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 András
Kovács (e-mail)
is a Professor at the Nationalism
Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European
University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior
Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority
Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Kovacs studied
philosophy and history and completed his PhD in sociology
at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
He has held teaching and research positions at Paderborn
University (FRG), École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales (Paris), New York University (New
York), TH Twente (The Netherlands), Salomon Steinheim
Institut für Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte, Duisburg
, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna,
Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für Jüdische Studien,
Potsdam , Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften,
Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Universitat Wien,
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin.
His research interests
include minority identities, prejudice, antisemitism,
and sociology of post-Holocaust Jewry. In the last years
Professor Kovács has carried out empirical research
on antisemitism in post-Communist Hungary, on Jewish identity
in Hungary and on national identity and European integration.
Since 2002, he has been senior researcher at the Institute
for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences.
He has published over
90 scholarly works, including Anti-Semitism and the Young
Elite in Hungary (1996), Antisemitic Prejudices in Contemporary
Hungary (1999), Jews and Jewry in Contemporary Hungary:
Results of a Sociological Survey (ed., 2004), New Jewish
Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond (co-editor,
2003), NATO, Neutrality and National Identity: the Case
of Austria and Hungary (co-editor, 2003).
His scholarly publications
include:
list of
publications
full CV
Courses Taught:
Interpretations
of Modern Anti-Semitism
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 Victor
Karady (e-mail)
has been educated in Budapest and Paris, with degrees
from the Sorbonne in sociology and demography. A member
of the European Sociological Center since its foundation,
he is emeritus research director with the French National
Center for Scientific Research and recurrent visiting
professor at the CEU. His main research interests lie
in the history of the French universities and social sciences,
ethnic and denominational inequalities of modernisation
(especially in Central Europe), Jews in European societies
since the Enlightenment.
His latest books include Gewalterfahrung
und Utopie, Juden in der europäischen Moderne
(Frankfurt a. M., Fischer, 1999); co-editor, L'enseignement
des élites en Europe Centrale (19e-20e siècles),
(Cracow, Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 1999); (in Hungarian)
Self-Identification and Choice of Destiny, Studies
in the Historical Transformations of Jewish Identity in
Hungary (Budapest, Uj Mandatum, 2001.); (in Hungarian)
co-author, Surname and Nation. Ethnic Power Relations
and the Movement to Magyarise Alien Surnames from the
Vormärz to Communism (Budapest, Osiris, 2002);
(in Hungarian) : Survivors and Those Who Start Again,
Chapters in the Sociology of Jews in Hungary after 1945
(Budapest, Mult es Jovo, 2002); co-author, The University
of Kolozsvar/Cluj and the Students of the Medical Faculty
(1872-1918) (Cluj-Budapest-New York, Ethnocultural Diversity
Resource Center and CEU Press, 2004); and The
Jews of Europe in the Modern Era (Budapest, CEU
Press, 2004).
Courses Taught:
Social
History of Central European Jewry
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 Michael Miller (e-mail) is Assistant Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the CEU. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he specialized in Jewish and Central European History. His research focuses on the impact of nationality conflicts on the religious, cultural and political development of Central European Jewry in the nineteenth century. He has contributed to Kotowski, Schoeps, Wallenborn, Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa (Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2001), Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner. Teil 1: Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit (Munich-New York: K.G. Saur, 2004), and the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (Forthcoming).
Courses Taught:
Paths to Jewish
Emancipation
The Emergence of Zionism
Russian and Poland
as Multi-National States: The Jews as Case-Study, 1772-1917
Culture, Society and
Religion of Eastern European Jewry
Anti-Judaism and
Antisemitism in Historical Perspective
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 Carsten
Wilke (e-mail)
is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at
the CEU. He obtained a PhD in Jewish Studies from the
University of Cologne and a diploma in Religious Sciences
from the École Pratique des Hautes Études of Paris. He
has held teaching positions at the College of Jewish Studies
Heidelberg, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and
the Free University of Brussels, and realized research
projects at the CNRS in Paris, the Ashkenazi Community
in Mexico City, the Steinheim Institute for German Jewish
History in Duisburg and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic
Studies in Philadelphia. His publications on the intellectual
and cultural history of European Jewry focus on medieval
Jewish mysticism, Jewish-Christian relations, Iberian
crypto-Judaism, and 19th century religious modernization.
He authored
the books Jüdisch-christliches Doppelleben im Barock
(Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1994), Den Talmud und den Kant:
Rabbinerausbildung an der Schwelle zur Moderne, (Hildesheim,
Olms, 2003), Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner,
part. I: Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit in den
deutschen, böhmischen und großpolnischen Ländern, 1781-1871
(Munich, Saur 2004), and Histoire des juifs portugais
(Paris, Chandeigne 2007; Portuguese translation Lisbon,
Edições 70, 2009), which was distinguished with the French
Jewish Book Award in 2008. His text editions include posthumous
works of the French historian Israël Salvator Révah (2
vols. Paris 2003-2004) and Die Sittenlehre des Judenthums
by Elias Grünebaum (Köln, Böhlau, forthcoming).
Courses Taught:
Medieval
Iberian Jewry under Muslim and Christian Rule
Transnationalism
and the Jews of the Nineteenth Century
Sephardic
Jewry in Exile, 1492 to the present
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 Shlomo Avineri (e-mail) is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Poland in 1933, he has lived in Israel since 1939. He studied at the Hebrew University and the London School of Economics and has held visiting appointments at Yale, Cornell, the University of California, Wesleyan University, Oxford, the Australian National University, the Central European University in Budapest, Cardozo School of Law in New York and Northwestern University. He was also visiting scholar at the Wilson Center, the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (all in Washington D.C.), Collegium Budapest, as well as the Institute of World Economics and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow. He is a member of the International Institute of Philosophy.
His books, which have been translated into many languages, include: The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization, Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, Israel and the Palestinians, The Making of Modern Zionism, Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism, Communitarianism and Individualism (with Avner de-Shalit), The Law of Religious Identity: Models for Post-Communism (with András Sajó), Integration and Identity and Politics and Identities in Transformation (both with Werner Weidenfeld). He recently participated in preparing a Hebrew edition of Theodor Herzl's Diaries and wrote an historical Introduction to the edition. Israel: Nation-Building, Political Development, War and Peace
Courses Taught:
Israel:
Nation-Building, Political Development.
War and Peace
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 Michael Brenner (e-mail) is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His publications include The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press, 1996), After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Post-War Germany (Princeton University Press, 1997), and Zionism: A Brief History (Marcus Wiener Publishers, 2003). He is co-author and co-editor of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times (Columbia University Press, 1997-98) and co-editor of various other books. He serves as chairman of the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in Deutschland and is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Courses Taught:
German-Jewish
History from the Enlightenment to the Rise of National
Socialism
Major Issues and Debates in Modern Jewish Historiography
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 Zvi Gitelman (e-mail) is Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also a Research Scientist at the Center for Russian and East European Studies. His current research is on ethnicity and politics. He is especially interested in how states manage multi-ethnic societies, with special reference to the experience of the former USSR and Eastern Europe. He is also conducting an empirical study of ethnic identities among Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the United States. A third project is the collection, analysis, editing and publication of oral histories of Soviet Jewish veterans of World War Two. The project aims to fill in 'blank spots' in Soviet history and to understand ethnic relations and ethnic motivations in the Soviet armed forces during the war. His publications include Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics (1972), Becoming Israelis: Political Resocialization of Soviet and American Immigrants (1982), A Century of Ambivalence: the Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (1988; 2001), Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR (1997), and, as editor, Jewish Life after the USSR (2003).
Course Taught:
The Politics and Culture of Modern East European Jewry
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 Yael Tamir was born in Israel in 1954. She holds a Ph.D. in Liberal Nationalism from Oxford University. Tamir is a Professor of Political Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University and a Research Fellow at the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies. She is a member of the board of the Jerusalem Foundation and of the Israel Institute of Democracy. Prof. Tamir has authored a number of books and articles on various subjects, including liberalism, nationalism, and feminism. From 1980-1985 she was active in the Ratz party (now part of Meretz) and was one of the founders of the Peace Now movement. Since 1995, she has been active in the Labor Party. Yael Tamir served as Minister of Immigrant Absorption from August 1999 until March 2001. Her major book, Liberal Nationalism (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy) was first published in 1995.
Course Taught:
Can Liberal Nationalism be implemented? The Israeli
Test-Case
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 John
Klier (1944-2007)
It is with deep sadness that
we inform you of the death of John Doyle Klier on September
23, 2007. John Klier was the Sidney and Elizabeth Corob
Professor of Modern Jewish History at UCL, and a recurrent
visiting professor in Jewish Studies and Nationalism Studies
at CEU. He was an eminent scholar of Russian History,
and he will be remembered at CEU for his invaluable contribution
to the development of Jewish Studies at this institution.
John was an inspiring teacher, a wonderful human being
and a dear friend to many at CEU. He will be greatly missed.
For John Klier's obituary on
the UCL website, please see:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0709/07092405
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 A social and cultural historian of the Jews of Central Europe, Professor Marsha Rozenblit (mrozenbl@umd.edu) has published The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (1984), which also appeared in a German translation (1989). Recently she has written Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I (Oxford, 2001), which explores how the Jews, a group profoundly loyal to the multinational Monarchy, coped with the collapse of that supranational state and the creation of nation-states. She has written many articles on Jews in the Habsburg Monarchy and is currently working on Jews and Germans in Moravia, 1848-1938. She served on the editorial boards of the Association for Jewish Studies Review and Jewish Social Studies. She served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies from 1998-2003, and is currently a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
Courses taught:
The Struggle over Identity: The Dilemmas of Jews in Austria-Hungary and Its Successor States
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 Ivan Sanders (ivansanders@mailbox.hu) is Professor Emeritus of English at Suffolk College, SUNY, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's East Central European Center. He has also taught at the New School University, the Central European University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the prize-winning translator (Füst Milán Prize, Déry Tibor Prize, Soros Translation Award) of works by George Konrád, Péter Nádas, Péter Esterházy, Miklós Mészöly, Ádám Bodor and others. His studies and essays on Jewish literary topics have appeared in Judaism, Jewish Social Studies, Soviet Jewish Affairs, The Hungarian Quarterly, Múlt és Jövő and other journals.
Courses taught:
Assimilation and its Discontents: Central European Jewish Writers
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 Moshe Idel is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in Kabbalah and has served as visiting professor and researcher at many universities and institutions worldwide, including Yale, Harvard and Princeton Universities in the USA and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His numerous publications include Kabbalah: New Perspectives and Messianic Mystics (both by Yale University Press), and Hassidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic (SUNY, Albany). In 1999, Prof. Idel received the prestigious Israel Prize for excellent achievement in the field of Jewish Philosophy.
Courses Taught:
Approaching Religion
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 Gisela Bock (e-mail) studied in Freiburg, Berlin, Paris, and Rome. She received her Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) in 1971 and her Habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in 1984. From 1971 to 1983 she taught American History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, then history of National Socialism at the Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, both at the FUB. She was a fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1974-75) and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1995-96). She taught European history at the European University Institute in Florence (1985-89), gender history at the University of Bielefeld (1989-1987). Since 1997, she has taught European history at the Department of History of the FUB.
Her books include Die "andere" Arbeitsbewegung in den USA von 1905-1922 : Die Industrial workers of the world (Trikont, 1976), Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus : Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986), and Women in European History (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
Courses Taught:
Women and/in the Holocaust: Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
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 Frank
Stern (e-mail)
studied at the Free University Berlin, the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, and received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University
where he taught Modern History and Culture. From 1997
to 2004 Professor for Modern German History and Culture
and director of the Center for German Studies and the
Austrian-German Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University
in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and 2002 Acting Chair at the Department
of Film and Television at Sapir College, Sederot. Visiting
Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York,
at Georgetown University, Washington DC, at Humboldt University
Berlin, and at Vienna University. Since 2004 teaching
cinema and cultural history at the Institute for Contemporary
History at Vienna University.
He published widely on postwar
Germany, on problems of philosemitism and anti-Semitism
(“the Whitewashing of the Yellow Badge”), on American-German-Israeli
relations, on German-Jewish issues, and particularly on
German, Austrian and US-American film.
He was academic consultant
for exhibitions on Jewish life and antisemitism in Vienna
and Berlin, and curated a number of film retrospectives
on German, Austrian, Israeli and Jewish films in Israel
and Austria. In 2002, he published “Dann bin ich um den
Schlaf gebracht. Ein Jahrtausend jüdisch-deutsche Kulturgeschichte,”
in February 2003 he coedited “Die deutsch-jüdische Erfahrung.
Beiträge zum kulturellen Dialog, and in October 2004 he
coedited „Ludwig Börne – Deutscher, Jude, Demokrat“ with
the Aufbau Publishing House in Berlin.
Recent publications include
articles and chapters on
• the Holocaust in film,
• Challenges of historical film analysis,
• German-language films from 1930 to 1950: propaganda
and entertainment,
• Gender and film in the 1920s and 1930s,
• Problems of the Representation of Jewish topics on the
screen.
• Arthur Schnitzler and film: the poet of acculturation
Course taught: Being Jewish in European and American Cinema
1914 to 2006
Courses Taught:
Being
Jewish in European and American Cinema 1914-2006
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 Yom
Tov Assis is a professor of medieval Jewish history
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in
the history of the Jews in Spain, Portugal and Provence
and in the Sefardi Diaspora. He
has published many books and numerous articles on topics
related to the above-mentioned fields in various languages.
He has edited more than 25 books and is the editor of
an academic journal entitled Hispania Judaica Bulletin
and the series Hispania Judaica and in the past the series
Sources for the History of the Jews in Spain. He is the
head of Hispania Judaica – Center for the History and
Culture of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, chairman of
the Center for the History and Culture of the Jews of
Aleppo and its Surroundings and chairma of The Ben-Zvi
Institute for the Study of the Jewish Communities in the
East.
Assis has
served as the Head of the Institute of Jewish Studies,
the academic head of the Dinur Center for Research on
Jewish History, and the academic head of the International
Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
and the Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian, all
at the Hebrew University.
Professor
Assis has worked in archives and libraries in England,
France, Spain, Russia, the United States etc. He is a
member of numerous academic institutions and was involved
in many international projects related to medieval history.
Professor
Assis has served as visiting professor in University College,
London, in the Sorbonne, Paris, in UCLA in Los Angeles,
in Yale, Conneticut, in the University of Sydney, in Anahuac,
Mexico, in Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland,
in Shandong University, China and has lectured in more
than 40 countries.
Courses Taught:
Medieval
Jewish Life under the Cross and the Crescent
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