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…
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 explores Jewish seals in an…
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
Olga’s dissertation deals with the literature in the Prague Zionist weekly paper Selbstwehr, which was in…