University of Oxford
The Role of Politics, Religion and Interpersonal Conflict on the Development of Set Theory (1879-1932)
I research the development of set theory - which serves as the foundation of modern mathematics - with a particular focus on the ‘…
University of Hamburg
Third-Generation Jewish Self-Positioning in Poems and Poetry Films
Anna Hofman’s dissertation examines visualizations of space, spatio-temporal movement, and self-positioning in light of memory in the works of Jewish third-…
Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Reuben Brainin and The Jewish Polity Roots of Zionism
Did the political culture of fin de siecle diaspora cities shape pre-state visions of settling the Jewish state? A particularly apt entryway into the…
University of Kassel
Erkenntnis und Judenhass. Theodor W. Adornos philosophische Reflexion des Antisemitismus
In his PhD research, Niklas Lämmel explores the relationship between Theodor W. Adorno’s analysis of antisemitism and his reflections on…
Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
A Jewish Commercial Network in the Early Eighteenth Century? Reassessing the Economic and Social Networks of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer Through Newly Examined Yiddish and Hebrew Sources
David Lüllemann’s dissertation…
University of Cambridge
From Reluctant to Radical Revolutionaries: The Conservative Foundation of the Zionist Revolution
Nathanel Stawski writes his dissertation in the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the history of the…
Bielefeld University
“Post für die Vergangenheit. Briefe als Reaktion auf antisemitische Gewalt 1945–1990 /Letters to the Past. Citizen Responses to Antisemitic Violence” (working title)
Annika Duin is a doctoral researcher in Contemporary History at Bielefeld…
University of Munich
Commentary as a Philosophical Form in the Work of Salomon Maimon
Luis Gruhler is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Lerhstuhl für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur at LMU Munich. His research focuses on how traditional Jewish…
Haifa University
After the Catastrophe: Yekkes in Israel and Their Relationships with Germany, 1945-1995 (working title)
This research project investigates the attitudes of former German Jews living in Israel - commonly referred to as Yekkes…
University of Oxford
Regional Variation in Ashkenazi Hebrew Script in the Thirteenth Century
Caleb Klein is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies…