April 15, 2025 2:10 PM CET (14:10) Adress – Celetná 562/20, 110 00 Prague, FF UK Dr. Semion Goldin, Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Russian army and Jewish population during WWI: some lessons for Ukraine The brutal violence of Russian troops towards civilians in Ukraine […]
February 18, 2025 2:10 PM CET Adress – Celetná 562/20, 110 00 Prague Andrea Schatz, King´s College London In the sixteenth century, the exile of the legendary Ten Tribes in remote parts of the world was vividly discussed by both Jews and Christians. While research has focused on the messianic expectations associated with the Ten […]
December 6, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 Philanthropy, Jewishness, and Cultural Heritage, 1850-1950: Introducing the Jewish Country Houses Project Dr Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff University) and Dr 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 their […]
November 1, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our next session in 2022 with our distinguished guest Laura Brade (Albion College). "CHANCE COLLECTORS OF REFUGEES": Local and International Humanitarian Interactions in the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1939 For much of the 1920s and 1930s, American and British humanitarian organizations perceived their Czechoslovak […]
October 11, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our next session in 2022 with our distinguished guest Verena Kasper-Marienberg (North Carolina State University). HALF PROFIT, HALF LOSS – NEGOTIATING JEWISH ECONOMIC LAW IN NON-JEWISH COURTROOMS Verena Kasper-Marienberg’s research focuses on the intersection of Jewish and Christian communities in the early […]
May 31, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our next session in 2022 with our distinguished guest Kajetán Holeček (Charles University, Prague). JEWISH MONEYLENDING IN MEDIEVAL EGER (CHEB) Jews and Christians in Eger (Cheb) were deeply involved in moneylending in the city. A very important source for research of this […]
April 26, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our next session in 2022 with our distinguished guest Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University, Nashville). ASYMMETRICAL JUSTICE: ROMA AND JEWS IN THE COURTROOM After World War Two, Roma and Sinti increasingly looked toward Jewish successes to define their own expectations of post-genocidal justice. […]
March 15, 2022 5 pm CET virtual seminar – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82961863362 All welcome to our first session in 2022 with our distinguished guests Aneta Plzáková and Daniela Bartáková (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences). MEMOGIS – THE SPATIAL EXCLUSION OF JEWS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED PRAGUE The web application „MemoGIS Prague“ describes the fates […]
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 […]
