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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
Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom - A film screening presented by filmmaker Judith Wechsler Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom - A film screening presented by filmmaker Judith Wechsler
December 11, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Judith Wechsler – NEH Professor of Art History, Emerita, Tufts University
  • Chair Alex Sagan – Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Redemption Through Sin: The Biographical Background to Gershom Scholem's Most Famous Essay Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Redemption Through Sin: The Biographical Background to Gershom Scholem's Most Famous Essay
December 4, 2018
4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • David Biale – Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Davis
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
November 15, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Paul Hanebrink – Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Kristallnacht as Crescendo and Overture Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Kristallnacht as Crescendo and Overture
November 8, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Peter Hayes – Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus, Northwestern University
  • Respondent Alex Sagan – Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Expelling the Jews: Wartime Plans to Expel Jews from Eastern Europe after the Second World War Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Expelling the Jews: Wartime Plans to Expel Jews from Eastern Europe after the Second World War
October 11, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Gil Rubin – Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University; CES Seminar Co-Chair, Harvard University
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
October 4, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Simon Levis Sullam – Associate Professor of Modern History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
The Politics of History and the Future of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN) The Politics of History and the Future of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN)
September 5, 2018
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Dariusz Stola – Director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government and CES Director, Harvard University
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
April 30, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Omer Bartov – John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University
Synagogues of Habsburg Hungary: Typology, Genealogy and Architectural Significance Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Synagogues of Habsburg Hungary: Typology, Genealogy and Architectural Significance
April 9, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Rudolf Klein – Miklós Ybl Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Szent István University
Probing the Limits of Speculation: Counterfactualism and the Holocaust Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Probing the Limits of Speculation: Counterfactualism and the Holocaust
March 8, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm
German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic
February 15, 2018
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • John M. Efron – Koret Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Berkeley
In Search of Retribution: The Roles of Holocaust Survivors in Trials of Nazi Perpetrators in Postwar Germany Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — In Search of Retribution: The Roles of Holocaust Survivors in Trials of Nazi Perpetrators in Postwar Germany
November 30, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Laura Jockusch – Albert Abramson Assistant Professor of Holocaust Studies, Departments of History and of New Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum: Jewish Popular Culture and Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum: Jewish Popular Culture and Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe
November 16, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Mary Gluck – Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Book Discussion — Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi
November 8, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Thomas Weber – Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen; Director, Center for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen
  • Chair 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 and Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Salonika Jews in the Context of Modern and Contemporary European Jewish History Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Salonika Jews in the Context of Modern and Contemporary European Jewish History
October 19, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Devin E. Naar – Sephardic Studies Program Chair, Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Washington
Navigating the Civil and Religious Worlds: Jewish Immigrants & Marital Laws in France and the United States 1881-1939 Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Navigating the Civil and Religious Worlds: Jewish Immigrants & Marital Laws in France and the United States 1881-1939
September 11, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
The Némirovsky Question: Susan Rubin Suleiman in conversation about her new book with Joshua Rubenstein and Annabel Kim Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — The Némirovsky Question: Susan Rubin Suleiman in conversation about her new book with Joshua Rubenstein and Annabel Kim
May 2, 2017
5:15pm - 6:45pm
  • Susan Rubin Suleiman – C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Joshua Rubenstein – Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Associate Director, Major Gifts at Harvard Law School
  • Annabel Kim – Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Explaining Modernization of Jews in Nineteenth Century Italy Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Explaining Modernization of Jews in Nineteenth Century Italy
April 20, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Marco Di Giulio – Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Program of Judaic Studies & Italian Department Franklin & Marshall College
From Assimilation to Elimination: The Exclusion of Jews from Czech Society in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — From Assimilation to Elimination: The Exclusion of Jews from Czech Society in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
March 27, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
The Holocaust and Photography: New Perspectives Jews In Modern Europe Study Group — The Holocaust and Photography: New Perspectives
February 16, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Michael Berkowitz – Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London
"A Dreadful Experience" How the 1946 Zionist Congress in Basel Changed the Center of Gravity of Jewish Politics Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — "A Dreadful Experience" How the 1946 Zionist Congress in Basel Changed the Center of Gravity of Jewish Politics
January 30, 2017
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Simon Erlanger – Professor of Judaic Studies and Theology, University of Luzern
From Newsreel to Posttraumatic Films – Classic Documentary Films about Auschwitz-Birkenau Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — From Newsreel to Posttraumatic Films – Classic Documentary Films about Auschwitz-Birkenau
November 10, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Tomasz Łysak – Fulbright Visiting Lecturer of Polish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle; Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland
The Invention and Inversion of the German National Landscape by Jewish Filmmakers, 1918-1968 Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — The Invention and Inversion of the German National Landscape by Jewish Filmmakers, 1918-1968
October 5, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Ofer Ashkenazi – Faculty Member, History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Chairman, Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History
Jewish Revolutionaries in Exile Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Jewish Revolutionaries in Exile
September 8, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Michael Miller – Director of the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest
Square Pegs into Round Holes: Creating Moscow’s New Museum of Jewish History
May 3, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Rethinking the Polish Underground and the Jews during the Holocaust
March 17, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Governing Along Religious Lines: Jews, Muslims, and Christian Settlers in French Algeria, 1830-1870
December 1, 2015
5:15pm - 7:00pm
A New Magic Mountain: German Prose, Hebrew Modernism and the Central European Sanatorium A New Magic Mountain: German Prose, Hebrew Modernism and the Central European Sanatorium
April 16, 2015
4:15pm - 6:00pm
  • Sunny Yudkoff – Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic, & the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Passages of Walter Benjamin”: A New Documentary Film on the Arcades Project
November 19, 2014
5:15pm - 7:00pm
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