Freie Universität Berlin
Lurianic Kabbalah between East-Central Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1640-1740
Leo Baeck Fellowship and Alumni Network
Fellows 2023-24
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien
Episteme als transnationaler Verpflechtungsprozess. Ost-West-Paradigmen im Schaffen der Musikwissenschaftlerin Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908-1992)
Yale University
The Ban on Images and the Prohibition of Idolatry in German-Jewish Thought
University of Warsaw
The Mikveh as a Women´s Ritual space in an age of transition, 1870-1939
University of California
German/Jewish Dance in Exile: Valeska Gert Before, During, and After World War II
Ben Gurion University
Jewish and Christian Aggadic Traditions about Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi:From Late Antiquity to the Medieval Period
Ben Gurion University
Skepticism and Heterodoxy in Jewish-Italian Thought in the Early Modern Period (Ben Gurion Univ. Beer Sheva, Geschichte)
University of Frankfurt
Refractory Narrations of Mourning: Arendt, Susman, Kaufman, and Taubes´ Rethinking of Holocaust Thought Between genres, Disciplines, and Selves
Freie Universität Berlin
Competing Cosmopolitanism:Globalization, Belonging, and Conflict in Jaffa-Tel Aviv, 1908-1960
Columbia University
Jewish Non-Territorial Polictics: Historical Insights for Contemporary Contestations of Space, Territory, and Environment
Fellows 2022-23
Princeton University
Beyond Political Theology: Hannah Arendt's Jewish Theology of Givenness
jisseroff@gmail.com
Stanford University
Ashkenazi Kabbalah: Early modern Jewish Mysticism in Frankfurt, Prague, and Krakow
aokelman@gmail.com
University of California
After the Holocaust: Contemporary German-Jewish Poetics and the Persistence of the Past
mkrueger@berkeley.edu
University of California
Nazis after Hitler: An Experiential History of SS Members in the Postwar World, 1950-2010
ajsolovy@berkeley.edu
Tel Aviv University
Prophetic Politics: Political Theology in early 20th Century Jewish Thought and the Question of the Legitimacy of the State - Landauer, Buber, A.D. Gordon
yotamyz@gmail.com
Zuwanderung als Wiedergutmachung? Die politische Aushandlung der sowjetisch-jüdischen Zuwanderung und ihre praktische Umsetzung
Marguerite Bertheau is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She holds a MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge.
Her PhD…
FU Berlin
Geschlecht, Sexualität und Körper in der Jüdischen Sportbewegung 1918-1933
gasparjan.david@googlemail.com
Universität Bamberg
Identifikation und Identifizierung im jüdischen Sakralbau - "maurische Synagogen" in Südwestdeutschland und Bayern
rc.ryszkowski@web.de
Northwestern University
Prostitutes, Converts, and Jews: Defining Boundaries Between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages
savoycurry67@gmail.com
Fellows 2021-22
A Homeland in the Home: Age, Gender, and Religion in German Cultural Zionism, 1897-1905
Katharina: Teil der Stadtgesellschaft? Beziehungen zwischen Juden und Christen im spätmittelalterlichen Regensburg.
How racial categories become realities: The bureaucratic journeys of “Jewish” petitioners to the Nazi regime, 1933-1945
Die Konstruktion jüdisch kollektiver Identität am Beispiel des Rabbiners Dr. Ludwig Philippson
Fellows 2020-21
The German origins of Hebrew typography in the 20th century: Rafael Frank and Henri Friedlaender
Nitzan Chelouche (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research examines the emergence of modern Hebrew type design in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws upon her training as a…
Organisationsformen ländlicher Judensiedlungen zwischen Zentralität und Dispersion. Ein Vergleich regionaler Netzwerke im Elsass und in der Wetterau im ausgehenden Mittelalter
Yeshivot and their Students in Moravia, 1650-1726: A Window to Early Modern Learning Culture
I will sing of love and justice: Jewish Responses to the Theological Roots of Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Demokratisches Denken in der frühen Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Der Staats- und Verwaltungsrechtler Walter Jellinek
Philip Emanuel Bockelmann is a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig. He studied History and German Philology at Georg August University of Göttingen as well as Medieval and Modern…
Fellows 2019-20
Arch. Naomi Simhony, Department of Art History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Synagogue Architecture in Israel's First Two Decades of Statehood: Religious Architecture in a Secular Age
My dissertation examines synagogues designed by prominent architects in the State of Israel in the first two decades following its establishment. To date, Israeli…
The Purchasing Mission to Cologne between Israel and Germany, 1953-1965
This study focuses on the Purchasing Mission to Cologne, the official and exclusive representative of the Government of Israel in the Federal Republic of Germany – West Germany (hereinafter: Germany) before the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
…
Writing a Future State: Spatial Imaginiaries of German Jewish Literature, 1847–1932
Joshua Shelly is a doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke German Studies Program, a joint program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. He holds a BA in German and History from Wayne State University (2011), and an MLS (2013…
Trust thy Neighbor? Risk and Trust in Economic Interactions between Jews and Christians in the German Empire c. 1280-1420
Aviya Doron is a PhD student at the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, and a member of the ERC research group “Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in…
Schrift als Schutz. Jüdische Amulette im Spannungsfeld sprachlicher und nicht sprachlicher Elemente
Alisha Meininghaus is a doctoral candidate at the Department of the Study of Religion at the Philipps University of Marburg. She holds a MA in the Study of Religion with a minor in Jewish Studies.
The dissertation "Schrift als Schutz. Jüdische Amulette…
From Frankfurt to Babylon. A History of Jewish Intellectuals in the Federal Republic of Germany
Working as a Doctoral Candidate at the Dubnow Institute since 2016, Zarin Aschrafi studied History and German Language at the universities of Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Tübingen, and completed her M. A. degree in 2014.
Her dissertation focuses on a…
Inventing a modern diaspora: Balkan Sephardim 1890–1940
Željka Oparnica is a doctoral candidate in History at Birkbeck, University of London. She holds a MA degree in History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe with a specialisation in Jewish studies from Central European University and a BA in History from University of Belgrade.
Her doctoral…
Photobooks as Jewish History: German-speaking Jews, Images, and the Transatlantic Construction of a Common Past.
Steven Weiss Samols is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Southern California. His research explores the intersection of Visual Studies and Cultural History. Steven holds a MSc. in European Studies from the London School of Economics…
The reception History of the Shulhan Arukh in Europe and the Formation of its Communities of Readers, 1589-1726
Elad Schlesinger is a Ph.D. candidate at the Jewish Thought department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He earned his MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, writing his thesis in the Jewish…
Fellows 2018-19
“At Home in My Room”: Jewish Spaces of Longing and Belonging in World War I and Weimar Berlin
Close Encounters: Shanghai´s German Jewish Refugees and Chinese, 1937 - 1948
Education
New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York, NY
August 2015 – Present, Ph.D. Candidate
Joint Ph.D. Program in Hebrew and Judaic Studies & History
Major Field: Modern Jewish History; Minor Field: Modern Chinese History…
When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine, 1900 - 1967
Horror vacui und materiale Ästhetik – Das Spätwerk Siegfried Kracauers im amerikanischen Exil
Athletes and Pioneers: The Ascent of Modern Sport and the Zionist Body in Interwar Palestine
Gustav Landauer als jüdischer Intellektueller
Education
Sebastian Kunze is a PhD Candidate at the University of Erfurt. He studied Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science (B.A.) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; holds a Masters-Degree from the University of Potsdam in Jewish Studies after studying in Berlin, Southampton, Jerusalem and…
Futures’ Past: Commerce, Capital and the Rise and Fall of the Commodity Exchange in German Economic Life, 1870 - 1935
A Continental Tradition in Transit: Émigré Historians and German History in the Israeli Academy
Fellows 2017-18
Education
October 2015 - present:
PhD candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History Faculty.
Title: “Everyday Life, Identity, and Communal Relations: A Comparison of Kehilot Shum and Aragon, 1100-1347.”
Advisor: Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
September 2013 - June 2014:
MPhil in Legal Theory…
2019-2018 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, History, visiting research fellow.
present Doctoral student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jewish History Department, under the supervision of Professor Israel Yuval and. Dr. Ephraim (Effie) Shoham-Steiner.
2014 M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jewish History Department.
2007 B.A, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,…
Sheer Ganor is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's Department of History. She is currently completing her dissertation, In Scattered Formation: Displacement, Alignment and the German-Jewish Diaspora, which studies the global network of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. She is the author of "Forbidden Words, Banished Voices: Jewish Refugees at the Service of BBC Propaganda to Wartime…
Education
Alexander Walther is a PhD candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He is currently completing his dissertation Die Shoah und die DDR. Erinnerung und Repräsentation im Antifaschismus (The Shoah and the GDR. Remembrance and Representation within Anti-Fascism). He studied history and English as a training for future teachers of…
The World of 1939 Stood Still For Us: European Jewish Emigration from Shanghai, 1945 - 1951
Betrayal and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Cross-Confessional Legal Culture in Reformation Germany
Konflikt in der Stadt: Eine verflechtungsgeschichtliche Perspektive der Regensburger Ritualmordbeschuldigung (1476 - 1480)
Fellows 2016-17
CV
PhD Candidate History October 2015 – Present
Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Dissertation – German Politics and the ‘Jewish Question’, 1914-1919
MPhil in International Relations and Politics (Distinction) October 2015 – July 2015
…
Der deutsche Zionist Davis Trietsch und sein Einsatz für die praktische Kolonisation in Palästina
Website
I am a PhD candidate in History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, working primarily with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Michael Fishbane. My writings have appeared in The Journal of Religion, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Brill's Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers, and The Encyclopedia of the…
"Wise Women": Gender, Religion, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Website: http://history.ceu.edu/people/agnes-katalin-kelemen
Education
2015- Ph.D. program in Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
2014-2015 Fellowship at Paidiea-The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, Stockholm.
2012-2014 Master of Arts in Nationalism Studies…
"It is time to act for the Lord": Crisis Discourse and Theological Turns in Moses ben Maimon and Hermann Cohen
Nationalism, Regionalism and Cosmology: Minorities and Foreigners in German Folk-Narratives in the Nineteenth Century
Female Pioneers in Social Work in Palestine: The Impact of the Jewish German Tradition and of Zionism upon the Emergence of Profession
Fellows 2015-16
Tally Gur writes her dissertation at the Dept. of Jewish History, Haifa University. She's a research fellow at the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society and was a Teaching fellow at the "Nofei Yeda" Humanities program. Her study follows the development of Jewish Studies in West-Germany academia after WWII and the Holocaust through different case studies. She…
Martin Bürgin studied History, Study of Religions and Political Science at the University of Zurich and at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich from 2005-2013. From 2008-2009 he received an Erasmus stipendiary at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin where he took courses in history, cultural studies, art history and the social sciences (political science). In May 2013 he graduated with…
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is currently a seventh-year PhD Candidate at the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is researching and writing her dissertation, with plans to finish sometime in the next academic year.
The Organisation of Halakhic Knowledge: Early Modern Responsa
Tamara's dissertation deals with the history of halakha…
Annegret Oehme is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanics at University of Washington, Seattle. She received her PhD in 2016 in German from Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies). She holds a B.A. in Jewish Studies and an M.A. in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature and Language from Freie Universität…
A Garden of Children and the Education of Citizens: The German Kindergarten Movement from 1837-1880
My dissertation follows the German kindergarten movement from 1837 to 1880 in Bad Blankenburg, Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig. Within these locations I explore two developments. First, I analyze the major kindergartens opened by activists to demonstrate how the institution became…
Immigration and Education: Jewish Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in Palestine 1918-1939
Marie Sophie Graf is currently a PhD candidate at the Political Science Departement at Ludwg-Maximilians-Universität Munich and a PhD fellow of the German National Academic Foundation. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and an Magister Artium in Modern and Contemporary History, History of Eastern and Southern-Eastern Europe and Modern German Literature from the Ludwig-Maximilians-…
The Sources of Sociality: Hermann Cohen, German Idealism, and the Science of Judaism
The Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was one of the most influential philosophers in Germany in the late nineteenth century. Cohen was a founder of neo-Kantianism, the intellectual movement that dominated Western scholarship in science, ethics, philosophy and religion from the late nineteenth…
Yakov Z. Mayer is a PhD candidate in Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on the printing of the Palestiniam Talmud, and it’s reception in the German speaking lands during the long 16th century. He writes in Haaretz’ magazine for Culture and Literature and teaches Talmud at Alma – House for Hebrew Culture and at Yeshivat Orot Shaul. His recent book, “Writings – Collected Articles on…
Ido Harari is a PhD candidate at the Department of Jewish Thought in Ben Gurion University of the Negev (writing under joint supervision of Prof. Boas Huss and Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin). His research interests include Jewish Orthodoxy in Europe (Hassidism, Lithuanian Mussar movement and German Orthodoxy), religious conversion, Secularism and its critique, and the various interactions between…
Fellows 2014-15
Émigré Scientists of the Quotidian: Market Research and the American Consumer Unconscious, 1933-1976
My dissertation, “Émigré Scientists of the Quotidian: Market Research and the American Consumer Unconscious, 1933-1976,” is a transnational intellectual and cultural history that examines the role played by a cohort of Central European market researchers and designers in the creation of modern…
Education
M.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem; B.A. in International Affairs, Vesalius College – Vrije Universiteit Brussel; undergraduate studies in Social Sciences and Applied History, Universität Siegen.
Orientalist scholarship and International politics in the Age of German Empire. Life, Career and…
Adam Y. Stern defended his dissertation at Harvard University in 2016 and is now Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He has published articles in The Journal of Religion as well as in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook and is currently at work on his first book manuscript.
Academia.edu Profile: https://trier.academia.edu/AndreasLehnertz
Education
M. A. in History and German Philology, University of Trier 2014
Scholarships
2014-2015 Leo Baeck Fellowship
2015-2016 Doctoral Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2017-2018 Post-Doc-…
Julia Carls is a curator of the forthcoming, new permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Erfurt. She holds an M.A. in Religious Studies as well as a B.A. in Religious Studies and Communication Studies and received scholarships by the German National Academic Foundation and other…
Lina Nikou was a PhD student at Hamburg University and worked at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg). She was a visiting fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, while receiving the Leo Baeck Fellowship. Furthermore, she was funded by the ZEIT-Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius and…
Yaniv Feller is a curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. He received his PhD (2016) from the Department for the Study of Religion and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Yaniv’s dissertation, entitled “Dialogical Apologetics: Leo Baeck and the Task of Jewish Philosophy”, offers a new reading of Baeck’s thought and argues for its relevance both for Jewish…
History and Knowledge. Jews in the Christian Historiography of the 13th Century
The 13th century was a watershed for the Ashkenazi Jews in the Holy Roman Empire. Important social changes took place and anti-Judaism continued its transformation. In particular the anti-Jewish pogrom developed into a regular phenomenon during this century without a single underlying motive for the pogroms. The…
Fellows 2013-14
Carl-Eric Linsler was born in 1984. After having received his B.A. from the University of Leipzig and his M.A. from the Humboldt University of Berlin, he started his PhD project at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin in 2013. He was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation from 2009 until 2016 and a visiting researcher with the postgraduate…
Education:
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Divinity School (2008-present)
Dissertation: “Modeling the Temple: The Politics of German-Jewish Scriptural Hermeneutics”
Advisor: Paul Mendes-Flohr. Committee Members: Michael Fishbane, James Robinson.
M.St. (with Distinction), University of Cambridge (…
Ethan Zadoff is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Division of Hebrew and Hebraic Studies at the Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Ph.D. in Medieval History (Expected Fall 2014), The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
M.Phil, History The Graduate Center of the City University of New York…
Since October 2013 I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. I am currently writing my dissertation under the guidance of Professor Ulrich Bröckling. The second supervisor is Professor Patrick Wagner of the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg.
I studied sociology and contemporary history at both the Martin-Luther-…
Dana von Suffrin, born in Munich in 1985. Studied Political Science, Jewish History and Culture and Comparative Literature in Munich, Naples/Italy and Jerusalem/Israel, and graduated with a thesis on Holocaust remembrance among Russian immigrants in Israel. In 2012/13 she started her PhD project at Munich's History of Science department. Currently she is working as a postdoc and coordinator at…
Yael Almog is a Doctoral Candidate in the German Department at the University of California in Berkeley, studying German literature from 1750 till the present, Jewish and religious studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy. With Erik Born, she edited the volume Neighbors and Neighborhoods in the German-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars, 2012) which scrutinizes instances of…
Anna Koch is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, where she is writing her dissertation in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the History Department. She has received numerous fellowships, including a DPDF fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, a Cahnman Foundation Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History, and a Doctoral Fellowship from the German Historical…
Education:
University of Limerick,
B.A in English and History
2006-2010
University of St. Andrews
MLitt in Modern History
2010-2011
UniversityofSt. Andrews
PhD in Modern German History
2012- Present
Academic Achievements:
Leo Baeck Fellowship 2013-2014
Academic…
A Ticket from Brody to New York via Berlin. Organized Solidarity of German Jews for Eastern European Jewish Transmigrants 1881/82
The dissertation thematizes the transit of Jewish-Russian transmigrants through the German Empire during the “crisis year” 1881/82. The focus of the dissertation is on the transnational organization of a “directed” Jewish Emigration to America, which…
Fellows 2012-13
Karin Nisenbaum received her PhD in 2013 from the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds an M.A. degree in Continental Philosophy from University College Dublin and a B.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on the trajectory of metaphysics from Kant through German Idealism to modern Jewish thought.…
Achim Wörn studied History and German philology in Würzburg (Germany) and Kraków (Poland), he graduated in 2010. Since 2011 he is a doctoral student at Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (Center for the Research on anti-Semitism) at TU Berlin. He is doing his research on Jews in Stettin (Szczecin), 1945-50.
Several research visits and language courses have taken him toPoland,Lithuania,…
Dustin Atlas is currently a post-doc at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Out of the In-Between: Moses Mendelssohn and Martin Buber's German Jewish Philosophy of Encounter, Singularity, and Aesthetics.
This dissertation articulates a trajectory in Germanic Jewish thought, beginning with the work of Moses Mendelssohn and ending with Martin Buber; this trajectory…
Nicholas Baer is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. He completed his PhD in Film & Media and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on cinema and the crisis of historicism. Baer co-edited The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933 (…
Rahel Fronda is the Hebraica and Judaica Subject Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Her professional experience also include work with rare Anglo-Jewish material, notably the Moses Montefiore collection; and translating short stories from Hebrew. Her academic background is in Jewish Studies, more specifically the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament Theology. She has read…
Editorial Board: German Jewish Cultures, Fellows 2012-13
Professor Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities Specialization at MSU. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century, the intersections of science, mathematics and culture in German-speaking countries, as well as the digital humanities and the history of technology.…
Professor Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities Specialization at MSU. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century, the intersections of science, mathematics and culture in German-speaking countries, as well as the digital humanities and the history of technology.…
Fellows 2011-12
Eric McKinley received his PhD from the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2015. The Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme supported the research for his dissertation.
Intimate Strangers: Intermarriage among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1875-1935
Vera Kallenberg is about to complete her PhD thesis „Does Jewishness matter? Jews in Frankfurt Penal Justice 1780-1814“. She is a doctoral candidate in History at TU Darmstadt and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris, a member of the research cluster „Jews within the pluralistic legal culture of the Holy Roman Empire“ at the Max-Planck-Institute for European…
After studying Sociology, History and Religious Sciences at the University of Bremen, I was a PhD-Student at the „Centre for Research on Antisemitism“ at the TU Berlin between 2010-2015. My recently finished PhD-thesis deals with State visits and Symbolic Politics in the development of German-Israeli relations, under the title „Behind the scenes: Visits of German politicians to Israel in the…
Doctoral dissertation (2014): “Orientalism for the Nation: Jews and Oriental Scholarship in Modern Hungary”
Honors and Awards
2013-2014 ACLS Eastern European Studies Program Fellowship
2011-2012 Leo Baeck Fellow
Conference papers…
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD in Art History (2009–2015), awarded Alex Berger Prize. Dissertation title: Habent sua fata libelli: Hebrew Books from the Collection of Hartmann Schedel. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, MA in Art History (2002–2008). Thesis title: Illuminated Haggadot from Venetian Candia. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, BA…
Anne Schenderlein is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. She previously taught at the University of California, San Diego where she received her PhD in Modern European History in 2014. She is currently working on two major projects. The first is a book manuscript examining the history of German Jewish refugees in the United States and relationships to…
Golan Gur, PhD, is a musicologist specializing in aesthetics and cultural history of music, with a particular emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German culture and the intersection between historical and interdisciplinary research approaches. Born inIsrael, he attendedTelAvivUniversitywhere he earned his bachelor and master degrees. He pursued further graduate studies at the Ludwig…
Lisa Schoß studied German Literature and Cultural Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main areas of research are the German literature of the 20th century, the history of German Jews and the representation of “Jews” and the Shoah in film. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis “Juden” im Film der DDR. Untersuchung eines widersprüchlichen Zusammenhangs (“Jews” in…
Editorial Board: German Jewish Cultures, Fellows 2011-12
Joshua Teplitsky is the Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History. He studies the history of Jewish life in early modern Central Europe, with an eye both to the particularities of Jewish experience and the wider contexts of Jewish-Christian interaction, minority experience, and what the history of minorities reveals about majority culture.
Joshua Teplitsky is the Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History. He studies the history of Jewish life in early modern Central Europe, with an eye both to the particularities of Jewish experience and the wider contexts of Jewish-Christian interaction, minority experience, and what the history of minorities reveals about majority culture.
Fellows 2010-11
Roy Ben-Shai is now completing his PhD in philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He earned his BA in philosophy at the Tel Aviv University and his MA at the New School, where he was granted the «Outstanding MA Graduate Award» by the philosophy department. He has taught philosophy in New York and in Iceland and has published a number of essays in journals such as The…
Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Jewish History Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.A. magna cum laude (Medieval Jewish History), 2006 Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, B.A. summa cum laude (Medieval Studies), 2000
Academic Publications …
Maximilian Strnad is a PhD candidate at LMU, University of Munich. He received his MA from the University of Munich(2007). Maximilian Strnad was a Fellow of the Leo-Baeck-Fellowship-Programme (2010). Until 2012 he was assistant at the NS-Documentation Center in Munich. At the present, he is a Fellow at the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Among his recent publications…
PhD candidate, Department of History, Hamburg University
Doctoral Supervisor: Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
MA (Summa cum laude), Department of History, Hamburg University
M.A. Thesis: Zwischen Ideologie und Überleben. Der Chug Chaluzi im Berliner Untergrund 1943–1945
Academic Work Experience: Research Assistant at the…
Ph.D. (2015) Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Lector of Yiddish at the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University,
postdoctoral fellow (2016) at The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History - Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Publications
“Be-nign Shmuel-bukh: On the Melody (or Melodies)…
D.Phil. Candidate at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Dr. David Groiser (Brasenose College, Oxford). Thesis Title: God as Dionysus: Martin Buber's Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche.
M.St. (Distinction) at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Ritchie Robertson (St. John's College, Oxford) and Dr. David Groiser (Brasenose…
Acdemic Affiliation
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Culture, Creation and Production
SapirAcademicCollege, Sderot (2011 – Current)
Post Doctoral Fellow,Ben-GurionUniversity, Beer-Sheba (2012-2013)
Research Topic: Free-time Activity in Early-modern German Jewish Life
Supervisor, Prof. Edward Fram, Department of Jewish History
…
Daniel Mahla is a Ph.D. candidate in Jewish history at the Department of History at Columbia University. He is currently in the process of finishing his doctoral thesis entitled “Orthodoxy in the Age of Nationalism: Agudat Yisrael and the Mizrahi Movement in Germany, Poland and Palestine 1912-1948” under the supervision of Michael Stanislawski. Before coming to Columbia, Daniel did a…
From Weimar to America. The political thought of Leo Strauss
During the Weimar years, Strauss was intellectually and spiritually close to streams of thought that were averse to liberalism, enlightenment, and democracy. Specifically, he was mostly influenced by Nietzsche, Schmitt, and Heidegger. However, with the rise of Nazism, as Germany faded from his mind and his exile…
Fellows 2009-10
Contact: st.m.fischer@gmx.de
Stefanie Fischer currently holds a PostDoc position at the Center for Jewish Studies/Potsdam University. In 2012 Fischer earned a PhD from the Center for Research on Antisemitism/Technical University Berlin. In her PhD thesis she has analyzed the interrelationship between economic trust and Antisemitic violence by looking at the…
Contact: marcelle_santana@yahoo.com.br
PhD candidate, History, University of Regensburg, Germany. PhD Project: The German People’s Party and the Jews in the Weimar Republic (working title)
Master’s Degree, Modern and Contemporary History, Social and Economic History and Mass Communication, University of Munich, Germany. MA Thesis: A Radical in the…
Contact: dani.schrire@mail.huji.ac.il
Since my graduation I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology at Georg August University Göttingen (Minerva) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Lady Davis fellow (2011-2012) and at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and…
Contact: a.engel@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Amir Engel received his PhD from Stanford University in 2011. His dissertation is a intellectual biography of the renowned Kabbalah Jewish German and Israeli scholar Gershom Scholem. Currently he is a research fellow at the Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His current…
Sophie Zimmer studied German and Jewish Studies at the Sorbonne Paris IV University, the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, and the University of Potsdam. She earned her PhD in German and Jewish studies at the universities of Paris IV and Potsdam in 2012. Her dissertation on the Jewish revival in Berlin since 1989 was supported through the German National Academic…
Contact: sara.yanovsky@mail.huji.ac.il (unconfirmed)
PhD Candidate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Institute for European Studies.
MA in History of International Relations from the LSE, London. Thesis: Hungary's response to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and the dilemma of Hungarian Jews (passed with high merit).
BA (hons…
PhD student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).
2008–09 scientific assistant at the Chair for Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, ETH Zurich, since 2009 assistant at the Visiting Professorship for Französische Sprache und Kultur, ETH Zurich.
Jörg Marquardt studied German literature and modern history at the Universities of Greifswald…
Contact: harifim@gmail.com
Hanan Harif has recently completed and submitted his Ph. D dissertation to senate of the Hebrew University.
Currently he teaches in the Rothberg School for Foreign Students at the Hebrew University, and is a Fellow of Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem.
The dissertation, titled:
“The ‘Revival of the East,’ Pan-…
Contact: m.fenstermacher@gmx.de (unconfirmed)
Born in 1982 in Kirchen (Rheinland), Germany, PhD Candidate at the Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf (since 2007).
M.A. degree at the Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf (2007); M.A. Thesis: Der Mehrfrontenkrieg gegen die deutschen Landjuden. Nationalsozialistische…
Editorial Board: German Jewish Cultures, Fellows 2009-10
Contact: iris.idelson@gmail.com
Iris Idelson-Shein received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2011. Her dissertation discussed the uses of racial discourse in the Jewish Enlightenment. She is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Her…
Contact: iris.idelson@gmail.com
Iris Idelson-Shein received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2011. Her dissertation discussed the uses of racial discourse in the Jewish Enlightenment. She is currently Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Her…
Fellows 2008-09
Udi Greenberg is an assistant professor of history at DartmouthCollege. He has studied in Israel, Germany, and the United States, and received his PhD from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 2010. He has published several works on the modern European thought, the Cold War, and international politics.
Cold War Weimar: German Emigres and the Intellectual Origins of…
Paula Schwebel was a doctoral fellow of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme in 2008-2009. In 2010, she was a doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre in Jerusalem. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in Philosophy and Jewish Studies (2011) with a dissertation entitled 'Walter Benjamin's Monadology.' She has since held post-doctoral…
Karin Neuburger studied Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and French at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received her M.A. as well as her Ph.D. She teaches German literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are German literature 18th…
Dr. Anne Pollok studied Philosophy, German Literature, and Law at Marburg University (M.A. 2004). She received her Dr. phil. from Halle University (summa cum laude, 2007).
2007/08 she joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina as an Instructor. 2008/9 the Leo Baeck Postdoctoral Fellowship allowed her a year of research at Stanford University. She…
Ph.D. student at the University of Passau
Fellow of the Bavarian American Academy and the Harvard Club of Munich in Fall 2008.
2007 Diploma in Languages, International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau, Germany (top 1 per cent of graduating class).
2005 Certificate in Political Studies (CEP), Institut d'Etudes…
Editorial Board: Schriftenreihe, Fellows 2008-09
Daniel Jütte is a historian of early modern and modern Europe. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously worked and taught at the Department of History at the University of Heidelberg, from which he earned his Ph.D. in 2010. He has been a recipient of various fellowships, including from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Academic…
Daniel Jütte is a historian of early modern and modern Europe. He is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He previously worked and taught at the Department of History at the University of Heidelberg, from which he earned his Ph.D. in 2010. He has been a recipient of various fellowships, including from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Academic…
Editorial Board: German Jewish Cultures, Fellows 2008-09
Samuel Spinner received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his PhD from Columbia University in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was the Ross Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2014-2017 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Hopkins.
His research and teaching encompass…
Assistant Professor of German Studies, Gettysburg College
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages & Literatures, 2011
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages & Literatures, 2005
B.A. Wesleyan University, College of Letters (High Honors)
Research interests:
20th-century German literature, culture, film…
Samuel Spinner received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his PhD from Columbia University in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, he was the Ross Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2014-2017 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Hopkins.
His research and teaching encompass…
Assistant Professor of German Studies, Gettysburg College
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages & Literatures, 2011
M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Germanic Languages & Literatures, 2005
B.A. Wesleyan University, College of Letters (High Honors)
Research interests:
20th-century German literature, culture, film…
Fellows 2007-08
Ivonne Meybohm (b. 1981) read History and Modern German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.
She worked on the Zionist Youth Movement before starting her dissertation on David Wolffsohn in 2007. She was a Leo Baeck Fellow in 2007 and 2008, during which she spent a lot of time in the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. While writing her dissertation…
Katherine Sorrels is an assistant professor of history at theUniversityofCincinnati. After a BA from SUNY Binghamton and an MA fromCentralEuropeanUniversity, she completed her PhD at theUniversityofPittsburghin 2009. She works on internationalism and pacifism in modern Central European history.
Project title: Habsburg Jews and the Idea of Europe
Fellowship Advisory Board, Fellows 2007-08
Kim Wünschmann gained her Ph.D. from the University of London, Birkbeck College in 2012. Currently, she holds a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Martin Buber Society of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a visiting lecturer at the Department of Jewish History. Her research interests centre on German and German-Jewish history in modern times, with a focus on the Weimar Republic,…
Kim Wünschmann gained her Ph.D. from the University of London, Birkbeck College in 2012. Currently, she holds a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Martin Buber Society of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a visiting lecturer at the Department of Jewish History. Her research interests centre on German and German-Jewish history in modern times, with a focus on the Weimar Republic,…
Fellows 2006-07
Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies
Department of History
Amherst College
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (2009) in History,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem
TEACHING POSITIONS
- 2013- Amherst College, FiveCollege Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies
- 2010-2013 …
Tobias Metzler studied history, political science, Judaic Studies and German philology at Berlin and Yale. In 2008, he completed his doctorate at the University of Southampton. He has held positions at Leipzig and Potsdam University, the University of Vienna and Silpakorn University, Nakhorn Pathom.
He is fellow of the Parkes Institute of Jewish/ non-Jewish relations at Southampton and…
Kerstin von der Krone is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington. Her fields of research include Jewish history in Central Europe in the modern era and the history of Jewish thought; she focuses in particular on communication practices related to education and scholarship and the transformation of knowledge and knowledge production.
Kerstin von der Krone studied…
Mirjam Wenzel is head of the media department at the Jewish Museum Berlin. She studied comparative literature, worked as a research research fellow at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, and as a curator for contemporary art. Her publications focus on Holocaust representation, critical theory and German-Jewish cultural history. Mirjam Wenzel completed her PhD thesis as a Leo Baeck…
Nitzan Lebovic is an assistant professor of history and the Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University.
Nitzan is the author of The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and the editor of special issues of the New…
Born in 1976 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; historian, librarian, and archivist; since 2013 head of the Scientific Collections, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Erkner near Berlin(www.irs-net.de/profil/wissenschaftliche-sammlungen)
Doctoral thesis: Jüdischer Adel. Nobilitierungen von Juden im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurton the Main 2013 (…
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