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Former Guest Professors

Education

  • Studied Jewish Studies, Hispanic Studies and German Studies at the University of Vienna
  • Doctorate summa cum laude in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Habilitation in Jewish Cultural History at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
     

Additional Qualifications

  • Summer Institute for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
  • Summer Institute for Slavic Languages, Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ

Academic Positions

  • Since 2020: PD for Jewish Cultural History at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
  • 2016-2020: Research assistant in the project Haskala in Dialogue: Juda Jeitteles and Juda Leib ben Ze'eb as exegetes of the Enlightenment at the University of Potsdam
  • 2007-2016: Senior lecturer at the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Center for Jewish Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ
  • 2005-2007: Research project Textbooks in Context: Narratives of Jewish Textbooks in the Habsburg Monarchy (1781-1867/1914), funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank
  • 2003-2005: Postdoctoral fellow at the Nevzlin Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry, Hebrew University
  • 1995-2004: Lecturer at the German Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Fellowships

  • Jan.-May 2022: Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Jan.-June 2013: Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. for Germanic Languages & Literature
  • 2010/11: Senior Fellow at the IFK-International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna

Main Research Interests

  • Jewish (cultural) history in Central Europe since the 17th century
  • Haskalah in the German-speaking world
  • Jewish press in Central Europe
  • Hebrew Printing Culture in the Habsburg Monarchy
  • Paleography of Jewish languages

Professional Career

  • Since 10/2020
    Research assistant at the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses at the Friedich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (on leave from 04/2021)
  • 04/2017 - 09/2020
    PostDoc in the LOEWE focus "Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Contexts"/ Seminar for Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 03/2016 - 08/2016
    Lecturer at the University of Salzburg / Center for Jewish Cultural History
  • 10/2013 - 03/2017
    Research assistant at the Chair of Jewish Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 10/2013 - 02/2014
    Teaching assignments at the Faculty of Protestant Theology / Institutum Judaicum of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • 11/2007 - 08/2013
    Research assistant at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg at the Chair of "Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History"
  • 08/2010 - 07/2011
    Lecturer at the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Basel
  • 06/2007 - 05/2008
    Collaboration in the DFG project "Cultural Transfer in a New Style: The Renaissance Preacher Yehuda Moscato (ca. 1530-1590)" at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
     

University Education

  • 12/2017
    Habilitation Goethe University Frankfurt am Main "Haskala and Kabbalah - Isaak ben Moshe Halevi Satanow (1732-1804)", to be published by De Gruyter in July 2021
  • 06/2009
    Dissertation with Prof. Moshe Idel, Hebrew University Jerusalem, "Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla's Hermeneutics", published 2011 by Mohr Siebeck
  • 03/2000 - 12/2007
    PhD Program Hebrew University Jerusalem,
  • 12/1998 - 02/2000
    Parental leave
  • 08/1995 - 11/1998
    Jewish Thought, Hebrew University Jerusalem and Rothberg School for Overseas' Students (M.A. Jewish Civilization and Jewish Thought)
  • 10/1993 - 07/1995
    Protestant Theology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, and Jewish Studies, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg (intermediate examination)
  • 10/1991 - 09/1993
    Protestant Theology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (intermediate examination)
     

Main Areas of Research

  • Jewish and Christian mysticism (focus on the Middle Ages to modern times);
  • Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) and its diverse manifestations in Western and Eastern Europe;
  • Intercultural and interreligious transformation processes and transfer positions in philosophy, mysticism and theology;
  • Gender aspects and ethical issues in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (keyword "female side of God").

Professional Career

  • Since June 2017
    Postdoc at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg for the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin and head of the research group "The Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem in the research area "Witnessing - Memorial History (after) the Shoah".

  • June - August 2017
    Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) in the Jewish Studies Program (funded by Dartmouth College and the Thyssen Foundation)

  • August 2016 - March 2017
    Postdoctoral Fellow at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg for the Humboldt University Berlin

  • January - June 2016
    Visiting researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at TU Berlin (funded by the DAAD)

Education

  • 2011-2016:
    Doctoral studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, at the Department for Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and at the Center for Austrian and German Studies (funded by the DAAD, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, the Foreign Office of the State of Israel and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

  • 2010-2011:
    Research stay at the Central Zionist Archives and the archives of the National Library in Israel (funded by the DAAD)

  • 2005-2006:
    Visiting student at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, at the Rothberg International School and the Department of Jewish Thought (funded by the DAAD)

  • 2002-2009:
    Master's degree in Jewish Studies, Religious Studies and Modern History at the University of Potsdam

  • 2001-2002:
    Master's degree in Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin

 

Main Research Interests

  • German-Jewish and European-Jewish cultural history

  • Zionism

  • Concepts of authenticity

  • Transnational and transdisciplinary literary history

  • Hebrew literature

  • Israel - history, culture and literature

  • Holocaust remembrance in Germany and Israel

  • Gender

Educational Background

  • 2017-2019 Research assistant (postdoctoral position) at the Chair of Jewish Religion and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg (with Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri)
  • 2014-2017 Doctorate in Philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
  • 2016-2017 Master's degree in Jewish Studies at the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies
  • 2011-2013 Master Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg in the subject Philosophy

Scholarships

  • 2017 Germany Scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • 2014-2017 Doctoral scholarship, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES)
  • 2011-2012 Master's scholarship, Baden-Württemberg State Foundation

 

Main Research Interests

  • The intellectual world of Jewish Hellenism (especially Philon of Alexandria)
  • Haskalah and the science of Judaism
  • The Jewish sources of German Idealism
  • Jewish Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages (especially Solomon Ibn Gabirol)

Educational Background

  • 2002-2006 Dissertation Jewish Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • 2001 Second International Advanced Yiddish Seminar, Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), New York, USA
  • 2000-2001 Master of Arts (MA) Yiddish Studies/Jewish Music School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK
  • 1999-2000 Continuation of Master's studies
  • 1998-1999 Diploma in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, UK
  • 1998 Old Syriac Intensive: St. Ephrem International Ecumenical Research Center in Kottayam, Kerala (India)
  • 1995-1998 Master's degree: Jewish Studies, Semitic Studies, Oriens Christianus

     

Fellowships, Erasmus Lectureships

  • 2019-2020 Polonsky Visiting Fellow and Project Leader of the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
  • 2017-2018 Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellow in East European Jewish Arts, Music and Theatre; Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) (New York, USA) Research Project: Yiddish Theatre Music
  • 2017 Erasmus guest lecturer, Università degli Studi di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
  • 2015 Erasmus guest lecturer, Università degli Studi di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
  • 2014 Erasmus guest lecturer, Università La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
  • 2012 Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • 2012 Visiting Professor of Jewish Music: Karl-Franzens-University (Graz, Austria)
  • 2011-2012 Fellow Old Yiddish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Oxford, UK) Research project: Old Yiddish Song
  • 2011 Erasmus Visiting Lecturer, Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • 2010 Erasmus guest lecturer, Università La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
  • 2010 Erasmus guest lecturer, Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
  • 2009 Erasmus guest lecturer, Università La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)

Scholarships

  • 2002-2003 Doctoral scholarship from Martin Luther University/the State of Saxony-Anhalt (anniversary scholarship on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the university)
  • 2001 Scholarship from the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
  • 2001 Gildin Yiddish Book Scholarship from the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst (USA)
  • 2000-2001 DAAD Scholarship for the MA Program in Yiddish Studies, SOAS, London
  • 1998-1999 Scholarship from the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford
  • 1998 Scholarship from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg for a stay at the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, Kottayam, Kerala (India)