Stationen seines Lebens: bit.ly/41hLp9A
🎧 Podcast-Empfehlung: #Landecker Lecturer @martincwinter.bsky.social und 25 Studierende der Universität Leipzig haben sich in Polen mit den NS-Verbrechen der Leipziger #HASAG auseinandergesetzt. In 5 Folgen geben sie Einblicke in ihre Exkursion ⬇️ open.spotify.com/show/2smh4uz...
Trotz der erforderlichen kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Kanälen, Formaten und Inhalten, müssen sich traditionelle Akteure an digitale Realitäten anpassen, um relevant zu bleiben und qualitativ hochwertige historische Bildung im digitalen Raum gewährleisten zu können. Steffen Jost erschienen im LaG-Magazin 10/2024
🕹️ Wie funktioniert #DigitaleErinnerungskultur?
Das neue LaG-Magazin gibt Impulse: zu digitalen Spielen als interaktive Zugänge, zum #rememBARCAMP und zu interaktiven Ansätzen, wie unserem #Landecker Digital Memory Lab.
➡️ Jetzt lesen: bit.ly/3CfQS63
➡️ Zum Artikel von Steffen Jost: bit.ly/3URNG7t
How do search engines influence the visual representation of the Holocaust?
#Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh and his co-authors explore this in their new book-chapter, which shows how unstable and unequal the representation of memory is.
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28.01.2025, 17:30-19:00 Blavatnik School of Government & online Save the Date! Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture 2025 "Escaping the Holocaust" Jonathan Freedland Journalist, author, broadcaster
Join us on January 28, 2025 for the Alfred #Landecker Memorial Lecture in Oxford as Jonathan Freedland shares the story of one of the few Jewish prisoners ever to escape from Auschwitz.
The free event is hosted by the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social.
Register here ➡️ www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/alfre...
💡Does AI threaten or benefit Holocaust education and memory?
#Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh & Maryna Sydorova discuss the relationship between AI technologies & remembrance in a new interview with Dr. Victoria Grace Walden of Sussex University / @ldml.bsky.social. 👇🏼
„Wie viel Technologie verträgt Erinnerung?“ In der t3n-Printausgabe berichten @miriammenzel.bsky.social & @steffenjost.bsky.social aus unserem Programmteam und #Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh über Chancen & Herausforderungen von KI, Avataren und Spielen für die digitale Erinnerungskultur.
What are the risks democracies are currently facing? How does technology influence these challenges?
In the 🎥 Isabelle Wright(@isdglobal.bsky.social) speaks about these issues that are at the core of @isdgermany.bsky.social’s Digital Policy Lab funded by the #Landecker Foundation.
Integrating artificial intelligence in the long-term vision of the Holocaust memory and education is urgently needed to help educators, regulators, and developers counter risks of technology being abused for distorting historical facts and propagating hate. Mykola Makhortykh Landecker Lecturer University of Bern UNESCO Publication "AI and the Holocaust: rewriting history?"
Do algorithms distort history?
A new paper by #Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh explores the opportunities & risks of AI for Holocaust remembrance.
Read the full paper commissioned by @unesconow.bsky.social & World Jewish Congress here: www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
The 1st cohort of the #Landecker -Hillel Leadership Incubator has successfully completed their fellowship!
The Jüdische Allgemeine wrote about the fellows, their motivation to participate & their experience throughout the program.
📰 You can read about it (in German) here👇🏼
KI vs. kollektive Erinnerung? #Landecker Lecturer Mykola Makhortykh warnt in seinem Lightning Talk vor den möglichen Auswirkungen von Foundation Models wie GPT: „We urgently need to look for ways to prevent foundation models from undermining the integrity of knowledge about the Holocaust“ #rp24
„The #Landecker Digital Memory Lab is not just us, it‘s a hybrid global space“ sagt Dr. Victoria Grace Walden von der Universität Sussex bei ihrem Input zu digitaler Holocausterinnerung. Forschende sind herzlich dazu eingeladen, sich an der neu eingerichteten Plattform zu beteiligen. #rp24
Premiere am #Landecker - Stand auf der #rp24: Tabea Böker & Fadl Speck von unserem Partner KIgA e.V. präsentieren das Escape Game “Rätselräume” - ein kooperatives Brettspiel rund um die Themen Migration, Vielfalt und neuere deutsche Geschichte.
We're happy to welcome two new members to the #Landecker Team!
Adriana Koch & Anna Dingler joined us this month.
Adriana is Lead Impact for our Program Team & Anna is our newest Professional Year Trainee!
More about our team here 👉🏼 bit.ly/3wXAFQG
Du bist auf der @re-publica.com?
Dann schau bei einer der Sessions an unserem Stand vorbei & komm mit uns und vielen unserer Projektpartner ins Gespräch. Vom 27. - 29. Mai in der #STATIONBerlin.
🔗 Mehr Infos hier: www.alfredlandecker.org/de/article/h...
Das #Landecker Programm für die #rp24 ⬇️
...noch nie stellten die Folgen des Konflikts eine derart unmittelbare Gefahr für den Frieden ganzer Gemeinden in Europa und Nordamerika dar: Weltweit sind vor allem jüdische, aber auch muslimische Menschen, Gemeinden und Einrichtungen einer Welle des Hasses ausgesetzt. Avner Ofrath Landecker Lecturer Freie Universität Merkur Heft: 900, Mai 2024
#Landecker Lecturer Avner Ofrath veröffentlichte „Anatomie der Gewalt: Zum Israel/Palästina-Konflikt" in der neuesten Ausgabe des @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social.
📰 Darin diskutiert Ofrath die Wurzeln, Dynamik & Motive der Gewalt vor Ort, aber auch die globalen Reaktionen darauf.
🔗 bit.ly/3yoRHre
📣 Introducing the first cohort of #Landecker -Hillel Leadership Incubator Fellows!
📹 Hear from the cohort of young German Jews who've explored questions of Jewish values, developed their professional skills & gained adaptive leadership tools.
More info on our partnership w/ Hillel
👉🏼 bit.ly/44xOm5p
The establishment of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab heralds a new chapter in the digitalisation of Holocaust memory, marking a shift in how we engage with this important history. With its ambitious objectives and collaborative ethos, the project holds promise in shaping the future of Holocaust remembrance internationally. Dr. Victoria Grace Walden Director Landecker Digital Memory Lab, University of Sussex
We recently launched the #Landecker Digital Memory Lab to enable better use of digital technologies to commemorate the Holocaust & strengthen the digital culture of remembrance.
🔎 Dr. Victoria Grace Walden, Director of the Lab, comments on the project's launch below⬇️
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3xwBKix
Given the incredible deterioration of the situation for Jews worldwide since October 7th, ENMA's launch is more critical than ever. Antisemitism knows no borders, therefore efforts to monitor and combat it must go beyond borders as well. The network will be a game changer in generating hard facts on antisemitism. Lena Altman Co-CEO Alfred Landecker Foundation
With a high level of antisemitic incidents, we are glad to support @bundesverband-rias.bsky.social (🇩🇪), Czulent (🇵🇱) & IKG (🇦🇹) with their newly established European Network on Monitoring Antisemitism (ENMA).
#Landecker Co-CEO Lena Altman underlines why this is important for us.
🔎🔗👉🏼 bit.ly/49FBWcL
The #Landecker Team is growing!
Meet our two new colleagues Jan Wilkens and Essie Thompson who joined us in April. Jan started as a Program Manager & Essie joins us for 3 months as an intern.
Welcome!
🔎 More about our team here:
👉🏼 www.alfredlandecker.org/en/who-we-ar...
How can governments create effective regulation for the online world?
The #Landecker -funded Digital Policy Lab at @isdgermany.bsky.social addresses this & other questions by bringing together experts from the field.
The full 🎥 with @bennympf.bsky.social & @helenaschwert.bsky.social
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(...) Even if one perceives Israel’s policies as fundamentally wrong, engaging in academic boycott at this juncture is counterproductive and likely to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the situation. (...) What is needed is greater engagement of intellectuals from around the world with Israelis and Palestinians. Prof. Barak Medina Landecker-Ferencz chair Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Following the events of Oct 7, we can see a surge in people opting to shun Israeli academia.
In an article for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, #Landecker Ferencz chair Prof. Barak Medina explains why a boycott will fail to steer Israel towards a path of progress.
🔗📰 Read here ➡️ bit.ly/4aPwmpp
When we deeply understand the Holocaust and what led to it, we are better able to recognize threats to democracy today. The Landecker Digital Memory Lab will promote research on digital Holocaust memory and bring together the international expertise needed to make Holocaust commemoration fit for the digital age. Lena Altman Co-CEO Alfred Landecker Foundation
As a Foundation dedicated to remembering the Holocaust, we're proud to have partnered with the University of Sussex in establishing the #Landecker Digital Memory Lab.
Read our Co-CEO Lena Altman's statements marking the project's launch below ⬇️
More info 👉🏼 bit.ly/3xwBKix
