Noam Zadoff, PhD

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Assistant Professor

Phone: +43 512 507-44027
Email: Noam.Zadoff[at]uibk.ac.at
Room: 40609

Office hours by appointment

Research interests
  • History of ideas and culture of the State of Israel
  • History of Zionism and Zionist thought
  • Life and work of Gershom Scholem
  • Environmental history and the history of emotions
  • Diaspora Studies and Migration Studies
  • European post-war history
Studies and academic career
  • Since October 2019 Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
  • 2018-2019 Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, LMU Munich
  • 2018 AIANI Fellow at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2017-2018 Founding Director. Olamot: Center for Scholarly and Cultural Exchange with Israel, Indiana University
  • 2017 Visiting Professor "Science and Judaism" at the ETH Zurich
  • 2014-2019 Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Indiana University Bloomington
  • 2012-2013 Ben-Gurion Visiting Professor for Israel and Middle East Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and College for Jewish Studies, Heidelberg
  • 2008-2014 Research Associate, Department of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • 2011 PhD in History. Hebrew University Jerusalem (summa cum laude); Visiting Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, Jewish Studies
  • 2010 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin
  • 2005 M.A. Individual Programme in German Studies. Hebrew University Jerusalem (summa cum laude)
  • 2002 B.A. Jewish Studies, History and Religious Studies. Hebrew University Jerusalem










Excerpt

  • "Jerusalem on the Emsbach": Die Europäische Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems, oder: über jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Alpenregion, in: Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Museum Vereins, ed. by Brigitte Truschnegg, Innsbruck 2023, pp. 139-148.
  • with Mirjam Zadoff, On the Construction of Jewishness and the Inescapable Jewish Fate: The Cases of Werner and Gershom Scholem, The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 68 (2023), pp. 72-90. https://academic.oup.com/leobaeck/article/68/1/72/7221627
  • Die Grenzen des Konsenses: Die „Semitische Aktion“ und die Idee einer arabischisraelischen Föderation, Jüdischer Almanach: Konsens Dissens, ed. by Gisela Dachs, Berlin 2022, pp. 122-131.
  • Gershom Scholem (Hebr.), Jerusalem: Shazar Centre, 2022.
  • with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Mirjam Zadoff, Heike Paul (eds.), Four Years After: Ethnonationalism, Antisemitism, and Racism in Trump's America, Heidelberg 2020.
  • Geschichte Israels. Von der Staatsgründung bis zur Gegenwart, Munich 2020.
  • 'Panther im Exil. Israel-Studien und jüdische Geschichte', in: Michael Brenner u.a. (ed.): Israel-Studien. Kultur - Geschichte - Politik, Munich 2020, pp. 75-88.
  • Von Berlin nach Jerusalem und zurück. Gershom Sholem zwischen Israel und Deutschland, Göttingen 2020.
  • 'From Mishmar Haʿemek to Elon Moreh. Moshe Shamir and the Socialist Roots of Gush Emunim', in: Modern Judaism 39:3 (2019), pp. 326-346.
  • with Mirjam Zadoff (ed.), Scholar and Kabbalist. Gershom Scholem's Life and Work, Leiden 2019.
  • Gershom Scholem: from Berlin to Jerusalem and Back, Waltham 2017.
  • Science and Politics. On the Presence and Future of Israel Studies in Germany, in: Andreas Lehnardt (ed.): "Orchidee oder Mimose? Ein halbes Jahrhundert deutscher Forschung und Lehre über das Judentum in Deutschland, Berlin 2017, pp. 81-92.
  • Zionismus und Exil. Robert Weltsch und Gershom Scholem am Schnittpunkt zwischen Holocaust und jüdischem Nationalismus', in: Jahrbuch für Exilforschung 34, 2016, pp. 356-369.
  • with Mirjam Zadoff, From Mission to Memory. Walter Benjamin and Werner Scholem in the Life and Work of Gershom Scholem, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 13, 1 (2014), pp. 415-428.
  • The Archive, the Students, and the Emotions of a German Israeli Intellectual. Review Essay, Jewish Quarterly Review 103, 3, (2013), pp. 415-428.
  • Gershom Scholem and Joseph Weiss. Briefe 1948-1964 (Hebr.), (ed.), Jerusalem 2012.
  • "Zion's self-engulfing light" On Gershom Scholem's Disillusionment with Zionism, Modern Judaism 31, 2011, 3,pp. 272-284.
  • Travelling to the Past, Creating the Future. Gershom Scholem's Journey to Germany in 1946, Jewish Culture and History 11, 2009, 1-2, pp. 199-208.

Research performance documentation

Functions
  • Co-editor of the book series: Olamot Series in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University Press
  • Reviewer for the journals: Pe'amim (Hebrew); Tarbitz (Hebrew); Jewish Quarterly Review; Naharaim; Journal of Israeli History; American Historical Review; Shofar
  • Editorial board member: Azrieli Institute Book Series in Israel Studies, McGill-Queen's University Press
Awards and honours
  • Concordia University Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies (2018)
  • Jonatan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies, The Association for Israel Studies (2016)
  • Jacob Katz Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (2012)
  • Jacob Talmon Prize for excellence in the Humanities, Department of History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2011)
  • Max Gruenwald Doctoral Award, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (2005)
  • Moshe Starosta Prize Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2004)

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