Education, Awards, Languages

Education

PhD. University College London, London, 2003/4  ( Dissertation: French Impressionism and German Jews. The Making of Modernist Art Collectors and Art Collections in Imperial Germany (1896-1914)

M.A.  University College London, London 1985-86 (  Thesis: Court Jews of 17th and 18th Century in German Speaking Holy Roman Empire

1978-79: M.A. Course  in Art History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1961-1964:  Vor-Diplom, Sociology, J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Awards

1999: Research Internship, National Galerie Berlin Archiv, Berlin, Germany

1999: Fellowship, Robert Gore Rifkin Expressionist Library, LACMA, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, USA

1999: Research Fellowship, Cassirer Archives, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

1998-99: Research Internship, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1998: Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Languages

Bi-Lingual English-German, French (proficient), Hungarian (adequate), Italian (conversation), Hebrew (reading, basic speaking) Yiddish (understanding, speaking hesitantly)  Romanian (understanding only)