Academic Interests: Intellectual History, Philosophical approaches to the Shoah and Nazism, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, Post-WWII Philosophy, Conceptual History of Crisis.
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.
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Education
2019 – Present Ph.D. Candidate, History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
2015 – 2018 M.A – Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall 2016 Exchange Philosophy Master Program, University of Toronto, Canada
2011 – 2014 B.A - Philosophy Major, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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
2018 – Present TA to Prof. Arnold Davidson in courses: “Theological Implications of the Shoah”, "Comparative
Existentialisms: From Sartre to Soloveitchik" “The Philosophy Modern Orthodox Judaism”,
“Literature of Shoah, Philosophy in Shoah”, “Michel Foucault: Power and Self”
2017 – 2019 TA to Prof. Meir Buzaglo in course "Introduction to Analytical Philosophy"
2016 TA to Prof. Elchanan Yakira in Course "Spinoza & Liebniz"
2015 – 2016 Archivist for Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
2022 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
2023 “The Crisis of Man – Albert Camus in Crisis”, NASSP 40th International Social Philosophy Conference,
University of Portland, Oregon, USA
2023 “‘The Concentration Camps’ - Hannah Arendt in Crisis”, Israel Philosophical Association, Ben- Gurion
University, Israel
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
Conference Organizer
2024 Annual Israel Conference of German Studies: Language, Culture, Society, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Honors and Awards
2022 – 2025 Presidential Endowment Scholarship for Excellence
2021 – 2024 The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History PhD Fellowship, Hebrew University
2022 + 2024 Yad Vashem Doctoral Studies Research Grant
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
Army Service
2007 - 2010 Combat Squad Commander, “Nachal” Combat Infantry
Languages
English – Mother tongue, Hebrew – Fluent, German – B2.
References
Prof. Manuela Consonni –Director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University
Prof. Arnold I. Davidson - Department of Philosophy, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of
Science, University of Chicago