Biography
Yaniv Feller is a scholar of modern Jewish thought and museum studies. His first book, The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2023) was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and won the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is a co-editor of Covenantal Thinking: Essays on the Philosophy and Theology of David Novak (University of Toronto Press, 2024) and author of articles that have appeared in journals such as Comparative Studies in Society and History, New German Critique, and the Journal of Religion.
Yaniv comes to the University of Florida from Wesleyan University, where he was appointed in 2017 as the Jeremy Zwelling Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies. In the years 2015—2017, Yaniv worked as a curator of Jewish religion in the new permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Contact Information
Email: yfeller@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-1625
Office: 122 Anderson Hall
Mailing address:
107 Anderson Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611