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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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-…
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…
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…