Yfaat Weiss

Yfaat Weiss is a historian specializing in modern and Jewish history. She taught at Leipzig University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and directed the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow. Her research has addressed the history of the Hebrew University, the literary use of Hebrew in interwar Europe, and the history of Zionism. In 2012, she received the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought for the German edition of her book “Verdrängte Nachbarn. Wadi Salib – Haifas enteignete Erinnerung.”