PhD Dissertations

1... Birmingham: University of Birmingham
2... Cambridge: University of Cambridge
3... London: King's College London
4... London: SOAS
5... London: University College London
6... Manchester: University of Manchester
7... Oxford: University of Oxford
8... Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth
9... Southampton: University of Southampton

Univerity of Birmingham

Supervisor: Jonathan Webber
1. Margaret Jacobi (Co-supervisor: Joanna Weinberg)

University of Cambridge

Supervisor: Geoffrey Khan
1. Jared Greenblatt, 'The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amedia'
2. Nadia Vidro, 'A medieval Karaite treatise on Hebrew grammar'
3. Melonie Schmierer 'Selected diachronic features in Eastern Aramaic'
4. Daniel Birnstiel 'Selected features of Arabic syntax in the Quran'
5. Ronny Vollandt 'Medieval Arabic Bible translations'
6. Lily Kahn, 'The verbal system in the Hebrew of Haskala writers' (external supervision, registered in UCL)

Supervisor: G.I. Davies
1. A. Gray, Metaphor in the Psalm 18
2. J.G. Davidson, Theological Significance of Nouns referring to God in Deutero-Isaiah
3. M. Hundley, Ritual and the Priestly Tabernacle

Supervisor: W. Horbury
1. J. Tino, 'Ruler and Sanctuary in Chronicles and Septuagintal Tradition'
2. J. Moo, 'Creation in the Apocalypse of Ezra and the Apocalypse of John'

Supervisor: M.N.A. Bockmuehl
1. C.A. Anderson, 'Natural Law in Philo and Paul'

Supervisor: Janet Tollington
1. Diana Sanders, 'Divine wrath in the narrative books of the Hebrew scriptures'

Supervisor:
1. Giulia Miller, Surrealism in Hebrew Literature

Supervisor: Tony Street
1. Daniel Davies

King's College London

Supervisor: Deborah Rooke (deborah.rooke @kcl.ac.uk)
1. O. Creanga, Constructions of Identity in the Book of Joshua

Supervisor: ?
1. D. Heming, The Messianic Idea in the Thought of Rav Kook
2. S. Cooper, The Use of Covenant in Contemporary Jewish Thought

SOAS, London

Supervisors: Catherine Hetzer
1. Jessica Bloom, on names, naming and cognition in Genesis

Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL

Supervisor: Dr. Helen Beer (h.beer@ucl.ac.uk)
1. Sima Beeri, “N. Mayzel and Literarishe Bleter 1924-39.”
2. Sarah Goudge, “Reactions and Responses of the predominantly Yiddish speaking Jews of the East End of London to the Nazi persecutions in Europe.1938-1946”
3. Zosia Sochanska, "The Cultural and Literary Contexts of the Work of Dvora Vogel"
4. Ester Wine, “Leo Kenig's Contribution to Yiddish Culture”
5. Vincent Homolka, “Yiddish Memoirs of Vilna” (working title)
6. Alexandra Mankowitz, “A New Appraisal of the Shvartsbard Affair“


Supervisor: Prof. Michael Berkowitz (m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk)
1. Julia Cartarius, “The German Jews of Upper Silesia under National Socialism, 1933-1945”
2. Angela Debnath, “International Interventions in Genocide and Systematic Violence”
3. Daniel Zylbersztajn, “The justifications of imagined and actual violence in Jewish, and in Black groups”

Supervisors: Prof. Michael Berkowitz (m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk) with Prof. Denis Diletant (SSEES)
Sara Hall, “Towards a New Cultural History of Czernowitz: The Jewish Press”

Supervisor: Prof. Mark Geller (m.geller@ucl.ac.uk)
Sabah Aldihisi, “The Translation of the Story of Creation in the Mandaean Holybook ‘The Ginza Raba’”

Supervisor: the late Professor John Klier’s students under the supervision of Professor Michael Berkowitz (m.berkowitz@ucl.ac.uk)
1. David Conway, “‘Jewry in Music’: Entry of Jews to the Musical Profession 1780-1850”
2. Hanna Kwiatkowska, "The Image of Polish Jewry in Polish Society and the Media"
3. Irving Osborne, “Jewish Educational History, East London, 1870-1914” (broad area)
4. David Simmonds, “Limerick Events 1904-1906: Malice or Mischance?”
5. Sonja Weinberg, “German Society and the Russian Pogroms of 1881-82”

Supervisor: Dr. Neill Lochery (n.f.lochery@ucl.ac.uk)
1. Azriel Bermant, “British Israeli Relations under Margaret Thatcher 1979-90”
2. Adam Gower, “Japanese-Israeli Economic Relations” (broad area)
3. Toby Greene, “The impact of Islamist terrorism on UK policy towards the State of Israel”
4. Mohammed Hussein, "Hamas and the Ismalification of the Palestinian Authority Areas"
5. John Lipman, “The Suez Crisis and the British Press” (broad area)
6. Ronald Ranta, “The Israeli Labour Party and the Occupied Territories”
7. Helene Bartos, “A Diplomatic History of Israeli-German Relations 1948-Present'' (working title)

Supervisor: Dr. Ada Rapoport-Albert (uclhara@ucl.ac.uk)
1. Yaffa Aranoff, ”The Portrayal of Biblical Women in Hasidic Literature”
2. Lily Kahn, “The Verbal System in Maskilic Hebrew, 1780-1880”
Ariel Klein, “The Sifra di-Tseni’uta of the Zohar”
3. Gabriel Mancuso, “Shabbatai Donnolo’s Commentary on Sefer Yetsirah and the Medieval Jewish School of South Italy”
4. Gillian Rosen, “The Institution of 'hadlakat ha-Ner' (Sabbath Candle Lighting) by Women” (broad area)”
5. Chani Smith, “The function of music in Hasidic religious experience”
Julian Sinclair, “Rav Kook’s mysticism” (broad area)

Supervisor: Dr. Tsila Ratner (t.ratner@ucl.ac.uk)
Natalie Dulin, “The portrayal of the Sephardim in Israeli Literature”

Supervisor: Dr. Willem Smelik (willem.smelik@ucl.ac.uk)
Alinda Damsma, “An Analysis of Targum Ezekiel and its relationship to the Targumic Toseftot”

Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

Supervisor: Philip Alexander
1. Susan Docherty, Biblical Interpretation in the Letter to the Hebrews
2. Shirley Lucass, The Concept of Messiah in Christianity and Judaism and its implications for Jewish-Christian Relations
3. Ann Conway-Jones, The Celestial Tabernacle in Gregory of Nyssa
4. Penelope Junkermann, The Relationship Between Song of Songs Rabbah and Targum to Song of Songs
5. Michael Tait, The Divine Bridegroom in Mark 2:18-20: Christology Upgraded

Supervisor: George Brooke
1. M. Haralambakis, The Testament of Job
2. Helen Jacobus, Calendars at Qumran
3. Roger Torjhelm, 4Q369: a new edition and reevaluation
4. Marcus Tso, Ethics in the Sectarian Scrolls from Qumran
5. Christopher Davies, Reconsidering Rewritten Bible
6. M. Sidorov, Text Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Supervisor: Adrian Curtis
1. Elzbieta Lazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, M. M. Bakhtin's Ethical-Aesthetical Categories as a Methodology for Reading of the Book of Amos
2. Jennifer Williams, Approaches to Childlessness in the Hebrew Bible

Supervisor: Cathy Gelbin
1. Juliette Roques, Sexuality, Race and the Carnevalesque in Klaus Mann’s Writings (first supervisor)
2. Leanne Dawson, Lesbian Desire in Post-1945 German Texts (co-supervisor)
3. Rachel Ramsay, Writing Jewish and Turkish Cultural Memory into Contemporary German Literature (co-supervisor)
4. Elaine Ellery, Jewish Aspects in the Works of Gertrud Kolmar (co-supervisor)
5. Emma Louise Berry, Turkish-German Culture (second supervisor)

Supervisor: Bernard Jackson
1. Nick Andrewes, Perspectival Poetics in Biblical Hebrew Discourse
2. Adam Frankenberg, The Theological and Philosophical Foundations of Non-Orthodox Halakhic Theory and Practice
3. Sonya Hadari, The rabbinic understanding(s) of human will as it relates to the halakhic requirement for a man to divorce his wife "willingly".
4 . Suzanne Knol, An Historical Overview of Some Overt Ideological Factors in the Development of the Agunah Problem
5 . Sandra Jacobs, The Body as Object: A Gender-Critical Approach to the Treatment of the Body in Biblical Legislation and Early Akkadian Law Codes

Supervisor: Alex Samely
1. Simon Lasair, A Narratological Approach to the Pentateuch Targums

Supervisors: Daniel Langton
1. Dan Garner, Radical Holocaust Theologians
2. Vicky Beardmore, The Use of Symbol in Modern Jewish-Christian Relations
3. Mike Savage, Holocaust Education
4. Owen Powers, Hugh Schonfield and Messianic Judaism
 

University of Oxford

Supervisor: Martin Goodman
1. Christopher Beall (Wolfson), Interconnection among synagogues in the Roman world.
2. Junghwa Choi (Wolfson), Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine from 70 CE to 135 CE.
3. Yehudah Cohn (Wolfson) Mezuzot and tefillin in late antiquity.
4. Jonathan Kirkpatrick (Balliol), Pagan cult in Roman Palestine.
5. Vicente Dobroruka (Wolfson), Second Temple Apocalyptic in Comparative Perspective.

Supervisor: ?
1. Rachel Harris (St Peter's), Modern Israeli literature.
2. Tali Farhadian (Magdalen), Modern Hebrew fiction.

Supervisor: David Rechter
1. Larissa Douglas (St Antony's), Representative Government, Majority Rule and Jewish Minority Representation During the Constitutional Era in Habsburg Austria, 1895-1914

Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
1. Keunjoo Kim (Wolfson) The theology of LXX Isaiah
2. T. Michael Law, The Hexaplaric fragments for 3 and 4 Kingdoms

Supervisor: Hugh Williamson
1. Daniel Maerz (Wolfson), The book of Micah in its social and literary setting.
2. Bohdan Hrobon (Wolfson), Prophecy and Cult in the Book of Isaiah.
3. Jake Stromberg (Harris Manchester), The Role of Isaiah 65-66 in the Final Form of the Book.
4. Samuel Chen (Worcester), The Flood Narratives in Ancient Near Eastern Perspective.
5. Jonathan Stökl (Lady Margaret Hall), The Role and Person of the Prophet in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels.
6. Jennifer Barbour (New College): historical references in Qohelet
7. Katherine Southwood (Wolfson): Ethnicity and the mixed marriages of Ezra 9-10
8. Paul Cook (Wolfson): Isaiah 18-20
9. Benjamin Lazarus: Comedy in ancient Greece and the Hebrew Bible: a comparative study

Supervisor: John Day
Adam Carlill (St. Peter's): Cherubim and Seraphim

Supervisor: Miri  Freud-Kandel
Christina Fuhr (St Catherine's) British Jewry and Jewish religious identification

Supervisor: Joanna Weinberg
Benjamin Williams: Midrash commentary in the sixteenth century

Supervisors Joanna Weinberg/Howard Hotson (History)
Benjaim Merkle: Christian scholars and Hebraism in Heidelberg

Supervisors: Joanna Weinberg/LBC and Philip Alexander/Manchester
1. Jenny Buitelaar, The theme of redemption in Midrash Tehillim.

University of Portsmouth

Supervisor: David Robb
1. Jon Anderson: 'The Jewish Press as a Medium for the Discursive Construction of National Identity'

Univerity of Southampton

Supervisor: Tony Kushner
1. Amy Kettler, 'German soldiers wives and widows during World War II'
2. Margaret Marlow, 'American slave narratives and Holocaust survivor testimonies'
3. Hazel Starmes, 'Non-Jewish communities: the forgotten victims of the "Jewish Holocaust?'
5. Brenda Masters, 'Refugees'
6. Michelle Perkins

Supervisor: Dan Levene
1. Michael Morris, 'Mediation to martyrdom: The emergence of inter-religious dialogue in late antiquity'

Supervisor: Sarah Pearce
1. Philip Jewell, 'Jews and Magic in Jewish Hellenistic literature'
2. Peter Batty, 'Concepts of Poverty in Second Temple Period Writings'

Supervisor: Nils Roemer
1. Hannah Dalby, 'The place of German-Jewish female intellectuals in Weimar Germany and the post-war period in Jewish historiography and modern thought'
2. Tim Grady, 'Dying for the fatherland: the place of WW1 memorials in German-Jewish history'
3. Jonathan Leader, 'Hannah Arendt: politics, philosophy and the historical imagination'
4. Elisa Lawson, 'A popular past?: Anglo-Jewish historiography and heritage, 1880-1950'
5. Tobias Metzler

Supervisor: Nadia Valman
1. Margaret Batstone, 'The Writings and Work of Mary Ward'
2. Lena Mundy, 'Diaries of the Warsaw Ghetto'
3. Katie Klein, 'Early Anglo-Jewish Woman Writers'