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Jews in Modern Europe Study Group

Chairs

Phyllis Cohen Albert
Phyllis Cohen Albert
Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Derek J. Penslar
Derek J. Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Alex Sagan
Alex Sagan
Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 

This seminar welcomes presentations on work in progress in the history, politics, society, and culture of modern European Jewry. Its purview reaches from early modernity to the present, and it welcomes presentations with a comparative, transnational, and international orientation as well as a specific national focus.

Study Group Events Calendar

Like Dewdrops in the Waving Grass: Diamonds, Jews, and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Like Dewdrops in the Waving Grass: Diamonds, Jews, and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade
May 2, 2019
4:45pm - 6:00pm
  • Saskia Coenen Snyder – Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Associate Director of the Walker Institute and International and Area Studies, University of South Carolina
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
April 11, 2019
4:45pm - 6:00pm
  • Steven Zipperstein – The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
Writing a Common History Textbook in a Conflict Zone: The European Model and the Israeli-Palestinian Case Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Writing a Common History Textbook in a Conflict Zone: The European Model and the Israeli-Palestinian Case
April 8, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Eyal Naveh – Visiting Professor of History & Resident Faculty (Spring 2019), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Professor of History, Tel Aviv University
  • Chair Derek J. Penslar – William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History, & Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University
Is There "Muslim Antisemitism" in France and Germany? Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Is There "Muslim Antisemitism" in France and Germany?
March 11, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Günther Jikeli – Associate Professor; Justin M. Druck Family Scholar, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University Bloomington
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