The Nazi Translation Office in Athens — A Reflection on Sources
Nazi-translated documents in a Jerusalem archive reveal how the Rosenberg Task Force looted and repurposed Greek Jewish records during World War II. By Joana Burger
Regina Roza and the Forgotten Lives of Radical Sephardic Salonikan Women
Alexandra Ritsatos writes on the activism of Regina Roza, a Sephardic tobacco worker in 1930s Salonika, whose leadership in labor strikes reveals the erased
Liberal Jews and the American eugenics movement: A forgotten history
Before eugenics became infamous, the movement to select and control human reproduction "to suppress defective classes" was popular among American liberals and progressives — including Jews. Graduate fellow Ari Forsyth explains.
Is Israel a settler colonial state?
Dr. Alan Dowty analyzes various aspects of Israel's past and present to determine that it is not a settler colonial state, at least not by the usual definition.
Expanding what it meant to be Jewish in East Germany as the Berlin Wall fell
Ph.D. candidate Katja Schatte explains how ideas of Jewishness gradually expanded in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starting in the mid-1980s.
Using machine learning to explore photos, illustrations, ads and more in historic Ladino newspapers
Graduate fellow Ben Lee explains how machine learning can help historians to learn from the photographs, illustrations and advertisements found in Ladino-language newspapers.
Reproduction in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire: The story of the “bloodstained” Jewish midwives
Concern over a shrinking population led Ottoman authorities to undermine reproductive autonomy in the 19th century, writes grad fellow Büşra Demirkol, starting with outlawing abortion and exiling two "bloody" Jewish midwives.
PODCAST | Jewish Questions, Episode 5: Before Zionism — Liora Halpern
Present-day discussions of anti-Semitism often involve Israel and the Zionist movement… but before the 20th century, Jews’ and Jewish scholars’ understandings of anti-Semitism were completely connected with Europe and Christianity. In the last episode of our series, guest Liora R. Halperin looks at how 19th-century Jewish settlers to Ottoman Palestine were influenced by the anti-Semitism they experienced in the Russian Empire