Freie Universität Berlin
A ticket from Brody via Berlin to New York. The organized solidarity of German Jews for European Jewish Transmigrants in the Crisis year 1881/82
The dissertation thematizes the transit of Jewish-Russian transmigrants through the…
University of Munich
Plants for Palestine! Science in the Yishuv, 1900-1930
My dissertation seeks to reconstruct the history of theoretic and applied botany in the Yishuv, which emerges around 1900 with the arrival of a group of German (or German-trained)…
University of California
Hebrew Reminiscences: Global Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in the Rise of Hermeneutic Thinking
Almog’s dissertation demonstrates that salient notions of literary interpretation—such as reading through empathy (Einfühlung…
City University of New York
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife:’ Medieval Jewish Marriage Law in Northern France and Germany in Comparative Perspective, 1100- 1300
Ethan Zadoff is Adjunct Professor at the Department…
New York University
Home after Fascism? How Italian and German Jews Rebuilt their Lives in their Countries of Origin, 1945-1955
This dissertation compares Italian and German Jews’ relationships with their home countries after the Holocaust. I ask how they dealt…
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
The Jews’ Houses in the German Reich since 1939. A Life-World Study on Everyday Life and Neighbourhood
The research focus in my dissertation lies on the enforced “relocation” to and life in the so-called “Jews’ Houses”, which…
University of St. Andrews
In the Service of His Majesty’s Government: The British Consular Service in the Third Reich between 1933-1939.
This doctoral project will analyse local and regional reports on anti-Semitic persecution from the…
University of Chicago
Modeling the Temple: The Politics of German-Jewish Scriptural Hermeneutics
Jews and Christians hotly debated the political, historical and philosophical significance of the ancient Israelite Temple throughout nineteenth-century Germany.…
Technical University Berlin
Jewish Identities during the First World War: A Franco-German Family Biography
This dissertation project focuses on the transnational history of the Frank family between Paris and Frankfurt am Main in the period between 1870 and 1920.…