For the fourteenth time, Touro College Berlin awarded practice-oriented Bachelor and Master degrees. Rector Sara Nachama sent off the graduating cohort together with a fare number of guests of honor at the Berlin City Hall in Berlin-Mitte on Wednesday, June 12. Sara Nachama said: I am very proud of our college where students from [...]
5 June 2019 At the invitation of Rector of Touro College Berlin Sara Nachama, the wife of the German Federal President visited the Jewish-American College on Campus Am Rupenhorn – close to Heerstraße. Mrs. Büdenbender was very particularly interested in the Master’s program Holocaust Communication and Tolerance, which is unique in Germany, and its [...]
On March 5, 2019 about 80 students and guests attended a brilliant lecture and talk with Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff. After greeting the guests the Rector of Touro College Berlin Sara Nachama introduced His Excellency, who is the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Federal Republic of Germany since 2017. The lecture was about [...]
On 29 November 2018, more than 60 students and guests attended a talk with Auschwitz-survivor Stanisław Zalewski from Warsaw. The 94-year-old Zalewski was arrested by Gestapo in Warsaw in 1943 and, after torture in the Pawiak prison, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After one month at this extermination camp he was transported first to Mauthausen and later [...]
It has become a nice tradition: a visit by 11th graders from “Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn” in Berlin-Mitte to help clarify their study options after finishing high school. After being welcomed by Office Manager Momme Wachsen and given a short campus tour including the two libraries, the students were invited to attend two classes for [...]
"In 2001, Sara Nachama was first introduced to Dr. Bernard Lander, of blessed memory, in New York. He was about to relinquish one of his most treasured projects. He had dreamt of establishing a Touro campus in Berlin, the capital of Germany since its reunifcation. But due to German bureaucracy and the lack of on-site [...]
Touro College Berlin is hosting the YOUNG SCHOLARS NETWORK on Culture, media uses, and media effects. The network comprises 16 international scholars that have a special interest in research at the interstices of culture and the media. The network will be directed by Professor of Psychology Özen Odag who is the main initiator of the [...]
IM ANGESICHT DER VERNICHTUNG. ARBEIT UND WIDERSTAND IN DEN GHETTOS, 1941-1944 Eine Ausstellung von Student*innen des Touro College Berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand Hier klicken für mehr Informationen auf Deutsch IN THE FACE OF ANNIHILATION. WORK AND RESISTANCE IN THE GHETTOS, 1941-1944 An exhibition by students of Touro College Berlin [...]
In the last Monday's issue (March 13, 2017) of the journal "Welt" our Professor Stephan Lehnstaedt talked about "Aktion Reinhardt" and his latest book. Find the article (in German) here: Sprachloses Erschrecken, was Menschen anderen Menschen antun
Please be informed about the following scholarship opportunity for German-speaking students: Mit der Böckler-Aktion-Bildung vergibt die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Stipendien an junge Menschen, die sich ein Studium anders nicht leisten könnten. Wichtig ist uns dabei, dass die Bewerberinnen und Bewerber nicht nur gute schulische Leistungen erbracht haben, sondern sich während ihrer Schulzeit bereits ehrenamtlich engagiert haben und [...]