Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien
Episteme als verflechtungsgeschichtlicher Prozess. Ost-West-Paradigmen im Schaffen der Musikwissenschaftlerin Edith Gerson-Kiwi (1908–1992)
Luisa Klaus is a musician and musicologist, currently PhD candidate at the…
Freie Universität Berlin
Lurianic Kabbalah between East-Central Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1640-1740
Avinoam Joseph Stillman is a historian with particular interests in kabbalah, Hebrew manuscripts and printed books, and the Ashkenazi diaspora. His…
Columbia University
Jewish Non-Territorial Politics: Historical Insights for Contemporary Contestations of Space, Territory, and Environment
Isaac Stethem’s dissertation, entitled Planetary Peoples: Historical Continuity and Contemporary Spaces, offers…
Freie Universität Berlin
Geographies in Transition: Negotiating National Belonging in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1908-1948
Sitting at the intersection of Urban History and Global Intellectual History, Felicitas’ project focuses on the history of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in the first…
University of Frankfurt
Reading Gillian Rose in Constellation: Talmudic Hegel, Hegelian Talmud, and the Limits of Universal Ethics
Rachel Pafe is a writer and researcher based in Berlin. Her PhD project at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Lille…
Ben Gurion University
Skepticism and Heterodoxy in Jewish-Italian Thought in the Early Modern Period
Ahuvia Goren completed his M.A. studies at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University in 2018. His doctoral…
Ben Gurion University
Jewish and Christian Aggadic Traditions about Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi:From Late Antiquity to the Medieval Period
Amitai Glass Stegmann’s dissertation researched Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi᾽s stories that have been documented and preserved…
University of California
German/Jewish Dance in Exile: Valeska Gert Before, During, and After World War II
This thesis offers is a critical account of the avant-garde German/Jewish modern dancer Valeska Gert (1892-1978), her performance spaces both in Germany and the…
University of Warsaw
The Mikveh as a Women’s Ritual space in an age of transition, 1870-1939
Anna Berezowska is PhD student at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław. She is currently working on the PhD project, under the…
Yale University
The Ban on Images and the Prohibition of Idolatry in German-Jewish Thought
His dissertation examines the literary variations and afterlives of the prohibition of idolatry and the biblical ban on images (Bilderverbot) in the work of modern…