PD Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch

Academic Positions

2017– Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader, “Jewish Moralistic Writings (musar) of the Early Modern Period: 1600-1800,” University of Hamburg, Germany

2014–17 Research Associate, Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg, Germany

2013–14
Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, New York City, United States of America

2012–13
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, ERC Advanced Grant Project FOUNDMED – Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

2011–12
Visiting lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Education

2022
Habilitation in Judaic Studies at the University fo Hamburg

2007–12
PhD student at the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2003–7
Master’s Program in Jewish Civilization, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2001–3
Basic studies (Grundstudium) at the Department of Jewish Studies and the Department of Comparative Religion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Jewish Moralistic Writings (musar)
• Kabbalah
• Jewish Ethics
• History of Hebrew Printing and Bibliography
• Early Modern Jewish Intellectual History
• Mysticism and Spirituality in the Abrahamic Traditions

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World Union of Jewish Studies

Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)

German Association for Jewish Studies (VJD)

Selma Stern Zentrum for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg

2015: Ephraim E. Urbach Prize 2015-2016, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, in cooperation with the World Union of Jewish Studies.

2014 Knapp Family Foundation Travel Grant.

2013-2014  Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars. New York City, USA.

2011-2012 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship for the reintegration of German academics. Bonn, Germany.

2010-2011 Fellowship of the Max and Bele Guggenheim Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel.

2007-2010 Minerva Doctoral Fellowship, Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society. München, Germany.

2004-2005 Scholarship of the State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Jerusalem, Israel.

2003-2004 ISAP Scholarship (‘International Partnership in Higher Education’), The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Bonn, Germany.

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