Sebastian Musch
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Osnabrück University, Germany
Sebastian Musch is a historian who specializes in German-Jewish History, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish-Buddhist Relations. He is currently Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Department of History and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. with an emphasis in Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History from the Center for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, Germany. He has held visiting positions at Uva Wellassa University in Sri Lanka, the University of Haifa, and UC Berkeley. From 2014-16 he was a member of the Posen Society of Fellows. In 2016 he was a Fellow at the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. In 2018 he was a Clinton Silver Fellow in Jewish Migration at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. In 2022 he was a Polonsky Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a co-organizer of the Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies “Towards the Study of Jewish-Buddhist Relations.” His first book “Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture – Between Moses and Buddha, 1890-1940” was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. His articles have appeared in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Partial Answers – Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, Studies in Contemporary History, Religions, and Intellectual History Review, among others.