Jewish, Romani and Interethnic Families in the Era of Nationalism, Nazism and Communism
29 June, 2021 - 5 pm CET
About Programme Location / Accom.
Benjamin Frommer (Northwestern University, Evanston)
Kateřina Čapková (ÚSD AV ČR)
Book presentation of two volumes with entangled topics
Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia. Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes
Edited and introduced by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
Edited and introduced by Eliyana Adler and Kateřina Čapková
The offline event will take place in the library of the Institute for Contemporary History, CAS (Vlašská 9, Prague 1).
We will use the videoconferencing software Zoom for the online version. You can connect by following this link without registration:
https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/
Book presentation of two volumes with entangled topics
Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia. Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes. Edited and introduced by Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Edited and introduced by Eliyana Adler and Kateřina Čapková
Benjamin Frommer (Ph.D., Harvard, 1999), Associate Professor of History, is the author of National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), which was also published in Czech translation (Prague: Academia, 2010), and co-editor of Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020). His current book project, The Ghetto without Walls: The Identification, Isolation, and Elimination of Bohemian and Moravian Jewry, 1938-1945, examines the wartime destruction of one of the world’s most integrated and intermarried Jewish communities. At Northwestern Frommer has served as the History Department Director of Graduate Studies (2005-2008), the Director of the European Studies Major (2006-2009), and the inaugural Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation (2013-2016).
Kateřina Čapková
Senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Kateřina Čapková is a historian, she is the head of the Inclusive History Research Group at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, and she teaches at Charles University and NYU, in Prague. Her research focuses on modern Jewish history in Europe and the history of refugees and migration. Her book Czechs, Germans, Jews? National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia (Berghahn Books, 2012; in Czech 2005 and 2014) received the Outstanding Academic Title of 2012 from Choice magazine. With Michal Frankl, she co-authored Unsichere Zuflucht (Böhlau, 2012; in Czech, in 2008), about people fleeing to Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany and Austria. She is currently working on a project comparing the Jewish experience in post-war Poland and Czechoslovakia, with a focus on Jewish families in the border regions. In 2016 she initiated the establishment of the Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History.
The offline event will take place in the library of the Institute for Contemporary History, CAS (Vlašská 9, Prague 1).
