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Fellows 2009-10

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


“Baruch Meshane Habriyot”: Uses and Representations of ‘the Exotic’ in the Jewish Enlightenment


Iris Idelson-Shein received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2011. Her dissertation discussed the uses of racial discourse in the Jewish…

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…

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.…

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