Tel Aviv University
Athletes and Pioneers: The Ascent of Modern Sport and the Zionist Body in Interwar Palestine
Ofer Idels is the Belzberg Fellow at the Universty of Calgary. He is the author of Zionism: Emotions, Language, and Experience (…
Fellows 2018-19
University of Erfurt
Gustav Landauer als jüdischer Intellektueller
Sebastian Kunze studied Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science (B.A.) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; holds a Masters-Degree from the University of Potsdam in Jewish Studies…
University of Pennsylvania
Futures’ Past: Commerce, Capital and the Rise and Fall of the Commodity Exchange in German Economic Life, 1870 - 1935
University of Oxford
Producing New Women: Work, Consumer Culture and Jewish Clothing Companies in Wilhelmine Germany
This dissertation investigates the involvement of Jewish commercial clothiers in the making of women’s modernity in turn-of-the century Berlin.…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Continental Tradition in Transit: Émigré Historians and German History in the Israeli Academy
University of Chicago
“At Home in My Room”: Jewish Spaces of Longing and Belonging in World War I and Weimar Berlin
New York University
Close Encounters: Shanghai”s German Jewish Refugees and Chinese, 1937 - 1948
During World War II, approximately 18,000-20,000 Central European Jewish refugees fled Nazi-occupied Europe for China. While scholarship on this historical moment has…
University of Oxford
When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine, 1900 - 1967
University of Potsdam
History of Forgetfulness: Theopolitics and Hasidism in Martin Buber´s Writings
Yemima Hadad’s study concentrates on Buber’s specific sense of historicism and the narrative of forgetfulness in Jewish history. Her thesis, forgetfulness…
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Horror vacui und materiale Ästhetik – Das Spätwerk Siegfried Kracauers im amerikanischen Exil