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Fellows 2010-11

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Deserted Women and Disappearing Men in Ashkenaz 1648-1850  


Acdemic Affiliation


Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Culture, Creation and Production


Sapir Academic College, Sderot (…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


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…

New School for Social Research, New York


Moral Pathology: A philosophical study of Jean Améry 


My dissertation offers a reconstructive, philosophical interpretation of the work of Jewish Austrian essayist and Holocaust survivor Jean Améry (born Hans Mayer), which…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Claiming Credibility: The Makings and Meanings of Gender in the Legal Literature of Medieval Ashkenaz 


My dissertation is a study of medieval Jewish legal discourse, in general, and of the ways in which this literature appropriated…

University of Munich


Jiskorbücher/-literatur als Medien des Erinnerns/Gedenkens an Heldentod, Selbstopfer und Märtyrertod im Zionismus, 1897-1948


Seit der Gründung von landwirtschaftlichen Siedlungen in Palästina durch Chalutzim, besonders aber ab dem Beginn der…

Hamburg University


Gender Perspectives on the German-Jewish Immigration to Palestine in the 1930s 


In my PhD project I use the category of gender to analyze the German-Jewish immigration toPalestine in the 1930s. Within the Fifth Alyiah some 50,000 German Jews…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


The Epic Poems in old-Yiddish on the Book of Joshua and the Book of Judges


The field of my research is the history and culture of the Jews who lived in Germany and spoke German. The texts I study date back to the time before the…

University of Oxford


God as Dionysus: Martin Buber’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche


‹Neu erwacht der Stolz, jüdisch zu sein!› Such was Ernst Bloch’s reaction to Martin Buber, who became a beacon of Jewish culture to a generation of German-speaking,…

Columbia University


Orthodoxy in the Age of Nationalism: Agudat Yisrael and the Mizrahi Movement in Germany, Poland and Palestine 1912-1948


During the first half of the twentieth century, nationalizing processes in Europe and Palestine reshaped observant Jewry…

University of Munich


The Jewish Stigma: Intermarriage and Family Life in Germany, 1933-1949.


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-…

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