We would like to congratulate our research fellow Dr. Silvana Kandel Lamdan , who has been awarded the Minerva Postdoctoral Fellowship and will be working for the next two years at the Institute for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.

In her new project *“The Jewish Origins of Twentieth-Century Catholic Renewal in Europe and the Global South,”* Silvana aims to break down the disciplinary boundaries between Jewish thought and Catholic theology and thus contribute to the integration of theology into other fields of study, as an important venue for understanding intellectual history far beyond the focus on religion. In addition to shedding light on the past and present of the Christian–Jewish dialogue, whose relevance for the renewal of Catholic theology is explored in the context of political questions, this project can open up to the Jewish side the content of hope and the political potential of their own traditions of thought. By negotiating these questions within the horizon of encounters, conflicts and reception processes between the Global North and Global South, new impulses emerge for post‐colonial discourses, decolonial thinking and a fundamental critique of the hegemonic paradigms of Western modernity, insofar as their roots in Jewish thought, in its Christian reception and in traditions of messianic thought are revealed.