MA Honors Program

Ohad Pinchevsky

ohad.pinchevsky@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Subject: Halachic literature in the Weimar Republic

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Abstract: My research focuses on the halakhic literature in the Weimar Republic, and asks what things the responsa literature can tell us about the period. Weimar's responsa literature is full of many issues that preoccupied the Orthodox Jewish minority in Germany, some of which even preoccupied the general population. This literature is the 'Republic of Letters' of the rabbinical elite and researcher of the Orthodox Jews in the country, and through it one can examine the changes that German society in general, and Jewish society in particular, went through after the First World War. The example that the study examines is the idea of obedience to the law, and the culture of the law as it is expressed in the writings of the rabbis of the period.

MA Honors 2021/22

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Madelein Porcelaine

madelein.porcelaine@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Art History

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MA Honors 2021/22

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Anton Povzner

anton.povzner@mail.huji.ac.il

English Literature

Subject: Selfhood and its failings in two novels by Charles Brockden Brown

Supervisor: Prof. Emily Budick

Lior Rashty

lior.rashty@mail.huji.ac.il

Hebrew Literature

Alon Rejwan

alon.rejwan@mail.huji.ac.il

Hebrew Literature

Ido Rivlin

RivlinIdo@gmail.com

Cognitive science

Subject: Conscious vs. Unconscious Processing of Dynamic Stimuli

Supervisor: Prof. Ran Hassin

Abstract: Recent evidence which suggests many cognitive functions can operate in two manners, with and without consciousness, raises questions regarding the differences and similarities between the conscious and unconscious strategies for executing the same functions. In three experiments, I compared between generating predictions consciously and unconsciously in order to find strategic differences between the conscious and unconscious usage of the stimuli. Objective and subjective measures were used to verify participants were not consciously aware of the dynamic stimuli during the unconscious phases. Results do not verify that there are strategic differences between the conscious and unconscious prediction, yet preliminary findings demonstrate that cue validity affects these functions differently. The current study suggests that movement processing has multiple theoretical implications; also, my findings can be used to ameliorate comparisons between conscious and unconscious functions in general and specifically using dynamic stimuli.

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Barak Rom

rom.barak@gmail.com

Department of Philosophy

Topic: The phenomenology of awareness to the 'self' and of the experience of joy and suffer: existential implications.

Maya Rosen

mayarosen@gmail.com

Department of History

Subject: European History

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MA Honors 2021/22

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Asaf Roth

asaf.roth@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Comparative Literature

MA Honors 2019/20

Gilad Rubinstein

giladrubinstein@gmail.com

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Supervisor: Prof. Eli Lederhandler

MA Honors 2018/19

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Lilja Maria Saeboe

dmulilja@gmail.com

Department of Linguistics

Subject: Language description and typology

MA Honors 2018/19

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Yael Sagi

yael.sagi@mail.huji.ac.il

History Department

Subject: Cultural history - the formation of a historical perception in the literature of the 12th century

Advisor: Dr. Ayelet Even-Ezra

Yarden Schindler

Yarden.schindler@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Linguistics

Subject: Digital discourse

MA Honors 2020/21

Yotam Schremer

yotam.schremer@mail.huji.ac.il

Jewish Thought

Subject: Maimonides' Religious Ethics

Advisor: Prof. Moshe Halbertal

Nir Segal

nir.segal@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Linguistics

Subject: Formal semantics and psycholinguistics

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Tom Sela

tomsela9@gmail.com

Department of Comparative Religion

Subject: Interfaith dialogue in modern Christianity

Abstract: I wish to examine the relationship between language and religion as a path to a complex understanding of the believer's worldview and of the differences between different worldviews which presented in same terminology.

MA Honors 2018/19

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Dina Sender

Department of Hebrew Language

dina.sender@mail.huji.ac.il

Department of Hebrew Language

Subject: Hebrew Spoken by Haredi Litaim (Litvish-Yeshivish) in Israel: A Linguistic Description

Supervisors: Prof. Yochanan Breuer (Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa)

Bio: Dina Sender completed her B.A. and M.A. studies (summa cum laude) in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her M.A. thesis focuses on a linguistic phenomenon, Ashkenazi pronunciation, that characterizes Haredi Hebrew, aiming to examine it from multiple angles: to map the lexical sources of the linguistic forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, to analyze its phonological characteristics, to trace grammatical changes that occur in forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, and to discuss the pragmatic functions that this pronunciation serves. This work was written under the supervision of Prof. Yochanan Breuer (the Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa).

Dina is currently a PhD student in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her research aims to describe comprehensively the Haredi Litai community’s unique linguistic repertoire, and to enrich this examination with a sociolinguistic analysis of the links between the speakers' linguistic choices and their ideology, values, and group affiliation.

Publications:

"Hebrew as a Language of Speech and Yiddish as a Language of Emotion among the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel," Language Studies (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

"Ashkenazi Pronunciation in Spoken Haredi Hebrew in Israel: Grammar and Pragmatics," Leshonenu (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

President Scholarship 2020/2021

MA Honors Program 2016/2017

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