I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (2008) where my primary focus was late eighteenth to mid-twentieth century German, French and English literature and visual culture.
Amir Engel is a lecturer at the German department.
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He studied philosophy, literature and culture-studies at the Hebrew University and completed his PhD. at the German studies department at Stanford University, California.After that he taught and conducted research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His main topics of interest include German Romanticism and German postwar literature and culture, theories of myth, literature and philosophy and history of culture. He is also interested in intercultural transference, Jewish German culture, and German 20th century intellectual history. He has written a book about Gershom Scholem and has published articles about Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Martin Buber, Jacob Taubes, Salomon Maimon and others.
My New book, Gershom Scholem an Intellectual Biography, Just came out with the University of Chicago Press. See here.
And you can hear me discuss the book here and here.
Prof. Manja Herrmann is a scholar of German and German-Jewish literature and culture, whose research focuses on the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a theoretical emphasis on aspects of transculturalism, travelling concepts and texts, and gender.
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She received her PhD in Foreign Literatures and Linguistics from Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva in 2015. Before joining the Department for German Language and Literature as the Walter Benjamin Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Culture, she served as assistant professor and research group leader at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg (2017–2022), the Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund visiting professor for Jewish literature in Heidelberg (2020–2021), as visiting researcher at Universität Freiburg (2021–2022), deputy professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2023–2024), and a senior research fellow at the University of Hamburg (2024). Her first book on concepts of authenticity in German-Jewish literature and culture was published in 2018 with DeGruyter. Her second book manuscript on travelling narratives on Hasidei Umot ha-Olam in post-war Germany is currently under review.
Vivian Liska, Professor of German literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2013, she is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of the Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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She has published extensively on literary theory, German modernism, and German-Jewish authors and thinkers. Liska’s recent books include Giorgio Agamben’s Empty Messianism (2008), in German, translated into Hebrew (Resling 2010), When Kafka Says We. Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature (2008) and Fremde Gemeinschaft. Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der Moderne (2011). A Hebrew translation of this book is in the making with Hakibbutz Hameuchad. In 2012, she was awarded the Cross of Honor for Sciences and the Arts from the Republic of Austria. She is the (co-)editor of numerous books, among them the two-volume ICLA publication Modernism (2007), which was awarded the Prize of the Modernist Studies Association in 2008; Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide (2007); Theodor Herzl between Europe and Zion (2007); What does the Veil Know? (2009); The German-Jewish Experience Revisited (2015); and Kafka and the Universal (2016). She is the editor of the book series “Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts” (De Gruyter, Berlin), co-editor of the Yearbook of the Society for European-Jewish Literature, and arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies. Her most recent book German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife (Indiana University Press) was published in 2017.
Prof. Christoph Schmidt was born 1956 in Helsinki, Finland, wrote a PhD about Theodor W. Adorno’s “Hermeneutics of Shock”, i.e. his Philosophy and Aesthetics, Literature and Musical Theory. Since 1995 he teaches at the department for German Literature at the Hebrew University.
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