CV
EDUCATION
2022 Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Kibbutzim College of Education
2017‒2022 PhD in Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
Dissertation title: “Gotthold Salomon (1784‒1862) and the Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany” (dissertation approved November 2022)
Supervisor: Prof. Shmuel Feiner
2014‒2017 MA in Jewish History (cum laude), Bar-Ilan University
Thesis title: “The Public Controversy in the Early Ninteenth Century over Religious Reform in Central Europe”
Supervisor: Prof. Shmuel Feiner
2011‒2014 BA in Jewish and General History (cum laude), Bar-Ilan University
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023— Teaching fellow, Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
2023— Supervisor of high-school students’ term papers in Humanities, National Library of Israel
2025‒2026 Supervisor of a research students group: “Women's History in Modern Times,” Zalman Shazar Center in Jerusalem
2023‒2025 Research fellow, ISF project: “David Frishman and Hebrew-European Literature: Towards a Critical Biography,” Department of Hebrew Literature, Bar-Ilan University
2023 Postdoctoral fellow, Carlebach Institute & IGDJ, Hamburg University
Supervisors: Prof. Doerte Bischoff and Dr. Kim Wünschmann
2019‒2023 Coordinator and research fellow, ISF project: “Renewal and Conservatism in an Age of Cultural Transformation: The ‘Second Chapter’ in the History of the Haskalah Movement in Europe, 1797‒1823,” Bar-Ilan University
2017‒2023 Coordinator of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University
2015‒2018 Accredited guide, Beit Hatfuzot, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv
2013–2015 Senior research assistant, ISF research project: “The Yossele Schumacher Affair,” Bar-Ilan University
2009‒2010 Historical guide and archivist, NILI Museum, Zikhron Yaakov
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025–2016 “Entangled Identities: Jewish-German Writers in Modern Times,“ BA course, Jewish History Department, Bar-Ilan University.
2024‒2025 “The Making of Jewish Middle Class in Europe,“ BA course, Jewish History Department, Bar-Ilan University.
2023‒2024 “Historical Pathways Emerging from Berlin: The Haskalah Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” BA course, Jewish History Department, Bar-Ilan University.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
2025 Minerva Short-Term Research Grant
2023 Miriam Gillis-Carlebach-Fellowship, IGDJ & Hamburg University
2018‒2022 President’s Scholarship for excellent doctoral students, Bar-Ilan University
2022 Doctoral prize for excellent doctoral students in the History of German Jewry, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
2022 Erasmus+ grant for attending “Jewish Life in Franconia” summer school, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2022 President’s Award for doctoral students in publications, Bar-Ilan University
2022 Doctoral prize, Center for the Study of Women in Judaism, Bar-Ilan University
2018‒2021 Academic scholarship for excellent students, Israel and Golda Koschizky Fund, Bar-Ilan University
2017 DAAD grant for German and cultural studies program, Hamburg University
2017 Goethe Institute grant for German and cultural studies program, Bonn
2017 Academic prize for excellent students, Halpern Center for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception, Bar-Ilan University
2015‒2016 Academic scholarship for excellent student, Israel and Golda Koschizky Fund, Bar-Ilan University
2015 Academic grant for German and Jewish cultural studies program, Tübingen University
2014‒2018 Various scholarships, German and cultural programs, Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
Research
Topics of Academic Study:
- Modern European Jewish History
- Modern German Jewry
- The Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)
- Denominations in Modern Judaism, Liberal Judaism
- Jewish Women's Movements in Germany
Publications
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
- “The Interplay of Religious Revival and National Revival: The Case of the Hamburg Temple (1818‒1848),” in: Modern Jewish Theology, eds. Yaakov G. Kohler and Samuel Kessler, Brill; forthcoming 2026. (English)
- “'Give Us the Dew of Childhood': On the Reception of Erich Kästner’s Works in Hebrew,” Chidushim 28 (2026): 137-164. (Hebrew)
- “Transformative Figures: Maskilim and Religious Reformers in Early 19th-Century Germany“, Chidushim 26, 2 (2024): 73–100. (Hebrew)
- “‘My Wish is that Women could also Visit the Synagogue’: Inclusion of Women in Worship at the Hamburger Temple,” Reshit: Studies in Judaism 7 (2023): 139‒165. (Hebrew)
- “‘On the Reshaping of the Jewish Cultus’: The Transition from Haskalah to Religious Reform,” in Shmuel Feiner et al. (eds.), Shocharei Hatov: The Creation of the Jewish Haskalah Republic 1790‒1830, Bar-Ilan University Press; forthcoming 2026. (Hebrew)
- “Religious Enlightenment and Pietism in Gotthold Salomon’s Sermons at the Hamburg Temple,” Chidushim 24 (2022): 9‒47. (Hebrew)
- “‘And the People Were Divided into Two Groups’: Religious Reform at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century,” Tabur 9 (2019): 33‒57. (Hebrew)
Books (as author):
Gotthold Salomon and the Beginning and the Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany (the Zalman Shazar Center For Jewish History Press, forthcoming 2026). (Hebrew)
Books (as editor):
Shmuel Feiner, Natalie Naimark Goldberg, Naama Jager-Fluss, and Naomi Keren (eds.), Shocharei Hatov: The Creation of the Jewish Haskalah Republic 1790‒1830, Bar-Ilan University Press; forthcoming 2026. (Hebrew)
Digital projects
“Haskalah: The Cultural Revolution of the Jewish Enlightenment.” EAJS 2023, Co-edited with Shmuel Feiner and Kerstin Von der Krone. (English)
Last Updated Date : 14/01/2026
