Hannah-Lea Wasserfuhr
Curriculum Vitae
wasserfuhr@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
| Academic Career | |
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| Jan. – July 2023 | Visiting Research Fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute New York City |
| since 2021 | Ismar Elbogen Scholarship provided by Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk and Leo Baeck Institute New York City |
| since 2020 | Ph.D. Studies “Production of Jewish ritual objects during the Imperial Period and the Weimar Republic and their marketing” supervised by Prof. Johannes Heil, Ignatz Bubis Chair at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg and Prof. Johannes Tripps, Heidelberg University and HTWK Leipzig |
| 2016 – 2020 | Master of Arts, Jewish Museology at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg |
| 2010 – 2016 | Bachelor of Arts, European Art History (75%) and History (25%) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg |
| Lectures | |
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| 19. June 2024 | “Pleasing bourgeois customers – Innovations of Jewish ritual items in Germany at the turn of the 20th century” within series of lectures “From the Researcher’s Desk” at the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
| 16. – 20. July 2023 | “Jewish ceremonial objects as consumer goods” – at the 12th European Association of Jewish Studies Congress “Branching out – Diversity of Jewish Studies”, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany |
| 25. – 28. April 2023 | “Tracing Jewish Visibility in German Main Street Shops – The Pre-Lives of German Judaica” at the 7th Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History at the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., USA |
| Summer turn 2022 | Co-teaching “Material Culture and Architecture as historical sources” in the class on “Historical sources of Austrian Judaism” at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg |
| 11 August 2022 | “Decorative Chandelier – Titus: Polysemantic framing of Jewish ritual objects in late 19th and early 20th century Germany” at the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel |
| 20 March 2022 | “Visualizing the Past – John H. Less (1923 – 2011) and his Visual Impression of Holocaust Refuge in Shanghai” with Steven Less, Rachel Stern and Li-Rong Lilly Cheng at the San Diego Chinese Historical Society & Museum, USA |
| 22 February 2022 | “Hidden in Plain Sight: Advertisements for Jewish Ritual Objects during the Second Empire and Weimar Republic in Germany” (Workshop Studying Advertisements in Pre-1939 Jewish Press: Methods and Challenges), University of Worcław, Poland |
| 6 October 2021 | “Through the Prism of Time: John H. Less (1923 – 2011) and his Visual Impression of Holocaust Refuge in Shanghai” with Steven Less at the Fritz Ascher Society New York City, USA |
Publications
- Adaption and Imitation – The iconography of Jewish ceremonial objects and mass-production, Ars Judaica, Vol. 19, No.1 [peer reviewed]
- Handwerk oder Kunst? – Ein New Yorker Sederteller und die Wiederentdeckung von Rahel Ruth Sinasohn, Handwerk oder Kunst? | Mimeo (dubnow.de) Mimeo Online Blog, Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig https://mimeo.dubnow.de/handwerk-oder-kunst/
For the Love of Bread and Barches – The Very German-Jewish Challah Knife - History of Knowledge, Online Blog, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. https://historyofknowledge.net/2024/02/15/the-very-german-jewish-challah-knife/
Reprint in: Historical Perspectives, Journal of the German American Museum of Iowa, Summer 2024, Issue 17 (TBA)
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Advertisements for Jewish Ritual Objects during the Second Empire and Weimar Republic in Germany, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2, p. 544 – 566, DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2024.2303098 [double blind peer reviewed] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2024.2303098
- „Um der Liebe zu ihrer Heimat einen dauernden Ausdruck zu verleihen.“ Die Stiftung der Heppenheimer Synagoge durch die Londoner Familie Hirsch, in: Lebensräume gestalten. Heinrich Metzendorf und die Reformarchitektur an der Bergstraße, Dominic E. Delarue und Thomas Kaffenberger (Ed.), Worms 2013, p. 231 – 239.
- Review: Stefan Muthesius: „Heinrich Metzendorf, „der Baumeister der Bergstraße“ und die Probleme des „Heimatstils“, in: KunstChronik, Number 6 / June 2015, p. 327 – 334.
| Work Experience | |
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| Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2021 | Work contract: Project management of the "Jewish Cultural Trail in Heilbronn County" (Project of the Affaltrach Synagogue Museum and Heilbronn District Archives funded by "2021: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany" with €36,600 federal funding), 2022 voluntary work |
| Feb. 2020 - Dec. 2020 | Work contract: Concept and research for a new permanent exhibition in the Affaltrach Synagogue Museum / Heilbronn District Archive |
| July 2019. – Dec. 2019 | Work Contract: Inventory of the collection and archive of the Affaltrach Synagogue Museum / Heilbronn District Archive |
| March – April 2018 | Internship at the MiQua. LVR – Jewish Museum in the Archeological Quarter Cologne |
| 2014 – 2017 | Student Assistance to the curator of the Museum of Heidelberg University |
| Sept. – Oct. 2016 | Internship during the public relations project „Pop-Up Boat“ of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt / Main |
| 2011-2016 | Internship at the Restauration and Conservation workshop Ellerich, Compiling the inventory for Kamp Abbey, Kamp-Lintfort Germany |
| Sept. 2013 | Internship at the Restauration and Conservation workshop Ellerich, Compiling the inventory for Kamp Abbey, Kamp-Lintfort Germany |
Memberships
Harry G. Friedman Society New York
European Association for Jewish Studies e.V.
World Association of Jewish Studies
Fachverband Judaistik Deutschland e.V. (Association for Jewish Studies in Germany)
Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V. (Association of German Art Historians)
Student member at ICOM