Researchers

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is a lecturer for Visual Culture, Film Studies, German- and European Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism and the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches about Holocaust memory in the digital age, visual history of the GDR, European memory cultures, European Cinema, and audiovisual research methods. In his research he focuses on the audiovisual and digital memory of the Holocaust, and the use and appropriation of archive footage. He is a consortium member in the Horizon 2020 project Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (1999-2022) and Co-PI in the DFG-project (Con)sequential Images – An archeology of iconic film footage from the Nazi era (2021-2029). He is also an associate researcher in the research project Sites of Tension – Shifts in Holocaust Memory , Antisemitism, and Political Contestation in Europe.

Lital Henig

Lital Henig is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds an MA in Communication and Journalism and a BA in Art History and Communication and Journalism, both from the Hebrew University. In her PhD thesis she explores the projects of Holocaust commemoration in the digital era. Henig’s areas of interest include Holocaust studies, visual arts, witnessing, and media studies, and she recently published on the commemorative Instagram-project “Eva Stories” in New Media & Society. She currently serves as a PhD researcher in the Hebrew University’s research team of the Horizon 2020 project Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (1999-2022).

Noga Stiassny

Noga Stiassny is a postdoctoral research fellow at the DAAD Center for German Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD from the Department of Art History at the Hamburg University, where she was a member of the Research Training Group Recollections: Representations of the Shoah in Comparative Perspective’. She is also a former Guest Researcher at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture of the University of Amsterdam (AHM) (2018-2019). Her research interests are art history, visual history, heritage, memory, and Jewish culture, with a particular focus on landscape. She is a member of the Horizon 2020 project Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (1999-2022) and the DFG-project (Con)sequential Images – An archeology of iconic film footage from the Nazi era (2021-2029).

Tom Divon

Tom Divon is a research student in the field of Digital Media, Culture and Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a master’s degree in Communication and New Media and a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Journalism, both from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) at Herzliya. Tom’s research areas include Memory Studies, Social Media Studies, Visual Arts and Culture Studies, and their interdisciplinary intersections. Tom lectures in the fields of Digital Media, Culture and Communication (IDC Herzliya; Kinneret College, Kinneret, Sapir collage Sderot; Hadassah college, Jerusalem). He is an expert in social media research and branding and serves as an advisor in this field. He also worked as a professional news editor for a variety of media outlets in Israel (Ynet, Haaretz, Israel Today).

Yael Ben Moshe

Yael Ben-Moshe is a lecturer for Media studies, Film and Cultural Studies, at the Haifa University and Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem. Her Ph.D. research (Technische Universität, Berlin) examines the formation of collective memory on Hitler and National-Socialism in Germany and the USA from 1945 to 2009. She was awarded the Presidential Fellowship for her post-doc research on terrorism and trauma in the age of the “new wars”, and a DAAD fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF). She is research fellow at the Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the Haifa university, and a post-doc researcher in the DFG-project (Con)sequential Images – An archeology of iconic film footage from the Nazi era (2021-2029). Her fields of interest are visual history, German culture, mass media, trauma with a focus on the effect of trauma by terrorism. 

Shir Ventura

Shir Ventura, born 1998, is an MA student at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Mandel MA Honors Program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and history from the Hebrew University as well. She currently serves as a research assistant in the Hebrew University’s research team of the Horizon 2020 project Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (2019-2022).