Maja Ščrbačić

Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst und Orientwissenschaften, Graduate Student

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Universität Leipzig, PhD student
Dissertation Project: The Orientalist Paul Kraus. Biography and scholarship, 1904–1944

Visiting Research Fellow, ERC-Project »Experience, Judgement and Representation of World War II in an Age of Globalization« / PI Prof. Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015-2018)

M. A. Religious Studies, Psychology and Philosophy (Universität Leipzig, 2013)

Student and Research Assistant/ Research Associate / Ph.D. Student
(Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig, 2009-2015)

DAAD-Jahresstipendium (Damascus University, 2005/2006)

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Eugen Mittwoch gegen das Land Preußen. Die Entlassungsmaßnahmen in der Berliner Orientalistik, 1933–1938

Arndt Engelhardt et al. (eds.), Ein Paradigma der Moderne. Jüdische Geschichte in Schlüsselbegriffen, Göttingen/Bristol, CT 2016, 39–55.

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al-Thaqāfah

Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, hrsg. im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften von Dan Diner, Bd. 6, Stuttgart/Weimar 2015, 79–82.

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Von der Semitistik zur Islamwissenschaft und zurück. Paul Kraus (1904–1944)

Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts/Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 12 (2013), 389–416.

In 1930, at the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Vienna, the Semitist Paul Kraus presented his findi... more In 1930, at the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Vienna, the Semitist Paul Kraus presented his findings on a vast body of Arabic writings attributed to an alchemist called Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān. Contrary to the traditional interpretation that dated the corpus in the beginning of the eighth century, and based on a thorough philological analysis, he proclaimed it to be part of the Ismaeli literature of the late ninth or early tenth century. Through this discovery Kraus established himself as one of the most promising scholars of Islamic studies of his generation. This essay traces the circumstances that led to his findings and tries to shed light on the ramifications of his breakthrough discovery. Along his scholarly stages, leading him from Prague to Berlin, Paris and then Cairo, his intellectual development, the scholarly traditions he followed, and the academic networks that fostered his career are unfolded. Furthermore, the adverse historical and political conditions that forced him into exile repeatedly in the 1930s and led to his suicide in 1944 are examined.

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Book Reviews by Maja Ščrbačić

Aleksandra Pawliczek, Akademischer Alltag zwischen Ausgrenzung und Erfolg. Jüdische Dozenten an der Berliner Universität 1871–1933, Stuttgart: Steiner 2011.

Bulletin des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts XV (2013), Leipzig 2015, 24–28.

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Eugen Mittwoch gegen das Land Preußen. Die Entlassungsmaßnahmen in der Berliner Orientalistik, 1933–1938

Arndt Engelhardt et al. (eds.), Ein Paradigma der Moderne. Jüdische Geschichte in Schlüsselbegriffen, Göttingen/Bristol, CT 2016, 39–55.

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al-Thaqāfah

Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, hrsg. im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften von Dan Diner, Bd. 6, Stuttgart/Weimar 2015, 79–82.

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Von der Semitistik zur Islamwissenschaft und zurück. Paul Kraus (1904–1944)

Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts/Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 12 (2013), 389–416.

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Aleksandra Pawliczek, Akademischer Alltag zwischen Ausgrenzung und Erfolg. Jüdische Dozenten an der Berliner Universität 1871–1933, Stuttgart: Steiner 2011.

Bulletin des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts XV (2013), Leipzig 2015, 24–28.

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