Curriculum vitae

Positions & Teaching

Director, House of Jewish Culture | Old Synagogue Essen 10/2023-present
Teacher, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Jewish Music and Old Yiddish), 10/2021-present
Teacher, ALEPH Ordination Program, 2023-present
Lecturer in Jewish Studies (permanent position), University Halle-Wittenberg, 04/2006-09/2023
Acting Chair – Ignatz Bubis Professorship, University College for Jewish Studies (Heidelberg University), 10/2020-03/2021
First Lily- and Michael Sommerfreund Visiting Professor for Jewish Culture, University College for Jewish Studies Heidelberg (Heidelberg University), 10/2018-03/2019

Polonsky Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Convenor of the OSAJ), 09/2019-03/2020

Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellow, In East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theatre Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO), New York, 10/2017-03/2018

Polonsky Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Research group: Old Yiddish Language and Literature, Research topic: Singing for a Groom and Bride in Early Modern Ashkenaz, 10/2011-03/2012

Gildin Amherst National Yiddish Book Centre Scholarship 2002
Jubilee PhD Scholarship: 500 Years University Halle-Wittenberg, 10/2002-09/2003
JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary) Scholarship for the Advanced Seminar, 07-09/2001
German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD) for London, 10/2000-07/2001
Scholarship of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 10/1998-07/1999
Scholarship of the University Halle-Wittenberg for Kerala, India, Semitic Language Studies: Old Syriac/Aramaic, 02/1998-04/1998