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Susanne Weigand, MA

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt ‘Diverse Sources - Shared Histories‘
Promotionsstudentin Mittelalterliche Geschichte

Kontakt

Postanschrift:
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München

Besucheranschrift: Historicum, Schellingstr. 12, Raum 204

Susanne Weigand is a PhD student and research associate at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Germany. Her work focuses on daily social, legal and economic interactions and interconnections of Jews and Christians from the Middle Ages until today. In her PhD Project titled ‘Part of Society? Relationships between Jews and Christians in late medieval Regensburg’ she investigates the history of the Jews in their various relationships with urban society during Regensburg’s greatest economic crisis of the Middle Ages through the lens of municipal court books.

"Diverse Sources, Shared Histories. Jewish Cultural Heritage from the Middle Ages in Contemporary Discourse"

Susanne Weigand will investigate the treatment of the material cultural heritage of the Jewish Community in Regensburg in the form of the Jewish gravestones, which have been part of the public cityscape since the destruction of the Jewish cemetery in 1519. She will examine documents of the preservation of historical monuments and archival records of the city and the municipality to determine to what extent they provide information about the perception and preservation of these gravestones as Jewish cultural property up until present times.
Since this work integrates the diachronic perspective more emphatically and traces an arc from 1519 to the present, its research begins in the early 16th century: it examines which respected citizens, families, and institutions had gravestones immured in their exterior facades, gateways, pavements, and courtyards of their buildings as a "calling card" of their involvement in the expulsion of the Jews in 1519. In the following centuries, the owners and inhabitants of these houses were repeatedly confronted with the gravestones in their walls. Investigations of appropriation processes in the past are complemented by interviews with current owners of the houses about their knowledge of and relationship to the gravestones and collaboration with today’s Jewish community in Regensburg during the conception and realization of exhibitions on their medieval history.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• since October 2019: PhD Candidate - Medieval History, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Dissertation: “Part of Society? Relationships between Jews and Christians in late medieval Regensburg”, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Haverkamp-Rott
• 2019: MA - Medieval History, Specialization on Jewish Medieval History in Europe, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
• 2017: BA - English Linguistics and Literature, Specialization in Historical Linguistics and Old English, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Academic Positions

• since October 2022: Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Project: ‘Diverse Sources - Shared Histories. Jewish Cultural Heritage from the Middle Ages in Contemporary Discourse’ , Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
• 2021- 2022: Visiting Research Fellowship at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2020-2021: Research Assistant to Prof. Yosef Schwartz, Tel Aviv University and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Scholarships

• 2021-2022: Leo Baeck Fellowhip for Doctoral Students, Leo Baeck Institute London and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 2020-2022: DAAD One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates