The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to announce the selection of its 2024 cohort of research fellows. The fellows will be involved in a series of workshops, conferences, and public talks throughout the year, aiming to deepen understanding and foster scholarly discourse on topics related to Jewish life in Europe.
The first workshop of the fellowship programme is scheduled for November, during which the fellows will present their current research projects to their peers, senior scholars, and institute staff. The workshop will serve as a platform for intellectual exchange and collaboration, allowing the fellows to receive valuable feedback and refine their work.
“We are thrilled to welcome such a talented group of scholars to the LBI community,” said the institute’s director, Dr. Joseph Cronin. “Their research promises to make important contributions to our understanding of German-Jewish history and to broader questions of cultural and intellectual history.”
The November workshop will be followed by a series of events throughout the year, including public lectures and conferences, where the fellows will continue to share their work with academic and general audiences.
The Leo Baeck Institute looks forward to a productive year of research and collaboration with its 2024 fellows.
Emilie Aebischer (University of St. Andrews): Writing History in the Face of Fanaticism: Ernst Cassirer and his Reception as a Historian
Tamar Aizenberg (Brandeis University): The Third Generations: Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators and Holocaust Memory
Rakefet Cohen-Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Imparting the Hebrew Language to Adults in Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel 1936-1955
Tekle Ekvtimishvili (Goethe University, Frankfurt): Networks of the Jewish Mission: Missionaries, Jews, and Converts within the Milieu of the Proselyte Institutions of the 18th Century
Ariel Horowitz (Stanford University): Redemption and Jewish Modernity: The Case of Hannah Arendt
Charles Knight (University of Southampton): Shared Worlds and Epistolary Spaces: The Correspondence of German-Jewish Families during the Holocaust, 1933-45
Celeste Jingyan Pan (University of Oxford): The Getty-Wittenberg Pentateuch
Melani Shahin (University of Chicago): The German-Jewish Reception of Writings on Jewish Music, 1780-1900
Anna Marion Weber (Stuttgart University / King’s College London): Stolen Years – German-Jewish Women’s Life Writing in Exile
