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Closing conference of the project “Jewish Presence in Weimar Gay and Lesbian Culture and the German-Jewish Contribution to the Emergence of Gay Culture in Palestine/Israel, 1933–1960”. In cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Lecture: Jews, Sexual Rights, and the Right

Public lecture by Robert Tobin, Ph. D. at Schwules Museum* Berlin as part of the conference “Jewish and Queer Interactions in Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel (1870–1960),” 15 November 2019.

Opening of the exhibition “The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the History of Sexuality” at WEAM, Miami Beach on December 2, 2019

The exhibition, which was shown last year in Berlin, was curated by the Research Center and the Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things in cooperation with WEAM and will be on display from December 3, 2019 until March 30, 2020.

Einstein Foundation Berlin approves project application

The research project “Jewish Homosexual Modernism in the German-speaking World and in Mandatory Palestine/Israel” was approved in July 2019. It will run from the beginning of 2020 to the end of 2022.