Dekel Peretz is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. His interdisciplinary research bridges Jewish studies, postcolonial and postmigration theory, and digital religion, with a particular focus on Jewish life in Germany and contemporary Jewish–Muslim relations. His current project, Dialogue in Times of Crisis: Muslim–Jewish Encounters in Berlin in the Shadow of the October 7th War, examines the possibilities and limits of local interfaith and intercultural encounters amid geopolitical rupture.

Dr. Peretz is the author of Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, which explores Jewish identity and political utopia in fin-de-siècle Germany within the broader frameworks of racial and colonial discourses.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Peretz is active in community initiatives. He serves as chairperson of the Jewish Center Fraenkelufer Synagogue Association, which promotes the reconstruction of a Jewish community, cultural, and education center on the site of the main sanctuary of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue, destroyed by the Nazis. He is also the founding director of LABA Berlin: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture and Mar’a’yeh: A Space for Creative Muslim–Jewish Exchange.

Monographs and Edited Volumes

• Peretz Dekel with Élodie Druez and Daniella Shaw (eds.), Special Issue: Boundary Work in Muslim-Jewish Encounters in Urban Europe. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ecsa/28/1
• Peretz Dekel. Zionism and Cosmopolitanism. Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726435
• Peretz Dekel with Elke-Vera Kotowski. Franz Oppenheimer: Arzt – Nationalökonom – Soziologe, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015.

Articles and Book Chapters

• Peretz, Dekel. "From Lockdown to Warzone: The Digital Turn in Jewish–Muslim Encounters". Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century, edited by Maja Hultman and Joachim Schlör, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025, pp. 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111268132-006
• Peretz, Dekel with Gidley, B, Everett, S., Druez, E., Ebbiary, A., Emmerich, A. and Shaw, D. “Off and on stage interactions: Muslim-Jewish encounter in urban Europe”. Ethnicities 2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968241292653
• “Nomadism, Capitalism and the figure of the Jew in early German Sociology.” In: Bernhard Kleeberg; Dirk Schuck; Martin Muslow; Anna Möllers (eds.) Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today (forthcoming).
• Peretz, Dekel. “The Mediatization of Jewish–Muslim Dialogue in Germany Amid COVID-19”. Contemporary Jewry 2024, 44(2): 299–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-024-09565-7
• Peretz, Dekel. “Generation Enraged. The Journal Jalta as a Mouthpiece for Young Jews in Germany.” European Judaism 2023, 56(2): 75-87. https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2023.560208
• Peretz, Dekel. “Altneuland – A German Colonial Journal?” In: Susanne Marten-Finnis; Michael Nagel (eds.), On the Transcultural Nature of Jewish Periodicals. Interconnectivity and Entanglements (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts), 197–206. Tuebingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2023.
• Peretz, Dekel with Vanessa Rau. “Zwischen Tradition und Freiheit. Religion, Säkularität und Religionsfreiheit aus jüdischer Perspektive.” In: Vanessa Rau; Mahyar Nicoubin (ed.), Ein Jahrhundert Religionsverfassungsrecht. Säkularität und Gesellschaft im Wandel, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn, 2022.
• Peretz Dekel with Alexander-Kenneth Nagel. "Precarious Companionship. Discourses of Adversity and Commonality in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Intiatives in Germany." In: Samuel Sami Everett; Ben Gidley (ed.) Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience. Brill, Leiden, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_006
• Peretz, Dekel. "Generation Wütend. Die Zeitschrift 'Jalta' als Sprachrohr junger Jüd* innen." In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 44-45/2021. https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/juedisches-leben-in-deutschland-2021/342702/generation-wuetend/
• Peretz, Dekel. “Franz Oppenheimer. A Pioneer of Diasporic Zionism.” In: Internal Outsiders – Imagined Orientals – invented Occidentals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and modern Constructions of Jewish Identity, ed. Ulrike Brunotte, Jürgen Mohn, and Christina Späti, 187–200 (Wuerzburg: Ergon, 2017).
• Peretz Dekel. “‘Utopia as a Fact’. Franz Oppenheimer’s Paths in Utopia between Science, Fiction and Race,” in Year-book for European Jewish Literature Studies, vol. 3, European Jewish Utopias, ed. Alfred Bodenheimer, Vivian Liska, and Caspar Battegay, in collaboration with Benedikt Tremp, 64–85 (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016).

Academic Reviews

• Haim Fireberg, Olaf Glöckner, and Marcela Menachem Zoufalá (eds.). Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe in European Journal of Jewish Studies 18 (2024): 172–176.
• Edward Fram. A Window on their World. The Court Diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim, Frankfurt am Main, 1773-1794 in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 6 (2013): 555-557.