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AYA ELYADA
August 2014
  
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born in Israel, 1977
Previous name: Aya Lahav
Married, 2 children
 
HIGHER EDUCATION
2010
PhD    The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University
2004-2009
PhD studies at The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, and as a visiting doctoral student at the Lehrstuhl für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Research conducted under the supervision of Prof. Shulamit Volkov (Tel Aviv) and Prof. Michael Brenner (Munich). Subject of research: “Early Modern Christian Literature on Yiddish in the German-Speaking World”
2001-2004
MA     The Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University. MA thesis: “Language, Religion and Nation in Early Modern Europe: The Depiction of Yiddish in Johann Jakob Schudt’s Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten (Frankfurt a.M. 1714-1718)” supervised by Prof. Shulamit Volkov, summa cum laude.
1998-2001
BA      Department of History, School of History’s Honors Program and Amirim Honors Program in Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, summa cum laude.
 
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2012-
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fall 2010
Visiting Lecturer at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University
2009-2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Duke University
 
RESEARCH GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2014
Research Grant of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Young Scientists Program
2013-2017
Research Grant of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
2013-2017
Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG)
2012-2015
Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Israeli Council for Higher Education
2012-2013
International Fellowship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
2012-2013
Gerald Westheimer Career Development Award, Leo Baeck Institute
2009-2011
Postdoctoral Fellowship of Yad Hanadiv Foundation, Israel
2008-2009
Scholarship of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University / Scholarship of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Tel Aviv University
2007-2008
Dan David Prize for excellence in PhD studies, Tel Aviv University
2006
Grant of the Pedagogica Foundation for Graduate Students, Tel Aviv University
2005-2007
Minerva Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for research in Germany
2004-2005
The Hertie Foundation scholarship for studies and research in Germany
2004
Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute for MA thesis
2003
Grant of the Wolf Foundation for excellence in MA studies, Tel Aviv University
2003
Grant of the Lessing Memorial Foundation, Tel Aviv University
2002
Grant of the Neuberger Memorial Foundation for German-Jewish studies, Tel Aviv University
2001-2002
Scholarship of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, in the Ignatz Bubis’ Memorial Fund-program, Germany
2001
Prize of the School of History, Tel Aviv University
2001
Prize for excellence in BA studies – Yaacov Talmon Memorial Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2000
DAAD scholarship for a summer course in Germany
2000
Prize for promising students of the middle ages, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1999-2000
Dean’s Prize (Humanities), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998-1999
Dean’s Prize (Humanities), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998-2001
Amirim Honors Program’s scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

ACADEMIC TEACHING
Language and the Construction of Culture in Germany, 15th-18th centuries
The Yiddish-German Encounter Throughout the Ages
Christian Hebraism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The Reformation as a Religious, Social, and Cultural Revolution
Luther, the Reformation and the German Language
Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Germany
Religion and Society in 16th-Century Germany
Poverty and Crime in Early Modern Europe
 
RESEARCH STUDENTS
2013- Amit Levy, M.A. thesis: From Breslau to Jerusalem: Martin Plessner's Encounters with the Orient (joint supervision with Prof. Yfaat Weiss)
2013- Tuvia Singer, Ph.D. thesis: Jews and Other Minorities in 19th-Century German Folk Tales (joint supervision with Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem)
 
LANGUAGES
Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish, Latin