University of Munich
In Iron Chains. The Jewish Community of Regensburg on Trial for Ritual Murder (1476-1480)
Sophia Schmitt is a research associate and lecturer in the department of Jewish studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany. A…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The New Orient: German-Jewish Orientalism in Palestine/Israel
A New Orient explores the German-Jewish roots of Zionist and Israeli Oriental Studies as a history of knowledge transfer between Germany and Palestine/Israel.…
Columbia University
Betrayal and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Cross-Confessional Legal Culture in Reformation Germany
Tamar Menashe is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University. She situates her work…
Ohio State University
Saving the Unwanted: The International Response to Shanghai’s Jewish Refugees, 1943-1949
This dissertation is a global microhistory of 15,000 Jewish refugees who found refuge in Shanghai from Nazi persecution. The Jewish refugees had chosen…
University of Oxford
The Jewish Reception of Martin Heidegger’s Thought
In this study, I examine the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Envisioning Palestine, Photography and the Creation of a Multi-National Space
In my research project I examine the effects of photography on the transformation of Mandate Palestine from a tourist attraction to a political space. I…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Everyday Life, Identity, and Communal Relations: A Comparison of Kehilot Shum and Aragon, 1100-1347
Miriam Fenton is writing her PhD in Medieval history, comparing and contrasting the experience of community in the everyday…
UC Berkeley
In Scattered Formation: Displacement, Alignment and the German-Jewish Diaspora
Sheer Ganor is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s Department of History. She is currently completing her dissertation, In Scattered Formation: Displacement…
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Die Shoah und die DDR. Erinnerung und Repräsentation im Antifaschismus
Alexander Walther is a PhD candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He is currently completing his dissertation Die Shoah und die DDR.…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Believing and Belonging: Religious Conversion, Identity, and Community in Medieval Ashkenaz
This dissertation examines religious conversion in medieval Ashkenaz as a complex social, cultural, and legal process shaped by the…