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Fellows 2020-21

Yale University


I will sing of love and justice: Jewish Responses to the Theological Roots of Contemporary Virtue Ethics


This dissertation puts Jewish philosophy into conversation with contemporary ethical theory in order to develop a novel account of the…

Johns Hopkins University


Yeshivot and their Students in Moravia, 1650-1726: A Window to Early Modern Learning Culture


Columbia University


Missed Encounter: Paul Celan at the Edge of Philosophy


This dissertation examines the writings of three seminal twentieth century thinkers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jacques Derrida, through the lens of their encounter with…

Tel Aviv University


Paul Celan and the Verjudung of Poetry


Ohad Kohn is a PhD student at the Porter School for Cultural Studies of the Tel Aviv University, writing his doctoral dissertation on the poetic language of Paul Celan from the vantage point of the poet…

City University of New York


Hebrew Language Reading Communities in Central Europe , 1845-1870


Publishing the Pan-Jewish emerges from a question about sites of synthesis between claims of sacred continuity and novel forms of communication. It centers on the first…

Hebrew University of Jerusalem


The German origins of Hebrew typography in the 20th century: Rafael Frank and Henri Friedlaender


Nitzan Chelouche (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research…

Universität Trier


Organisationsformen ländlicher Judensiedlungen zwischen Zentralität und Dispersion. Ein Vergleich regionaler Netzwerke im Elsass und in der Wetterau im ausgehenden Mittelalter


Hebrew University of Jerusalem


An Intellectual Biography of Meir of Rothenburg


Moshe D. Chechik holds a BA and MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is currently completing his PhD in the Department of Talmud and Halakha in the Jack, Joseph…

Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow


Demokratisches Denken in der frühen Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Der Staats- und Verwaltungsrechtler Walter Jellinek


Philip Emanuel Bockelmann is a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Institute for…

University of Michigan


Refugees in Empire: Jewish Refugees in British India (1921-1951)


Assumptions of the sovereign equality of nation-states has determined how scholars define refugees (as a consequence of the emergence of nation-states), where this definition…

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