Adjunct Researcher – Christoph Hopp
Christoph Hopp is currently writing his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Modern Origins of Hebrew: Studies in the History of Linguistics and Linguistic Thought (19th-20th Century).” It analyzes how the modernization and territorialization of the Hebrew language was conceptually prepared, accompanied, and reflected in the history of linguistics and linguistic thought. Epistemologically, it focuses on two relations: 1) between Jewish enlightenment (Haskala and Wissenschaft des Judentums) and Zionism, and 2) between Semitic and Indo-European linguistics. This dissertational project, for which he receives a scholarship from the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES), is commonly supervised by Christoph Schulte (University of Potsdam) and Cedric Cohen Skalli (University of Haifa). Besides those mentioned, his fields of research are the modern intellectual history of the Middle East, political theory, and aesthetics.
From 2018–2022, Hopp worked as research assistant for Leonard Levin (Academy for Jewish Religion, New York). He wrote footnotes and editorial comments for selected chapters in Levin’s English translation of Toldot filosofyat ha-dat ha-yehudit ba-zman ha-hadash (“A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy”) by the Israeli scholar and philosopher Eliezer Schweid.
2013 – 2016 | University of Bremen | B.A. | Sociology |
2017 – 2021 | University of Potsdam | M.A. | Jewish Studies |
2021 – | University of Potsdam and University of Haifa | PhD | Jewish Studies |
Eliezer Schweid. A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy. Volume III: The Crisis of Humanism. A Historical Crossroads. Translated by Leonard Levin. Annotated by Leonard Levin, Christoph Hopp, and Yuval Lieblich. Leiden: Brill, 2019.