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Guest Scholar Projects
Acknowledged experts from four countries (Israel, Russia, the USA and Hungary) have agreed to contribute to the project with their own research. They are assigned to the various sub-projects.
They are in close communication with the project coordinator and, through her, with each other. The results of their work will be presented later in a conference volume.
The Russian Revolution and the Jews as Reflected in Russian Berlin, 1917-1939
[more...]- Prof. Dr. Albert I. Baumgarten (Ramat Gan): Elias Bickerman. An intellectual biography [Abstract]
Transnationality and Yiddishkeit: Cultural Diversity in Eastern European-Jewish Berlin in the 1920s-1930s
[more...]- Prof. Dr. Gennady Estraikh (New York): Berlin as Yiddish literary crossroads [Abstract]
- Prof. Dr. Mikhail Krutikov (Ann Arbor): Berlin through the lenses of an unfinished Yiddish novel [Abstract]
Bialik's Weimar – The Berlin Hebrew Movement and the Jewish Nation 1918 -1933
[more...]- Prof. Dr. Dan Laor (Tel Aviv): „In seinem treuen Herzen die Essenz beider Welten“. Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s relationship with Berlin [Abstract]
- Prof. Dr. Marc Caplan (Baltimore, MD, USA): "The Corridors of Berlin: Proximity, Peripherality, and Surveillance in Dovid Bergelson’s Boarding House Stories" [Abstract]
- Prof. Shachar Pinsker (Ann Arbor, MI, USA): "Between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches Café: Berlin as a Space of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism" [Abstract]
Problematimizing the Self in the Russian-Jewish Exile Literature of the 1920s in Berlin
[more...]- Prof. Dr. Zsuzsa Hetényi (Budapest): Russian-Jewish writers and their platforms in Berlin [Abstract]
Community and Integration: Mediators between Cultures in Russian-Jewish Berlin, 1918-1940
[more...]- Alexander Ivanov (St. Petersburg): “Bread, satisfaction and human dignity”: Activity of the ORT in Berlin, 1920/30s [Abstract]
- Prof. Dr. Viktor Kel’ner (St. Petersburg): Russian-Jewish publishing in Berlin, 1920s [Abstract]
- Prof. Dr. Vladimir Khazan (Jerusalem): The Brothers Aaron and Isaak Steinberg’s Contribution to the History of the Russian-Jewish Berlin [Abstract]
