Amir Engel studied philosophy, literature, and cultural studies at the Hebrew University and received his doctorate in the German Department at Stanford University. He subsequently taught and researched at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics include German-Jewish Romanticism and German-Jewish postwar literature and culture. His first book, Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography, was published in 2017. He has also published essays on Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Martin Buber, Jacob Taubes, Salomon Maimon, and others. He is currently completing his second book manuscript, provisionally titled The German Spirit from its Jewish Sources: Occultism as Jewish-Christian-German Negotiation.

1. HIGHER EDUCATION
1998 - 2002 B.A. Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2002 - 2004 M.A. Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thesis: “History and Being in Walter Benjamin’s The Origin of the German Tragic Drama.”
Advisors: Hannan Hever, Bernhard Greiner

2005 - 2011 Ph.D. German Studies, Stanford University (conferred June 2011) Dissertation: “Rewriting the Myth: Gershom Scholem, Zionism and Kabbalah” Committee: Amir Eshel (chair [e.g., Advisor]), Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Russell Berman

2012 – 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Die Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

2. APPOINTMENTS

July 1, 2016, Assistant Professor, Department of German Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

December 24, 2022, Associate Professor, Department of German and Literature, Department of German Language and Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

September 1, 2023 Vertretungsprofessor für Geschichte und Gegenwart des christlich- jüdischen Verhältnisses, Theologische Fakultät, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

3. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS/TASKS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY

Chair, Department of German Language and Literature
BA and MA advisor, Department of German Language and Literature
Chair, Graduate Student Network, the Faculty of Humanities. The network organizes events for career development and networking to support graduate students of all the disciplines in the humanities.
Coordinator, New-Faculty Forum in the Humanities. (Together with Eviater Shulman) (2018- 2020). The forum organizes events for new faculty to facilitate networking and discussions about the challenges facing new faculty.

4. SERVICE IN OTHER ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

Advisory board member: The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at Haifa University.
Board member of the Hevruta program for Graduate Students at the Hebrew University.

5. OTHER
a. Awards and Fellowship

2009 - 2010 Die Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Leo Baeck Fellowship 2010 – 2011 Mellon Foundation, Dissertation completion grant
2014- 2015 Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Grant
2015 Minerva Foundation Fellowship (Declined)

2016 Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Hebrew University Teaching Award for years 2015 and 2017

b. Other Academic Activity

Organized panel in Annual German Studies Association and the Annual Conference of the European Jewish Studies association.
Member of the German Studies Association
Member of the Modern Language Association of America

c. Social Impact/ Service

Recent Reviews of book manuscripts for Routledge, Indiana University Press, articles for Humanities, Zutot, Naharaim, Chidushim, Comparative Literature, Chidushim in German Jewish History, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and grant applications for the fellowship program at the American Academy in Berlin, DAAD, and Azrieli Fellow Program.

d. Academic (non- research Grants)

2020 HUJI-FUB Joint Online Course: This program offers financing to develop and run a virtual course in collaboration with the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) for a course titled “Contemporary German-Jewish Culture” taught in the summer semester of 2022. The funding of 4000 was split. I won 2000/4000. All the funding was used to run the course and pay the guest speakers.

2024 Fritz Thyssen Foundation with Prof. Elad Lapidot (Université de Lille France). The sum 14,000 Euro was split in two. I won 7000/14000. The funds were used to organize the conference “State and Exile in Jewish Thought. Book Proceedings are forthcoming.” All of the funding was used for the conference.

6. RESEARCH GRANTS

Rejected

2018 ISF Personal Research Grant, “The Rise and Fall of the Vision of a German-Jewish “Communitas””
2019 ISF Personal Research Grant, “German-Jewish Esotericism: Major Trends”
2021 ISF Personal Research Grant, “Jewish-Christian Religiosity: German Idealism, Jewish Mysticism, and the History of Spirituality in Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” 2021 Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Grant, “Ernst Müller’s Esotericism: Towards a German-Jewish-Christian Theology.”

Submitted

2024 Joint DFG-ISF Research Grant Application together with Prof. Andreas Kraß (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin). Requested budget (Israeli side) 285,738 NIS. Project title “Queer Jewish Literature in German, 1949–1969: Nationality, Heteronormativity and Jewishness after World War II”

7. TEACHING AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY

A. Supervision of master and doctoral degree students in the last five years Master's degree students:

1. Tamar Gutfeld- “Modes of Representation in Jürek Beckcer’s Jacob the Liar.” (2017 - 2019)

2. Reem Salem- “Goethe’s Muslim Women: A reading in Ost-West Diwan” (Submitted 2019- 2022)

3. Noach Engelhard– “The Victim of Redemption: Ingeborg Bachmann's Ways of Death in Dialogue with Jewish-Exilic Literature” (2023- 2024)

4. Asaf Sudry- “Lenz’s Lunacy and the Romantic Critique” (started 2024)

Doctoral degree students:
 

1. Thorina Lepack- dissertation title: “The Mann’s Exile: Three generations of German twentieth-century exiles”. Started Sep 2018 and now in the second stage. Directed in collaboration with Prof. Ofer Ashkenzazi. (2018- submitted 2024)

2. Guy Paz- dissertation title: “German Anthroposophy and Kabbalah: The Curious Case of Ernst Müller.” Started Sep 2018 and now in the second stage. Directed in collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Pollock. (Started September 2018). Publication #38 is based on my work in cooperation with Guy Paz and is credited to us both.

3. Avihai Danieli- “Modern Jewish Historiography and the Problem of Messianism.” Directed in collaboration with Demitry Shumsky (September 2023)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Amir Engel

Last updated: 18 February 2025

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:

1. Amir Engel, Rewriting the Myth: Gershom Scholem, Zionism and Kabbalah
Committee: Amir Eshel (chair), Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Russell Berman. Awarded: June 2011, Stanford University.

BOOKS:
2. Amir Engel, Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography, (Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 2017), 225 pp. Paperback edition appeared in summer 2019.

BOOKS EDITED: Prior to Appointment

3. Jacob Taubes, From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason. Eds. Amir Engel and Charlotte Fonrobert, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 445 pp.

4. Michael Fisch und Amir Engel, Eds. Transcultural Hermeneutics II: Contributions by Invitation of the Department of German Language and Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, (Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2021), 317 pp. in German.

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:

5. Amir Engel and Assaf Sharon. “How could it not Happen? A Thought Experiment and a Discussion on Military Violence”, in: The Blot of a Light Cloud; Israeli Soldiers, Army, and Society in the Intifada, Ed. Yoel Elizur, (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012), 234 – 263, in Hebrew .

6. Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem’s ‘Kabbalah and Myth’ Beyond German Jewish Romanticism,” Gershom Scholem in Deutschland: Zwischen Seelenverwandtschaft und Sprachlosigkeit, Eds. Gerold Necker, Elke Morlok, and Matthias Morgenstern, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), 203-218, in German.

7. Amir Engel, “1929,” Gershom Scholem: Building blocks of an Intellectual Biography, Eds. Andreas Kilcher and Daniel Weidner, (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag). In press, In German.

8. Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem’s Kabbalah and the German Jewish Myth” in Collected Essay on Gershom Scholem’s Life and Work, Eds. Mirjam Zadoff and Noam Zadoff, (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 97-113.

9. Amir Engel, “A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt’s Postwar Reading of Kafka” in Kafka after Kafka Eds. Iris Bruce and Mark Gelber (Rochester: Camden House, 2019), 29-44.

10. Amir Engel, “German-Jewish Esotericism: The Case of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah,” in Transcultural Hermeneutics II: Contributions by Invitation of the Department of German Language and Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Eds. Michael Fisch and Amir Engel, (Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, 2021), 53-65, in German. (Similar to # 20 in insights and general research. This version is translated from the original English, shortened, and changed slightly in emphasis and context.)

11. Amir Engel, “Dada and Gershom Scholem: die blauweisse Brille,” Gershom Scholem: Building blocks of an Intellectual Biography, Eds. Andreas Kilcher and Daniel Weidner, (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag), in Press, in German.

12. Amir Engel, “Joseph Klausner,” Gershom Scholem: Building blocks of an Intellectual Biography, Eds. Andreas Kilcher and Daniel Weidner, (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag), in Press, in German.

13. Amir Engel, “Esotericism: Kabbalah, Folktale, and Mysticism,” Tradition und Glaube: Handbuch deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur, Eds., Alfred Bodenheimer, Stephan Braese, Primus- Heinz Kucher, Gerald Lamprecht, (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler), in Press.

14. Amir Engel “Ernst Müller’s Anthroposophical Zohar: Renewed Reflections on German-Jewish Spiritual History” Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes Flohr’s Eightieth Birthday, (Leo Baeck Instiute) in Press. In Hebrew.

15. Amir Engel, The Gnostic Myth as a Gambit in German Intellectual Tradition. In Hans Jonas, in Hans Jonas: The Early Years, Eds. Daniel M. Hershkowitz, Christian Wiese, and Elad Lapidot (Abingdon: Routledge 2024), 123-140. (Similar insights and research but further developed and more finely argued compared to the original #26).

ARTICLES:
Prior to Appointment

16. Amir Engel, “Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon’s and Gershom Scholem’s German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism,” New German Critique, 121, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2014), 33 - 54.

17. Amir Engel, “Above the Abyss and Away: Barbara Honigmann, Gershom Scholem and German Jewish Culture after the Holocaust,” Weimarer Beiträge, Issue 1, 2014, 68 – 81, in German.

18. Amir Engel, “Renewal in the Shadow of the Catastrophe: Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan in Germany,” German Studies Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2016, 297 - 314.

19. Amir Engel, “Hope, Despair, and Justice in Postwar European Culture: Bicycle Thieves, The Plague, and The Man Outside as Case Studies,” Comparative Literature 72, no. 1 (March 2020): 68–82.

20. Amir Engel “German-Jewish Esotericism: The Case of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah,” The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 65, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 36–51.

21. Amir Engel, “Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West-Germany,” New German Critique, 140, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2020, 1- 20.

22. Amir Engel, ““Jugendbewegung”: Gerhard Scholem as a Figure of the German Avant- Garde,” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 18, 2021, 1–11.

23. Amir Engel, “The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature: A reading of Maxim Biller, Olga Grjasnowa, and Mati Shemoelof,” Prooftext Vol. 39 No. 2, 2022, 234-256.

24. Amir Engel, “Jewish–Christian Religiosity: A Study in Twentieth-Century Central European History.” Modern Intellectual History, 2022, 1–21.

25. Amir Engel, “From the Neue Gemeinschaft to Bar Kochba: The Jewish Communitas or the Idea of Jewish Politics as Mysticism,” Religions 2022, 13 no. 12, 1143, 1-19.

26. Amir Engel, “Hans Jonas’s Gnostic Myth: An Existentialist Worldview Between Romanticism and Christianity,” German Studies Review Volume 46, Number 3, October 2023, 409-426.

27. Amir Engel, “From a Jewish Army to Political Resignation: Hannah Arendt's Evolving Conception of Antisemitism,” Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung, No. 32, December 2023, 167 – 185.

28. Amir Engel, Literature as Magic: The Supernatural Quest for the New in Carl Einstein’s Bebuquin, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies 3 (2023) 1–20.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

29. Amir Engel, “Seeking Mandela?” A review of Adam Heribert’s and Kogila Moodley’s Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians,” Telos 135, Summer 2005, 186 – 191.

30. Amir Engel, “On Loyalty and Historical Truth: A review of Elhanan Yakira’s Post Zionism, Post Holocaust,”Katharsis 10, 2009, 18 – 45, in Hebrew.

31. Amir Engel, “Reply to Elhanan Yakira and Amit Kravitz,”Katharsis 14, 2010, 144 – 148, in Hebrew.

32. Amir Engel, “Between East and West: Review of Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution: a review of Elena Namli, Jayne Svenungsson, and Alana M. Vincent, eds., Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution,” in State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 32 no. 4 (2014): 350 - 353), in Russian.

33. Amir Engel, “Redistribution or Reconstruction?” a Review of Elisabeth Gallas’s: Das Leichenhaus der Bücher; Kulturrestitution und jüdisches Geschichtsdenken nach 1945, in MEDAON - Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 8 (2014), 15, 1–6.

34. Amir Engel, “The Dialectic of Modern Hebrew Literature: On Galili Shahar’s new book,” Tabur, 7, 2016, 87 – 89, in Hebrew.

35. Amir Engel “The Three Faces of Gershom Scholem,” Tabur, 7, 2016, 89 – 91, in Hebrew .

36. Amir Engel, “Nazism as a Spiritual Worldview,” These Times, April 2023. https://hazmanhazeh.org.il/metaphysics_of_race/ in Hebrew.

37. Amir Engel, “Community: Critical Examination and Response to Ilany’s “Jussuf and her Brothers”,” Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, pp. 233-240

38. Amir Engel and Guy Paz, “To be a European: Judaism and Christianity in the life of Zionist Anthropsph Ersnt Müller, in Tabur: an Online Yearbook for Central European History, Society, and Culture, Koebner Center, Vol, 12, 2024. (Authors share full credit for writing, rewriting, discussing, and doing research for this piece. The names are set in alphabetical order) in Hebrew.

PODCASTS

39. On Gershom Scholem: In Intellectual Biography (U of Chicago Press 2017), The New Books Network, hosted by Max Kaiesr, May 15, 201 https://newbooksnetwork.com/amir- engelgershom-scholem-an-intellectual-biography-u-chicago-press-2017

As a Host on the New Books Network:
40. With Amit Levy on A New Orient From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel,

(Brandeis 2024), Feb 21, 2025, https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-new-orient-2
41. With Nitzan Lebovic on Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time (Cornel UP 2025),

January 14, 2025, https://newbooksnetwork.com/homo-temporalis

42. With Shaul Magid on Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (Princeton UP 2021) August 15, 2024 https://newbooksnetwork.com/shaul-magid- meirkahane-the-public-life-and-political-thought-of-an-american-jewish-radical-princeton-up- 2023

43. With Gilad Sharvit on Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought, (Brandeis UP 2022) July 27, 2024 https://newbooksnetwork.com/dynamic-repetition

44. With Yaniv Feller on The Jewish Imperial Imagination Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought, (Cambridge UP 2023) March 3, 2024 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-jewish- imperialimagination

45. With Jacob Norberg on The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism (Cambridge UP, 2022), Jan 21, 2024 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-brothers-grimm- andthe-making-of-german-nationalism

46. With Ofer Ashkenazi on Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of a German Landscape (U Michigan Press, 2020), Jan 9, 2024 https://newbooksnetwork.com/anti-heimat- cinema

CONFERENCES:
1. Amir Engel, “The Aleph: German Jewish discourse of Jewish mysticism,” presented at

the workshop “Between Berlin and Jerusalem,” Stanford University, Stanford. May 5-6, 2009.

2. Amir Engel, “A Flicker in the Stone: Gershom Scholem’s Conception of Exile,” presented at the International Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge. March, 2009. Nominated for the Horst Frenz Prize for best Graduate Student paper

3. Amir Engel, “Misreading and Mass Murder: Scholem’s attack on the “Wissenschaft des Judentums” as a case study in the use and abuse of the religious past,” presented at the International Conference: “Wissen von Religion,” Erfurt University, Erfurt, September 2010

4. Amir Engel, “Jacob Taubes: The Intellectual and the University,” presented at the International Conference: “Jacob Taubes,” Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, February, 2011

5. Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem’s Zionism and his Study of Sabbatai Sevi,” presented at the International Conference: “New Research on German and Central European Zionism,” Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, May, 2011

6. Amir Engel, “On the inability and inescapability of being a German Jew after the Holocaust,” presented at the International Conference: “Damals, Dann und Danach, Barbara Honigmann,” Rosenzweig Center, Jerusalem. October 2011

7. Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem and the Romantic Symbol,” presented at the workshop “Gershom Scholem in Germany,” Tübingen University, Tübingen, September 2012

8. Amir Engel, “The Vision of Mystical Anarchic Society: Gustav Landauer and Martin Buber,” presented at the workshop: “The Study and Appropriation of Kabbalah in the Modern Period,” Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva. February 2013

9. Amir Engel, “When a dream comes true: Scholem's Zionism and Sabbatai Zevi,” presented at the International Conference: “Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): Life and Work,” University College London, London, June 2013

10. Amir Engel, “This World (and the next one) in Hannah Arendt’s Political Theory,” (in German), presented at the Rhein-Main-Colloquium on “Religion and Politics”, Darmstadt, September 2013

11. Amir Engel, “The German Public as Viewer,” presented at the workshop: “Zuschauen” on the occasion of Prof. Bernhard Greiner’s 70th birthday, Munich, October 2013

12. Amir Engel, “German Culture and Jewish Mysticism: On the German Sources for the Creation of Jewish Mysticism,” presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, September 2014.

13. Amir Engel, “Performing German Jewishness after the Holocaust: Arendt and Celan in Germany,” presented at the international conference: “Undisciplined: German Jewish Studies Today” Leo Baeck Institute London, London, September 2014.

14. Amir Engel, “German Communes and Jewish Mystics,” Departmental Colloquium, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, December 2014.

15. Amir Engel, “Truth Reconsidered: Kafka, Arendt, and Postwar Thinking,” presented at the international workshop “Kafka after Kafka,” the Center for Austrian and German Studies, Ben-Gurion University, March 2015.

16. Amir Engel, “German Jewish Literature in the Shadow of the Catastrophe,” Colloquium of the Rabb Center, Ben-Gurion University, January 2015.

17. Amir Engel, “The New: Jewish Mysticism as a Case Study,” The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University, March 2015.

18. Amir Engel, “Germans and Jews 1951. Martin Buber as a pioneer of postwar German Jewish dialogue,” presented at the international conference “Multiple Dialogues: Martin Buber,” The Hebrew University, May 2015.

19. Amir Engel, “Dada and Gerhardt Scholem: die blauweisse Brille,” presented at the international workshop “Praise and Mourning: Poetics and Thought in the Early Writing of Gershom Scholem,” Tel Aviv University, May 2015.

20. Amir Engel, “Scholem’s Sabbateanism” presented at the international workshop “Echos of Shabbetai Svi in Jewish Literatures,” Ulcinj, Montenegro, August 2015.

21. Amir Engel, “Justice in Postwar German Literature,” Presented at the international conference “(Re)Imagining Justice in Contemporary Conflicts, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 16-17 December 2015.

22. Amir Engel, “Dada and Gershom Scholem's Anti-War Rhetoric” Presented at the international conference “Representation and Responses – The Great War and the Jews in Literature,” Sarajevo, October 6 – 8, 2016.

23. Amir Engel, “When dreams come true” Oxford TORCH research network on “Crisis, extremes and Apocalypse,” June 5, 2017.

24. Amir Engel, “On Gershom Scholem’s Intellectual Biography,” Presented at the Department of History, Oxford University, June 6, 2017.

25. Amir Engel, “Between Historiography and Literature: Gershom Scholem’s Intellectual Biography.” Presented at the Seminar of the German Dept. with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, October 8, 2017.

26. Amir Engel, “Between Historiography and Literature: Gershom Scholem’s Intellectual Biography.” Presented at the Center for Jewish Studies and the History Dept. University of California Berkeley, October 10, 2017.

27. Amir Engel, “Between Historiography and Literature: Gershom Scholem’s Intellectual Biography.” A discussion with Paul Mendes-Flohr at the Seminary Coop Bookstore, University of Chicago, October 15, 2017.

28. Amir Engel, “Challenges in Writing Intellectual Biography: Two Views by Authors of New Books” with Adi Gordon, presented at the seminar of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University, October 16, 2017.

29. Amir Engel, “Thinking through Nationalism and Mysticism: The Tangled Intellectual Biographies of Gershom Scholem and Hans Kohn,” Presented at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, October 17, 2017.

30. Amir Engel, “Sebastianism and Modern Thought.” Presented at the international seminar “Syndromes of the Present”, January 26-28, 2018, Thessaloniki Greece.

31. Amir Engel, “Zur Dialektik des Mythos: Gershom Scholem zwischen Wissenschaft und Kabbalah” Presented at the Katholische Akademie Berlin, May 8, 2018

32. Amir Engel, Barbara Honigmann’s “I” or on the Possibility of Postwar” German Jewish Literature,” presented at the international Tübinger Kolloquium zu Ehren von Bernhard Greiner, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, December 6-7, 2018.

33. Amir Engel “From Separation to Community: The Struggle for Esoteric Politics.” Presented at the international conference “Gustav Landauer, Mysticism, Literature, and Revolution,” Tel Aviv University, May 2, 2019.

34. Amir Engel “Hannah Arendt reads Kafka: A Case Study in the Immediate Postwar.” Presented at the Department of German Studies, University of California Los Angeles, October 2, 2019.

35. Amir Engel “Kafka Reconsidered: Hannah Arendt and the Social Democratic Moment,” Presented at the German Studies Association’s annual conference, Portland OR, 3-6 October 2019.

36. Amir Engel, “Die Lyrik der Kabbala: Gershom Scholem vs. Meir Wiener” (in Hebrew) presented at the book launch for Gershom Scholem’s “Poetica: Schriften zur Literatur,” at the Leo Baeck institute Jerusalem, November 26, 2019.

37. Amir Engel, ““Redemption through Sin:” on the Crossroad between Judaism and Zionism.” Presented at the international conference “The Conspiracy of the Good: On Necessary Evil,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 16-17, 2019.

38. Amir Engel, “Poetic Thinking in Historical Context” (in Hebrew) presented at Amir Eshel’s Book Launch: Poetic Thinking Today at the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, December 19, 2019.

39. Amir Engel, “Die neue Gemeinschaft: A Case Study,” presented at the international conference “Tradition, Esotericism and Fascism: Then and Now, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,” December 29-30, 2019.

40. Amir Engel, “From Redemption to Therapeutics” presented at Gilad Sharvit’s book launch: “Therapeutics and Salvation: Freud and Schelling on Freedom” an online international event organized by the Koebner Institute at The Hebrew University, June 7, 2021.

41. Amir Engel, “Death and New Beginnings: The Case of Carl Einstein’s Expressionist Novel Bebuquin,” Presented at the annual Israeli German Studies Conference, an online event July 5-6, 2021

42. Amir Engel, “The 1951 Goethe Prize to Buber - A Case in the Cultural Politics of Reconciliation” presented at the 12th annual Joseph Carlebach Konferenz titled “Deutschland in Israel – Israel in Deutschland: 1948 bis zur Gegenwart.” an online event, July 6-7, 2021.

43. Amir Engel “Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, and Israeli Rightwing Extremism: A Complicated Relationship,” presented at the German Studies Association’s annual conference, Indianapolis IN (online event), September 30-3, 2021.

44. Amir Engel, “Jewish-Christian Religiosity: The Case the Anthroposophical Kabbalah,” presented at the international conference “Heretical Religiosity and Nihilism” at the Friedrich Nietzsche Haus in Sils Maria Switzerland, October 4-5, 2021.

45. Amir Engel, “Ernst Müller, Martin Buber, and Paul Mendes Flohr,” Presented at the international conference in honor of Paul Mendes Flohr’s eightieth birthday titled, “Is Tikkun Olam still possible?” The Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, November 21-22, 2021.

46. Amir Engel “The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature,” presented at CoHLIT-21 German Seminar, 2022 at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, March 9-10, 2022.

47. Amir Engel “The Affirmation of Exile in Contemporary German-Jewish Literature” presented at the 10th Conference of the Association for European Jewish Literature Studies, Gesellschaft für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien e.V. (EJLS), Jerusalem, 14 June 2022.

48. Amir Engel, “Myth, Judaism, and Nationaliyt- A response” Presented in a panel on “Wissenschaft des Judentums: Myths of the Jewish Nation,” at the Eighteenth world congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August, 2022.

49. Amir Engel, “Between the Hate and the Love of Israel: Arendt in Jerusalem,” presented at The Origins of Totalitarianism” International Conference, Freie Universitaet, Berlin, 19-21 October 2022.

50. Amir Engel, “Expressionism and German Jewish Kabbalah: the Strange case of Meir Wienr’s German Poetry,” Presented at the international Conference “Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept,” Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora, July 10-11, 2023

51. Amir Engel, “German-Jewish-Christian Occultism: Martin Buber and Ernst Mueller,” presented at the twelfth EAJS Congress, Frankfurt am Main, July 16-20, 2023.

52. Amir Engel, “Talmud and Modern Exile,” Talmud Workshop Institute for Jewish Studies Antwerp, 23 – 25 November 2023.

53. Amir Engel, “Löwith, Nietzsche, Sharvit: Book Presentation,” The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora, 17 January, 2024, Berlin.

54. Amir Engel, “Martin Buber’s Jewish-Christian and Universal Spirituality,” Presented at the International Conference Global Weimar/ Global Nahada,” The Divan: House for Arab Culture, Berlin 25 -27 January 2024.

55. Amir Engel, “Hope and Despair in Postwar German Culture,” Presented at the International Conference “Postwar Periods: Spain-German. A Comparative Approach,” Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf 21 -23 February 2024.

56. Amir Engel, “German Jews in Diaspora,“ presented at the annual meeting of the Die AG jüdisch und christlich beim Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag, (in German) 26 Feburary, 2024.

57. Amir Engel, “Martin Buber's Universal Spiritualism: Between Martin Luther and Rabbi Nachman,” The German Department, University of Zurich, 27 March, 2024

58. Amir Engel, “German Jewish or Jewish German: The Biller-Czollek Debate and

59. Question of Israel and the Diaspora,” presents at the International conference “Israel:

German Projections,” (in German) University of Munich, 27-28 May 2024

60. Amir Engel, “Exile, Homecoming and Gershom Scholem: A Case Study,” Presented in the International Conference Between State and Exile: Rethinking Jewish Politics, Berlin, The Catholic Academy, 23-26 June 2024

61. Amir Engel, “Postwar Buber: the Politics of Loving God” Presented in the International conference Desiring God: The Erotic and the Divine in 20th-Century Thought, KU Leuven, 10-12 September, 2024.

62. Amir Engel, “On Philosophical and Political Arguments” Presented in the International conference, Talmud and Contemporary Thought, University of Antwerp, 12-15 September, 2024.