Organized by Institute of Contemporary History (Czech Academy of Sciences), Masaryk Institute and Archives (Czech Academy of Sciences) and the Prague Center for Jewish Studies at the Charles University
Postwar Transcarpathia: Interaction of Jewish Survivors with their (Former) Neighbors
5 December 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Pavlo Khudish (Uzhhorod National University) My research focuses on the entangled interethnic relations and postwar social history of Holocaust survivors in Transcarpathia. The legal and social position of Jews in the...
Salonica Jews in Moravia 1912-1936
28 November 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Lida Dodou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) The Jewish community of Salonica, often called “Jerusalem of the Balkans”, is a community whose members in the early 20th century scattered all around the globe.
“For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age”
31 October 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Jessica Roda (Georgetown University) Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their community. Jessica Roda flips this...
Czechoslovakia and the Brichah
9 May 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Anna Kroupová (Charles University) The talk will focus on the activities of the illegal Zionist movement Brichah in the context of the history of Central and Eastern Europe. As a case study for my research on the Brichah...
Where Foxes Say Good Night. Christian Nationalism and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia
25 April 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Hana Kubátová (Charles University) This presentation exposes the critical role of Christian nationalism in cultivating complicity and collaboration in the Holocaust in Slovakia. Building on existing topographies of...
The Yiddish PEN Club’s Early Years. Formation and Self-Perception
28 March 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Carolin Piorun (The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow) In 1927, the Yiddish PEN Club was admitted to the international writers' organization PEN. Thereby, the stateless Yiddish language and...
Philanthropy, Jewishness, and Cultural Heritage, 1850-1950: Introducing the Jewish Country Houses Project
28 February 2023, 5:00 pm CET
Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff University) and Tom Stammers (Durham University) Co-investigators of the Jewish Country Houses Project (funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council), Granick and Stammers will introduce...
The seminar is intended to provide a platform for academic discussion about the latest research on Jewish history especially of the last three centuries. Though primarily focused on the Jews of central and east central Europe, the seminar also includes topics related to the Jews of other regions. The seminar is further enriched by including topics not directly concerned with Jews, but enabling one to see Jewish history from other perspectives (for instance, the perspective of other marginalized communities).
Despite our preference for the methods of historical research, the organizers welcome multidisciplinary approaches to the topics, including those of sociology, political science, religious studies, and art history.
During the pandemic the seminar is taking place only virtually as a zoom session. The language of the seminar is English. The seminar is organized by Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History), and Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archive). Since 2018/2019, they cooperate with the Prague Center for Jewish Studies at the Charles University. Your suggestions of speakers should be sent to either capkova@usd.cas.cz or frankl@mua.cas.cz.
