University of Toronto
The Inmate of Theresienstadt: A Laboratory of the Middle Class? Social History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Collecting the Pieces of Exile: A Critical View of Folklore Research in Israel in the 1940s-1950s
Folk-culture is typically associated with continuity; how can one engage folk-culture in situations of destruction and extermination…
Stanford University
Rewriting the Myth: Gershom Scholem, Zionism and Kabbalah
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.…
University of Regensburg
The German People’s Party and the Jews in the Weimar Republic
German Jews who were politically liberal-oriented were well known to have favored the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, DDP). Ranking among the party’s…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Facing the Challenge of Jewish education in the Metropolis – A Comparative Study of the Jewish Communal Organizations of Budapest and Vienna, from 1867 until World War II
This study seeks to investigate how Jewish communities…
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Assimilation. Poetics and Semantics of a German-Jewish Narrative, 1800–1939
Modern German-Jewish literature has produced a variety of different, very often divergent, narratives of assimilation that disclose and…
University of Ulm
Life and Work of the Psychoanalyst Paula Heimann (1899-1982)
The research project focuses on life and work of a famous psychoanalyst, who, furthermore, had a substantial influence on the Federal German post-war context. In particular, Paula…
Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf
Juden und ländliche Gesellschaft im Rheinland 1871–1942 (working title)
The research project deals with the social relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish ruralists in the Prussian Rhine province between 1871…
Tel Aviv University
Blessed is the Changer of Beings: Uses and Representations of Exoticism in the Jewish Enlightenment
University of Potsdam and Sorbonne Paris IV University
The Jewish Revival in Berlin since 1989: Cultural and Religious Aspects
Sophie Zimmer studied German and Jewish Studies at the Sorbonne Paris IV University, the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg,…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The ‘Revival of the East,’ Pan-Semitism and Pan-Asianism within Zionist Discourse
Hanan Harif’s dissertation explores the varied ways in which Zionist thinkers and writers viewed the Orient and its inhabitants. The work (…
Technical University Berlin
Ökonomisches Vertrauen und antisemitische Gewalt: Jüdische Viehhändler in Mittelfranken (1919 – 1939)
Stefanie Fischer currently holds a PostDoc position at the Center for Jewish Studies/Potsdam University. In 2012 Fischer earned…