Fellows

Maya Lyubomirsky is a Knapp Research Fellow and an MA student in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dmitry Asinovskiy is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. His forthcoming monograph, based on his Ph.D.

Jessica Goldblatt is an MA student in the English Literature department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her BA Honours in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was also the recipient of the Mandel Scholarship in 2023/2024.

Ekaterina Oleshkevich is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism. She completed her Ph.D.

Ben Bornstein is a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Academic Director of the Challenge of Living Together cluster at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Chiara Solazzo is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia (Italy). She is carrying out her research at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna.

Danny Admasu completed his PhD in March 2023, with his dissertation titled "Blackness in Israel: Ethiopian Jews and the Perception of Black in Zionist History, Historiography, and Culture 1855-2022." His research was conducted at Bar-Ilan University's program of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies und

Grazia De Michele is a historian with a keen interest in the history of racism, education, social movements, medicine, and science. She obtained her first PhD from the University of Reading (UK) in 2013.

Miguel Rivas Venegas is a postdoctoral researcher at the EU Excellence Program María Zambrano (2022-today), and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish Ministry of Science Program Juan de la Cierva Formación (2020-2022) at the University of the Basque Country.

Matteo D’Avanzo is a PhD candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa under the supervision of prof. Ilaria Pavan. His research deals with the history of Ethiopian Jews under Italian fascist rule and its aftermath.

Gal Ron is a Ph.D. candidate at the the Political Science Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores how emotions are employed for achieving different aims in the political and social spheres.

Micha Danziger is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Felice Ferraro is a Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

Leon Thiel is an academic assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow. He is studying for a Masters degree in Cultural Studies at Leipzig University and is currently a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on an ERASMUS+ Study Scholarship.

Michel Gherman is Graduated in History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2000), has Master degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007) and holds a Ph.D. in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2014).

Giulio Santoni is a PhD candidate at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in co-tutorship with the China University of Political Science and Law.

Dr. Samuel Barnai is a Research Fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of European Studies and at the Rothberg International School, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Barnai received his Ph.D.

Magdalena Dziaczkowska is a Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

Noah Benninga is a postdoctoral researcher at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University, a fellow of Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, and the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University.He received

 Born in Jerusalem, Aviad Nahum graduated from the Hebrew University with majors in History and Geography.In his research project, titled "The Rosenberg Case and the Jews in Fifties America," he aims to delve into the significance of the Rosenberg case and its impact on American society, particularl

Livia Tagliacozzo is a PhD candidate at the Department for Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. She was a Felix Posen Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, received the President’s Scholarship for Outstanding

Arnold I. Davidson is the Robert O.