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.

 

Cecile is an MA student in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), writing her thesis on "Religious Motivations Behind Christian-Protestant Protest Movements Against Nazism" under the supervision of Dr. Karma Ben Johanan. Her research - which is also supported by a fellowship of the Koebner Minerva Center - examines protest actions against the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, focusing on the Christian-Protestant religious ideas that motivated opposition - from a historical and intellectual perspective. It explores theological arguments against Nazism, the perception of Nazism as "neo-paganism" during the Nazi era and in the post-war period and shows how these views shaped the protestors' activism and Christian identity.

In 2023, she received The Sir Sigmund and Lady Hazel Sternberg Prize for Interfaith Understanding.   

Cecile is also a research assistant at the Koebner Center for the research project "Between Aliyah and Escape. Jewish Youth Movement and Zionist Education under the Nazi Regime and in pre-State Israel 1933-1945" funded by the DFG.

 

Avner Sorek is a MA student at the History Department, writing a thesis under the supervision of Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi about the historiography of the 20th century in Germany.