University of Munich
Teil der Stadtgesellschaft? Beziehungen zwischen Juden und Christen im spätmittelalterlichen Regensburg
Die Geschichte der Juden in ihren diversen Verflechtungen mit der städtischen Gesellschaft während der größten Wirtschaftskrise des…
Hebrew University
On the Formation of a Religious Society: The ‘Exemplary It’ in Martin Buber’s Life and Thought.
My research explores how an exemplary society should look – politically, socially and culturally – and analyzes the inherent philosophical…
University of Oxford
A Homeland in the Home: Age, Gender, and Religion in German Cultural Zionism, 1897-1905
Rose Stair is DPhil student in the Theology and Religion faculty at the University of Oxford, and previously studied at the University of Chicago Divinity…
University of California
Cinematic Loss: Missing Pieces of German Film, 1929–1933
Dr. Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert is a multilingual film historian, digital humanist, and Lecturer in Germanic & Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Specializing in Weimar cinema,…
Princeton University
Near Sense Literary Opacity through the Feuilleton Form In Texts and Manuscripts of Robert Walser
Ron Sadan’s research reconstructs Robert Walser’s prose as a theory of literary opacity. His dissertation defines parasemiosis as the…
University of Münster
Ashkenazi Illuminated Mahzorim as Generators of an Affective Experience
Meyrav Levy is a historian and art historian specializing in the experiential reception of rituals and objects by their users. She studied History and Art History at Tel…
University of Salzburg
Jüdische Psychatriepatient*innen in Österreich im Nationalsozialismus 1938 – 1945
Alexander Kleiß is a historian with a Master’s degree from the University of Salzburg. His research focuses on the history of Jewish victims of the Nazi…
University of Frankfurt
Die Konstruktion jüdisch kollektiver Identität am Beispiel des Rabbiners Dr. Ludwig Philippson
This dissertation examines the construction of Jewish collective identity in 19th-century German-speaking Jewry, using the example of the rabbi,…
Yale University
The Shape of Things: Reading Culture through Form in the Weimar Republic
Sophie Duvernoy is a scholar and translator focusing on the literature and aesthetic theory of the Weimar Republic. Sophie received her PhD in German Literature at Yale…
University of Michigan
Safeguarding Civil Records, Protecting German Blood: The Implementation and Administration of a Nazi Racial Legal Order at the Registry Office in Berlin
Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fritz…