Reader in Modern European and Jewish History

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Biography

I have undertaken extensive research in German-Jewish history, in particular social and women's history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of my research deals with Jewish education in the period of emancipation, Jewish welfare policies, Jewish poor in the 19th century, Jewish reform schools and correctional education in the 20th century, feminist and Zionist constructions of gender in German Zionism, the Jewish family in crisis and the "New Jewish" woman. My other areas of research deal with Palestine Studies with a focus on gender and nationalism. I was on the editorial board of METIS. Zeitschrift fuer Historische Frauenforschung und feministische Praxis and I am a board member of the Schriftenreihe. Studien und Dokumente zur juedischen Bildungsgeschichte in Deutschland as well as the Arbeitskreis "Geschichte der Juedischen Wohlfahrt in Deutschland" and the European Association of Israel Studies.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications  

PhD Supervision

Central European Jewish history, especially social and women's history; issues of gender and memory in the context of Palestinian history; modern Jewish history; Middle Eastern history, in particular Palestine Studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict.  

Teaching

Modern European history, Gender Studies (with a focus on women and Islam and Palestinian women), modern Jewish history; Israel/Palestine, the Story of a Land, 1882 to the Present.  

Administrative Responsibilities

First Year Senior Tutor
Member of the School Tutorial Board
Member of the School Undergraduate Student/Staff Committee   

Most Recent Publications

Books

1. "Jugend in Not: Fürsorgeerziehung in deutsch-jüdischer Gesellschaft, 1901-1933 (Böhlau Verlag, Wien/Köln/Weimar, 2003)
2. Jüdisches Schul- und Erziehungswesen in Bayern 1901-1933. Tradition und Modernisierung im Zeitalter der Emanzipation, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989 (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; vol. 36)

Articles and chapters

1. ‘Die jüdische Familie in der Krise. Symptome und Debatten’, in: Kirsten Heinsohn/Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (eds.), Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte. Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Wallstein-Verlag Göttingen 2006, pp. 105-122
2. 'Feministische und zionistische Konstruktionen der Geschlechterdifferenz im deutschen Zionismus', in Andrea Schatz/Christian Wiese (eds), Janusfiguren. "Jüdische Heimstätte, Exil und Nation im deutschen Zionismus (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2006), pp. 125-148