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.

 

Before joining the Hebrew University in 2012 I spent five years as a visiting PhD student at the University of Munich, and another three years as a visiting post-doctoral fellow at Duke University. My book, “A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany,” appeared in 2012 with Stanford University Press. The book explores the unique and unlikely phenomenon of “Christian Yiddishism” in early modern Germany, namely the Christian interest in and engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. It explains why some Christians were preoccupied with Yiddish and discusses the various ways in which they depicted this Jewish language and literature in their writings. In the process, it sheds light on the broader linguistic, theological, cultural, and social concerns of early modern Christian authors and their intellectual environment.
My main fields of interest are German and German-Jewish history and culture; Christian-Jewish relations; Yiddish language and literature; the history of the Yiddish-German encounter; and the social and cultural history of language and translation. My current project explores the place of Old Yiddish literature in modern German and German-Jewish culture.

Since 2019, I am a member of the International Research Training Group "Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond", which is a cooperation between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Leipzig University, and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.

Employment and Positions 

Fall 2023 Visiting Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Oct’ 2020-2023    Chair of the History Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2019-2020    Interim Director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2018-2019    Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford UK
2017-            Senior Lecturer (tenured), Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012-2017    Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall 2010    Visiting Lecturer at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University
2009-2012    Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Duke University

Education
2010    PhD  The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University
2004-2009    PhD studies at The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, and as a visiting doctoral student at the Lehrstuhl für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. 
2001-2004    MA    The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University. summa cum laude.
1998-2001    BA    Department of History, School of History’s Honors Program and Amirim Honors Program in Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, summa cum laude.

Fellowships and Grants (recent years)

2024-2029 DFG Funding for the International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond” (Jerusalem/Leipzig, co-applicant and a PI in the group)

2024-2027 Research Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), in collaboration with Prof. Astrid Lembke, University of Mannheim: “Old Yiddish Adaptations of German Literary Texts, 1400–1800: Cultural Transfer and Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Germany”

2022 Grant of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for organizing an international conference on “Translation and Inter-Religious Dialogue Between Early Modern Christians, Muslims, and Jews,” Ma’ale ha’Hamisha, Israel (with Prof. Iris Idelson-Shein, Ben-Gurion University, and Prof. Rebekka Voß, University of Frankfurt)

2020  Grant of the Minerva Stiftung for organizing an international workshop on “German and Jewish Cultures in Dialogue: Literary Encounters from the Reformation to the Second World War,” The Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2013-2017    Research Grant of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
2013-2017    Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG)

Honors and Awards (recent years)
2017                Rector's list of excellence in teaching, 2015-16
2016                Rector's list of excellence in teaching, 2014-15

Selected Publications
Books

• A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938 (in preparation).
• A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.  - Reviews: The American Historical Review 118:5 (2013), 1587-1589; Sixteenth Century Journal 44:4 (2013), 1183-1185; AJS Review 37:2 (2013), 425-427; Religious Studies Review 39:4 (2013), 282-283;The Yiddish Daily Forward April 25, 2013; Jewish Culture and History 15:1-2 (2014), 141-144; Journal of Early Modern History 18:6 (2014), 609-611.

Edited Volumes

• Aya Elyada and Matthew Johnson, Guest Editors of "Old Yiddish Literature: Historical and Cultural Perspectives" - Special Issue of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies (2024; online publication)
• Aya Elyada, Guest Editor of "German and Jewish Cultures in Dialogue: Literary Encounters from the Reformation to the Second World War" - Special Issue of Tabur: Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought 12 (2024; online publication) [in Hebrew}.
• Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada (eds.), German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations, New York: Berghahn, 2023.
• Irene Aue-Ben-David, Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Christian Wiese (eds.), Jews and Protestants from the Reformation to the Present, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
• Aya Elyada, Guest Editor of Yiddish in German and German-Jewish Culture: Special Issue of Naharaim – Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 10 (2016).

Selected Articles

• “Between the Jewish Past and the German Present: Old Yiddish Texts and German-Jewish Nostalgia,” Tabur: Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought 12 (2024; online publication https://tabur.huji.ac.il/ ) [in Hebrew].
• (With Kerry Wallach), “German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century,” Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry 25 (2023), 9–25 [in Hebrew].
• “Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past,” in Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada (eds.), German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations, New York: Berghahn, 2023, 38–57.
• “Contested Heritage: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Yiddish Biblical Literature in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Zion: A Quarterly for the Research of Jewish History 86:4 (2021), 563–591 [in Hebrew].
• “The Vernacular Bible Between Jews and Protestants: Translation and Polemics in Early Modern Germany,” in Irene Aue-Ben-David, Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, and Christian Wiese (eds.), Jews and Protestants from the Reformation to the Present, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, 103–118.
• "Oluf Gerhard Tychsen und die christliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Jiddischen," in: Rafael Arnold et al. (eds.), Der Rostocker Gelehrte Oluf Gerhard Tychsen (1734-1815) und seine internationalen Netzwerke, Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2019, 153–176.
• “Between Rejection and Nostalgia: Yiddish as a Post-Vernacular in Modern German-Jewish Culture,” Chidushim – Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry 20 (2018): 6-26 [in Hebrew].
• "Deutsch-jüdisches Gelehrtentum und altjiddische Literatur: Zur Rehabilitierung einer vergessenen  Tradition,"  Naharaim – Journal of German-Jewish Literature  and  Cultural History 11(2017), 167-188.
• "Bridges to a Bygone Jewish Past? Abraham Tendlau and the Rewriting of Yiddish Folktales in Nineteenth-Century Germany," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 16 (2017), 419–436
• "Early Modern Yiddish and the Jewish Volkskunde, 1880-1938," Jewish Quarterly Review 107 (2017), 182-208.
• "Zwischen Austausch und Polemik: Christliche Übersetzungen jiddischer Literatur im Deutschland  der  Frühneuzeit," Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 69 (2017), 47-73.
• “Yiddish and German in Early Modern Christian Works,” Chidushim – Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry 15 (2011), 41-55 [in Hebrew].
• “‘Eigentlich Teutsch’? Depictions of Yiddish and Its Relations to German in Early Modern Christian Writings,” European Journal of Jewish Studies 4 (2010), 23-42.
• “Protestant Scholars and Yiddish Studies in Early Modern Europe,” Past and Present 203 (2009), 69-98.
• “Yiddish – Language of Conversion? Linguistic Adaptation and Its Limits in Early Modern Judenmission,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 53 (2008), 3-29.

 

Research Students
Current Students:

Arseniy Agroskin, 2022–: The Reception of Sefer Nizzahon among Early Modern Christian and Jewish Readers (Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; joint supervision with Prof. Israel Yuval).

Bilha Shilo, 2018–: Biography of a Generation: Student Admissions Requests to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1939 (Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, joint supervision with Prof. Yfaat Weiss).

Academic Teaching (selected courses)
Language and the Construction of Culture in Germany, 15th-18th centuries
The Yiddish-German Encounter Throughout the Ages
Christian Hebraism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The Reformation as a Religious, Social, and Cultural Revolution
Luther, the Reformation and the German Language
Christian-Jewish Relations in the First Reich (1096-1648)
Religion and Society in 16th-Century Germany
Poverty and Crime in Early Modern Europe
Subordinated Groups in Early Modern Germany
Women and Gender in the Protestant Reformation
Books and Readers in Early Modern Germany

 

. His first book, an intellectual biography of the renowned Kabbalah Jewish German and Israeli scholar Gershom Scholem, is scheduled for publication with university of Chicago Press. Currently he is a research fellow at the Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His current project seeks entails a survey of postwar German-Jewish literature.

Gershom Scholem: an Intellectual Biography, Chicago University press, Forthcoming.
Renewal in the Shadow of the Catastrophe: Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan in Germany, German Studies Review, Forthcoming

Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture. Eds. Amir Engel and Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University Press, 2010, 445 pp.
“Gershom Scholem’s ‘Kabbalah and Myth’ Beyond German Jewish Romanticism,” (in German), Gershom Scholem in Deutschland: Zwischen Seelenverwandtschaft und Sprachlosigkeit, Eds. Matthias Morgenstern and Gerold Necker, Mohr Siebeck, (in press).
“Above the Abyss and Away: Barbara Honigmann, Gershom Scholem and German Jewish Culture after the Holocaust,” (in German), Weimarer Beiträge, (in press).
“Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon’s and Gershom Scholem’s German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism,” New German Critique, 121, Winter 2014.

Gilly Eran is interested in visual and material aspects of German nationalism and their contribution to the construction of German nationalist narratives. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University with a major in History and Art History, and a fellow of the MA HONORS PROGRAM 2022/23 of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies at the Humanities of the Hebrew University.

 

 

 

 

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

 

Alumah Florsheim-Dor is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research is on the Stasi Photographers who operated in the cities of the GDR during the 70’s and 80’s of the 20th century. She studies Stasi photographs, held in the BStU archives, and uses them to ask questions about everyday life and culture of the bureaucracy class of the GDR.

In addition, Alumah works as a research assistant in the context of an international commission of historians and the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, which was established by Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior and Community. The commission works together to “examine and reappraise the attack on the Israeli Olympic team of 5 September 1972, during the Olympic Games in Munich, including its background and aftermath”. Together with Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi Alumah collects and analyses relevant material and documentation in Israel to be published in the closing report of the commission. 

Tamar Kojman is a post-doctoral researcher at the DGF project “Between Aliyah and Escape. Jewish Youth Movement and Zionist Education under the Nazi Regime and in pre-State Israel 1933-1945,” a collaboration between the Koebner Minerva Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften at the Technical University of Braunschweig. She has recently completed her PhD dissertation, From Kultus to Kultur: Debating the Germans’ Mission in the World, 1830–1880, at the Hebrew University.

Tamar was a recipient of the Minerva Fellowship, the Armbruster Fellowship, the President Scholarship for Humanities, and the Mandel Scholion PhD fellowship.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

• Kojman, Tamar. “An Awkward Predicament: ‘The German Man’ and Feminized Modernity in the 1840s.” Central European History 57, 1 (March 2024): 1–24.
• Kojman, Tamar. “Germanness and Religious Universalism in the Aftermath of the 1844 Trier Pilgrimage.” Nations and Nationalism 27, 4 (October 2021).  

Book Chapters:

• Kojman, Tamar. “Between Religion and Politics: Constructing an Apolitical Sphere after the 1848–49 German Revolutions.” In Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism. Contesting the Boundaries of the Political in Modern Europe, edited by Adriejan van Veen and Theo Jung (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
• Kojman, Tamar. “‘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).

Miscellaneous:

• “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).

Hilla Lavie is a post doc fellow at the History Department/Koebner Center of the Hebrew University. Her current research focuses on German-Jewish history and queer history. She earned her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020; her dissertation, which is currently transformed into a book manuscript, focuses on representations of Israel in 1950s-1960s West German Films. The dissertation received the Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Holocaust Studies. She was a guest scholar at the Leibnitz Institute for Jewish history and culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, and at the Friedrich Meinecke Institut at the Free University Berlin with the support of the Armbruster fund. Hilla graduated in Film Studies at Tel Aviv University and holds an MFA (film directing) and MA (film studies); her MA thesis won the Goldhirsh prize for Holocaust Studies. Her latest research on the perception of nature among German-Jews during the Nazi era as reflected in the German-Jewish press, was supported by the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem and will be published by Yad Vashem Publications. In the last few years Hilla teaches courses on film and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 
Select Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“A Witness for the Prosecution: An Israeli Filmmaker's Reflections on Adenauer's New Germany”, German Studies Review, 2022
“From Kapò to The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo and the Postwar Italian Left”, Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein: Europa nach dem Holocaust, 2022
Being a Jewish Lesbian in Berlin: Belonging and Solidarity during the Weimar Era and the Third Reich”, Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine, 2021
"A Critical Look at the Beloved Land: Two West-German Documentary Films Made by Israelis in the 1960s and 1970s", Leo Baeck Institute Year book, 2018.
"An Ambivalent Relationship: Representations of Germany and Germans in Israeli Cinema, 1950–1990", Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, 2015
"On the Nazi Image in the Israeli Cinema: a Historiographical Dialogue between the Israeli Cinema and the Israeli Holocaust Research", Slil - Journal for History, cinema and Television, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amit Levy is a research fellow at the Koebner Center’s project “In Europe, In Transit: Daily Life of German-Jewish Refugees in Europe, 1933-1939”, where he studies German-Jewish private photography in the context of migration, transit and knowledge production after 1933. He completed his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2021) and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Haifa and the Open University of Israel. 

Amit’s award-winning book, A New Orient (2024), explores the history of Zionist Oriental Studies as migrating knowledge from German universities, and the discipline’s role in shaping Arab-Jewish relations in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. The book was published in Hebrew by Magnes Press/Koebner-Minerva Center; an updated English version will be published in December by Brandeis University Press, with the support of the Israel Science Foundation.

He also serves as the Managing Editor of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center’s Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, published by De Gruyter.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2024) (forthcoming. Revised and updated English edition)
• A New Orient: From German Orientalism to Israeli Mizrahanut (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2024) (Hebrew).

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• “’Send my regards to those working on the al-Balādhurī manuscript’: The Study of Arabic and Islam in Interwar Jerusalem as Intellectual Common Ground,” in Rachel Mairs, Sarah Irving, Karene Sanchez and Lucia Admiraal (eds.), Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic in Europe (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024; forthcoming).
• “Visualizing Farewell: A Jewish Soldier’s Return to Postwar Germany through Private Photography,” Jewish Culture and History 25, no. 2 (2024): 233–254.
• (co-authored with Hanan Harif) “‘A Complete, Multifaceted Discipline’: The Debate over the History of Jews in Muslim Lands and its Teaching,” in: Uzi Rebhun and Yfaat Weiss (eds.), The History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Nation State and Higher Education (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2024), pp. 687–718 (Hebrew).
• “Rediscovering the Goldziher Legacy in Jerusalem: Religion, Language, and History in the Making of a Hebrew University,” in: Hans-Jürgen Becker, Kinga Dévényi, Sebastian Günther and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Building Bridges: Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents. Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Islamic History and Civilization, Vol. 212 (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 139–164.
• “Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab Scholars, 1926–1938,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 50, no. 5 (2023): 1112–1131.
• “The Archive as Storyteller: Refractions of German-Jewish Oriental Studies Migration in Personal Archives,” Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook XVII  (2018): 425–446.
• “A Man of Contention: Martin Plessner (1900–1973) and His Encounters with the Orient,” Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History 10, no. 1  (2016): 79–100.
• “'The Sheik': Understanding American Orientalism through Visual and Narrative Differences in Three Decades of Discussion,” Slil: Online Journal for History, Film and Television 10  (2016): 39–57 (Hebrew).
• “‘Ma’alesh, Nistader’: Arabic in the Folklore of the Palmach during the 1940s,” Hayo Haya: Student History Journal 11 (2015): 46–66 (Hebrew).

ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• “A Discipline in a Suitcase: The Scientific Nachlass of Josef Horovitz,” in Elisabeth Gallas, Anna Holzer-Kawalko, Caroline Jessen and Yfaat Weiss (eds.), Contested Heritage: Jewish Cultural Property after 1945, (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), pp. 117–127.
• “Der wissenschaftliche Nachlass von Josef Horovitz,” in: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Archives of German–Jewish Scholarship: Wissenstransfer und Staatsbildung im Mandatsgebiet Palästina und in Israel (2018) (limited copies).
• “Israel. Orientalist Collections at the National Library of Israel,” Geschichte der Germanistik 49/50 (2016): 147–148.

ACADEMIC ARTICLES IN CATALOGS, MAGAZINES AND BLOGS

• “German Heritage in Word Cards: The Concordance of Classical Arabic Poetry in Jerusalem”, Mimeo: Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut.
• “Envisioning a Hebrew University: Ignác Goldziher on the University in Jerusalem”, Mimeo: Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut. 
• (co-authored with Tom Eshed) “Elyakim Gotthold Weil”, Ad Acta: The Hebrew University, Jewish Scholars, and the Exile from Europe (Exhibition pamphlet). The National Library of Israel, November–March 2018–2019. 
• “‘There is a need for a native quality of Arabic speaker’: Isaac Shamosh, the First Oriental Lecturer in the School of Oriental Studies, 1936-1937”, The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University Blog, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Website.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Eyal Clyne, Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice: Middle East and Islam Studies in Israeli Universities (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), in The New East 59 (2020): 207–210 (Hebrew).

 

 

 

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Lukas Meissel is a historian and post doc research fellow at The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a post-doctoral grant from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris. His post-doc project is called “Photographic Testimonies. An Integrated Visual History of Survival and Resistance”. He wrote his PhD thesis about SS photography in concentration camps at the University of Haifa, Israel, and earned BA and MA degrees in history and contemporary history at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Prior to his studies in Israel, he worked as an archivist in the Jewish Community of Vienna and in various Holocaust studies and education projects. He received fellowships and grants in Israel, the USA, Germany, Austria and France, as well as the Herbert-Steiner-Anerkennungspreis 2015 and the Theodor-Körner-Preis 2021 awards. His research, lectures and teaching focus on Holocaust and Genocide studies/education, visual history, US-Israeli-Austrian relations, and antisemitism. He has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, an award-winning monograph about perpetrator photography in the Mauthausen concentration camp and edited volumes about Holocaust studies and education.

Selected publications:

Monographs

PhD thesis (publication in preparation)
Beyond the Perpetrators’ Gaze. An Integrated Visual History of Nazi Concentration Camps, p. 401.

Mauthausen im Bild. Fotografien der Lager-SS. Entstehung – Motive – Deutungen (Vienna: edition Mauthausen, 2019), p. 132.
[Mauthausen in Images. Photographs of the Camp-SS. Origin - Motives – Interpretations]

Peer-reviewed articles

Capturing Bolshevism: SS Photographs of Soviet POWs at Concentration Camps. A Case Study, in: S:I.M.O.N. SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION, vol. 9/2022/No.1, 58-70.

The Innocent Perpetrators: The Portrayal of ‘German Victimhood’ in: Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter (Generation War) (2013), in: The Journal of Holocaust Research, formerly Dapim, 36:2-3, 2022, 146-163.

Igraszki z symboliką Zagłady. Seria gier komputerowych „Wolfenstein” jako studium przypadku cyfrowych reprezentacji Zagłady, in: Studia i Materialy / Holocaust Studies and Materials vol 17, 2021, 329-357 (with Johannes Breit)
[Playing with Holocaust symbols. The video game franchise Wolfenstein as a case study for digital Holocaust representations.]

The Visual Memory of Mauthausen, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. 30/2021, A Visual History of Austria (Günter Bischof, ed., Martin Kofler, Hans Petschar, guest ed.), 161-181.

Not “How Was It Possible,” but “Who Made It Possible”: The Topic of Perpetrators in Holocaust Education in Austria, in: Wendy Lower, Lauren Faulkner Rossi (ed.), Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XII. New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017), 406-428.

Peer-reviewed journal volume

zeitgeschichte, volume 49, issue 2 (2022), Fotoalben als Quellen der Zeitgeschichte (ed. with Vida Bakondy, Eva Tropper, Adina Seeger),
therein: SS-Fotoalben als visuelle Leistungsnachweise und Legitimationsberichte, 185-207.
[Volume: Photo Albums as Historical Sources in Contemporary History, article: SS photo albums as visual performance records and legitimizing reports]

Edited volumes

Aufregende Forschung. Zeitgeschichtliche Interventionen von Hans Safrian (Vienna: new academic press, 2022) (with Jutta Fuchshuber).
[Unsettling Research. Contemporary Historical Interventions by Hans Safrian]

Orientierungen, Irritationen. Studienfahrten an Erinnerungsorte der NS-Verbrechen (Vienna: LIT, 2021) (ed. by Verein GEDENKDIENST with Till Hilmar, Olivia Kaiser, Lena Krainz, Laurin Neidhart and Magdalena Rest).
[Orientations, Irritations. Study Trips to Places of Remembrance for National Socialist Crimes]

 

Gal completed her bachelor’s degree in the departments of History and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is now an MA student in the Department of History and an MA Fellow at the Koebner Minerva Center. Her MA thesis, supervised by Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi and Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky focuses on women’s writing about contraception in Germany and France after World War II, exploring how social, legal, and cultural frameworks influenced women’s narratives on this topic. Gal’s research also examines the broader impact of postwar societal shifts on women’s agency and self-expression.

Gal also coordinates content for the online journals Tabur and Salil, overseeing updates and working closely with the editor-in-chief to maintain and expand the journals’ academic reach.