Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan

Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan is a PhD candidate at the Department for Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. His dissertation explores the contributions of emigre scholars in Israel to post-war German historiography.

Crossing the Divide: Walter Grab and the East-German Historical Establishment

The Vienna-born Israeli historian Walter Grab was among the few to venture across the academic Iron Curtain in pursuit of his research…This is the story of his unique relationship with East German scholar Heinrich Scheel