Wiebke Zeil studied history and European ethnology (B.A.) as well as modern European history (M.A.) at Humboldt University of Berlin. Since October 2021, she has been pursuing her doctorate at the Institute for Historical Studies on “The Jewish Emigrant Estate in Groß-Breesen as a Timeless Reference Point for German-Jewish Life Paths in the 20th Century. Flight – Networking – New Beginnings”.
Since April 2022, Wiebke Zeil has been a doctoral fellow of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund and an associate doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Her most recent publication is “Zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Ausbildung und geistiger Gemeinschaft. Das jüdische Auswandererlehrgut Groß-Breesen“ (“Between Agricultural Education and Spiritual Community: The Jewish Emigrant Educational Estate Groß-Breesen“), in: Knut Bergbauer et al. (ed.), Jüdische Jugend im Übergang – Jewish Youth in Transit. Selbstverständnis und Ideen in Zeiten des Wandels, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 209–233.