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About Amir Engel
I am an associate Prof. at the Hebrew University, currently visiting Prof. at Humboldt Universität Berlin. I have studies at Stanford, Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main.Amir Engel is currently a visiting professor at the faculty of theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is also the chair at the German department at the Hebrew University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amir:
December 27, 2025
The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig
The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (Liverpool UP, 2025) offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig's magnum opus The Star of Redempt…
September 18, 2025
Still Lives
Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their…
September 6, 2025
Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography
Ofer Ashkenazi is a Professor of History and the director of the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusal…
June 17, 2025
Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture
Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. Th…
May 30, 2025
Unsettling Difference
Adi Nester is an Assistant Professor of German and Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her first monograph, Unsettling …
May 21, 2025
Zionism
Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and …
April 7, 2025
Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past
Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new title in OUP's Graphic History Series that chronicles the events of t…
March 16, 2025
Rescue and Remembrance
In Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (U Wisconsin Press, 2025), Kobi Kabalek examines how the rescue of Jews during…
February 21, 2025
A New Orient
A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel (Brandeis UP, 2024) explores the fascinating history of Zionist and Israeli …
January 13, 2025
Homo Temporalis
Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time (Cornell UP, 2025) tells the story of a group of twentieth-century Jewish intellectuals who grappled c…
August 15, 2024
Meir Kahane
Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane …
July 27, 2024
Dynamic Repetition
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of mess…
March 3, 2024
The Jewish Imperial Imagination
The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought (Cambridge UP, 2024) discusses the life and work of Leo Baeck (1873–1956) the rab…
January 21, 2024
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tales – the Children’s and Household Tales – is one o…
January 9, 2024
Anti-Heimat Cinema
Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape (U Michigan Press, 2020) studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popu…