Shmuel Vardi

Studied international relations and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; graduated in 2006 with a thesis on the meaning of metaphysics in religion in Ludwig Feuerbach.

Studied teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Graduated in 2014 with a thesis on the role of the ethics teacher - an examination of the transmission of values in a pluralistic society.

Since 2014 fellow of the Ludwig Rosenberg Research Training Group as a doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation.

PhD Project

Ada Fischmann Maimon - an intellectual biography (Working Title)

Maimon founded the women's workers' movement in Palestine in the first half of the 20th century. She was an activist, politician and is considered the historian of the Palestinian women's workers' movement. She fought for the emancipation of women from what she called the "shackles of tradition." In this sense, she opposed traditional views of the status of women and struggled to reform the concept and nature of women in society. Maimon demanded equal social rights and duties for women through equal opportunities and chances in the world of work. She was tirelessly engaged in this issue and led a socio-politically oriented life in which she fought on several fronts for an emancipated society. The purpose of my work is to highlight the connections between Judaism and the shaping of the labor movement and social democracy in Maimon's works and her life.