Minorities and the State: Non-Territorial Autonomy in Estonia in the Late Tsarist and Interwar Periods.
Timo Aava is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a historian of modern Europe focusing on the history of political thought and minority rights. During his doctoral studies, he held research positions at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna. Aava also held fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe.
At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Aava will work on a book project assessing the intellectual and political history of minority rights in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Aava will also begin a new project on the history of state neutrality in modern Europe.
This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.
Minorities and the State: Non-Territorial Autonomy in Estonia in the Late Tsarist and Interwar Periods.
History
Aava, Timo. “Refugees and Diaspora Nationalism: National Activists in Estonian Settlements in Siberia and Non-Territorial Autonomy between 1917 and 1920,” Journal of Baltic Studies, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2023.2166545
Aava, Timo. “Jewish Autonomy in Interwar Estonia and the Life Trajectories of Its Leaders,” S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, 2023. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0123/art_taav01
Tark, Triin, Timo Aava and David J. Smith. “’One Size Fits All?’ Challenges of Ethnic Categorisation When Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy,” ENTAN policy paper No. 3, 2021. https://entan.org/entan-activity/one-size-fits-all-challenges-of-ethnic-categorisation-when-implementing-non-territorial-autonomy/
