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Three Mandel Scholars of the Scholion interdisciplinary research center in Jewish studies at Hebrew University have been awarded tenure track, and a fourth will be awarded a teaching position in the faculty of humanities.
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Mandel Scholars Dr Pavel Maciejko, Dr Dimitry Shumsky and Dr Uzi Leibner applied along with approximately 70 other talented post-doctoral applicants for positions at the Hebrew University in the faculty of Humanities. Four Mandel scholars reached the final stage of selection.
“The four received positions, which is an absolutely huge achievement, for the scholars and for us,” said Zohar Marcovich of the Scholion Center. | The Mandel Scholars program offers two teaching and research positions per year to young, outstanding researchers in the area of Jewish society and culture. The positions are filled by researchers from Israel and abroad who have recently received their doctorates, having conducted distinctive and extraordinary research in fields relating to Jewish Studies. Each year, applicants are sifted by a careful selection process until the two deemed most outstanding are invited to further their research over a triennial term.
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Dr Pavel Maciejko’s research interests include the History of the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, German-Jewish Thought, Jewish-Christian Polemics, Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Jews and Armenians, and the Enlightenment. |
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Dr Dimitry Shumsky specializes in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Multi-Nationalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy and the Soviet Union; Socio-Cultural History of the Jewish Nationalism and Zionism in the Eastern and Central Europe; Soviet Jewish Cultural and Intellectual History; Russian-Jewish Migration Studies |
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Dr Uzi Leibner’s current research projects include an Eastern Galilee Survey publication; Settlement and Demographic changes in Byzantine Galilee and their implications on the society and culture of the Galilean Jewry; and Imported Fine Ware in Palaestina Secunda, 4th-7th centuries. |
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