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Professors
Active professors
Photo: Michael Kohls
Heisenberg-Professor for Jewish Studies
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-4740
Office hours
- by arrangement
Key aspects of activity
- 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
Photo: Michael Kohls
Chair for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9792
Research associates
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Jewish horror and the history of emotions
- Jewish moralistic literature (Musar)
- Sephardic Judaism (Ladino Literature)
- Rabbinic Literature
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate (PESHAT)
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Room: B 212
Tel: +49 40 42838-6961
Key aspects of activity
- Jewish Philosophy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- History of Jewish life in Schleswig-Holstein (until 1945)
- Pentecoastalism and Christian Esoteric movements
Photo: Michael Kohls
HEPMASITE Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2. Stock)
20355 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Philosophy
- Interaction between philosophy and mysticism (15th-16th centuries)
- History of reading and learning practices
- History of the Hebrew book
Photo: Foto: K. Fritze
Lecturer for Hebrew
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9841
Key aspects of activity
- Hebrew Linguistics
- Jewish Mysticism of Late Antiquity/ Hekhalot Literature
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9835
Key aspects of activity
- Medieval Hebrew Philosophy
- Manuscript Studies
- Arabic-into-Hebrew translations
- History of Metaphysics
Photo: h. paulman
HEPMASITE Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C211
Key aspects of activity
- History of Hylomorphism
- Ancient and Medieval Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
- Aristotelian Psychology
Photo: j.rodriguez-arribas
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Intellectual history of Jews
- Premodern astronomical sciences
- Medieval cosmology
- Astronomical instruments
- Medieval manuscripts
- Medieval science as a melting pot of cultures, religions, and languages
- Material and visual cultures of medieval and early-modern astronomy
- Prognostication and prognostic practices in premodern Europe
- Relationships of biblical exegesis and science in the Middle Ages
Photo: Chiara Rover
MCAS Co-Director, MCAS Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C218
Tel: +49 40 42838-9911
Key aspects of activity
- History of Ancient Philosophy
- Ancient Scepticism
- Roman Epicureanism
- Ancient Roman Religion
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate (Musar)
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Jewish Moralistic Literature (Musar)
- Christian Kabbalah in the Modern Period
- Hebrew Paleography and Codicology of the Middle Ages
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9834
Key aspects of activity
- Modern European Jewish History
- Gender and Judaism
- Cultural History of European Jews
Technical, administrative and library staff
Photo: Michael Kohls
Project Assistant
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9579
Photo: Michael Kohls
MCAS Academic Coordinator
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-8605
Student assistants
Photo: C. Lehan
Key aspects of activity
- Carolina Lehan is a sculptor and painter whose artistic practice delves into the realms of space, everyday life, and the environment. With a deep appreciation for the wisdom and memory of natural materials, she skillfully develops site-specific sculptures and installations by exploring a range of contemporary and ancient craft techniques.
Photo: Michael Kohls
Student Assistant
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C211