Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Seminar in Modern European Jewish History

Conveners:  Abigail Green, Francesca Bregoli, François Guesnet, David Rechter
Fridays at 2.15pm, Brasenose College

Week 1: 12 October

Rebecca Clifford (Worcester College/Faculty of History)
Creating National Holocaust Commemorations: Militants, Memories and Meanings

Week 2: 19 October

Dr Sonja Weinberg
German-Jewish Responses to Anti-Jewish Violence: The Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums and the Pogroms in Germany and Russia, 1881-1882

Week 3: 26 October

Dr François Guesnet (Oriental Institute)
Political Culture at the Borderlines of Modernity: Shtadlanut in European Jewish History

Week 4: 2 November

Professor Susanne Marten-Finnis (University of Portsmouth)
Romanian for Study - German for Pleasure”: Jewish Politics and Public Opinion in Czernowitz, Bukovina, 1918-40

Week 5: 9 November

Dr Francesca Bregoli (Oriental Institute)
The “Jewish Question” in Late Eighteenth-Century Livorno

Week 6: 16 November

Professor Christian Wiese (University of Sussex)
Challenging Cultural Hegemony: Jewish Studies, Liberal Protestantism, and Antisemitism in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany

Week 7: 23 November

Professor Joachim Schloer (University of Southampton)
Modern Jewish Culture and the Big City

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