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Dr. Naama Jager -Fluss

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Dr. Naama Jager-Fluss

 

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—            Research fellow, ISF project: “David Frishman and Hebrew-European Literature: Towards a Critical Biography,” Department of Hebrew Literature, Bar-Ilan University

2023—            Supervisor of high-school students’ term papers in Humanities, National Library of Israel

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

2023‒2024      “Historical Pathways Emerging from Berlin: The Haskalah Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” 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.

 SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS

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

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

  1. November 2024: “'Who is a Freeborn?': An Eastern Europe Perspective of Germany’s Jewish Women’s Movement", 120th Jubilee of the Jüdische Frauenbund International Conference, Frankfurt, Jewish Museum Frankfurt (English).
  2. June 2024,  “'A Voice in the Wilderness': Skepticism and Criticism in the Religious Reform in Germany in the Middle of the 19th Century", Annual Conference of German Studies: Language, Culture, Society, Tel Aviv University (Hebrew).
  3. June 2024, “'Give us childhood dew!': Lessing, Frischmann and Kästner Walk into a Bar“, Der Doppelte Erich: Between Dresden and Jerusalem A conference marking the 50th anniversary of Kästner’s death, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (Hebrew).
  4. September 2023: “‘In des Himmels Namen’: From Haskalah to Reform in the Early Nineteenth century,” IGDJ, Hamburg (English).
  5. July 2023: “Gotthold Salomon as the Founder of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany.” EAJS Congress, Frankfurt a.M. (English).
  6. March 2023: “The Hamburg Temple Disputes: The Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement.” Guest lecture, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem (Hebrew).
  7. October 2022: “Religious Enlightenment and Pietism in Gotthold Salomon’s Sermons at the Hamburg Temple.” Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew),
  8. August 2022: “‘My Wish is that Women could also Visit the Synagogue’: The Inclusion of Women in Worship Rituals at the Hamburg Temple.” World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew).
  9. June 2022: “‘Religious Revival’: Religious and National Awakening at the Hamburg Temple.” International Conference on Modern Jewish Theology 1830‒1930, Joseph Carlebach Institute, Bar-Ilan University (English).
  10. May 2022: “A Jewish Preacher Goes on Vacation at the North Sea at Sommer 1834.” Graduate seminar, Jewish History Department, Tel Aviv University (Hebrew).
  11. March 2022: “‘The Light of God is the Light of Reason: Religious Enlightenment in the Hamburg Temple.” SEGC, Appalachian State University, North Carolina (English).
  12. March 2022: “The Shift from Haskalah to Religious Reform.” International workshop on the “Republic of Haskalah in the Early Nineteenth Century: Focal Points, Networks, and Ideological Trends,” Bar-Ilan University (Hebrew).
  13. January 2022: “Gotthold Salomon and the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany.” International workshop on Religion and Secularization in German Jewry, Bar-Ilan University (English).
  14. September 2021: “The Polemic over Religious Reform: Integration and Separatism among German Jews in the Era of Emancipation.” ISCH, Mainz, Germany (canceled due to Covid-19).
  15. December 2020: “Between the Last Maskilim and the First Reformers.” Graduate seminar, Jewish History Department, Tel Aviv University (Hebrew).
  16. June 2020: “The Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany.” Colloquium, General History Department, Bar-Ilan University (Hebrew).
  17. May 2020: “Jewish Sermons in the Nineteenth Century.” Young History conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (canceled due to Covid-19).
  18. January 2020: “The Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement.” Jewish Studies PhD-student conference, Bar-Ilan University (Hebrew).
  19. May 2019: “The Divorce Case from Kleve (1766‒1777).” PhD-student conference, Historical Society of Israel, Open University, Zikhron Yaakov (Hebrew).
  20. January 2019: “Religious Enlightenment in Gotthold Salomon’s Sermons.” PhD-student conference, Historical Society of Israel, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem (Hebrew).

ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. May 2023: Co-organizer of international conference: “A New Age: Jews in Europe in an Era of Changes.” Retirement Conference in Honor of Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University.

2. March 2023: Organizer, 24th annual lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University.

3. March 2022: Co-organizer, ISF international workshop: The Republic of Haskalah in the Early Nineteenth Century: Focal Points, Networks, and Ideological Trends,” Bar-Ilan University

4. November 2021: Organizer, 23rd annual lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University, Bar-Ilan University.

5. December 2020: Organizer of “Visual Documentation and German Jewry Historical Research” conference, Bar-Ilan University.

6. February 2020: Co-organizer, 14th annual workshop for young scholars of German history and culture in Israel, Bar-Ilan University.

7. November 2019: Co-organizer, book launch event: “Woman’s Right: Writings on Feminism and Judaism,” by Bertha Pappenheim, ed. Natalie Naimark-Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University.

8. May 2019: Organizer, “Jews Travel in Germany” conference, Bar-Ilan University.

9. April 2019: Organizer, 22nd annual lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University.

10. June 2018: Organizer, international conference: “Letters as a Historical Resource in the History of German Jewry,” Bar-Ilan University

11. March 2018: Organizer, 21st annual lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University.

12. March 2017: Organizer, 20th annual lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany, Bar-Ilan University.

LANGUAGES – ACADEMIC PROFICIENCY

Hebrew           Native

English            Highly proficient in speaking, reading, and writing

German           Highly proficient in speaking, reading, and writin

Research

Topics of Academic Study:

  • Modern Jewish History in Germany and Central Europ
  • Liberal Judaism in 19th Century Germany
  • Denominations in Modern Judaism
  • Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
  • Modern Hebrew-European Literature
Publications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles

  1. “The Intermediate Men: Maskilim and Jewish Reformers in early 19th Century“, Chidushim (26, 2) (in press) (Hebrew).
  2. “‘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.
  3. “‘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 (in press) (Hebrew).
  4. “Religious Enlightenment and Pietism in Gotthold Salomon’s Sermons at the Hamburg Temple,” Chidushim 24 (2022): 9‒47 (Hebrew).
  5. “‘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 of and the Beginning of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany (was accepted for publication by the Zalman Shazar Center For Jewish History, 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 (in press) (Hebrew).

 

Digital projects

“Haskalah: The Cultural Revolution of the Jewish Enlightenment.” EAJS 2023, Co-edited with Shmuel Feiner and Kerstin Von der Krone (English).

 

Under review

1.         “The Interplay of Religious Revival and National Revival: The Case of the Hamburg Temple (1818‒1848),” in Yaakov G. Kohler and Samuel Kessler (eds.), Modern Jewish Theology (Brill; forthcoming 2024) (English).

Last Updated Date : 12/12/2024