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…
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…