Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Children and Childhood in Early Modern Ashkenaz
The history of children and childhood has been a subject of major interest among historians of all periods and cultures ever since the publication of Philippe Aries’ controversial book…
Columbia University
The Museum of the Jews: Literature and Ethnography in Germany and Eastern Europe
This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the history of Jewish ethnography and folklore studies in Germany, in order to locate Jewish anthropology within the…
University of Passau
Jewish Organizations in Transatlantic Perspective: Three Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Politics in Germany, France, and the United States
This is a dissertation about the origins and effects of three basic patterns in contemporary…
University of Heidelberg
Jews, Music, and Society. A Study in the Social and Cultural History of Music (1750–1900)
My dissertation is an attempt to offer a fuller understanding and, to some extent, a reinterpretation of modern Jewish history through the lens of…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cold War Weimar: German Emigres and the Intellectual Origins of the Cold War
By examining the works and activities of influential yet often overlooked Cold War-era thinkers - Carl J. Friedrich, Ernst Fraenkel, Hans Morgenthau,…
University of Toronto
Walter Benjamin’s Monadology
My dissertation interprets Walter Benjamin’s corpus through the lens of a previously unexplored theme: namely, his appropriation of Leibniz’s monadic metaphysics. Against the grain of mainstream Benjamin…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Uri Zvi Greenberg’s Poetry and its Relation with German Literature and Culture
Karin Neuburger studied Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and French at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at the…
Martin Luther University of Halle
Facetten des Menschen. Zur Anthropologie Moses Mendelssohns“ – Facets of Humankind. On Moses Mendelssohn’s Anthropology
This study portrays Moses Mendelssohn’s oeuvre as a unique approach to the just emerging science of rational…
University of Pennsylvania
Observable Type: Jewish Women and the Jewish Press in Weimar Germany
Through an examination of German and Yiddish-language Jewish periodicals in Weimar Germany (1919-1933), this dissertation investigates the problematics of Jewish…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hidden Resistance: Jewish Responses to Christianity in Medieval and Earl Modern Europe
Yaacov Deutsch works on Christian-Jewish relations and especially on the knowledge the two groups had about each other’s practices and…
University of Kassel
Jüdische Wohlfahrt in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus
This project shall make a contribution to an as yet scarcely noticed field of Jewish social history, the welfare services. During the Weimar Republic the welfare is at the…
University of Heidelberg
Jewish-non-Jewish Relations in the City of Temesvár in Hungary (1850-1915)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Forging Israeli Ashkenazi Identity through Synagogue Music - Ohel Nehama in Jerusalem as a Case-Study
Amalia Kedem’s ethnomusicological work concentrates around the music found in Israeli Ashkenazi synagogues and the social…
Freie Universität Berlin
Jüdische Konversionen im 18. Jahrhundert im Herzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin
The thesis explores the complexity of conversions from Judaism to Christianity during the 18th century, emphasizing Jewish lower classes in the duchy of…
University of Vienna
Reform und Tradition - Der Wiener Stadttempel im Kontext des aschkenasischen Synagogenbaus des Klassizismus
The dissertation is aiming at a first monograph on the so called City Temple that was accomplished in 1826 by the design of Joseph…
University of Köln
Topographien jüdischer Selbstverortungen im lokalen Raum Rigas, 1842 - 1915
Die (bisher praktisch unerforschte) jüdische Geschichte Rigas um 1900 eignet sich dazu, eher nebeneinander laufende Argumentationsstränge miteinander zu verschränken,…