People

Dr. Amit Varshizky is a Research fellow at Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and its representative at the Stern Cooperation Project.  Varshizky received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University.

Rona Dinur is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy of the Hebrew University, focusing on moral and political philosophy. Her Ph.D. project is supervised by Prof. David Enoch and Prof. Moshe Halbertal. She started her Ph.D.

Iván Zoltán Dénes (1946) is a historian of ideas, professor, member of the Academia Europaea (London), initiator of interdisciplinary research into historical traumas, trauma management and regimes of memory at the Academia Europaea.

Irit Chen is 2018 Felix Posen Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is a Ph.D. student at the Department for Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University.

Tobias Rochlitz is a Bachelor Student of Sociology, Politics & Economics and he is doing a research focussed internship at the Vidal Sassoon Center from March to June 2018.

Arnold I. Davidson is the Robert O.

Dr. Guy Bracha is 2017 Felix Posen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and teaching associate at Bar Ilan University. He received his Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University.

Bruno Chaouat received his PhD in French literature from Emory University. Since 2002, he has been teaching in the Department of French and Italian, as well as in the Center for Jewish Studies, at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Anat Vaturi is 2017 Felix Posen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a research assistant in economic history at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia.

Dr. Sara Airoldi earned a Phd in History at the State University of Milan in 2016. Her dissertation, entitled Nazione in patria - Gli ebrei italiani e la sfida dell’identità 1918-1938 (Nation within motherland.

Annemarie Ammer is a Master student of the programme Social Work and Human Rights at the University of Gothenburg (2016-2018), Sweden.

Responsible for projects of marketing, branding and new media. Practices in updating and relaunching the Institute's website and social network accounts of various kinds. 

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Moshe Sluhovsky is Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in the Study of French Jews at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.He has written a number of books and textbooks on religious history, including Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Late Medieval and Early Modern France“Believe not Every Spir

Ethan B. Katz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and a specialist in modern France and its empire and modern Jewish history. Katz is the author of The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard University Press, 2015).

Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower) is Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University.  She graduated in musicology and Jewish thought and received her PhD in Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992).

Born in Prague – 1926. Immigrated to Palestine – March, 1939. Studied in Cardiff, Wales – 1946-1948, 1949-1950 (B.A. Hon, 1st Class). PHD, Hebrew University – 1960. Joined Institute of Contemporary Jewry (ICJ) at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1961.

Prof. Eli Lederhendler, who holds the Stephen S.

December 2006-Today: I have been working at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. In the past, my position was the Secretary and Translator from English to Hebrew and from Hebrew to English.

Dr. Svetlana Natkovich is 2016 Felix Posen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

My research project addresses the early modern history of economic anti-Semitism, by examining the place of Jews and their image in the set of social concerns accompanying the processes of commercialization and capitalization of Western society.

Manuela Consonni studied studied History of the British Labor Movement and Italian History under the guidance of Paolo Spriano, one of the most prominent Italian Marxist Historian at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, from 1985 to 1988. She made Aliya in 1988 and entered the Ph.D.

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Leona Toker is Professor in the English Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Martina L. Weisz is a Research Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA). She studied Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, holds an M.A.