Fellows 2017-18

Konflikt in der Stadt: Eine verflechtungsgeschichtliche Perspektive der Regensburger Ritualmordbeschuldigung (1476 - 1480)

The New Orient: German-Jewish Orientalism in Palestine/Israel

Betrayal and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Cross-Confessional Legal Culture in Reformation Germany

The World of 1939 Stood Still For Us: European Jewish Emigration from Shanghai, 1945 - 1951

The Jewish Reception of Martin Heidegger’s Thought

Envisioning Palestine, Photography and the Creation of a Multi-National Space

Education

October 2015 - present:

PhD candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History Faculty.
Title: “Everyday Life, Identity, and Communal Relations: A Comparison of  Kehilot Shum and Aragon, 1100-1347.”
Advisor: Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew…

Sheer Ganor is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s Department of History. She is currently completing her dissertation, In Scattered Formation: Displacement, Alignment and the German-Jewish Diaspora, which studies the global network of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. She is the…

Education

Alexander Walther is a PhD candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He is currently completing his dissertation Die Shoah und die DDR. Erinnerung und Repräsentation im Antifaschismus (The Shoah and the GDR. Remembrance and…

2019-2018 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, History, visiting research fellow.
present Doctoral student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jewish History Department, under the supervision of Professor Israel Yuval and. Dr. Ephraim (Effie) Shoham-Steiner.

2014 M.A., Hebrew…