People

Johannes

Dr. Johannes Czakai

Early Modern History
Modern History
Jewish History

German-Jewish and Eastern European-Jewish history
Jewish names
Conversions from Judaism to Christianity
Jewish cemeteries and epigraphy
Genealogy
Art history
Espionage

 

 

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Prof. Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her recent publications include Against Nature (2019), Science in the Archives (2017),  (co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck), Histories of Scientific Observation (2011), and (with Paul Erikson et al.) and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (2014) as well as many essays on the history of  scientific facts, objectivity, curiosity, and probability.

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Dr. Nora Derbal

Buber Fellow: 2020 to 2024

Arabian Peninsula, Gulf Studies
Orientalism, History of Oriental Studies 

 

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Dr. Aviv Derri

Buber Fellow: 2022 to 2023

Ottoman Empire
Palestine/Israel
Political Economy
Credit and Debt
Jews in the Middle East

 

Prof. Dan Diner

Prof. Dan Diner

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Dan Diner (Ph.D., 1973, University of Frankfurt am Main) is Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, and Director of the Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig.

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He is the author of numerous publications an twentieth-century history, Jewish history, Middle Eastern history and German history, particularly in the period of National Socialism and the Holocaust. His most recent publications include:

Zeitenschwelle. Gegenwartsfragen an die Geschichte, München 2010.
Lost in the Sacred. Why the Muslim World Stood Still, Princeton, N. J., 2009. English translation of: Versiegelte Zeit. Über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt, Berlin 2005.
Disseminating German Tradition. The Thyssen Lectures, Leipzig 2009 (ed. with Moshe Zimmermann).
Aufklärungen. Über Varianten von Moderne, Zürich 2008.
Cataclysms. A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge, Madison, Wis., 2008. English translation of: Das Jahrhundert verstehen. Eine universalhistorische Deutung, Munich 1999.
Gegenläufige Gedächtnisse. Über Geltung und Wirkung des Holocaust, Göttingen 2007.
Restitution and Memory. Material Restoration in Europe, New York/Oxford 2007 (ed. with Gotthard Wunberg).
Dark Times, Dire Decisions. Jews and Communism, Oxford 2005 (ed. with Jonathan Frankel).

His most important books have been translated into Czech, English, Hebrew, Italian, Polish and Turkish. In 2006 he was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize, and in 2007 the Italian Premio Capalbio.

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Dr. Ron Dudai

Dr. Ron Dudai

Buber Fellow: 2013 to 2017

Publications: 

Refereed journals

Dr. Michael Ebstein

Dr. Michael Ebstein

Buber Fellow: 2012 to 2015

Buber Fellow: 2012 to 2015

Holding a position at the department for Arabic language and literature Huji

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Dr. Ella Elbaz

Buber Fellow: 2020 to 2022

After Buber, I became an Assistant Professor in the Arabic language and literature department at the University of Haifa, teaching and researching modern Arabic literature. I also received an ISF grant on the project I started working at Buber.