Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Continental Tradition in Transit: Émigré Historians and German History in the Israeli Academy
Yonatan Shiloh‐Dayan is a doctoral student at the Department for Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main scholarly interests are situated within the fields of intellectual and political history of the 20th century; he is particularly interested in processes of transfer of cultural knowledge, traditions and political practices from Central Europe to Mandate Palestine/Israel after 1933. His dissertation project, to be written under the supervision of Prof. Yfaat Weiss, is devoted to the life and work of Prof. Walter Grab. Besides his work on the archival papers of Walter Grab within the framework of the project
Traces and Treasures of German‐Jewish History, Yonatan Shiloh‐Dayan takes part in a joint German‐Israeli research project, a collaboration between the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF), investigating German‐Israeli relations in the field of Humanities.