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Dr. Matthias Schmidt

Administrative director and research coordinator
matthias.schmidt@mail.huji.ac.il

Academic Interests: Intellectual and cultural history in Classical Greek and the Hellenistic period; politics and religion in the late Roman Republic and the Augustan age; concepts of individual and collective rights in Greek and Roman Antiquity; restitution/repatriation of antiquities and cultural objects in the 21th century.

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Matthias Schmidt studied Theology, Jewish Studies and History in Berlin, Heidelberg and Jerusalem. Since 1989 he is the administrative director and research coordinator of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem being responsible for budgets/project funds, personnel/fellowships, national and international scientific cooperation and guest lecture programs.

Having received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2004 for a thesis on ethnic identities in the Hellenistic period, he is currently also an adjunct lecturer for Ancient History at the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the History Department of the Hebrew University, and works as a freelance translator for a range of academic publications.

Publications
Books (editorial)
Susanne Düwell, Matthias Schmidt (eds.), Narrative der Shoah. Repräsentationen der Vergangenheit in Historiographie, Kunst und Politik, Paderborn München: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2002.
Yotam Hotam, Matthias Schmidt, Noam Zadoff (eds.), History as vocation. A Collection of essays in honor of Moshe Zimmermann on the occasion of his 60th Birthday, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005.
 

Articles
“Marcus Tullius Cicero Recontexualized: Latin Political Writings in Cultural Exchange and Individual Crisis”, in: Dan Diner, Gideon Reuveni, Yfaat Weiss (eds.), Deutsche Zeiten. Geschichte und Lebenswelt. Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Moshe Zimmermann, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2012, 41-60.
"Von Schuld und Sühne, Versagen und Erneuerung: Zu Theorie und Praxis christlicher Annäherung an den Staat Israel", in: --, Susanne Düwell (eds.), Narrative der Shoah. Repräsentationen der Vergangenheit in Historiographie, Kunst und Politik, Paderborn München: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2002, 263-277.
"Staat Israel und Heiliges Land: Der Papstbesuch als Testfall eines christlich-jüdischen Dialogs", in: Wolfram Kinzig, Cornelia Kück (ed.), Judentum und Christentum zwischen Konfrontation und Faszination. Ansätze zu einer neuen Beschreibung jüdisch-christlicher Beziehungen (Judentum und Christentum Bd. 11), Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 165-179.
 

Reviews
"Arno Mayer, Der Krieg als Kreuzzug. Das Deutsche Reich, Hitlers Wehrmacht und die 'Endlösung'", in: ASCHKENAS. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 1/1992.
"Bertold Brecht, Flüchtlingsgespräche (hebr. Translation)", in: Ha Aretz (Tarbut we-Sifrut), 27.12.1996.
"Joachim Schlör: Tel Aviv - Vom Traum zur Stadt", in: HaAretz (Tarbut we-Sifrut), 28.3.1997.
"Leo Perutz, Die dritte Kugel - Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (hebr. translations)", in: HaAretz (Tarbut we-Sifrut), 3.1.1998.
"Doron Mendels, Identity, Religion and Historiography. Studies in Hellenistic History", in: HaAretz (Tarbut we-Sifrut), 3.7.1998.

Book Translations (into German)
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Gespräche über Gott und die Welt mit Michael Shashar, Frankfurt am Main: Dvora Verlag, 1990.
Zvi Tauber, Befreiung und das "Absurde". Studien zur Emanzipation des Menschen bei Herbert Marcuse, Stuttgart: Bleicher Verlag, 1994.
Gideon Greif, ‘Wir weinten tränenlos….’ - Augenzeugenberichte der jüdischen „Sonderkommandos“ in Auschwitz, Köln Weimar Berlin: Böhlau Verlag, 1995.
Moshe Zimmermann, Die deutschen Juden 1914-1945 (Enzyklopädie Deutscher Geschichte), München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1997.
Oded Heilbronner, Die Achillesferse des deutschen Katholizismus. Der Schwarzwald als Fallstudie für den Aufstieg der NSDAP, Stuttgart: Bleicher-Verlag, 1998.
Yfaat Weiss, Deutsche und polnische Juden vor dem Holocaust. Jüdische Identität zwischen Staatsbürgerschaft und Ethnizität 1933-1940, München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000.
Gilad Margalit, Die Nachkriegsdeutschen und "ihre Zigeuner". Die Behandlung der Sinti und Roma im Schatten von Auschwitz, Berlin: Metropol, 2001 (Übersetzung mit David Aijchenrand).
 

 

 

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Dr. Tibor Shalev-Schlosser

Visiting Research Fellow (Post Doc)
tibor.shalev-schlosser@mfa.gov.il

Academic Interests: Relations between Germany and the State of Israel in various aspects (political, diplomatic, economic, military and the civil society) since the reunification of Germany

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Tibor Shalev-Schlosser works at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Koebner Minerva Center .

Academic Qualifications:

1985            B.A. in Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1985-7         Research Assistant, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

1987/8         Philosophy Teacher at the “Leyada” High school, Jerusalem

1988/9         Studies and Research in Heidelberg University, Germany (scholarship)

1990           M.A in Philosophy with Thesis, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2014           M.A. in Political Science, University of Haifa

2014           Graduate, National Defense College, Israel

2014           Research Student (PhD), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2020           Ph.D in History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

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Yoav Shefer

MA Fellow

Research interests: Modern Historiography, Modern German History and German Protestantism

 

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Yoav is interested in the influence of Protestantism in 19th century Germany on Modern Historiography. His research focuses on the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Leopold von Ranke, and the protestant origin of the modern historiography.

Yoav studied for his B.A. at the department of history of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in this department, he studies for M.A. degree, under the supervision of Dr. Aya Elyada. Yoav is also member of the academic board of "Hayo Haya", the Students Journal of the institute of History at the Hebrew University.

 

 

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Yoav Shefer

Yoav Shefer

MA Fellow
Yoav.shefer@mail.huji.ac.il

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

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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.

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Prof. Marc Silberman

2016/17 1st semester Koebner Center, I-CORE, and George L. Mosse Program Guest Professor
Marc Silberman is a Professor Emeritus in the The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at The University of Wisconsin–Madison. His areas of study are history of German cinema, Bertolt Brecht and the tradition of political theater, and East German literature and culture.
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He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on German literature, cinema, and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first century, including as guest professor at UCLA, Freie Universität Berlin, Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg, University of Oxford, and Hebrew University. He has published three monographs and edited or co-edited twenty-eight volumes or special issues of journals as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and interviews in his areas of expertise. He is also a translator of, among others, Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller.
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avner Sorek

Avner Sorek

MA Fellow
avner.sorek@mail.huji.ac.il

Research interests: Early Christianity; Historiography of Nazism; Religion under the Nazi regime (with special reference to the role of Jesus of Nazareth in the public and political discourse); Role and Task of Religion in the GDR;  Daily Life in  20th century in Germany.

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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. 

 

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Nathanel Stawski

MA Fellow
nathanel.stawski@mail.huji.ac.il

Research interests: German-Jewish history during the long 19th century; Jews on the political right in Germany; Zionism; Socialism and Liberalism in Germany; Currents of Jewish Enlightenment; and modern Antisemitism.

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Nathanel Stawski has been a MA student at the History Department, writing a thesis under the supervision of Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi about the relationship between the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten and the Zionist Federation of Germany. He has been undergraduate of Middle Eastern Studies, and the Core Humanities Program at Shalem College. - In August 2024 Nathanel received a Cambridge Trust full scholarship award, covering 3 years of Ph.D. studies  Cambridge University, UK.

 

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Dr. Ruth Wittlinger (1961-2020)

2017/18 1st Semester Lady Davis Research Guest

Ruth Wittlinger was an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK. She had published extensively on memory and identity in post-unification Germany and Europe, inter alia the monograph German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Different Republic After All?  - Her research has been published in a number of journals including West European Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, German Politics and German Politics and Society. In 2017, she was awarded a Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and spent her time at the Koebner Minerva Center as a research guest. - Ruth Wittlinger passed away in February 2020. She is deeply missed by her colleagues in Jerusalem.