Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism
28-30 June 2021, Wroclaw
Throughout most of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union and from 1945 in east central European “people’s democracies,” citizens, including Jews, were objects of arbitrary policies of the Communist states. The authoritarian...
Slaughtering the Scapegoats: The Mass Murder of Jews and Roma in Hungary during the Last Months of World War II
27 April 2021, 6 pm CET
László Csősz (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences) In Hungarian historical awareness, wartime genocide is closely linked to the German occupation, which began in March 1944. ‘Germanizing’...
Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust
23 March 2021, 6 pm CET
Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College) This seminar explores the project of Jewish history writing in eastern Europe by examining the intellectual trajectories of Polish Jewish historians and their work. It argues that history...
Prague Forays: Egon Erwin Kisch and Walking-as-Belonging
9 February 2021, 6pm CET
Chad Bryant (University of North Carolina) Egon Erwin Kisch, a celebrated member of the Prague Circle, first earned local fame while writing a newspaper column entitled Prager Streifzüge, or Prague Forays, published weekly...
