University of Chicago
Sacramental Existence: Embodiment in Martin Buber’s Philosophical and Hasidic Writings
I am a PhD candidate in History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, working primarily with Paul Mendes-Flohr and…
Fellows 2016-17
Central European University
The Migration of the Numerus Clausus Exiles. Hungarian Jewish Students in Interwar Europe
Agnes’s dissertation (expected defense: 2019), “The Migration of the Numerus Clausus Exiles. Hungarian Jewish Students in Interwar Europe…
University of Cambridge
German Politics and the ‘Jewish Question’, 1914-1919
The First World War confronted German politicians with a range of unprecedented, vital
questions in the spheres of domestic as well as foreign policy. As the fortunes of war shifted,…
University of Munich
Zuhause zwischen Isar und Jordan. Leben und Werk Schalom Ben-Chorins
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nationalism, Regionalism and Cosmology: Minorities and Foreigners in German Folk-Narratives in the Nineteenth Century
Tel Aviv University
“It is time to act for the Lord”: Crisis Discourse and Theological Turns in Moses ben Maimon and Hermann Cohen
Columbia University
Jewish Midwives, Medicine, and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1650-1800
Employed as midwives, wise women, or healers, female medical practitioners of various faiths disseminated medical knowledge and supplied…
Columbia University
Jews on Trial: Postwar Retribution Against Jews in Germany and Europe
Freie Universität Berlin
A Forgotten Visionary: Zionist Ideas for the Future – Between Germany, Palestine, and the USA
In her dissertation, published in the Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts, Lisa Sophie Gebhard examines…
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Female Pioneers in Social Work in Palestine: The Impact of the Jewish German Tradition and of Zionism upon the Emergence of Profession