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Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism

Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism

An International Conference at the University of Wroclaw, 28 – 30 June 2022

Organizers: Kateřina Čapková, Semion Goldin, Kamil Kijek Throughout most of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union and from 1945 in east central European “people’s democracies,” citizens, including Jews, were...

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Commemorating the Kindertransports 80 Years On

Commemorating the Kindertransports 80 Years On

Maisl Synagogue, 19 November 2018

In the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom, the British government, urged on by public opinion and the efforts of refugee aid groups, agreed to offer temporary refuge to unaccompanied children from Central Europe who were...

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Remembering Across the Iron Curtain in the Cold War Era. The Emergence of Holocaust Memory

Remembering Across the Iron Curtain in the Cold War Era. The Emergence of Holocaust Memory

A Joint Conference of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York and the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, September 2-4, 2018.

The Cold War influenced how people, societies and states dealt with and understood the Holocaust and its aftereffects. Yet historiography tends to neglect the role the block confrontation played in shaping scholarship, trials,...

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New Approaches to the History of the Jews under Communism

New Approaches to the History of the Jews under Communism

23–25 May 2017, Prague

The experience of the Jews under the Communist régimes of east-central and eastern Europe has been a hotly debated topic of historiography since the 1950s. Until the 1980s, Cold War propaganda exerted a powerful influence...

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The Holocaust and its Aftermath from the Family Perspective

The Holocaust and its Aftermath from the Family Perspective

15-16 March 2017, Prague

Applying gender analysis to the field of Holocaust Studies has yielded important results. Whereas before the 1990s, most Holocaust scholarship focused almost exclusively on the experiences of male victims, expanding to include...

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Czech–Jewish and Polish–Jewish Studies: (Dis)Similarities

Czech–Jewish and Polish–Jewish Studies: (Dis)Similarities

29–30 October 2014, Prague

Polish-Jewish and Czech-Jewish history are often seen as following two different lines of narrative. While historians of Bohemian and Moravian Jews tend to focus on the impact of Austrian-Jewish and German-Jewish history...

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