Hilde Robinsohn-Guest Fellowship
Since its 30th founding anniversary, the Moses Mendelssohn Center annually awards Guest Fellowships for European-Jewish studies for stays of up to four months. The fellowship program is dedicated to the memory of Hildegard Robinsohn (1907–1996), a Jewish lawyer and advocate in restitution trials. She was married to Saul B. Robinsohn, one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in Berlin, whose private library is located in the MMZ library.
The fellows are working on a project in one of the fields related to research fields at the MMZ, such as Israel Studies, modern and contemporary Jewish history, Jewish and German-German history (with a particular focus on GDR history), the history of the German-Jewish Diaspora, Digital Jewish History, studies into Antisemitism and the Far Right, Film History – whether from a historical, cultural studies, literary studies, political science or sociological perspective.
They actively participate in the academic exchange at the Moses Mendelssohn Center. The MMZ provides access to one of the largest directly accessible reference libraries on European-Jewish history in Germany.
Fellows to date
2024
- Amy Carney, PhD. Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College
- Dr. Aurelia Kalisky. Centre Marc Bloch
- Dr. Itay Marinberg-Milikowsky. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Dr. Yael Netzer. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Dr. Till Greite. University of London
2023
- Dr. Jonathan Kaplan. FID Jüdische Studien, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Dr. Benjamin Zachariah. Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien / Georg-Eckert-Institut in Braunschweig
2022
- Prof. Cathy Gelbin, PhD. The University of Manchester
- Dr. Agnieszka Wierzcholska. DHI Paris