Shir Twerski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Jewish Thought and a Barbara and Morton Mandel Fellow at the Hebrew University. Her research is focused on German-Jewish political thought in the 20th century. Her doctoral dissertation examines the writings of two prominent modern German-Jewish thinkers – Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss – and seeks to demonstrate that both thinkers have profoundly innovative ideas concerning the epistemological, historical, and political importance of the subjective state of "not knowing".
Twerski's MA thesis was titled "Translation in the Works of Emmanuel Levinas". Her advisor is Professor Benjamin Pollock.