Dr. Dana Eichhorst
Institut für Judaistik
Project Materialized Holiness
Torah scrolls as a codicological, theological, and sociological phenomenon of Jewish scribal culture in the Diaspora
Postdoc
Room -1.1105
14195 Berlin
Studied Art History and Jewish Studies at the Free University Berlin (Magister degree 2012); in this time, student assistant for Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Institute for Philosophy, Free University Berlin, in a research project on Christian Kabbala in the DFG Research Group Topic and Tradition (2006-2012). Subsequently, doctoral studies at the Cohn Institute at the University Tel Aviv under the supervision of Prof. Yossef Schwartz; completed her doctorate 2020/21 with a dissertation titled: Quia Verbum est Dibur – Kabbalah from Ashkenaz: El’azar of Worms and Edigio da Viterbo. 2017-2022 research assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University Berlin. Since April 2022, research assistant in the project “Materialized Holiness.”