M.A. Katharina Hadassah Wendl
Institut für Judaistik
Project Materialized Holiness
Torah scrolls as a codicological, theological, and sociological phenomenon of Jewish scribal culture in the Diaspora
PhD Student
Room -1.1118
14195 Berlin
Jewish Studies (BA, MA) and Teacher Education (English, History, Social Studies, and Political Education, B.Ed.) at the University of Vienna (2017-2021).
Jewish Education (MA) at the LSJS/Middlesex University (2021-2022).
2016-2017: Archival assistant at Yad Vashem.
2020-2021: Assistant at the Institute for History Didactics and at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Vienna.
Since February 2021: Editor of German translations of Jewish traditional literature for Sefaria.
Since July 2021: Editor of German translations of texts on women and mitzvot for Derachaha. Supported by the Szloma-Albam Foundation and the foundation ZURÜCKGEBEN (2022-2023).
2021-2022: Teacher for German as a foreign language and Jewish religion in London (Colfe’s School, Muswell Hill Synagogue, LSJS/Bet Limmud).
September 2021: Master’s degree in Jewish Studies with a thesis on Intertextuality in the Midrash Eschet Chayil of Midrash Mischlei at the University of Vienna.
Since June 2022: PhD-researcher in the project “Materialized Holiness.”
November 2022: Master’s degree in Jewish Education with thesis on Sense and experience of autonomy in online Jewish learning at the LSJS/Middlesex University.
Forthcoming:
- Article: Kabbalist rap: A love song for the Torah by Victoria Hanna. In: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
- Article: Purim – celebrating together in interwar Yugoslavia (Du Siach, spring 2023).
- Book review: Tzipporim. Judentum und Social Media (Du Siach, summer 2023).
- Book review: Dirshuni. Contemporay Women’s Midrash (Reading Religion, April 2023).
Articles:
- Glaube und Religion im Netz – und das in Buchform.JCRelations (November 2022). Available at: https://www.jcrelations.net/de/artikelansicht/glaube-und-religion-im-netz-und-das-in-buchform.html (18/11/2022).
- Glaube und Religion im Netz – und das in Buchform.Compass Infodienst. Online Extra Nr. 328. Available at: https://www.compass-infodienst.de/Katharina-Hadassah-Wendl-Glaube-und-Religion-im-Netz.19430.0.html (18/11/2022).
- The simple letters in a scroll. HaMizrachi UK (Sukkot 2022). Available at: https://issuu.com/mizrachiuk/docs/hamizrachi_sukkot_5783-_uk_-_low_res (18/11/2022).
- Repeat, print and click: The transformation of Jewish learning.Challah (August 2022). Available at: https://www.challahmagazine.com/read/repeat%2C-print-and-click%3A-the-transformation-of-jewish-learning (18/11/2022).
MA dissertations:
- Sense and experience of autonomy in online Jewish learning among highly Jewishly engaged, young Modern Orthodox learners London: London School of Jewish Studies, 2022. Available at: LSJS Library.
- Intertextuality in the Rabbinic reading of Midrash Eshet Chayil in Midrash Mishlei (“Intertextualität in der rabbinischen Lektüre des Midrasch Eschet Chayil im Midrasch Mischlei“). Vienna: University of Vienna, 2021. Available at: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/open/o:1399031, https://utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/60486/ (17/08/2022).
Published editions:
- Orientierungen, Irritationen. Studienfahrten an Erinnerungsorte der NS-Verbrechen. Collection of essays on informal Holocaust education. Vienna: LIT Verlag/Verein GEDENKDIENST, 2021.
- German Translation of the Talmud Bavli by Lazarus Goldschmidt (1929), edited for online usage by Igor Itkin, Chajm Guski, Marina Struse, Josh Weiner, and Hadassah Wendl (2021). Available at: https://www.sefaria.org/ (17/08/2022).
- German Translation of the Mishna by David Hoffmann (1887-1933), edited for online usage by Igor Itkin; Marina Struse, and Hadassah Wendl (2022). Available at: https://www.sefaria.org/ (17/08/2022).