Research Colloquium Winter Semester 2025/26

3 Mondays, scholars from all areas of Jewish Studies will present their research - B.A. students will meet Master's students, PhD students, research associates and department chairs - and interested parties will gain insights into a wide range of topics and have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in discussions.

Everyone is cordially invited to attend one or more sessions!

Program

Monday, December 8, 2025

09.30 - 11.00
Natalia Ivashkevich, M.A.
Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies
Intertextual Connections: Anton Chekhov and Sholem Aleichem

11.30 - 13.00
Nadezhda Bezuevskaia, M.A.
Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies / Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies
The Works of Fiction by Ruth Behar: Jewish Child Migration, Cultural Memory, and Family Lore of Latin American Women Writers

14.00 - 15.30
Patrick Locher, B.A.
Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies / University of Heidelberg 
The Tombstone of Meshullam ben Kalonymos. Observations and theses

15.45 - 17.15 
Milena Engel, B.A.
University of Heidelberg
Possibilities and limitations of sources on Jewish students at the University of Heidelberg (1933-1938)

17.30 - 19.00
Noah Knodel, B.A.
University of Heidelberg
Colonialism without empire? Zionist self-positioning between emancipation and land appropriation (1921-1935)

Monday January 12, 2026

09.30 - 11.00
Johannes Müller, M.A.
Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies / University of Frankfurt
David Qimchi's commentary on Psalms - genesis, tradition, thematic focus and impact

11.30 - 13.00
David Bindrim, PhD 
Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies
Language, Dialect, or Variety? The status of Ugaritic in the Semitic language family

14.00 - 15.30
Timon Wulf, B.A.
University of Heidelberg
Theodor Heuss and Judaism

15.45 - 17.15 
David Gilinsky, M.A. (Cantab) / MScR 
Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies 
Hibatullah Abu'l Barakat al-Baghdadi: His Judeo-Arabic Perush on Kohelet (1143 CE)

17.30 - 19.00
Hannah-Lea Wasserfuhr, PhD
Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies
The production and marketing of Jewish ritual objects between the 1870s and 1930s

Monday February 2, 2026

09.30 - 11.00
Silvia Negri, PhD
University for Jewish Studies
Tracing Intellectual Circulations Between Provence and Italy: First Steps Toward a Cartography of Ideas

11.30 - 13.00
Imen Ben Temelliste, PhD
School of Jewish Studies
Out of the Shadows of History: Jews of Tunisia between 1940-1943

14.00 - 15.30
Sören Gero Bartneck, M.A.
University of Graz 
The institutional history of the development of German-language post-war Jewish studies 1945 - 1971

15.45 - 17.15 
Yuliana Mosheeva 
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Anti-Semitic image patterns in text-to-image models of generative AI

17.30 - 19.00
Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss
Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies
A Jewish vernacular translation? Hebrew-French Bible glossaries and their use in Jewish education