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Position: Professur für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Gründungsdirektorin des Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrums für Polenstudien
Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Institut für Geschichte
Hoher Weg 4
Halle
06120
Germany
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Early Modern: TR
Modern: TR
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
Local (e.g. the Jews of Canterbury, the Jews of Kovno, etc): TR
Historiography: TR
Biographical Studies: TR
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
Hasidism: TR
Reform Judaism: TR
Orthodox Judaism: TR
Comparative Religion: TR
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
Jewish law (including Halachic studies, Responsa): TR
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: TR
60: Art (including iconography): R
61: Architecture (including synagogues): R
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore: TR
Jewish identity and assimilation: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
70: Holocaust Studies: T
Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): TR
75: Jewish Education: R
76: Jews and the Sciences: R
Description
Yvonne Kleinmann is Professor for East European History and Director of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Halle University.
2008–2013 Head of the research group »Pathways of law in ethno-religiously mixed societies: Resources of experience in Poland-Lithuania and its successor states« at the Institute for Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. 2007/08 guest fellow and coordinator of the project »Peace of religions and modes of solving religious conflicts in East Central Europe, 16th–19th centuries« at the Leipzig Center for East Central European History and Culture (GWZO). 2006/07 Yad Hanadiv Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2003 Ph.D. thesis »New Places – New People. Jewish forms of life in St Petersburg and Moscow in the 19th Century« (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006). 2002–2006 Postdoc fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture. 2000–2001 participation in the concept for the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin. 1996–2000 research fellow at the Institute for East European History at Mainz University. 1989–1996 M.A. studies in East European History, Slavic Studies as well as Theatre, Cinema and TV Studies in Cologne, Mainz and Paris.
Fields of research: Modern History of the Russian Empire and Poland, Jewish History in Eastern Europe; history of migration, urban history, interreligious relations, legal history and anthropology.
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