People

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.

Gustavo Guzmán is a historian specializing in Jewish history and antisemitism in Latin America. He has a Ph.D. in History from Tel Aviv University (2021), where he wrote a dissertation on Chilean right-wing attitudes toward Jews, under the supervision of Prof. Raanan Rein.

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.

Batsheva Neuer is a Past Knapp Doctoral Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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

Jakob Hoffmann was an Intern at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA). He studied Political Science and Sociology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University Munich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a bachelor's degree from the former institution.

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

Julia Pohlmann holds an M.A in Jewish Studies from the University of Potsdam (Germany).

Elad Lapidot is a professor for Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille, France.

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.

Yitzhak Mor is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Shany directs the CyberLaw program at the Hebrew University Federmann Cyber Security Research Center and is also Vice President for Research at t

Jonathan Grossman is a political scientist and historian specializing in diaspora politics, Israeli-Latin American relations, and qualitative methodology. Jonathan has a PhD in Romance and Latin American Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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).

 Yael Ben-Zvi Morad is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Prof.

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.

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Dr. Yuval Tal was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (2020). He received his PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University in 2020.

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

Michael Casper received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA, where he wrote his dissertation on Jewish political culture in interwar Lithuania. At SICSA he works on a project on the history of Lithuanian ultranationalism and the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces.

Dr. Selim Rauer is a Felix Posen post-doctoral fellow and junior faculty at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Rauer received his Ph.D.

Victor Isaac Taranto is a Posen Fellow at The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

Dr. Adi Armon's was a Research Fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Armon received his Ph.D.

Alexander Yakobson teaches ancient (Graeco-Roman, mainly Roman) history in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Prof. Tomer Broude is currently a senior lecturer with tenure and the Sylvan M. Cohen Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Anna is currently Minerva - Post Doc Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem affiliated to the SICSA. She is working on a project on the Vietnam War Crimes Tribunals initiated by Bertrand Russell in 1966.

 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

Qingwen Zhang graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree in International Politics (2011) and a master’s degree in International Business Law from National University of Singapore (2016).