Precarious Survival – Everyday Life of «Mixed Families» During the Nazi Regime in Vienna
22 February 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Michaela Raggam-Blesch (University of Vienna) This lecture will focus on the everyday life and persecution of «mixed families» during the Nazi regime in Vienna. In the context of National Socialist race ideology, marriages...
MemoGIS – the Spatial Exclusion of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Prague
15 March 2022, 5pm CET
Aneta Plzáková and Daniela Bartáková (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences) The web application "MemoGIS Prague" describes the fates of 30 thousand Holocaust victims from Prague and analyses...
Asymmetrical Justice: Roma and Jews in the Courtroom
26 April 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) After World War Two, Roma and Sinti increasingly looked toward Jewish successes to define their own expectations of post-genocidal justice. At the same time, the legal innovations,...
Jewish Moneylending in Medieval Eger (Cheb)
31 May 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Kajetán Holeček (Charles University, Prague) Jews and Christians in Eger (Cheb) were deeply involved in moneylending in the city. A very important source for research of this topic in Eger are the books of obligations...
Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism
An International Conference at the University of Wroclaw, 28 – 30 June 2022
Organizers: Kateřina Čapková, Semion Goldin, Kamil Kijek Throughout most of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union and from 1945 in east central European “people’s democracies,” citizens, including Jews, were...
Half Profit, Half Loss – Negotiating Jewish Economic Law in Non-Jewish Courtrooms
11 October 2022, 5:00 CET
Verena Kasper-Marienberg (North Carolina State University) It was common practice that Jewish men and women brought their conflicts before non-Jewish courts throughout the early modern period. This talk explores how, due...
„Chance Collectors of Refugees“: Local and International Humanitarian Interactions in the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1939
1 November 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Laura Brade (Albion College) For much of the 1920s and 1930s, American and British humanitarian organizations perceived their Czechoslovak counterparts as partners in distributing aid to the growing refugee population...
