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
Gideon Reuveni
Ralph Emanuel Director of the Weidenfeld Institute
Core Fellows
Ivor Gaber
Professor of Journalism
Kate Marrison
Holocaust Education Officer
Katrin Steffen
DAAD Professor for Jewish East European History
David Tal
Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies
Victoria Grace Walden
Senior Lecturer In Media and Film
Gerhard Wolf
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History
Diana Franklin
Centre Manager
- Research Associates
Dr. 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
- Current Postgraduate Researchers
Samuel Ogden
Nina Hirshorn
- Past Postgraduate Researchers
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Stefan Boberg
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Florian Zabransky
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- Administrative Members
Claudia George -- Senior Weidenfeld Coordinator
The Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies is supported by the Advisory Board.