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Fellows 2014-15

George Washington University


Émigré Scientists of the Quotidian: Market Research and the American Consumer Unconscious, 1933-1976


My dissertation is a transnational intellectual and cultural history that examines the role played by a cohort of Central European…

Technical University Berlin


Orientalist scholarship and International politics in the Age of German Empire. Life, Career and Oeuvre of Friedrich Rosen, 1856-1935


Amir Theilhaber’s dissertation looks at the relationship of Oriental studies and Orient…

Harvard University


Genealogies of Survival: Christianity, Judaism, Sovereignty


Adam Y. Stern defended his dissertation at Harvard University in 2016 and is now Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He has published articles in The…

University of Trier


Judensiegel im mittelalterlichen Reich. Siegelpraxis und Selbstrepräsentation von Juden (“Jewish seals in the medieval German kingdom. Sealing practice and selfrepresentation of Jews”)


My doctoral thesis with the working title Judensiegel…

University of Erfurt


Denkwelten, Handlungsräume und Grenzgänge der deutschen Orthodoxie in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts


Julia Carls’ PhD-project investigates the perception, self-perception, and scope of action of Orthodox German rabbis in the first…

Hamburg University 


Coming Back Home? - Invitation Programs of German Cities for Former Refugees of the Nazi Regime


Only fifteen years after the end of World War Two, some German cities initiated contacts with their former citizens living abroad, who had…

University of Toronto


Dialogical Apologetics: Leo Baeck and the Task of Jewish Philosophy


Yaniv Feller is a curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. He received his PhD (2016) from the Department for the Study of Religion and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish…

University of Tübingen   


History and Knowledge. Jews in the Christian Historiography of the 13th Century


The 13th century was a watershed for the Ashkenazi Jews in the Holy Roman Empire. Important social changes took place and anti-Judaism continued…

University of Cambridge


The crisis of tradition and the renaissance of history in Weimar Orthodox thought


University of Konstanz and Charles University Prague  


Die Wochenschrift Selbstwehr (1907-1938) im deutsch-tschechischen kulturellen Kontext


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