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Students

Ph.D. Students

Idan Frisher -  JRI - The "United Minorities" in Lithuania (1923–1926) 

M.A Students

Yaron Abramovich- “Examining the Sudeten German Expellees in Postwar Austria: Government Policy, Public Perception, and the Food Crisis (1945-1948)”

Dor Correct - JRI - “The Jurist Emil von Hofmannsthal (1884-1971): A Scientific Biography”

Past M.A Students

Idan Frisher -  (2022-2024) - “Restitution of Property to Jews and Non-Jews in Post-Communist Lithuania: Deserving and Undeserving Victims”

Aliza Sinclarie (Richter) - (2022-2024) - “Social Coercive Measures in 20th Century Switzerland: A People’s Project"

Asaf Doron - JRI - (2023-2025) - “Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference”.

 

Prize-Winning M.A.-Theses and Seminar Papers Supervised

2025 Prize of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry for Outstanding M.A. Thesis:

Idan Frisher, “Restitution of Property to Jews and Non-Jews in Post-Communist Lithuania: Deserving and Undeserving Victims"

2024 George L. Mosse Prize in Modern History:

Michael Uria, “On the Hidden and the Revealed: The ‘Master Narrative’ of the Czech National Museum”

2024 Meir Hefetz Prize of the Faculty of Humanities:

Evyatar Nevo, “Compensation and Property Restitution: The Case Study of Croatia”

2023 Michael Heyd Prize in Early Modern History:

Hillel Gottesmann, "The Leviathan of Chance: Probabilistic Reasoning in Hobbes’ Leviathan" 

2023 George L. Mosse Prize in Modern History:

Emanuella Reznik, "The Jewish Fantasy of Franz Joseph and the Politicization of Orthodox Jewish Life in Galicia: The Crossroads of Two Phenomena in the September 1880 Edition of Machzikei HaDas Newspaper"

Tom Firillas, "National Minorities in the Habsburg Empire: The Italian Nationality in Trieste on the Eve of World War I"