People

The Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies is a thriving interdisciplinary research hub with particularly close links to the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. The team is comprised of academic staff, administrative staff and postgraduate researchers. We welcome proposals for new research projects and ideas for talks and presentations.

Institute Director

A head and shoulders image of Gideon Reuveni      Ralph Emanuel Director of the Weidenfeld Institute

 

 

 

Core Fellows

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   Professor of Journalism

 

 

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   Holocaust Education Officer

 

 

 

A head and shoulders image of Katrin Steffen    
   DAAD Professor for Jewish East European History

 

 

 

A head and shoulders image of David Tal  
   Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies

 

 

 

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   Senior Lecturer In Media and Film 

 

 

 

  
   Senior Lecturer in Modern European History

 

 

 

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   Centre Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Research Associates

    A head and shoulders image of Pnina ShukerDr. Pnina Shuker is a research associate at the Weidenfeld Institute for Jewish Studies. She also serves as a Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales; a lecturer at Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, and "Shalem" College; and as a research fellow at JISS – Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. She served as a Deputy Editor of the "Jerusalem Strategic Tribune", a journal for strategic and diplomatic affairs; as a Neubauer Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv (INSS); and as the Director of International Programs at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.

    Pnina received her BA and MA, specializing in Strategy and National Security at the Political Science department at Bar Ilan University. Her doctoral dissertation, also written at the Political Science Department of Bar Ilan University, focuses on the perception of the democratic society as sensitive to casualties and its impact on dealing with strategic threats through comparative analysis between Britain, Israel, and the United States.

  • Visiting Fellows

  • Affiliated Fellows

    Paul Davies

    Doug Haynes

    Darrow Schecter

    Claudia Siebrecht

    Clive Webb

  • Current Postgraduate Researchers

    Samuel Ogden

    Nina Hirshorn

  • Past Postgraduate Researchers

    Stefan Boberg

    Florian Zabransky

  • Administrative Members

    Claudia George -- Senior Weidenfeld Coordinator

The Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies is supported by the Advisory Board.