Jan Grabowski’s Essay in Jewish Quarterly
Jan Grabowski, a fellow at IIAS during the 2024 academic year, is publishing an important essay for the forthcoming issue of The Jewish Quarterly (JQ257 – August 2024): “Whitewash: Poland and the Jews,” addresses the ongoing challenges Poland faces in acknowledging its role in the Holocaust. In his essay, Grabowski examines how various Polish institutions, including the government, […]
Daniel R. Schwartz – Landau Award Winner for 2024!
The IIAS is proud to extend heartfelt congratulations to Daniel R. Schwartz from the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on receiving the prestigious Landau Prize for 2024 in the field of Jewish History. Schwartz’s association with the IIAS is longstanding. He began his journey with the IIAS […]
Detecting Earth-like Planets: Eric Ford’s Interdisciplinary Approach
Eric Ford, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a past fellow of IIAS, has developed a new method for detecting low-mass, potentially Earth-like planets around stars beyond our solar system. Using advanced spectrographs to observe the subtle “wobble”—stellar spectrum variations—of stars caused by orbiting planets, he seeks to identify potential Earth-like […]
Eyal Benvenisti Leads New Center for Democracy Studies
Eyal Benvenisti, a past fellow of IIAS, has inaugurated the Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University. This center, which he heads, aims to identify and address the challenges facing contemporary democratic societies. Benvenisti emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating risks to democracy, promoting civic education, and fostering public […]
Pioneering Study on Spin-Orbit Torque in Single Molecules
Former IIAS fellow and member of the “Molecular Electronics” research group, Ferdinand Evers (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), together with María Camarasa-Gómez and Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez, explores a new way to control magnetism at the molecular level in an important new paper just published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: “Spin-Orbit Torque in Single-Molecule Junctions from ab […]
Ruth Kanner Reimagines “The Border Town” on Stage in Shanghai
Ruth Kanner, past fellow of the IIAS and organizer of the “Interrupting Kafka: Research Laboratory for Scholarship and Artistic Creativity,” has brought her innovative directorial vision to Shanghai. Her adaptation of Shen Congwen’s 1934 novel “The Border Town” transforms actors into narrators and engages the audience as active participants. “The Border Town” tells the story of […]
Peter Sarnak Awarded 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
The 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to Peter Sarnak, General Director of the IIAS’ Advanced School in Mathematics. Sarnak has been recognized for his groundbreaking development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, which integrates number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry, and spectral theory. The Shaw Prize’s […]
Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and speech
Limor Raviv (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), a former IIAS fellow and member of the “What Allows Human Language?” research group, has co-authored an important study examining the acoustic characteristics of music and speech across different cultures. The research, led by Yuto Ozaki (Keio University) and Patrick E. Savage (University of Auckland), explores how songs, instrumental […]
Katrin Kogman-Appel Explores Kennicott Bible
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Münster and former fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, recently joined National Review’s “Great Books” podcast to discuss the Kennicott Bible. This masterpiece of Jewish book art, commissioned in 1476 in Galicia, Spain, showcases rich illumination and intricate decoration. In the podcast, Kogman-Appel […]
Honoring Excellence: H.V. Nagaraja Rao Receives Champaka Lifetime Achievement Award
Renowned Sanskrit scholar H.V. Nagaraja Rao, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the “A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters” and “Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry” research groups, was recently honored with the ‘Champaka Kalaa Ratna’ Lifetime Achievement Award by the Champaka […]