Jüdischer Salon im Grünen Salon | Vom Recht auf DaSein

On the Right to Exist.
A conversation about Albert Camus and his significance for our times.
With Dan Diner and Doron Rabinovici
Moderator: Yael Kupferberg 

Albert Camus, Stockholm, December 1957
“Bombs are being planted on the trams in Algiers. My mother could be on one of those trams. If that is justice, then I would rather have my mother’s life than such justice.”
This stark statement encapsulates a conflict between the promise of justice and existential experience. It can also be recognised as a Jewish constellation.
Constellations in which the general and the particular clash have formed the epistemological basis of historian Dan Diner’s works.
In his novels and essays, Doron Rabinovici turns his gaze to the present-day reality of Jewish existence in Europe and in Israel. What does it mean today to think, speak and write – and perhaps even act – as a Jew?

Dan Diner is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where he is Director of the Jacob Robinson Institute for Individual and Collective Human Rights.
His writings address issues relating to Jewish history, as well as the global history of the modern and contemporary periods, the history of the Near and Middle East, the history of Palestine/Israel, and contemporary German history. He is also known for his works on the history of Holocaust remembrance. In addition to German and Hebrew, these have been published in English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Arabic and Turkish. The encyclopaedia of Jewish history and culture which he edited has also been published in English translation.

Doron Rabinovici, born in Tel Aviv in 1961, lives in Vienna. He is a writer and historian. Works include: Instanzen der Ohnmacht, Vienna 1938–1945, Der Weg zum Judenrat (Jüdischer Verlag – 2000); Neuer Antisemitismus? Fortsetzung einer globalen Debatte, edited jointly with Christian Heilbronn and Natan Sznaider (Suhrkamp Edition – 2019); Andernorts, novel (Suhrkamp – 2010); Die letzten Zeugen, a theatre project by the Vienna Burgtheater in collaboration with Matthias Hartmann; Herzl Reloaded. Kein Märchen together with Natan Sznaider (Jüdischer Verlag bei Suhrkamp – 2016); Die Einstellung, novel (Suhrkamp – 2022); 2024: The Seventh of October. A staged reading; (Suhrkamp Theaterverlag) Rabinovici is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Awards include: Clemens Brentano Prize, Jean Améry Prize, Anton Wildgans Prize.

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