Dr. Dekel Peretz
Curriculum Vitae
Dekel
obtained his PhD in history from the University of Potsdam in 2020. In his
dissertation Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of
a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine Dekel dealt with the history of
sociology and Jewish identity in fin de siècle Germany in the context of the
racial and colonial discourses. His previous research and publications focused
on schools and social transformation in Arab Palestine during the British
Mandate, Zionism, utopian thought, colonial fantasies and German memorial
culture.
Research project
Publications
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism. Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, De Gruyter, Berlin, (fothcoming).
“Altneuland – A German Colonial Journal,” in: Susanne Marten-Finnis; Michael Nagel. (ed.), Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts, Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen, (forthcoming).
"Zwischen Tradition und Freiheit. Religion, Säkularität und Religionsfreiheit aus jüdischer Perspektive." Religionsverfassungsrecht revisited. 2023.
In cooperation with Vanessa Rau.
“Franz Oppenheimer: A Pioneer of Diasporic Zionism,” in: Ulrike Brunotte et al. (ed.), Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals - invented Occidentals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and modern Constructions of Jewish Identity, ERGON, Wuerzburg 2017, pp. 187-200.
“‘Utopia as a Fact’. Franz Oppenheimer’s Path in Utopia between Science, Fiction and Realization,” In: Caspar Battegay (ed.), Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies, vol. 3 (European Jewish Utopias), De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, pp. 64-85.
Franz Oppenheimer: Arzt – Nationalökonom – Soziologe, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015. In cooperation with Elke-Vera Kotowski.