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 subject of my Ph.D. thesis is epic poems on the Book of Joshua and the Book of Judges in Old-Yiddish. These beautiful epics bring Hebrew narratives in…
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…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Deserted Women and Disappearing Men in Ashkenaz 1648-1850
An agunah, literally a “chained woman,” is a woman unable to secure a rabbinic divorce because her husband has disappeared or is unwilling to sign the divorce…
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…