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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:
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…