Asif Rahamim won the Lakritz Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year and a is visiting research fellow at the center in the years 2021-2023. This year he is a visiting research postdoctoral fellow at the center.

Stefan Leicht (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) was one of our visiting researchers at the 2021-2022 academic year. He won the Israel Council for Higher Education PhD Sandwich Scholarship and joined the center for the current year.

Joshua Shelly was one of our fellows at the 2021-2022 academic year.

As part of the Carolina-Duke program in German Studies, Shelly's doctoral project, entitled "Writing a Future State: Spatial Imaginaries of German Jewish Literature, 1847-1932", explores German-language Zionist utopias and related literary texts written at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

Ghila Amati (University of Oxford), one of the visiting fellows at the center during the academic year 2021-2022, share with us a glimpse of her research:

Ansgar Martins (PhD candidate, Goethe University in Frankfurt), focuses on Siegfried Kracauer's rather less well-known reflections on the philosophy and history of religion(s). The heart piece of his theological thought was the notion that (divine) truth could no longer be grasped directly but only negatively through the criticism of the profane world.