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Judith M. Damian Mag. theol.

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Research Assistant
BMBF project “Educational game Joseph Süß Oppenheimer” at the Chair for the History of the Jewish People

Judith M. Damian Mag. theol.

+49 0 62 21 54 192 - 91
judith.damian(at)hfjs.eu
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Dissertation project and research focus

Dissertation project

"Jewish 'salonières' and their confrontation with religious identity around 1800" (working title)

Main research areas and interests

  • Jewish-Christian relations
  • Women and Judaism
  • Anti-Judaism/anti-Semitism
  • Judaism in contemporary discourses

Curriculum vitae

Since 10/2024 Research assistant at the Chair for the History of the Jewish People and in the BMBF project "Learning Game Joseph Süß Oppenheimer" at the Chair for the History of the Jewish People at the HfJS Heidelberg (Rabb. Prof. Dr. Birgit Klein)
04/2023-09/2024 Research assistant (chair assistant) at the Seminar for Jewish Studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the JGU Mainz
10/2022-02/2023 Research assistant in the research project "Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism: the delimitation of what can be said and done in Jewish ritual practice with Rabbi Prof. Dr. Birgit Klein/Rabb. Dr. Birgit Klein/Rabbi Dr. Ulrike Offenberg
2020-2023 Study of Jewish Studies/Christianity and Culture at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg (B.A.)
11/2017-02/2018 Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Shimon Gesundheit
2017-2018 Study year of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Studium in Israel e.V.)
2014-2021 Study of Protestant theology in Münster, Jerusalem and Heidelberg (I. Theologisches Examen, Evangelische Kirche Pfalz)
2013-2014 Voluntary service in Jordan (sponsor: EMS, Stuttgart)
2013 Abitur at the Gymnasium am Kaiserdom Speyer

Awards and scholarships

  • 08/2017-07/2018 PROMOS (German Academic Exchange Service): Funding for language courses and study visit to Jerusalem
  • 11/2021 Prize of the "Karl-Julius-Mayer-Stiftung" for the systematic-theological seminar paper "Effective anti-Judaism? Schleiermacher's theological view of Judaism, taking into account his understanding of religion in the speeches and the doctrine of faith", supervised by Prof. Dr. Friederike Nüssel, University of Heidelberg

Offices and memberships

  • Study in Israel e.V.

  • Summer semester 2024: Member of the Library Committee of Faculty 01 (Catholic and Protestant Theology) at the University of Mainz

Teaching experience

At the University of Mainz:

  • Summer semester 2024: Proseminar: "Judaism in the Age of Enlightenment"; Exercise: "Judaism from A-Z"
  • Winter semester 2023/24: Exercise: "Important women in Judaism"
  • Summer semester 2023: Seminar: "Jewish festivals and holidays"

Lectures

  • 11/2023 Moderation of the event "Israel at War" at the JGU Mainz (https://cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/fb01-ev-theologie/wp-content/uploads/sites/278/2024/07/Matheoz-WiSe-23-24.pdf)
  • 02/2024 Lecture "Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793). Courageous pioneer against legal discrimination against women as a role model in the educational game" as part of the interdisciplinary forum "Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern Period" on the topic: "Digital in the Jewish Early Modern Period")

Publications