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Fellows 2019-20

Ben Gurion University of the Negev


The Reception History of the Shulhan Arukh in Europe and the Formation of its Communities of Readers, 1589-1726


Elad Schlesinger is a Ph.D. candidate at the Jewish Thought department, Ben Gurion University of…

 Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Synagogue Architecture in Israel’s First Two Decades of Statehood: Religious Architecture in a Secular Age


My dissertation examines synagogues designed by prominent architects in the State of Israel in…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


The Purchasing Mission to Cologne between Israel and Germany, 1953-1965 


This study focuses on the Purchasing Mission to Cologne, the official and exclusive representative of the Government of Israel in the Federal Republic of…

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University


Writing a Future State: Spatial Imaginiaries of German Jewish Literature, 1847–1932


Joshua Shelly is a doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke German Studies Program, a joint program of the…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Trust thy Neighbor? Risk and Trust in Economic Interactions between Jews and Christians in the German Empire c. 1280-1420


Aviya Doron is a PhD student at the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under…

Philipps University of Marburg


Schrift als Schutz. Jüdische Amulette im Spannungsfeld sprachlicher und nicht sprachlicher Elemente


Alisha Meininghaus is a doctoral candidate at the Department of the Study of Religion at the Philipps University of Marburg. She…

Dubnow Institute


From Frankfurt to Babylon. A History of Jewish Intellectuals in the Federal Republic of Germany


Working as a Doctoral Candidate at the Dubnow Institute since 2016, Zarin Aschrafi studied History and German Language at the universities of…

Birkbeck, University of London


Inventing a modern diaspora: Balkan Sephardim 1890–1940


Željka Oparnica is a doctoral candidate in History at Birkbeck, University of London. She holds a MA degree in History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe with a…

University of Southern California


Photobooks as Jewish History: German-speaking Jews, Images, and the Transatlantic Construction of a Common Past


Steven Weiss Samols is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Southern California. His research explores…

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