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Dr. Tobias Grill Universität München |
Professional Experience
2016 – currently | Postdoc at the International Research Training Group Religious Cultures in 19th and 20th Century Europe at the University of Munich (LMU) |
2015 | Assistant Professor at the Chair for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich (six-month deputyship) |
2013 – 2016 | Postdoc at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Munich |
2009 | Ph.d. at the Chair for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. Title of the thesis: Activities of German rabbis and German-Jewish pedagogues in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe (1839-1939). A contribution to cultural transfer studies |
2008 – 2012 | Assistant Professor at the Chair for Contemporary History at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich |
Selected Publications
Monograph | Der Westen im Osten: Deutsches Judentum und jüdische Bildungsreform in Osteuropa (1783–1939), Göttingen 2013. |
Articles | Isaak Nachman Steinberg: „Als ich Volkskommissar war“ oder „Eine soziale Revolution, die die Rechte ihrer Klassengegner verteidigt – das wäre eine große moralische Lehre der Menschlichkeit gewesen!“, in: Nordost-Archiv. Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte 23 (2014), S. 141–167. |
The politicisation of traditional Polish Jewry: Orthodox German rabbis and the founding of Agudas Ho-Ortodoksim and Dos yidishe vort in Gouvernement-General Warsaw, 1916–18, in: East European Jewish Affairs 39/2 (2009), pp. 227–247. | |
Ein Märtyrer für Licht und Wahrheit? Das Wirken Rabbiner Abraham Kohns in Lemberg (1844-1848), in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 56 (2008), pp. 179–220. |