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Kathrin Knapp is a doctoral candidate in Jewish Studies at the University of Basel, where she also completed her studies in Jewish Studies and History. She has worked as an assistant in the curation team of the New Synagogue Berlin and has freelanced on various projects related to Jewish memory culture and history. In 2024, she will complete her Master's program in Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Her dissertation, supervised by Alfred Bodenheimer, focuses on the conditions, formation, and reception of Jewish literature writing in the German-speaking world in the 21st century. Her further research interests include Jewish memory culture and its digital implementations, cultural history, and German-language literature by Jewish authors from the 19th to 21st centuries. Knapp has published multiple articles and has participated in conferences discussing Jewish feminism and memory in the digital age.
University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Assisted in research and publications related to Jewish studies.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.