EF Funded Research Projects

 

2023-2024

 

Group Research Project

 

Sensing Emotional Responses to National Socialist History in Learning and Exhibition Environments (SENSE)

Project Head: Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, DAAD Center for German Studies & The Noah Mozes Department of Communication and Journalism

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Amit Leibson, PhD student, Department of International Relations

Beyond Words: Unravelling the Dynamics of Language Proficiency in Immigrant Integration

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Sheri Lanczet, MA student, Program in European Studies

The EU and Overlapping Regionalism in the Mediterranean: Analyzing Region-Building Efforts from 1995 to 2023

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Uri Kidron, MA student, PhD candidate, Department of International Relations, & Gaya Mashiach, MA student, Department of Political Science

Special Relations’ beyond October 7th- Israeli-German Narratives

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Margarita Lerman, PhD student, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

In Loopholes and Gray Areas. A Cross-Border History of Criminal Jewish Networks, 1820s–1914

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Shlomit Fuchs, PhD student, Department of Hebrew Language

The Hebrew Language in Renaissance Italy

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Lina Chubukin, MA student, Department of International Relations

The Tale of Vladimir Putin

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

 

Natan Nemetz, MA student, Department of Romance Studies

Individual, Social and Religious Negotiations of Anger in Medieval French Literature: Between Justice, Revenge and Sin

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

2022-2023

 

Group Research Projects

 

Gathering data on mutual perceptions in a systematic and continuous way

Project Head: Prof. Gisela Dachs, European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

The Future of Political Parties in Democracy: Studying the Perspective of Political Actors in Israel and Germany

Project Head: Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer, European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Periodization and Time in Germany, Europe, and the Middle East

Project Head: Dr. Oded Y. Steinberg, European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Yevgenia Davydovych, MA student, Program in Contemporary Germany Studies

Israeli migration to Berlin: keeping and deepening the Jewish identity abroad

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Noga Sagi, PhD student, Program in Contemporary Germany Studies

The Jewish Vienna? The role of the city of Vienna in re-establishing and reviving Jewish life in the city after the Second World War

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Asaf Koliner, PhD student, Stage B, Department of History

From literary critique to the praxis of cinema: “Plurilinguismo” and “Amalgamazione” as political discourse in post-neorealist Italian cinema

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Naama Seri Levi, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab

Mapping wandering routes: exile and nomandism among Polish-Jews refugees during World War II

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

 

Ziv Koshrovski, MA student, Department of Political Science

How do policies affect ethnic identities?

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

2021-2022

 

Group Research Projects

 

Ethnic Diversity in Public Institutions as a Vehicle for Immigrants’ Trust in German Local Authorities

Project Head: Prof. Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Political Sciences

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Sensing Visitor-responses at Difficult Heritage Sites

Project Head: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, DAAD Center for German Studies

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

How States Procure? A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Governance of Public Procurement and its Strategic Challenges in Germany and Israel

Project Head: Prof. David Levi-Faur, Political Science

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Damian Filut, PhD candidate, European Studies

The Evolution of International Development Policy between 1990-2015 from a Multilateral and National Perspective

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

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Julia Wittorf, MA student, Contemporary Germany Studies

Right-Wing Extremism in German Security Institutions – Cases, Patterns, Networks

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Matan Aviel, MA student, Art History

Wooden Worlds: Materiality and the Meaning of Space in the Urbino Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Dr. Yuval Tal, Martin Buber Society of Fellows

The Limits of Solidarity: Ethnicity and Class Politics in the French Mediterranean, 1918-1962

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

Uri Kotlarsky, MA student, International Relations

From one to(o) Many – The Reasons behind the Variance in Israeli Diplomatic Relations with the Former USSR Republics following its Fall

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

 

Noach Engelhard, MA student, Contemporary Germany Studies

Jack Hamesh: The Viennese Jew who Broke Ingeborg Bachmann’s Heart

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Sagi Krispin, PhD candidate, European Studies

The Austrian Public Discourse about WWII as Reflected in the Discourse about the Wall of Names Memorial

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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2020-2021

 

Group Research Projects

 

From Dallas to Berlin: The Transnationalization of Meaning?

Project Head: Prof. Gisela Dachs, DAAD Center for German Studies

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Ethnic Diversity in Public Institutions as a Vehicle for Immigrants’ Trust in German Local Authorities

Project Head: Prof. Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Political Sciences

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Migration, Migration and Medicine at State Margins: A German-Israeli Comparative Study (2nd year)

Project Head: Prof. Nurit Stadler, Sociology and Anthropology

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Dr. Noga Stiassny, post-doctoral fellow, Contemporary Germany Studies

Representations of German Landscapes within Contemporary Israeli Art

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Michael Ziv Kenet, PhD candidate, Political Science

The Case for Democra-city: Napoli Citta Autonoma

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Dr. Igor Rodin, post-doctoral fellow, Communication & Journalism

Metaphysics of Russian Action Art

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

 

Noga Sagi, PhD candidate, Contemporary Germany Studies

Collective Memory, Cultural Diplomay and Jewish Identity: The Role of Vienna'a Jewish Community in Austrian-Israeli Relations

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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2019-2020

 

Group Research Projects

 

Commemorating the Holocaust in the Digital Age – Immersion, Augmentation, Virtual Reality

Project Head: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, DAAD Center for German Studies

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Migration, Minorities and Medicine at State Margins: A Germany-Israel Comparative Study

Project Head: Prof. Nurit Stadler, Sociology and Anthropology

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Irit Chen, PhD candidate, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

The Purchasing Misstion to Cologne between Israel and Germany, 1953-1965

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Mor Geller, MA student, History

Surveyed Screens: State, Society, and Cinematic Consumption in Late East Germany

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Aleksandra Gokhshteyn, MA student, Contemporary Germany Studies

EU Law Primacy in Germany, France and Italy: Human Rights Comparative Perspective

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

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Yiftach Shavit, MA student, History

Vernacular Photography and Postwar German Jewish Remigration

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

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Aviya Doron, PhD candidate, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Trust thy Neighbor? Risk and Trust in Economic Interactions between Jews and Christians in the German Empire c. 1280-1420

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Asaf Koliner, PhD candidate, History

Aesthetics & History: The turn of Italian Popular Cinema to History as its Subject Matter: 1960-1975

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Esfir Mailman, MA student, Romance Studies

The Creation of the Woman and the Aesthetic Project of Eliminating the Self: The Dissolving Boundaries, the Abject and the Dolls in the Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

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Livia Tagliacozzo, PhD candidate, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

In the Shadow of War: Antisemitic Policy and the Italian-Jewish Relations in the Colony of Libya (1940-1943)

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

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Anna Balestrieri, PhD candidate, Russian Studies

Russian-Jewish Press in the Emigration: The Case of “Rassvet” (1922-1934 Berlin-Paris): Internal History and External Context

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

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Nureet Dermer, PhD candidate (stage A), Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

“Between Expulsions”: Daily Encounters between Jews and Christians in Northern France,1285-1394

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

2018-2019

 

Group Research Project

 

Intersectionality and Jewish Homosexual Modernity

Project Head: Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky, the History Department and The Lafer Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Damian Filut, PhD candidate, European Studies

A Normative Transformation in the Global Development Policy and its Effect on the Donor Countries’ Landscape

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Hila Levi, MA student, Department of International Relations

Deterioration in Human Rights Protection during the Eurozone Crisis and Germany’s Involvement in the Crisis Management

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Neri Ariel, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Talmud and Halakha

Religious identity, erudition and text production in the Medieval Jewish Community of Vienna (ca 1300-1421)

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Dr. Sofia Mazar, post-doctoral fellow, European Studies

The Development of Italian Literature and its Influence on the Development of the Libretto and the Operatic Genre of Opera-seria in Nineteenth-Century Italy

Funded by the Corinaldi Fund

 

Rocco Giansante, PhD candidate, Department of Communications and Journalism

Armenia on Screen: The Cinematic Image of a New Old Country

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Studies

 

Dr. Irit Kornblit, post-doctoral fellow, European Studies

The Rhetoric of Naming Globalization and the Construction of France’s Collective Ethos in Intellectual and Political Discourse

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

2017-2018

 

Group Research Project

 

Media and Migration: Visual Tropes and Media Frames of Immigration, Exile and Displacement

Project head: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht‐Hartmann

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Terrorism in Post-war Europe

Project heads: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht‐Hartmann, with Prof. Arnd Bauerkämper, Department of History and Cultural Science, Free University of Berlin

Joint funding scheme of the Hebrew University and the Freie Universität Berlin 2017.

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Nitzan Chelouche, MA student, Program in Contemporary Germany: Politics, Society and Culture

The Documenta in Kassel: Visual Framing of Postwar Narratives

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Sara Yanovsky, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Schullehrer’s Paradoxa: The Life and Work of Simon Szánto – a Hungarian Publicist and Educator in Vienna

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Dr. Michael K. Silber, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

The Convocation of the First Jewish Soldiers of Joseph II 1788-1790

Funded by the City of Vienna

 

Ahuva Liberals Noiman, PhD candidate, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Between Converts, Jews and Christians: Analysis of Communal and Individual Jewish Identity through the Lens of Jewish Converts to Christianity in Austria (Vienna and Surrounding Area) 1278-~1500

Funded by the City of Vienna

 

2016-2017

 

Group Research Project

 

German Postwar Visual History in an European Framework – Historiography, Appropriation, Legal Regulation

Project head: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht‐Hartmann

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD candidate, International Relations

The Diffusion of Restrictive Refugee Policies among Western States and the Role of Germany as a "Normative Core"

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Marc Brüggemann, PhD candidate, German Studies

The Olympic-attack: A transnational comparison of the collective memories of Israel and Germany

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Daniel Aschheim, PhD candidate, European Studies

Bruno Kreisky’s Premature Role as a Peacemaker in the Middle East: The Paradoxes of Jewishness, Socialism and the Middle Eastern Conflict

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Adi Burtman, PhD candidate, Musicology

Otellos' Jealousies: The Socio-Musical Mapping of Emotion in 19th Century Italy; Rossini's Otello ver. Verdi's

Funded by the Center for the Study of Italian Culture and Corinaldi Fund

 

2012-2013

 

Group Research Project

 

Cultural Sustainability, Social Cohesion and Glocal Education

Project head: Dr. Zvi Bekerman, School of Education

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Individual Research Projects

 

Naama Seri-Levi, MA student, Department of History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry

Two Polish-Jewish Populations in the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany and Austria 1946-1947

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Noga Stiassny, MA student, German Studies

How Anselm Kiefer Interprets and Embraces Ideas Stemming from Ingeborg Bachmann Works and Translating them Visually

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Serafima Velkovich, MA student, Sociology of Education

Young German-Speaking Volunteers in Yad Vashem

Funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies

 

Nir Cohen, MA student, Department of Musicology

Gideon Klein: Life and Music

Funded by the Aron Menczer Fund

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Nir Barak, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science

Hundertwasser's Contribution to Urban Ecologism: How Could Ecologism be Manifested in Social and Political Urban Institutions?

Funded by the City of Vienna

 

Dr. Daniel Reiser, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Jewish Thought

Mesmerism, Hypnosis and Jewish Mystics in Vienna in the Early Twentieth Century

Funded by the City of Vienna

 

Prof. Yoav Rinon, Department of German Language and Literature

Karl Kraus: translation and Publication of Selected Writings

Funded by the City of Vienna

 

Enrico Lucca, post-doctoral fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Research Center

Italians abroad: Figures of Exile in Italian Contemporary Literature

Funded by the Center for the Study of Italian Culture and Corinaldi Fund

 

Achinoam Berger, MA student, Department of Comparative Literature

François Truffaut, the Film Painter of Modern Life: Truffaut's Films as a Misreading of Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life

Funded by the Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture

 

Janetta Azarieva, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science

Grain and Power in Russia 2001-2011

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research

 

Ella Janatovsky, MA student, Department of History

The Crystallization of National Identity in Times of War: The Experience of a Soviet-Jewish Soldier

Funded by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research