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MA Alumni | Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

MA Alumni

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Natan Evron

Department of Bible Studies

Subject: Nehemiah in Second Temple Period Literature: From the Bible to Josephus

Supervisor: Prof. Michael Segal and Dr. Ronnie Goldstein

Mara  Friedman

Mara Friedman

Jewish History & Contemporary Judaism

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Subject: Conservative Judaism in Israel

Supervisor:  Prof. Eli Lederhendler

Abstract: The establishment and development of the Conservative Movement, as founded and promoted by American olim, and how it has had to adjust to the realities and desires of Israeli society. 

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Mor Geller

Department of History 

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Topic Public Opinion Polling and the Future(s) of the German Democratic Republic, 1966–1989

Supervisor Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi

Bio: I am a research student in history, focusing mainly on cultural history, Alltagsgeschichte, and knowledge production in Cold War Germany. I obtained my BA and MA from the same department and from the HUJI Institute of History Honors Program. I also participated in the Mandel School MA Honors Program, and am a fellow at the Koebner Center for German History. Between the years 2019-2021 I served as editor-in-chief of the student journal "Hayo Haya – a Young Forum for History." Beside my research, I am interested in cinema, socialism, and urban planning.

Abstract My dissertation will explore the widespread phenomenon of public opinion polling in East Germany and the multiple roles it played in the effort to sustain and reform the state’s power structure between the mid-1960s and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Through an analysis of the surveys and reports produced by the state-sanctioned social research institutes, I aim to establish the centrality of this method to the cultural, social, and political history of the German Democratic Republic and to understand the ways in which it was used by citizens in unexpected ways to imagine the future(s) of the GDR.

Publications:
Geller, Mor. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Socialism: Education and Entertainment in the Musical Film Heißer Sommer (GDR, 1968).” Slil – Journal for History, Film, and Television (Forthcoming). [in Hebrew]

Mosse Stipend 2021/22

 

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Noa Goldblatt

Noa Goldblatt

Linguistics

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Subject: The functions of Pennsylvania German auxiliary verb "duh"

Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Grossman, Dr. Larissa Naiditch

Abstract: In this study the main goal is to present a synchronic description of the functions of the poly-functional periphrastic duh (‘do’) construction in Pennsylvania German (PG). The secondary goal is to examine the PG data in comparison to other Germanic languages

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Michal Goldstein

Musicology

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Subject: Categorical Perception of Musical Intervals

Supervisor: Dr. Roni Granot

Abstract: My research examines categorical perception of musical intervals. Categorical perception is a cognitive phenomena in which a continuous stimulus is divided perceptually to create distinct units. The research aims to expand our knowledge on categorical perception to the music field, as well as study its implications to our understanding on cultural differences in music perception and on perfect pitch. 

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Yona Gonopolsky

Yona Gonopolsky

Classical studies and Comparative Religion

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Subject: The Transition from The Upper Palaeolithic To the Epipalaeolithic In the Southern Levant And the Development of The Microlithic Technology.

Supervisor: Nigel Goring-Morris

Abstract: The doctoral dissertation focuses on one of the important developments in the of ancient hunting methods in the southern Levant. This change took place during the transition between the transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Epipaleolithic periods (some 25,000 years ago), due to the development of microlithic tools (small stone tools, carefully designed in standard shapes, used to form composite projectile tools).
The study examines stone tool assemblages from several sites in the southern Levant from the end of the Upper Paleolithic and the beginning of the Epipaleolithic. By combine three different methods to analyze stone tool production (attribute analysis, experimental knapping and core refitting) the study aims to trace the source of this change and its evolution in terms of chronology, technology and style.
 

Bio: I have a BA and MA from the Classics Department of the Hebrew University. My PhD study deals with the verbal conceptualization of nonverbal cues in Ancient Greek. I am also interested in Greek phraseology in general, Greek sociolinguistics, representation of interpersonal communicative conventions in classical literature and characterization techniques in Greek literature. Also, I teach Greek and Latin and write and translate poetry (in and into Hebrew).

Publications:

From Jonah to Jesus and back: three Ways of Characterization and their Reverse Application (Paper in proccess)

President Stipend 2018/19

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Shir Hoory

Department of Art History

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Subject: Ancient art

Abstract: The research focuses on early christian pilgrimage

Advisor: Prof. Rina Talgam

MA Honors 2019/20

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Nir Idan

Nir Idan

History

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Subject: Charlatans in 17th Century Paris

Supervisor: Moshe Slohovsky

Abstract: My research deals with charlatans, medicine sellers who worked on stages in the market squares and streets, in 17th century Paris. Using texts documenting the performances of the most successful and well known duo of charlatans at the time I seek to position the phenomena in its context in terms of both history of medicine and history of theater. My goal is to understand how and why charlatans fashioned their unique style of performance, and what about it was appealing for their audience and customers.

Bio: I did my B.A. and M.A. in history in the Hebrew University. Co-editor of the journal “Hayo Haya – Young Forum for History”.

Presidential stipend 2016/17

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Ohad Kayam

Ohad Kayam

Arabic Language and Literature

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Subject: The Qurʼānic rhymed prose

Supervisor: Professor Simon Hopkins

 

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