Rolf Blase, M.A.

Academic Career

• 2006-2007: Catholic theology (Diploma) at the Theological Faculty at Fulda
• 2007-2010: Catholic theology (Magister Theologiae) at University of Erfurt
• 2010-2011: Jewish Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2011-2013: Catholic theology at University of Erfurt, degree: Mag. Theol. (1.5)
• 2013-2016: Jewish Studies at University of Potsdam, degree: Master of Arts (1.0)
• Since April 2016: part-time employment at the Department of Jewish Studies (Organizating Office Jewish Studies, teaching in the field of Yiddish language and literature)
• Since April 2017: doctorate on the topic "I. L. Peretz: Folkstimlekhe geshikhtn zwischen Tradition und Moderne" (I. L. Peretz: Popular stories in tradition and modernity)
• Since October 2019: Studies in Old Catholic and Oecumenical Theology (Master) at  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn

Research Interests

• Modern Yiddish literature. Focus areas: I. L. Peretz, Eliezer Shtaynbarg, folklore and fairy tales
• Associate of the research project Jüdische Friedhöfe in Brandenburg (Jewish Cementaries in Brandenburg, page in German). Publication: Blase, Rolf: Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Prenzlau als Zeugnisse jüdischer Stadtgeschichte, in: Mitteilungen des Uckermärkischen Geschichtsvereins zu Prenzlau, (22) 2015, pp. 32-53.)

Courses

summer semester 2014 - winter semester 2016/17

Tutor for language courses (Biblical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Yiddish)

summer semester 2017

Seminar (together with Lia Martyn): Ein jiddischer Fabeldichter der Bukowina: Eliezer Shteynbarg (part 1: fables)

Tutorial Biblical Hebrew

Tutorial Yiddish

winter semester 2017/18

Seminar (together with Lia Martyn): Ein jiddischer Fabeldichter der Bukowina: Eliezer Shteynbarg (part II: fairytales)

Tutorial Biblical Hebrew

Tutorial Yiddish 

summer semester 2018

Seminar (together with Lia Martyn): Y.L. Perets an the Czernowitz Conference 1908

Tutorial Yiddish

winter semester 2018/19

Tutorial Yiddish