Meron Mendel
Professor and Director of the Anne Frank Educational Center
Meron Mendel grew up on a kibbutz in Israel. Since his youth, he has been involved in Israeli-Palestinian dialogue projects. After completing his military service and studying history and education in Haifa, he continued his master’s studies at LMU in Munich in 2001. In 2009, he earned his doctorate from the Department of Educational Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been director of the Anne Frank Educational Center since 2010 and has also served as Professor of Transnational Social Work at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences since 2021.
At the Thomas Mann House, Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema will explore the role the Israel-Palestine conflict plays in the current manifestation of Muslim and Jewish collective identities in the United States.
Selected Awards
2025 | Hermann Sinsheimer Prize from the City of Freinsheim
2025 | Buber-Rosenzweig Medal from the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)
2024 | Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Selected Publications
2026 | with Saba-Nur Cheema. Die Empörungsfalle. Wie wir wieder streiten lernen. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
2025 | with Heinz Bude. Kunst im Streit: Antisemitismus und postkoloniale Debatte auf der documenta fifteen. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
2024 | with Saba-Nur Cheema. Muslimisch-jüdisches Abendbrot: Das Miteinander in Zeiten der Polarisierung. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch.
2023 | Über Israel reden: Eine deutsche Debatte. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch.