February 22 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our first session in 2022 with our distinguished guest Michaela Raggam-Blesch (Universität Wien). PRECARIOUS SURVIVAL: EVERYDAY LIFE OF «MIXED FAMILIES» DURING THE NAZI REGIME IN VIENNA “Mixed marriages” and their families navigated between Jewish and non-Jewish worlds, usually not fully belonging to […]
Wednesdays, starting on 23/2 09:10-10:40 Room 1.08, Celetná 13, Praha 1 About the Instructor Hillel J. Kieval is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. A historian of Jewish culture and society in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, his research interests […]
14 December 2021 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our last session in 2021 with our distinguished guest Ildikó Barna (Eötvös Loránd University). THE DEGOB COLLECTION THROUGH A DIGITAL LENS Beginning from the early summer of 1945, employees of the National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB) started to record the testimonies […]
9 November 2021 5 pm CET Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Conference Hall, Gabčíkova 10, Prague 8 All welcome to our next session in 2021 with our distinguished guest Jan Machala. SILENCED VOICES. The untold stories of the “Last pogrom” in the Moravia (1918) Please accept our invitation to […]
26 October 2021 5 pm CET Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Conference Hall, Gabčíkova 10, Prague 8 Please accept our invitation to next session of our Modern Jewish History Seminar in 2021. All seminars will be held physically and online. In case of a worsening of the coronavirus situation, […]
29 June 2021 5 pm CET Library of the Institute for Contemporary History, CAS (Vlašská 9, Prague 1) Please accept our invitation to the last session of our Modern Jewish History Seminar in spring 2021. This last session will take place in a hybrid form – offline as well as online. Jewish, Romani and Interethnic […]
April 27, 2021 18:00 (CET) ON-LINE 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’ the national tragedy in this way minimizes Hungarian responsibility and the role of domestic xenophobic traditions in the Holocaust. The […]
23 March 2021 18:00 (CET) ON-LINE SEMINAR All welcome to our next session in 2021 with our distinguished guest 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 and historians, especially in […]
9 February 2021 18:00 (CET) ON-LINE All welcome to our first session in 2021 with our distinguished guest 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 from 1910 to 1911. […]
Čtvrtek, 21. ledna 18:00 (CET) ON-LINE PŘEDNÁŠKA Přednášející: ThDr. Petr Jan Vinš, Bc. Karolina Kašeová Avraham Suckever (1913–2010) byl jedním z nejvýznamnějších jidiš básníků 20. století. Svou literární dráhu započal ve Vilniusu, a byl i přes počáteční apolitičnost své poezie přijat do umělecké socialistické skupiny „Jung Vilne“. Během druhé světové války byl internován ve vilenském […]
