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Fellows 2011-12

New York University


Between Court Jew and Jewish Court: David Oppenheim,

the Prague rabbinate, and eighteenth-century Jewish politics


Joshua Teplitsky is the Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History. He studies the history of Jewish life…

Humboldt University of Berlin


Orakelnde Musik. Schönberg, der Fortschritt und die Avantgarde


His dissertation project deals with the Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg and avant-garde notions of musical progress. The study asks when and why modern composers,…

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Intimate Strangers: Intermarriage among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews in Germany, 1875-1935


In this dissertation, I examine intermarriage in Germany from 1875, when the Second Reich implemented obligatory civil marriage…

TU Darmstadt and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Paris


„Does Jewishness matter? Jews in Frankfurt Penal Justice 1780-1814“


In my PhD project, I analyze the treatment of Jewish women and men in the Christian-governmental authorities’…

University of California, San Diego


“Germany on Their Minds”? German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988


In the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately 90,000 Jews from Germany came to the United States as refugees fleeing…

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin


Von verschiedenen Standpunkten. Die Darstellung jüdischer Erfahrung im Film der DDR.


The portrayal of the Jewish experience in East German cinema is one of contradictions and ambivalence. On the one hand, the GDR has been criticised for…

TU Berlin 


Behind the scenes: Visits of German politicians to Israel in the years 1957-1984


After studying Sociology, History and Religious Sciences at the University of Bremen, I was a PhD-Student at the „Centre for Research on Antisemitism“ at the TU…

University of Florida


Orientalism for the Nation: Jews and Oriental Scholarship in Modern Hungary


Katalin Franciska Rac earned her doctorate from the University of Florida in 2014. Her dissertation studies the mutual influence between Orientalism and Jewish…

University College London


Sarah Schenirer and the Formation of Bais Ya’akov. Gender and Religious Identity Constructions in Orthodox Judaism  
 
Bais Ya’akov was established in 1917 in Krakow by Sarah Schenirer, who was particularly impressed with the…

University of Marburg


Die Juden im politischen System des Alten Reichs. Jüdische Politik und ihre Organisation im 16. Jahrhundert


My dissertation examined Jewish political activity in the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire. Focusing on forms of organization,…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Habent sua fata libelli: Hebrew Books from the Collection of Hartmann Schedel


This study investigates the practice of Christian collecting of Hebrew books within the pre-Reformation German milieu. It focuses on a group of biblical…

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