• 2020 (forthcoming): Minerva PhD fellow at Göttingen University
• 2019: Armbruster PhD fellow at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin, under the supervision of Professor Oliver Janz.
• 2018-present: PhD candidate in German intellectual history, fellow at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 2015-2016: M.A in European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2010-2014: B.Mus, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Classical Piano Performance)

Research Interests:

• German and European intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries
• German ethnic and national identity
• "Europe" as an idea

My PhD dissertation looks into a particular self-image of Germanness, that of the "unpolitical German."  It examines how this image of the Germans as an “apolitical” nation reflected on the emphatically political question of German statehood from 1830 to 1919. Ranging from the late Vormärz period that led up to the 1848-49 revolutions and ending with the immediate aftermath of World War I, the project’s periodization sees Germans grappling with their collective identity, or lack thereof, and constantly re-envisioning its actualization – whether national, cultural, or otherwise. Itself inescapably political, the image of the “apolitical” German is inherently contradictory, constituting a unique case study. Intensifying this internal tension its essentialist foundation, which construed it as a predetermined fact of life. This held particularly true in the context of national awakening and an intense preoccupation with “national character” across Europe, followed by the unprecedented nationalistic fervour leading up to and during World War I. By analysing a diverse corpus of German-language texts, my dissertation explores how this self-image interacted throughout this period with the “German question,” under vastly changing political conditions. Among other aspects, it will examine in what contexts it was cast as a weakness, a strength, a vice, or a virtue, and how it corresponded to German thought’s rich cosmopolitan legacy.