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Fellows 2015-16

Haifa University


“In-Between” — Jewish Studies in Post WWII Germany 1960–2009


Tally Gur writes her dissertation at the Dept. of Jewish History, Haifa University. She’s a research fellow at the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society…

University of Pennsylvania


The Organisation of Halakhic Knowledge: Early Modern Responsa


Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is currently a seventh-year PhD Candidate at the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is researching and writing her dissertation…

Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Adapting Arthur - The Transformations and Adaptations of Wirnt of Grafenberg’s Wigalois within a German-Jewish Framework


Annegret Oehme’s dissertation researched the adaptations and…

University of Toronto


A Garden of Children and the Education of Citizens: The German Kindergarten Movement from 1837-1880


My dissertation follows the German kindergarten movement from 1837 to 1880 in Bad Blankenburg, Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig. Within these…

Ludwg-Maximilians-Universität Munich


Sigmund Neumann – Realist with a View


The historian and political scientist Sigmund Neumann (1904-1962) was German, Jewish, and a democrat. Socialized in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, he emigrated to escape Nazi…

Princeton University


The Sources of Sociality: Hermann Cohen, German Idealism, and the Science of Judaism


The Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was one of the most influential philosophers in Germany in the late nineteenth century. Cohen was a founder…

Tel Aviv University


The Reception of the Jerusalem Talmud in the Early Modern Period


Yakov Z. Mayer’s research focuses on the printing of the Palestinian Talmud, and its reception in the German speaking lands during the long 16th century. He writes in…

Ben Gurion University of the Negev


Converting to Otherness: the dialectic of differentiation in and from Modern Europe


My doctoral research is an attempt to examine the different ways in which orthodoxization processes of Jews in the German/West-European

University of Zurich


“Plum War”, an anti-Jewish pogrom in Endingen and Lengnau on 21st September 1802


Martin Bürgin studied History, Study of Religions and Political Science at the University of Zurich and at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich from…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Immigration and Education: Jewish Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in Palestine 1918-1939


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