Rice University
Out of the In-Between: Moses Mendelssohn and Martin Buber’s German Jewish Philosophy of Encounter, Singularity, and Aesthetics
This dissertation articulates a trajectory in Germanic Jewish thought, beginning with the work of Moses…
Fellows 2012-13
University College London
Groups of Ashkenazi Bibles with Micrographic Ornaments
Her doctoral research involves several disciplines, combining art history with codicology and palaeography, and Old Testament theology and linguistics with intellectual and social…
University of California
Absolute Relativity: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
Nicholas Baer’s dissertation focuses on the intersection between film and the philosophy of history in interwar Germany.
Nicholas Baer is Collegiate…
University of Pennsylvania
Professor Matthew Handelman is Assistant Professor of German and a member of the Core Faculty in the Digital Humanities Specialization at MSU. His research interests include German-Jewish literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century, the…
University of Toronto
For the Love of Metaphysics: From the Revolution in Thinking towards the Renewal of Thinking
One of Kant’s most original insights is the notion that we can construct a philosophical argument—a transcendental argument—whose central premise…
Palacký University Olomouc
Jewish Pioneer Youth in Interwar Czechoslovakia between Zionism and Communism - the Building of the Chosen Body
Daniela Bartáková is a researcher at the Department of Modern Social and Cultural History of Masaryk Institute and Archives…
Tel Aviv University/University of Warsaw
Between Individual and Political Emancipation: Zionism and Feminism in the Lives of Puah Rakovsky and Rahel Straus
This dissertation is a comparative biographical study that delves into the individual and political…
University of Chicago
The Reconstruction of Walter Benjamin in Development of Critical Theory
Brown University
Healing and Harmony between War and Genocide: Dr. Kurt Singer’s Musical Healing and The Doctors’ Chorus of Berlin,1913-1938
The problem considered by this dissertation is whether aesthetic experience may reshape and reform social, political and…
Technical University Berlin
Jews in Stettin, 1946-1950
Between April and June 1946 about 28,500 Polish Jews were settled in the former German port Stettin (Polish: Szczecin) at the estuary of the Oder river. These Jews were mainly so called repatriates from…