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Conversion as an all „salvation“ means? • with Barbara Steiner et al. – Jewish Salon in the Green Salon 

The conversion to Judaism in Germany has many facets and questions that are worth considering in more detail. We would like to do this with two guests who have each written a book about it from different perspectives:

In her study – „The Staging of the Jewish“ – Barbara Steiner uses many interviews to create a very differentiated picture of the manifold motivational reasons for conversion and their consequences for the individual and his environment, full of surprises and interesting to frightening insights.

Felix Eliyah Havemann, son of Wolf Biermann and grandson of Robert Havemann, has written down his personal journey in his book „How to Become a Jew“: a search for his roots.

 

Dr. Barbara Steiner, studied Modern History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Jerusalem and Potsdam; Training as a family, couple and sex therapist in Heidelberg and Berlin; Doctorate at the University of Potsdam with a thesis on the conversion of Germans to Judaism after 1945 (The Staging of the Jewish: Wallstein 2015). She works as a systemic therapist and scientific writer in Berlin.

Felix Eliyah Havemann

Eliyah Havemann, born Felix Havemann in 1975 and son of Wolf Biermann and Sibylle Havemann, converted to Judaism between 2007 and 2009 and emigrated to Israel in 2010. Today, as a modern Orthodox Jew, he lives with his family near Tel Aviv and works as a product manager in the Israeli high-tech sector. He writes and publishes on Israel, Judaism, anti-Semitism, and online technologies.