Personal Information
Address: Rachel Immenu 38/5, Jerusalem, Israel 9322824
Phone: +972-525894450 E-Mail: [email protected]
Married, 3 children
Summary
Experienced and detail-oriented writer, editor, and researcher, with a strong academic background. Expertise in administrative positions, in and out of academia.
Work Experience
2016-present: Freelance editing and proofreading of academic texts in English (e.g., manuscripts, thesis chapters, lectures, grant proposals), including the following published volumes:
- Efraim Podoksik, Georg Simmel and German Culture: Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
- Daniel R. Schwartz, 1 Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022).
2016-2022: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2018-2020: Academic Advisor of the Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities
- Provided academic guidance and assistance to 75 students each year.
- Coordinated course schedules and extracurricular activities (e.g., monthly lectures and workshops, cultural outings).
- Managed the program’s English and Hebrew websites.
- 2016-2022: Teaching Assistant in the Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities
- Served as TA in eight courses (six of which were taught in English).
- Provided detailed feedback on writing assignments; occasional frontal teaching.
2014-2017: Aluma Organization – translation (Hebrew to English) and editing of communications, reports, and proposals.
Education
2018-2024: PhD in History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- PhD dissertation (submitted, pending approval): “Representations of the Reformation in the Protestant-Jewish Polemic: Intra-Christian Conflict in the ‘Presence’ of Jews.”
- Recipient of the President’s Scholarship for honors doctoral students at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018-2020); and the Rotenstreich Scholarship for outstanding PhD students in the humanities, Council for Higher Education of Israel (2020-2024).
2016-2018: MA in History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Graduated magna cum laude.
- MA thesis: “Anthonius Margaritha’s Refutation of the Jews’ Entire Faith and the Past, Present, and Future of the Christian-Jewish Polemic.”
- Member of the MA Honors Program at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities; and MA Fellow at the Center for the Study of Christianity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2013-2016: BA in History, School of History Honors Program, and Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Graduated magna cum laude.
Publications
- “Sebastian Münster and His Sources: The Messiah in Rome and the Convergence of Christian-Jewish and Intra-Christian Polemic,” Journal of Early Modern Christianity 8 (2021): 135-151.
- “‘Such an Illumination Cannot Occur’: Anthonius Margaritha, the Reformation, and the Polemic against the Jews,” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 111 (2020): 55-77.
- “Apocalypse of Christian Crisis: Jan Provoost’s ‘Sacred Allegory’ as a Reaction to the Early Reformation,” Muza: Journal for Graduate Students in the Humanities 3 (2019): 20-37 [Hebrew].
- “Judaism and Christianity/ies, Ethnography and Polemic: Anthonius Margaritha on the Kabbalah in Der gantz Jüdisch glaub,” Hayo Haya: A Young Forum for History 14 (2019): 29-48 [Hebrew].
- Editor of Muza: Journal for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
4 (2022) [Hebrew].
Army Service
2011-present: Reserve duty, Military Rabbinate, Gaza Division
2010-2011: Military Rabbinate, Gaza Division, administrative assistant to Division Rabbi
- Selected as Outstanding Soldier by Gaza Division Commander, September 2011.
Skills
- Languages: English, Hebrew (native); German, French, Latin (reading)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
