Modern Jewish History and Culture
Modern Central and East European History
Holocaust Studies
Antisemitism and Fascism Studies
Yiddish Studies
History of Migration
History of Knowledge
Memory Studies
Email: annechristin.klotz@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal website: Anne-Christin Klotz
Short Bio and Current Projects
Anne-Christin Klotz, Ph.D., is a historian and cultural scientist serving as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2022. She earned her Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin. Her book Together Against Germany: Warsaw’s Yiddish Press in the Fight Against National Socialism (1930–1941) received several international awards, among them the Marko Feingold Prize for Jewish Studies, and was named a finalist for the Yad Vashem Book Prize 2023. Her research focuses on the history of National Socialism, antisemitism, the Holocaust, and modern Eastern European Jewish culture, with a particular emphasis on Jewish perspectives on persecution in the past and present, as well as on Yiddish language and culture. She has held positions at the Stutthof Memorial, the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently served as a Matthew Family Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her second book, a commented source edition of Yiddish travelogues through Nazi Germany as forms of subversive knowledge, will be published by Yad Vashem in 2026. She is also working on a new research project exploring survivor landsmanshaftn from Eastern Europe as communities of mourning and migrant self-help. Although largely forgotten, these groups of survivors organized into landsmanshaftn, to help themselves get back on their feet in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. Furthermore, they took care of their dead upon liberation and established early frameworks of commemoration. They carried out exhumations and reburials, held funerals and ceremonies, and erected memorial stones across the globe. First at sites of extermination in Eastern Europe and later in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy, as well as in Palestine/Israel and the diaspora. These practices laid important foundations for contemporary Holocaust memory. Her research shows how survivors shaped postwar memory culture from below and why recovering these histories is essential for understanding the social and communal infrastructures of survival and the origins of modern Holocaust remembrance.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic and Professional Appointments
2024 Matthew Family Fellow
United States Holocaust Museum Washington, D.C.
since 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer
Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2021–22 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Migration
Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley and German Historical Institute, Pacific Office
2020–21 Doctoral Research Assistant
Leibnitz-Institut für jüdische Studien und Kultur - Simon Dubnow (Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow), Leipzig, Germany
2015–18 Doctoral Research Assistant
Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg (Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg), Berlin, Germany
2011–15 Student Research Assistant
16 volume document collection „Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945” (The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945), Institute for Contemporary History Munich – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2010–11 Intern and Freelance Educator
Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), Berlin, Germany
2006–07 Volunteer Service
Muzeum Stutthof w Sztutowie (Memorial Site of Stutthof at Sztutowie), Pedagogical Department, Sztutowie, Poland
Education
2021 Ph.D., Free University Berlin, Modern History
Ph.D. Thesis: „Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland: Warschaus jiddische Presse im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus (1930-1941)“ (Together Against Germany: Warsaw’s Yiddish Daily Press and its Fight against National Socialism, 1930–1941)
2014 Master of Arts, Free University Berlin, Eastern European Studies
M.A. Thesis: „’Barbarei ist ansteckend!’ Reaktionen der polnisch-jüdischen Zeitungen Haynt und Naye Folktstaytung auf die Ereignisse in Deutschland vor, nach und während der Machtübertragung an Hitler (1932-1933)“ ('Barbarism is contagious!' Reactions of the Polish-Jewish newspapers Haynt and Naye Folktstaytung to Hitler's rise to power (1932-1933)
2011 Bachelor of Arts, Free University Berlin, History and Jewish Studies
B.A. Thesis: „Antizionismus und Antisemitismus im ‚Berliner Extra Dienst‘“ (Antizionism and Antisemitism in the ‚Berliner Extra Dienst‘)
Fellowships and Grants
2025 Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention (fully funded nine-month advanced training)
2025 Beyond Camps and Forced Labor 2026, Travel grant to participate in the Beyond Camps Conference 2026
2024 United States Holocaust Museum Washington, Matthew Family Fellow, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
2024 Ludwig-Delp-Stiftung, Translation Grant for the translation of the Ph.D. thesis into English
2023 Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Travel Grant for Lessons and Legacies Conference 2023 in Prague
2022–26 Martin Buber Society/German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, PI “Landsmanshaftn as a Means of Migrant Jewish Self-help and Communities of Mourning”
2022 Association for Jewish Studies, AJS Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars Grant
2021 Zeitlehren Stiftung, Grant for book publication
2021 Szloma-Albam-Stiftung, Grant for book publication
2021–22 German Historical Institute Washington, Binational Visiting Postdoc Tandem Program at the University of California, Berkeley
2019 Free University Berlin, Fund for Female Researchers, Graduate Travel Grant for a research trip to Israel
2018–20 Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies, Biennial Ph.D. Scholarship, Jewish Claims Conference
2018 Yad Vashem, Research Fellowship for Ph.D. candidates
2018 German Historical Institute Warsaw, Research Fellowship
2017 Institute for the History of the German Jews/ Tel Aviv University, Hamburg, German-Israeli Archival Colloquium, Graduate Travel Grant
2016 Zeitlehren Stiftung, Travel Grant for the YIVO-Archives
2015 Warsaw University, Scholarship for the Summer School of Polish Language
2015 Hans Böckler Stiftung, Biennial Ph.D. scholarship, declined
2014 University of Bielefeld, Shortcuts Fellowship for Female Researchers to develop a Ph.D. Project
2013 German Academic Exchange Service, Scholarship for the Summer School of Russian Language and Culture, Volgograd University
2013 Hannchen Mehrzweck Stiftung & Free University Berlin, Travel Grant for a Research Trip to Kyiv and Publication Grant for “From Kiev with Love – Queer Living worlds in the Ukraine”
Academic Awards and Prizes
For the article „A briv fun Daytshland“
2023 “Article of the Year” in “Yiddish Studies: Language, Linguistics, and Literature”, in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, 85(1), 453-464, https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08501024.
For the book „Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland“
2023 Finalist, “Yad Vashem Book Prize 2023,” Yad Vashem, Israel
2022 “Marko Feingold Prize in Jewish Studies 2022,” Land and City of Salzburg and the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, EUR 4,000
2022 “Irma Rosenberg Award in the Research of the History of National Socialism 2022,” University of Vienna and the Austrian Ministry for Education and Science, EUR 2,000
2021 Finalist, „Wissenschaftlicher Förderpreis des Botschafters der Republik Polen 2021“ (Scientific Prize for the Advancement of Scholarship form the Polish Ambassador to Germany 2021)
For the M.A. thesis
2014 Finalist, „Wissenschaftlicher Förderpreis des Botschafters der Republik Polen 2014” (Scientific Prize for the Advancement of Scholarship form the Polish Ambassador to Germany 2014)
Publications
Monographs (peer reviewed)
1. Anne-Christin Klotz. Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland: Warschaus jiddische Presse im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus (1930–1941) (Together Against Germany: Warsaw’s Yiddish Press in the Struggle Against National Socialism [1930–1941]). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756494
Reviewed in
Holocaust and Genocide Studies (vol. 38/2, Fall 2024)
Yad Vashem Studies (vol. 52/1, June 2024)
H-Soz-Kult (01/2024)
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (vol. 72, 2024)
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (vol. 71/7-8, 2023)
In geveb – Journal of Yiddish Studies (March 2023)
Acta Poloniae Historica (vol. 127, 2023)
Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte (vol. 25, 2023)
2. Anne-Christin Klotz. מעבר לכל הגבולות: דוחות מסע וכתבות על חיי היהודים בגרמניה בראשית השלטון הנאצי שהתפרסמו בעיתוני היידיש בוורשה (Beyond All Borders: Travel Reports and Articles on Jewish Life in Germany in the Early Years of Nazi Rule Published in the Yiddish Press in Warsaw). Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2026 (in print).
Edited Special Issues and Special Sections (peer reviewed)
3. Anne-Christin Klotz, Laurien Vastenhout. “Knowledge at Risk: Movement, Border Crossings, and Information Networks During and After the Holocaust,” special section, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2026 (in print).
4. Oskar Czendze, Anne-Christin Klotz and Björn Siegel.“Yiddish in Times of Crisis,” special issue, PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien, 2027 (forthcoming).
Articles in Academic Journals (peer reviewed)
5. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Yiddish as a Language of Protest?” PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien, 2027 (forthcoming).
6. Anne-Christin Klotz, Laurien Vastenhout. “Introduction: Knowledge at Risk: Movement, Border Crossings, and Information Networks During and After the Holocaust.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2026 (in print).
7. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Jewish Laughter and Jewish Tears: The Rise of Fascism and Antisemitism in Cartoons, Jokes and Other Forms of Humor in the Yiddish Press of Poland during the 1930s.” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 37 (2025): 255–281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/polin.2025.37.255
8. Anne-Christin Klotz, Jasmin Spiegel. “«To Nie Jest Czas, by Śnić?» Eksploracyjna Lektura Psychoanalityczno-Historyczna Wybranych Snów na Podstawie Pamiętników Ofiar Holokaustu w Okupowanej Polsce (1939–1945)” (“Is This Not a Time for Dreaming?”). Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały 20 (2024): 253–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1052
9. Anne-Christin Klotz. “A briv fun Daytshland: Die jüdischen Deutschlandkorrespondenten. Berichterstattung und Repression um 1933” (“A Letter from Germany: Jewish Correspondents from Germany”). Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo-Baeck-Instituts 84 (2023): 79–109.
10. Anne-Christin Klotz. “The Warsaw Yiddish Press and Their Struggle Against the Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933–1935.” Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry 26–27 (2021): 103–130.
Articles in Edited Volumes
11. Siba Jacobs, Anne-Christin Klotz and Jasmin Spiegel, „‘Is this somehow a ‘don’t care’ attitude or ignorance?’ An Analysis of the change of the relationship quality of Jews in Germany with the non-Jewish Environment since October 7th, 2023 using the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis System OPD”, in Remembering Genocides and Violent Conflicts: Intergenerational Memory and Post-History in Contemporary Societies ed. by Julia Resnik, Lance Lanson, Frederike Lorenz-Sinai, 2026 (forthcoming).
12. Anne-Christin Klotz. “A Global Fraternity: Polish-Jewish Survivor Landsmanshaftn as Agents of Migrant Self-Help and Transnational Solidarity after the Shoah.” In East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026 (in print).
13. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Journalism as a Weapon: Jewish Journalists from Warsaw and the Production of Knowledge during Hitler’s Rise to Power in 1933 and the November Pogroms in 1938.” In New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison, edited by Steven J. Ross, Wolf Gruner, and Lisa Ansell. Purdue University Press, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9w1k7.10.
14. Anne-Christin Klotz. „‚Schmeiß ich halt Mülltonnen‘: Über die Nicht-Akzeptanz des Status quo in den deutschen Geisteswissenschaften,“ in Anschlüsse an Rebecca Ardn(e)rs „Affirmation der Kritik“, ed. Marius Hanft, Judith Sieber and Lotte Warnsholdt, Hamburg: Katzbach Verlag, 2020, pp. 205–230.
15. Anne-Christin Klotz. „Reiseberichte vom Rand des Abgrunds – Der polnisch-jüdische Schriftsteller Leib Malakh unterwegs im Berlin des Jahres 1936,“ Jahrbuch Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, Vol. 3 (2019), pp. 31–46.
16. Tamara Jurewicz, Anne-Christin Klotz, Magladena Kopeć and Stefanie Mürbe. „Suchendes Verstehen. Holocaust und Gender Studies,“ in Frauen und der Holocaust. Geschichte Jahrzehnte später erzählt, ed. Elisabeth Kolhass, Oświęcim: Stiftung für die Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte in Oświęcim/Auschwitz, 2011, pp. 21–29.
(Polish version: „W poszukiwaniu zrozumienia. Holokaust i gender studies,“ in Kobiety wobec Holokaustu. Historia znacznie później opowiedziana.)
Blog Articles
17. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Yiddish and Berlin: A Complex Yet Fruitful Relationship?,” In Geveb – A Journal for Yiddish Studies, October 2024, https://ingeveb.org/blog/yiddish-and-berlin-a-complex-yet-fruitful-relationship.
18. Anne-Christin Klotz, Jasmin Spiegel. „Jüdische Stimmen hörbar machen: Die Dokumentation von Antisemitismus seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 aus jüdischer Perspektive in Deutschland,“ Zeitgeschichte-online, October 2024, https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/juedische-stimmen-hoerbar-machen
19. Anne-Christin Klotz. „Mehr als Wissenschaft. Für die Befreiung der Geschichte aus dem Elfenbeinturm,“ in Utopia. Die Zukünfte der Geschichtswissenschaft (Dossier), L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung, 10 August 2023, https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/visiongeschichte_klotz.
20. Anne-Christin Klotz. “More than Tourism: Re-reading Yiddish Travelogues as Sources of Migrant Knowledge,” Migrant Knowledge, 5 October 2022, https://migrantknowledge.org/2022/10/05/re-reading-yiddish-travelogues/.
Book Reviews and Conference Reports
21. Anne-Christin Klotz. Review of Hannah Pollin-Galay, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024, H-Soz-Kult, 8 December 2025, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-155302.
22. Anne-Christin Klotz. Review of Carlos Alberto Haas, Das Private im Ghetto: Jüdisches Leben im deutsch besetzten Polen 1939 bis 1944, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2022, H-Soz-Kult, 30 September 2021, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-96854.
23. Anne-Christin Klotz. Review of Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit, The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II, translated by Michal Sapir, Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2018, H-Soz-Kult, 18 July 2019, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-27844.
24. Anne-Christin Klotz. Review of Marvin S. Zuckerman, Bernard Goldstein – Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund. A Memoir of Interwar Poland, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2016, Pol-Int, 9 September 2017, https://www.pol-int.org/de/node/6209#r6210.
25. Robin Buller, Anne-Christin Klotz. “Knowledge on the Move. Information Networks During and After the Holocaust,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, 70 (Fall 2022), pp. 122–128.
26. Ira Fiona Hennerkes, Anne-Christin Klotz. “Rupture and Rapprochement. Jewish–Non-Jewish Relations in Post-Shoah Germany,” 2–4 November 2015, H-Soz-Kult, 8 July 2016, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6603
Outreach
As Author for Media Outlets
27. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Jüdisch und militant. Der ‚Bund‘, die jüdische Arbeiterpartei, wird von der US-Autorin Molly Crabapple neu entdeckt,” Jungle World, 21/2026, https://jungle.world/inhalt/2026/21.
28. Anne-Christin Klotz. “Lachen, um nicht zu schreien. Im Warschau der dreißiger Jahre publizierten jiddische Zeitungen Hitler-Witze,” Jungle World, 01/2026, https://jungle.world/artikel/2026/01/jiddische-zeitungen-antisemitismus-humor-karikaturen-hitler-witze-lachen-um-nicht-zu-schreien.
As Expert for Media Outlets
29. Annika Brockschmidt. “As Far-Right Surges in the US and Germany, Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy,” Religion Dispatches, 31 January 2024, https://religiondispatches.org/as-far-right-surges-in-us-and-germany-debate-rages-over-disqualification-of-those-who-would-destroy-democracy/
30. Annika Brockschmidt. „Analyse: Lindner spielt die rechtspopulistische Klaviatur,“ Volksverpetzer, 17 January 2024, https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/lindner-rechtspopulismus/
31. Alina Weiße. „‚Die Erfahrungen von Antisemitismus Betroffener werden in der Wissenschaft oft vernachlässigt‘ – Interview mit Anne-Christin Klotz,“ Jungle World, 29 February 2024, https://jungle.world/artikel/2024/09/die-erfahrungen-von-anti-semitismus-betroffener-werden-der-wissenschaft-oft
32. Jan Tölva. „Strafe für »Homo-Propaganda«: Geplantes Gesetz in der Ukraine droht, Rechte Homosexueller weiter einzuschränken,“ Neues Deutschland, 9 October 2013, https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/835383.strafe-fuer-homo-propaganda.html
Radio Interviews
33. 6-minute live interview with Doris Renck (moderator) on “Making Jewish Voices Audible,” hr2-kultur, “Am Morgen,” 19 March 2025, 6:05–9:30 a.m. (no longer available).
Podcasts
34. Anno … Der Podcast über aktuelle Forschung aus der Geschichtswissenschaft, Episode 099 – Die jiddische Presse im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus (1930–1941), 24 January 2024, https://anno-punktpunktpunkt.de/099-die-jiddische-presse-im-kampf-gegen-den-nationalsozialismus-1930-1941.
Other Publications
35. Anne-Christin Klotz, Olga Legler, Hannes Westphal et al. „From Kiev with Love – Queere Lebenswelten in der Ukraine,“ AStA FU Berlin, Berlin 2013.
Presentations (selected)
Invited Talks
2026 Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Tel Aviv University, inaugural lecture, “The Politics of Laughter: Yiddish Humor as Cultural Resistance against Fascism and Antisemitism in the 1930s, Yiddish Studies Research Seminar
2025 Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, University College London, keynote, “Jewish Laughter and Jewish Tears: Fascism and Antisemitism in Germany and Poland in the Joke Pages of the Yiddish Press in 1930s Poland,” conference for the launch of the volume 37 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry at the Polish Embassy in London
2025 International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, guest lecture “Nach dem Bruch: Eine historisch-psychoanalytische Analyse aktueller jüdischer Stimmen in Deutschland” (with J. Spiegel)
2025 Museum für Zeitgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main, lecture and panel discussion, “Die Ruptur und ihre Wirkung – Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung von Interviews mit Jüdinnen und Juden in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023” (with J. Spiegel)
2024 Initiative Interdisziplinäre Antisemitismusforschung, Trier University, guest lecture (online), “Die Ruptur und ihre Wirkung – Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung von Interviews mit Jüdinnen und Juden in Deutschland seit dem 7. Oktober 2023,” lecture series on October 7th 2023 (with J. Spiegel)
2024 Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, guest lecture, “The Rupture and its Effects: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Interviews with Jews in Germany since October 7, 2023”
2024 Literaturfestival, Berlin, input and panel discussant, “PARATAXE Symposium XIV: Hebrew? Yiddish? Berlin? – the hebraic and yiddish authors of Berlin”
2023 NS Dokumentationszentrum, Munich, guest lecture, “Unzer Obvehr. Yiddish cultural responses to the rise of National Socialism and the destruction of Polish Jewry,” Conference “Materializing. Modern Art and the Shoah in Poland”
2023 Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, Berlin, guest lecture, “Die Jiddische Presse Warschaus im Kampf gegen den Nationalsozialismus”
2023 Wiener Library London & Institute for the History of German Jews Hamburg, guest lecturer and panel discussant (online), Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, Virtual Panel: Responses of “Ordinary People” to Persecution
2022 University College London, guest lecture (online), “Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland: The Warsaw Yiddish Press and the Rise of National-Socialism in Germany”
2022 University of California, Berkeley, Center for Jewish Studies, guest lecture, “Letters from the Abyss: Jewish Travelogues on Jewish life in Nazi Germany in the Yiddish press of Warsaw”
2018 Instytut Slawystiki PAN, Warsaw, guest lecture, “Zjednoczeni przeciw Niemcom: Warszawska codzienna prasa jidysz w latach 1933-1934 i jej walka przeciw prześladowaniom Żydów w nazistowskich Niemczech,” Colloquium “Sublokatorstwo jako kategoria kultury i jako kategoria badawcza”
Presentation at conferences (peer-reviewed)
2026 Beyond Camps and Forced Labor 2026, “Digging for the Dead: How Holocaust Survivors took Care of the Dead in the Immediate Aftermath of the Shoah”
2025 Haus der Wannsee Konferenz & Yad Vashem, Berlin, “Burying the Dead, Rescuing the Past: How Survivor landsmanshaftn Honored Their Lost Communities and Took Care of the Dead in the Immediate Aftermath of the Shoah”, Research Workshop: Holocaust Survivor “Diasporas”
2025 Jena University, “Matseyve in Bergen-Belzen – A Tombstone in Bergen-Belsen: Survivor Landsmanshaftn and the Prevention of Memoricide in the Face of Genocide,” Conference „Transnationales KZ-Gedenken im Kalten Krieg. Akteur:innen, Handlungsfelder, Verflechtungen“
2025 POLIN Muzeum, Warsaw, “Survivor Landsmanshaftn as Utopian Safe Havens: Polish Jews and the Search for a New Heym after the Shoah”, Conference “Not the End, Not the Beginning. Reconstructing Jewish Life in Poland and Central Europe after the Second World War”
2025 Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, “Yiddish: A Language of Resistance?”, Conference “Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language”
2024 Claremont McKenna College & University of Southern Californian, Los Angeles, “A mishpokhe fun zhurnalistn: Yiddish journalists from Warsaw and their global networks during the Holocaust,” Lessons & Legacies Conference in Holocaust Studies 2024
2024 Potsdam University & Hebrew University, Potsdam, “Making Jewish voices audible: Interdisciplinary Analyses of Interviews documenting Antisemitism conducted with Jews in Germany after October 07, 2023,” GIF Young Scientists' Meetings “Remembering Genocides and Violent Conflicts”
2024 Tel Aviv University, “Preventing Linguicide in the Face of Genocide. Eastern European Jewish landsmanshaftn as Keepers of di mame-loshn after the Shoah,” Conference “Yiddish and the Holocaust”
2023 Charles University & Masaryk Institute, Prague, “Troyer-tsug mit krents: Eastern European-Jewish landsmanshaftn and their Transnational Commemoration Practices During and After the Shoah,” Lessons & Legacies Conference in Holocaust Studies 2023
2023 POLIN Muzeum, Warsaw, “Restitution, Remembrance & Relief: Polish-Jewish Survivor landsmanshaftn as Agents of Migrant Self-help and Transnational Solidarity,” Conference “East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities“
2023 Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg, “Remembering Means Fighting. How Eastern European Jews Anticipated, Understood and Confronted Nazi-Germany and Antisemitic Violence through Tradition and Novelty,” Conference „Experiences of Violence and Notions of Temporality in Jewish History”
2022 Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, “More than Class War: Yiddish Travelogues from Nazi Germany and Their Influence on the Bundist Understanding of National Socialism and Antisemitism, 1933–1938,” Annual conference
2022 University of Texas, Dallas, “Integrating Eastern Perspectives into the Western Gaze: The Case of Polish-Jewish Journalists and their early efforts to inform the Western World about the destruction of Polish Jewry,” Conference “Expanding Perspectives of the Holocaust”, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
2019 Bremen University, „A briv fun Berlin – The Warsaw Yiddish Press and its Jewish Correspondents in Berlin around 1933: Biographies, Networks, Press Coverage and Incipient Persecution“, Conference „The Historical German Jewish Press as Interface. Platform, Mouthpiece, and Sources of Current Research Programmes“
2018 Humboldt University Berlin, “’…there are no words of consolation.’ Polish-Jewish Intellectuals’ comments on the year 1938: Theoretical approaches, personal experiences, and political answers“, Conference „1938 and Beyond. New Perspectives on Crucial Years of Persecution, Violence and Ideology“
2018 University of Southern California, USC Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles, “The Warsaw Yiddish Press and the Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933–38: A Comparative Analysis,” Conference “80 Years After – New Perspectives on Kristallnacht”
Workshops und Colloquia
2024 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecture, “Preventing Memoricide in the Face of Genocide. Eastern European Jewish Survivor landsmanshaftn as Keepers of di mame-loshn and Communities of Mourning after the Shoah”, Research Seminar of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows
2021 German Historical Institute Washington (online), lecture, “Yiddish-speaking Travelogues on Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1930–1939)”, Research Seminar
2020 Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig, „Vergangene Zukunft: Isaac und Tamara Deutscher und die Transformation jüdisch-marxistischen Denkens während und nach dem Holocaust in Westeuropa,” Research Fellow Symposium
2019 Yad Vashem, Ph.D. thesis project presentation, Saul Kagan Fellows Summer Workshop
2018 Moses Mendelsohn Center for European-Jewish Studies Potsdam, Ph.D. thesis project presentation, Colloquium of the Ludwig Rosenberg Kolleg
2017 Jagiellonian University Kraków, Ph.D. thesis project presentation, Workshop, “Second Polish-German Conference for Young Scholars in Jewish History and Culture”
2016 Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, lecture, „Vos hert men dort? - Deutschland in den Reiseberichten polnischer Juden zwischen 1933 und 1938”, Research Seminar
Organized Panels, Workshops and Conferences
2024 Panel Organizer “Global Yiddish Networks in their Darkest Hour: Connection, Mutual Aid and Resistance in the Midst of the Holocaust,” Lessons and Legacies in Holocaust Studies 2024, Claremont and Los Angeles (with A. Gottfried-Cohen, W. Pimlott, A. Wierzcholska and N. Sinkoff)
2022 Panel Organizer “Centering Yiddish Sources in Historicizing Antifascist Internationalism in the Long 1930s: New Perspectives on the Interwar European (Jewish) Left,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston (with A. Gottfried-Cohen and D. Krukovskiy)
2022 Workshop Organizer “Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust,“ USC Shoah Foundation, UC Berkeley and German Historical Institute Washington, Los Angeles (with W. Gruner and R. Buller)
2020 Conference Organizer “Messages in a Bottle, The Migration of Texts,” Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, online (with J. Gerber, F. Pankonin and J. Stürmann)
Teaching Experience
I regularly teach courses in my fields of expertise at B.A. and M.A. level and have designed and instructed courses at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Eastern European Institute at Freie Universität Berlin.