Ass.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Lenhard, academic director
Lenhard studied Jewish Studies, Philosophy, and Anglo-American History at the University of Cologne (M.A., 2010), followed by a doctorate (summa cum laude) with the thesis „Nation or Religion? The Emergence of Modern Jewish Ethnicity in France and Germany, 1782-1848” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He was awarded the Max Weber Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for his dissertation.
From 2014 to 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Jewish History and Culture at LMU and in 2016/17 he was a substitute professor for Medieval and Modern History at the Martin Buber Institute for Judaic Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2022, he received his habilitation with the book „Elective Affinities: Cultural History of Friendship among German Jews, 1888-1938” (Mohr Siebeck, 2023), published in the Leo Baeck Institute's book series.
From 2022 to 2024, he was DAAD Associate Professor of History and German at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2024, he published his study „Café Marx. The Institute for Social Research from Its Inception to the Frankfurt School” (C.H. Beck, 2024), which is currently being translated into five languages (English: Yale UP; French, Korean, Chinese, Bengali) and was awarded the prestigious Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize for Jewish History.
From 2024 to 2026, Lenhard represented the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Since March 2026, he has been an assistant professor of Austrian Jewish history at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna and academic director of INJOEST.
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