Successful Application for a German-Israeli Minerva School

Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, together with his Israeli colleague Dr. Leore Sachs-Shmueli from the Institute of Jewish Thought at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, have been successful in their application to host a German-Israeli Minerva School.
The School, which is funded by the Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society, is dedicated to the topic of the fear of sin and its various functions in medieval and early modern Jewish literature. It is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary exchange between established researchers and emerging scholars. The Minerva School will not only contribute to a better understanding of a hitherto largely neglected, yet highly significant topic in the field of Jewish studies; it will also mark an important step in the development of partnerships between the University of Hamburg and Israeli research institutions.

 

"The Minerva Foundation is the flagship of German-Israeli scientific cooperation and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research" (source: https://www.minerva.mpg.de).

 

Further details will be announced towards the spring of 2021.