Tamar Kojman
Academic Interests: Modern German and European history, national character, gender and national stereotypes, secularization, religious history
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).
