Academic Interests: Modern German and European history, national character, gender and national stereotypes, secularization, religious history
Tamar Kojman is a PhD Candidate in German Intellectual History at the History Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (since 2018) and as Fellow at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center a member of the research group “The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Making of the Human.”
Her Dissertation Project on “'The Apolitical German' and the Question of German Statehood, 1830-1880" is supervised by Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi.
She received the Minerva Fellowship 2020 (University of Göttingen; host supervisor Prof. Dirk Schumann) and the Armbruster Fellowship 2019 (FU Berlin; host supervisor Prof. Oliver Janz)) as well as the President Scholarship for Humanities.
In 2016 she graduated in European Studies at the Hebrew University; MA Thesis: Between German and European Identity Formation: Universalism and Particularism in Postwar German Intellectual Discourse (magna cum laude), supervised by Thobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.
Between 2010-2014 she studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, B.Mus (Classical Piano Performance; magna cum laude).
Publications:
- “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).
- “‘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).
- “Germanness and Religious Universalism in the Aftermath of the 1844 Trier Pilgrimage”, in: Nations and Nationalism 27, 4 (October 2021). doi.org/10.1111/nana.12735.
- “An Awkward Predicament: The German Man and Feminized Modernity in the 1840s”, in: Central European History, revised and resubmitted December 2022