Research Fellow – Dr. Gilad Shenhav
Dr. Ghilad H. Shenhav is a research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the department of history and at the center for Israel studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He currently works on his first book about language, tradition, and gender in the writings of Gershom Scholem. Shenhav has written several articles in the fields of modern Jewish thought, literature, and intellectual history among them: “Jacques Derrida and the Desertification of the Messianic” (Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2022), and “The Sound(s) of Silence: Gershom Scholem’s ‘Laments Project’ and the Question of Gender” (Journal of Jewish Studies, forthcoming). He is also developing his second book project about the reception of the Babylonian Talmud in early Zionism.
2016-2021 | Goethe University Frankfurt / Tel-Aviv University | PhD | Jewish Studies and German Literature |
2010-2015 | Tel-Aviv University | M.A | Philosophy |
2006-2009 | Tel-Aviv University | B.A | Philosophy / Literature |
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- The Sound(s) of Silence: Gershom Scholem’s “Laments Project” and the Question of Gender, Journal of Jewish Studies (Accepted – forthcoming)
- Jacques Derrida and the ”Desertification” of the Messianic, Jewish Studies Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2022): 89–108
- Between Abgrund and Urwirbel: The Story of One Word in the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible Translation, Naharaim 14, no. 1 (June 25, 2020): 83–102
Book Chapters
- “The Hebrew Spoken Here, is No Language”: On Gershom Scholem and the Oriental Hebrew, in: Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism, Ed. Stefan Vogt, Derek J. Penslar and Arieh Saposnik, Brandeis University Press (peer-reviewed – forthcoming 2022)
- The Akedah, the Crusades, and the Question of Meaning after the Disaster: Reading S.Y Agnon and Shalom Spiegel, in: Religion and Rationality in the Akedah, Ed. Heiko Schultz and Jean-Pierre Fortin, De-Gruyter (forthcoming 2022)
Reviews
- The Motif of the Messianic: Law, Life, and Writing in Agamben’s Reading of Derrida, Political Theology 20, no. 8 (2019): 708–9