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PhD Students

Finalized Projects

  • Jonathan Hirsch (UP): In the Absence of the Genizah. The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt (2025)
  • Jan Thorben Wilkens (UP): Queer Jewish Groups in Europe (1972-1990s). Creating a Movement under American Influence (2023)Katja Martin (UP): Beerdigen oder Verbrennen? Zur Beteiligung von Jüdinnen und Juden am Reformprojekt Feuerbestattung im Deutschen Kaiserreich (2022)
  • Bernhard Holl (UP): Die Verteidigung der iberischen Neuchristen im 15. Jahrhundert (2022)
  • Tanja Zakrzewski (UP): Conversos and Moriscos: Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada (2021)
  • Johannes Czakai (FUB, second supervisor): Nochems fünf Namen. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Namen der Juden in Galizien und der Bukowina, 1772-1809 (2020)
  • Davide Liberatoscioli (UP): Juden ohne Päpste. Inklusion und Judenfeindlichkeit zwischen Rom und Avignon (2019)
  • Jens Temmen (UP, second supervisor): The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialisms. Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing (2019)

Ongoing Projects

  • Giacomo Ratto (UP): Generational Identity and the Transnational Trajectory of Zionist Pioneering Movements in Italy and Mexico (1942-1956) (since 2025)
  • Stephanie von Steinsdorff (UP, second supervisor): Subalterne Publizistik. Praktiken der Fürsprache in politisch-philosophischer Publizistik der Moderne (since 2025)
  • Francesco Testa (Universidade de Lisboa, second supervisor), Contra a Cristandade. The Portuguese Jews’ Polemics against Christianity in Amsterdam (1620-1680) (since 2024)
  • Mbarak Zaheran (University of Antwerp, second supervisor): Jewish Community in Between Colonialism and Arabism in Tunisia. The Role of Education in the Jewish Narrative Between 1923 and 1957 (since 2024)
  • Alina Schittenhelm (UP): Jenseits von Zion. Kultur, Nation und Identität in der mizrahischen Literatur (since 2021)
  • Adem Muzaffer Erol (UP): Turkey Rooted Jews in Israel. Migration and Identity Construction (since 2019)
  • Yael Attia (UP): The Colonial Other of Jewish Political Thought (since 2019)
  • Julian Holter (UP): Politische Ökonomie bei jüdischen Denkern der Frühen Neuzeit (since 2016)