Carsten Schapkow
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern
Jewish History
Judaic Studies Program/Department of Histor
y

email: cschaphow@ou.edu

Phone: (405) 325 63 70/6508
Fax: (405) 325 6521

Area of Specialty
Modern Jewish History, German-Jewish History, Modern Jewish Historiography

Education
PhD Free University Berlin, 2000

Major Publications
„Die Freiheit zu philosophieren“. Jüdische Identität in der Moderne im Spiegel der Rezeption Baruch de Spinozas in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2001. [“The Freedom to Philosophize” – Jewish Identity as Mirrored in the Reception of Baruch de Spinoza in German Literature]
Articles on Ibero-Sephardic History and Culture, German-Jewish History, History of Exile.

Current Research Project
“Always with new admiration:” The Perception of Ibero-Sephardic Culture among German-speaking Jews in the 19th century

"Visions of al-Andalus and Sefarad: Spain in the Jewish Historical and Literary Imagination (1800-2000)" in collaboration with Michal Friedman.

Current Classes
American-Jewish History
Transformation of Jewish Communities from Tradition to Modernity
Rebirth of Israel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Western, Native
American, &
Environmental
History

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