Research Interest: Classical Hebrew and Halacha Literature and German CultureOhad is interested in the interface between classical Hebrew and Halacha literature and German culture. He studied for his first degree in the Department of German Literature and Talmud at the Hebrew University and his second degree in the Department of the History of Israel at the Hebrew University. He writes his research work on the Halachic Responsa literature in the Weimar Republic - focuses on the appearance of the new woman figure in this literature and its relation to the German literature of the time.

Ohad is 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. 

He particpated in the Annual Workshop for German Studies in 2022 and 2023 lecturing on 

- “'The Messiah does not come': On Hebrew and German Sources of the Messianic Image in the Work of Heinrich Heine" (2022)

- "Pride and Early Halacha: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Halachic Literature of the Weimar Republic" (2023;  https://youtu.be/EDnkSXOILuc?si=Moy4vqabgmdEXtmO )