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PhD Fellows | The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

PhD Fellows

Micha Danziger

MIcha Danziger

PhD Fellow

Academic Interests: Intellectual History, Philosophical approaches to the Shoah and Nazism, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, Post-WWII Philosophy, Conceptual History of Crisis.    

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Micha Danziger is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research is on the philosophical crisis that occurred in reaction to Nazism and the Shoah. The focuses is on the philosophical writings, lectures and debates that were published and recorded during or immediately after WWII, exploring and explaining the intellectual “stimmung” of the postwar period. The object of this research is to shed light on the specific event of Nazism and the Shoah, where philosophers were trying to engage historical events which imbedded in them a metaphysical, ethical, and epistemological rupture. It also expands on the intellectual and conceptual history of crisis.
 He received the President of State Scholarship for Excellence and Scientific Innovation in 2022.

 

CV

Education
2019 – Present    Ph.D. Candidate, History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015 – 2018        M.A – Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall      2016        Exchange Philosophy Master Program, University of Toronto, Canada         
2011 – 2020        Yeshiva Student, Ohr Torah Stone, “Machanayim” – Kollel Rabbinical School                       
2011 – 2014        B.A - Philosophy Major, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2002 – 2006        High School Diploma, Ohr Torah Stone, Derech Avot, Efrat

Professional Courses and Seminars
Summer 2022     Summer School - "Crises, Change, and Creativity in Jewish Experience", Mandel School for the Advanced Study in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  
Summer 2018     Auschwitz Seminar, Auschwitz Institute and Yad Vashem, Poland
2014 – 2017       Goethe German Language Courses, to level: B, Goethe Institute, Jerusalem
Summer 2016     Summer Semester – German Language Course in Graz, Austria
Summer 2015     German Jewish Life in Germany and Language Course, University of Tubingen, Germany
2014                   Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum Educational Guide Course, Jerusalem   

Employment
Humanities Faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020 – Present TA to Prof. Arnold Davidson in courses: "Comparative Existentialisms: From Sartre to  
                        Soloveitchik" “The Philosophy Modern Orthodox Judaism”, “Literature of Shoah, Philosophy in Shoah" 
2017 – 2019    TA to Prof. Meir Buzaglo in course "Introduction to Analytical Philosophy"
2018 - 2019     TA to Prof. Arnold Davidson in course “Michel Foucault: Power and Self”
2016                TA to Prof. Elchanan Yakira in Course "Spinoza & Liebniz"
2015 – 2016     Archivist for Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
2022 – Present   Lecturer, Teachers Supplementary Course, "Thinkers and Thought After the Shoah"
2014 – Present   Educational Guide, Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
2018                   Educational Development, Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum Other
2019 – Present   Philosophy Lecturer, “Introduction to Philosophy”, Ruach HaSadeh Military
                          Preparation Academy, Be'erot Yitzchak
2020 - Present    Philosophy Lecturer, “Introduction to Philosophy”, “Hevruta” Gap Year Mechina Program,
                          Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
2019 – 2020       Research Assistant to Prof. H. James Burgwyn, conducting primary and secondary source  
                          research for “Fiorenzo Capriotti Biography”                 

Peer Review Publication
"Kantian Theoretical Hope", in Contemporary Studies in Kantian Philosophy, 5 (2020)

Conference Presentation
2022, "Albert Camus's Post-WWII Philosophical-Historical Crisis", International academic conference: Crisis as a  philosophical Category, UMCS in Lublin
2022, “’The Crisis of Man’: Albert Camus and The Shoah”, Shoah Research Student Conference, Israel Historical Society, Israel
2022, “’The Concentration Camps’: Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical-Historical Crisis”, Leo Baeck Annual German Studies Conference, Israel
2019, “Kantian Theoretical Hope”, Wuhan Kant Conference, Wuhan University, China  

Honors and Awards
2022 – 2025       Presidential Endowment Scholarship for Excellence          
2022                   Yad Vashem Doctoral Studies Research Grant
2021 – 2023       The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History PhD Fellowship
2020 – 2022       Excellence Scholarship - Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019 – 2021       KKL Israel-Switzerland Philosophy Fund Prize  
2019 – 2020       Henri Aboulker and Daniel Colette Jewish Studies Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2015 – 2016       Blumenthal Scholarship – Spielberg Jewish Movie Archive, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011 – 2014       Chavruta Scholarship - Bet Hillel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

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Nadan Feldman

Nadan Feldman

Ph.D. Fellow

Academic Interests: Modern German and American History; Big Business and Fascism; Nazi Germany and American Tycoons; Business History of American and German Elites; Capitalism and Politics in Western Democracies; Mass Media and right wing populism.

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Nadan Feldman is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research deals with the ties between Nazi Germany and American Corporations from the rise of Hitler to the end of WWII, and focuses on the ideological-political stands of American Tycoons, CEOs and other senior figures in a group of powerful, influancial US corporations. Prior to the dissertation Mr. Feldman published an M.A thesis in this subject in 2018, which had received three academic awards.
Since 2019 Feldman is the Editor of Tabur - Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought, published by The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. Under his hands as editor were published Volume 10: 80 years to the breaking of WWII; and Volume 11: The Angela Merkel Era. These Volumes were the first to be published in a digital version.

Higher Education
PhD in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem - in the field of American-German relations throughout the Nazi Period
M.A in German Studies and Urban Planning, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
B.A in Political Science and Business Management, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Awards
2020: Award for Outstanding M.A thesis from the International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University
2020: Award for Outstanding M.A thesis from the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum
2019: Award for Outstanding M.A thesis paper from the Institute of Contemporary Jewry Research at the Hebrew University

 

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Mor Geller

PhD Fellow

Academic Interests: cultural history, Alltagsgeschichte, urban history; the (Cultural) Cold War; GDR and the Soviet Bloc; media, popular culture, consumerism; film history and theory; audience and reception studies; Marxism and socialism.

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Higher Education
2019–    Graduate Student, Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) — MA thesis on film audience research in East Germany in the 1970s-80s (advisor: Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi)
2016–2019        BA, History and History Honors Program, HUJI

Honors, Awards, and Affiliations
2020    Research grant for MA thesis project, DAAD Center for German Studies at the European Forum at HUJI
2020    Scholarship for student exchange at the University of Chicago for the 2021 spring quarter (awarded by HUJI Faculty of Humanities, declined due to Covid-19)
2019/21    Fellow, MA Honors Program, Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, HUJI
2019         Rector’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, HUJI
2019        Dean of Humanities’ Award for Excellence in Scholarship, HUJI
2018–        Fellow, Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, HUJI
2018, 2020    German Language intensive summer course, University of Vienna (scholarship awarded by HUJI’s Center for Austrian Studies)
2018    George L. Mosse Award for outstanding seminar paper (“Wie Wunderbar, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Communism”, about East German 1968 film Heißer Sommer)
2018–2020        Dean’s List, Faculty of Humanities, HUJI
2017–        Department of History Honors Program
2016    Excellence Admission Grant, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Academic experience
2019–    Chief editor, Hayo Haya – a Young Forum for History (HUJI peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate and graduate students in historical fields)
2019/20    Research assistant for Prof. Ulrike Pilarczyk (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) – Hebrew/English translation for project about Zionist youth movements in Germany and Palestine
2018–    Editing in English and Hebrew for Prof. Israel J. Yuval (HUJI)
2016–2019         Board member, Hayo Haya

Teaching at History Dept., HUJI
2019/21    Methodological Training (39100), instructor
2020/21    Introduction to 20th Century History (39215), TA
2019/21    Europe in the Early modern Era (39204), TA
2019/20    Introduction to the Middle Ages (39140), TA
2019/20    Documentary Film and Historical Reality (39236), TA
2019/20    Between Perpetrator and Victim: Israeli and Palestinian Intifada Cinema (8238), TA (Amirim Undergraduate Humanities Honors Program)

Publications
"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Socialism: Education and Entertainment in the Musical Film Heißer Sommer (GDR, 1968)." Slil – Online Journal for History, Film, and Television, approx. 25 p. (forthcoming) [IN HEBREW]

Conferences and Workshops
2021    10th Biennial DEFA Summer Film Institute: Authority and Alterity in East German Movies: Political Experiments, Rebel Youth, and Civil Unrest, June 13-20, 2021, UMass Amherst
2020    The GSA 44th Annual Conference, September 30-October 4, 2020, Washington, D.C. (Zoom), "Socialist Subjectivities: Rethinking East Germany under Honecker" seminar participant. Presentation title: "Surveyed Screens: Audience research as ground for negotiation in late East Germany."
2020    The 14th Annual Workshop for Young Scholars in German History and Culture, Bar-Ilan University, February 10, 2020 (member of organizing committee and panel moderator)

 

 

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Tamar

Tamar Kojman

Ph.D. Fellow

Academic Interests:  Modern German and European history, national character, gender and national stereotypes, secularization, religious history

 

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Tamar Kojman is a PhD Candidate in German Intellectual History at the History Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (since 2018) and as Fellow at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center a member of the research group “The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Making of the Human.”

Her  Dissertation Project on “'The Apolitical German' and the Question of German Statehood, 1830-1880" is supervised by Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi.

She received the Minerva Fellowship 2020 (University of Göttingen; host supervisor Prof. Dirk Schumann) and the Armbruster Fellowship 2019 (FU Berlin; host supervisor Prof. Oliver Janz)) as well as the President Scholarship for Humanities.

In 2016 she graduated in European Studies at the Hebrew University; MA Thesis: Between German and European Identity Formation: Universalism and Particularism in Postwar German Intellectual Discourse (magna cum laude), supervised by Thobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.

Between 2010-2014 she studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, B.Mus (Classical Piano Performance; magna cum laude).

Publications:

  • “The Persistent Ambivalence of German Nationalism,” review of Die Deutschen und Ihre Nation: Geschichte einer Idee, by Andreas Fahrmeir. [In Hebrew.], in: Tabur – Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought 10 (2020).
  • “‘How Do You Know German?’ Elderly Interviewees’ Impression of the Interviewer and its Effect on Narrative Construction.” [In Hebrew.], in: “I Still Have More to Say,” Theory and Practice in Oral History, edited by Sharon Livne and Sharon Kangisser (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2021).
  • “Germanness and Religious Universalism in the Aftermath of the 1844 Trier Pilgrimage”, in: Nations and Nationalism 27, 4 (October 2021). doi.org/10.1111/nana.12735.
  • “An Awkward Predicament: The German Man and Feminized Modernity in the 1840s”, in:  Central European History, revised and resubmitted December 2022
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