Studium

• Ph.D. History of Judaism
  University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago IL, USA – voraussichtlich im Winter 2009
  Dissertation: “Dialogues between Sages and Outsiders to the tradition”: Creation of difference as a literary method of religious polemics in rabbinic literature
   Betreuer: Prof. Michael Fishbane. Begutachter: Prof. Hans-Josef Klauck, Dr. Richard Rosengarten

• Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
  University of Chicago, Divinity School – November 2006
  -       Tradition and Tradition-Building in the Hebrew Bible (BS2) – Prof. Michael Fishbane
  -       Rabbinic Thought and Theology in Late Antiquity (HJ1) – Prof. Michael Fishbane
  -       Jewish Literature in the late Hellenistic and early Roman period (HJ) – Prof. H-J. Klauck
  -       Theories of Fictionality (RL1) – Dr. R. Rosengarten

• M.A. Studium Judaistik, Altorientalische Philologie, Alte Geschichte
  Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Deutschland – Juni 2002

• M.A. Studium Geschichte, Judaistik
  ELTE, Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Budapest, Ungarn – 1995-1998

Ehrenpreise und Stipendien

• Summer travel grant, University of Chicago, Committee of Jewish Studies. 2008
• Conference grant, Perrin Fund, University of Chicago, Divinity School. 2008
• Grant to cover travel and living expenses, Second Jerusalem Summer School in Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2007
• Milo P. Jewett Travel Award, University of Chicago, Biblical Studies. 2007
• Shalom Hartman Research Fellowship. The Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. 2004-2005
• Conference Scholarship, University of Chicago, Department of Jewish Studies. 2004
• University of Chicago scholarship and tuition remission for Ph.D. studies. 2002-2006
• Golda Meir Fellowship Award for Graduate Students. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 2001
• The Rothberg Family Scholarship. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 2000-2001

Vorträge bei Konferenzen

• “The fictionalization of the text (as if – ‘ke-illu’) as a hermeneutic method of rabbinic interpretation” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA – November 2008
• “’Dialogues between Sages and Outsiders to the Tradition’: Creation of Difference as a Literary Method of Religious Polemics in Rabbinic Literature” Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA – November 2007
• “The Formation of ‘Rabbinic’ Identity in the Discourse of Rabbinic Literature” Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting. Vienna, Austria – July 2007
• דיאלוג בין חכמים לזרים למסורת ׃ שיטות להבחין בין פולמוס פנימי לחיצוני בסיפרות חז״ל
• “Dialogue between Sages and Outsiders to the tradition”: Methods for distinguishing external and internal polemics in the Literature of the Sages” Controversy in Rabbinic Literature: Its Boundaries, Logic, and Hermeneutic Status. Seventh Annual Conference of Beth Morasha, Jerusalem, Israel – December 2004

Lehrerfahrung

• Senior Lecturer, Institut für Judaistik, Universität Wien. März 2008 – 
  - Lehrveranstaltungen im Bereich des Biblischen Hebräisch, Rabbinischen (Mischna-) Hebräisch und Modernhebräisch, sowie biblischen, rabbinischen und targumischen Aramäisch
• Lehrbeauftragte, Institut für Judaistik, Universität Wien. März 2007 – Februar 2008
  - "Die Targumim innerhalb der Bibelauslegungstradition der Antike" – SS 2007 “The Targums as part of the antique tradition of Biblical interpretation”
  - "Die Polemik in der jüdischen und Christlichen Bibelauslegung in der Antike" – WS 2007/08 “Polemics in Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity”
• Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Divinity School, Chicago, USA. 2003 –2004

Relevante Berufserfahrung

• Program Director für Englisch und Hebräisch, LanguageWorks, Center for Language Instruction and Intercultural Services, Budapest, Hungary. April 2004 – 

Sprachen

• Ungarisch: fließend
• Deutsch: fließend
• Englisch: fließend
• Hebräisch: fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse (Ptor der Hebräische Universität Jerusalem, Juni 2005)
• Französisch: fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse