University of Toronto
A Garden of Children and the Education of Citizens: The German Kindergarten Movement from 1837-1880
My dissertation follows the German kindergarten movement from 1837 to 1880 in Bad Blankenburg, Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig. Within these…
Ludwg-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Sigmund Neumann – Realist with a View
The historian and political scientist Sigmund Neumann (1904-1962) was German, Jewish, and a democrat. Socialized in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, he emigrated to escape Nazi…
Princeton University
The Sources of Sociality: Hermann Cohen, German Idealism, and the Science of Judaism
The Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was one of the most influential philosophers in Germany in the late nineteenth century. Cohen was a founder…
Tel Aviv University
The Reception of the Jerusalem Talmud in the Early Modern Period
Yakov Z. Mayer’s research focuses on the printing of the Palestinian Talmud, and its reception in the German speaking lands during the long 16th century. He writes in…
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Converting to Otherness: the dialectic of differentiation in and from Modern Europe
My doctoral research is an attempt to examine the different ways in which orthodoxization processes of Jews in the German/West-European…
University of Zurich
“Plum War”, an anti-Jewish pogrom in Endingen and Lengnau on 21st September 1802
Martin Bürgin studied History, Study of Religions and Political Science at the University of Zurich and at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich from…
Haifa University
“In-Between” — Jewish Studies in Post WWII Germany 1960–2009
Tally Gur writes her dissertation at the Dept. of Jewish History, Haifa University. She’s a research fellow at the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Society…
University of Pennsylvania
The Organisation of Halakhic Knowledge: Early Modern Responsa
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is currently a seventh-year PhD Candidate at the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is researching and writing her dissertation…
Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adapting Arthur - The Transformations and Adaptations of Wirnt of Grafenberg’s Wigalois within a German-Jewish Framework
Annegret Oehme’s dissertation researched the adaptations and…
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Immigration and Education: Jewish Pedagogues and the Pedagogical Discourse in Palestine 1918-1939
In 1925, teacher David Idelson shared a pivotal insight with his colleague Yehuda Polani, reflecting on their educational endeavors in…