Seventh Academic Year: 2021–22

Senior Fellow: May–August 2022

Research Project: Laughter in the Jewish Cemetery: Comic Epitaphs, Scepticism, and Academies

Senior Fellow: April–July 2022

Research Project: Via Negativa: Linguistic Scepticism and Philosophy of Creation in Hermann Cohen, Jakob Gordin, and Emmanuel Levinas (1908–1935)

Senior Fellow: April–August 2022

Research Project: Vera sine dubio: The Prophetic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia in Translation

Senior Fellow: October –December 2021

Research Project: Dialects of Enlightenment: Language, Performance, and the Contradictions of Culture in Early Modern Jewish Literature

Junior Fellow: October 2020–July 2021 and March–June 2022

Research Project: Experience, Intuition and Understanding: Sources of Knowledge and Scepticism in Maimon’s Commentary on Bacon’s Novum Organum

Senior Fellow: July–August 2022 and April–June 2023

Research Project: Scepticism between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Senior Fellow: June 2022

Research Project: The Sceptical Administration: Bureaucracy, Translations, and Otherness in Early Modern Records. A Case Study on the Roman Ghetto

Senior Fellow: April–August 2022

Research Project: Cartesian Scepticism and Loose Talk

Senior Fellow: October 2021–February 2022

Research Project: Scepticism in Biblical Exegesis—The Reaction to Maimonides among Medieval Jewish Exegetes in the Fourteenth Century

Junior Fellow: October 2021–August 2022

Research Project: Translation Scepticism in Modern Hebrew Literature and Early Zionist Thought

Senior Fellow: October 2021–February 2022

Research Project: Hope as the Flipside of Scepticism: The History of Esperanto as Jewish Linguistic Utopia

Senior Fellow: July–August 2022

Research Project: The Language of Doubt and the Doubts of Language in Modern Kabbalah

Senior Fellow: April–June 2022

Research Project: Hasidism, Haskalah, and the (Dis)enchantment of Modern Judaism

Senior Fellow: October 2021–February 2022

Research Project: Scepticism and Language

Senior Fellow: October 2021–February 2022

Research Project: Epistemological Scepticism, Linguistic Criticism, and Critique of Modern Culture: Georg Simmel and Theodor W. Adorno

Senior Fellow: June–August 2022

Research Project: Spinozan Pedagogy

Senior Fellow: April–August 2022

Research Project: The Sceptical Student: Learning and Dissent in Renaissance and Early Modern Jewish Italy

Senior Fellow: April–August 2022

Research Project: Sceptical Strategies in the Anti-Hasidic Propaganda of the Haskala in Eastern Europe (Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century)

Senior Fellow: June–August 2022

Research Project: Love, Language, and Scepticism in Early Modern Judaism: The Case of Yohanan Alemanno

Senior Fellow: October 2021–February 2022

Research Project: Post-Cynical Linguistic Scepticism: Yehuda Amichai’s Moral Philosophy of Linguistic In-Betweenness

Junior Fellow: October 2021–September 2022

Research Project: Rule-Following and Scepticism: Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein

Senior Fellow: December 2021–February 2022

Research Project: The Shadow of Reason: Imagination, Language, and Scepticism in Spinoza

Junior Fellow: October 2021–September 2022

Research Project: A Sceptical Examination of “Immortality” in the Kabbalistic and Daoist Hagiographical Texts

Senior Fellow: December 2021–February 2022

Research Project: In Search of a Subterranean Strand in “Marrano Heresy”: The Philological and Historical Questioning of the Bible

Junior Fellow: October 2021–September 2022

Research Project: Educating Doubt: Scepticism and Certainty in the Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in a Modern Shi’ite Community

Senior Fellow: April–August 2022

Research Project: The Apocrypha in Yiddish: Translating Biblical Literature in Early Modern Ashkenaz