European Minorities: Interactions, Community Building and Sense of Belonging 2024/25 SS

Dekel Peretz is a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. Peretz’s research focuses on Jewish life in Germany in past and presence, Jewish–Muslim encounters, digital religion and postcolonial studies. His current research theme is “Dialogue in times of Crisis. Muslim–Jewish Encounters in Berlin in the Shadow of the October 7th Israel–Gaza war.” Peretz’s most recent book Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine deals with Jewish identity in fin de siècle Germany in the context of racial and colonial discourses.