Christoph Hopp is a doctoral candidate at the University of Potsdam and the University of Haifa. His research focuses on the production and transformation of knowledge between Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. In his dissertation, he explores the intersections of Jewish history (Haskalah, Wissenschaft des Judentums, and Zionism) and the history of linguistics. The aim of the work is to reconstruct the processes that led to the conceptualization of Hebrew as a Semitic and Middle Eastern language.

Together with Thomas Loy (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Hopp is currently working on a volume that will bring together an important part of the Hebrew language research on the Jewish history of Central Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is translating the articles selected for this volume into English.

Hopp works as a journalistic and literary translator for Hebrew and Arabic.

• “Semitic Linguistics between Cairo and Jerusalem: Israel Ben-Ze’ev’s History of the Semitic Languages (1929),” Jewish Quarterly Review (forthcoming).
• Eliezer Schweid, A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy, Vol. IV: The Crisis of Humanism (II): The End of the Jewish Center in Germany, transl. Leonard Levin, annotated by Ch. Hopp and L. Levin (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
• Eliezer Schweid, A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy, Vol. III: The Crisis of Humanism: A Historical Crossroads, transl. Leonard Levin, annotated by L. Levin, Ch. Hopp, and Yuval Lieblich (Leiden: Brill, 2019).