Columbia University
Disability in Ashkenazic Society, 1200-1500
This dissertation addresses the experience of and communal responses to bodily and mental disability in medieval European Jewish society. By examining a diverse range of historical sources, including…
Northwestern University
Prostitutes, Converts, and Jews: Defining Boundaries Between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages
Savoy Curry is a historian researching gender, mobility, and civic identity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Her PhD…
Zwischen Identifikation und Identifizierung. Orientalisierende Synagogen des 19. Jahrhunderts im Königreich Bayern und dem Großherzogtum Baden
Die Frage nach jüdischer Identität in Deutschland – und in Europa –…
Freie Universität Berlin
Geschlecht, Sexualität und Körper in der Jüdischen Sportbewegung 1918-1933
David Gasparjan studierte Geschichte und Biologie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Von 2019 bis 2022 war David Gasparjan als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter…
Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
Zuwanderung als Wiedergutmachung? Die politische Aushandlung der sowjetisch-jüdischen Zuwanderung und ihre praktische Umsetzung
Marguerite Bertheau’s PhD project examines the immigration of so-called Jewish quota…
Princeton University
Beyond Political Theology: Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Theology of Givenness
Judah’s dissertation reads Arendt’s Jewish writings against the grain of their dominant interpretation, arguing that Arendt’s Jewishness is inseparable from her…
Stanford University
Diasporic Mysticism: Land and Knowledge in Early Modern Kabbalah from the Middle East to Central Europe
University of California
After the Holocaust: Contemporary German-Jewish Poetics and the Persistence of the Past
Molly Krueger is a PhD candidate in the Department of German with a Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies. She received her MA from UC Berkeley in 2019 and her…
University of California
Nazis after Hitler: An Experiential History of SS Members in the Postwar World, 1950-2010
This study is a social and cultural history of former SS members in postwar West Germany and Austria. Rather than assessing how they evaded justice…
Tel Aviv University
Prophetic Politics: Political Theology in early 20th Century Jewish Thought and the Question of the Legitimacy of the State - Landauer, Buber, A.D. Gordon
At the heart of Yotam Yzraely’s PhD project is an examination of the theological…