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
This dissertation examines Jewish amulets from the German-speaking areas in the 18th and 19th centuries. The study focuses in…
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’s doctoral thesis explores the Sephardi Jews in the context of European Jewish politics and examines why and how the idea of diaspora became a political…
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…
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 the first two…
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…