Yoav Shefer

Yoav Shefer
Yoav
Shefer
MA Fellow

Academic Interests: Modern Historiography, Modern German History and German Protestantism

Yoav got his bachelor degree from the History Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is now a MA Student at this Department as well as a MA Fellow at the Koebner Minerva Center. He writes his MA thesis under the supervision of Dr. Aya Elyada focusing on the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Leopold von Ranke  regarding the aspect of the protestant origin of the modern historiography, a subject which reflects his general interest in the influence of German Protestantism in 19th century Germany on historiography.

Yoav is also member of the academic board of "Hayo Haya", the Students Journal of the Institute of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.