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Seminar in Modern Jewish History

Organised through the Faculties of Oriental Studies and History and convened by Professor Abigail Green, Professor David Rechter, and Dr Zoë Waxman, this past Seminar on Modern Jewish History, held remotely, focused on the topic of “Jewish Country Houses.”

Below, please find a list of recent seminar speakers and topics.

Hilary Term 2021 Schedule

Week 1, 18 January

John Hilary
“German Jewish Connoisseurs in fin-de-siècle London: The Lost Collection of Leopold and Mathilde Hirsch”

Week 3, 1 February

Caroline Shenton (Archivist and Historian)
“National Treasures: Evacuating London’s Collections to Jewish Country Houses during the Second World War”

Week 5, 15 February

Marie-Theres Arnbom
“The Place to Be: Jewish Summer Estates in Austria’s ‘Salzkammergut'”

Week 7, 1 March

Laure Schnapper (Recherches franco-allemandes en sciences sociales, Paris)
“The French Strauss”

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