Research

Alexandra Bandl

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PhD Candidate

bandl(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-698

Working at the Dubnow Institute as a PhD Candidate since June 2022, where she researches the 1953 »anti-Zionist« trials in Hungary. Funded by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk’s doctoral program, she has also received several fellowships, including the 2025 Fulbright Germany Doctoral Research Grant hosted by New York University and Stanford University. Her research stays at archives in the U.S., Europe, and Israel include the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, the Center for Jewish History, the Blinken Open Society Archives, the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, and the National Library of Israel, among others.

She completed her State Examination (equivalent M.A.) in History, Hispanic Studies, and Educational Sciences at Leipzig University in 2022. Subject of her thesis: »The show trial of László Rajk against the background of ethnic Homogenization in the Hungarian People's Republic.« 

Research Interests

Hungarian-Jewish history (19th-20th centuries)
History of communism in Hungary

 

Publications

Essays and Articles

Exiled Advocate. Zoltán Klar and the Battle for Hungarian Émigré Opinion, in: Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut [Weblog], 24 October 2025.

Helmut Eschwege — Das Schicksal eines jüdischen Historikers in der DDR, in: Das Verhältnis der DDR zum Antisemitismus. Perspektiven einer Veranstaltungsreihe, 2023, 32–41.

Konkurrierende Erinnerungen. Das Gedenken an die Shoah und der Entkolonialisierungsdiskurs in Frankreich, in: Jörg Ganzenmüller (ed.): Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland und Europa nach der Shoah. Neubeginn – Konsolidierung – Ausgrenzung, Köln 2020, 217–236 (together with Sebastian Voigt).

Der Farhud: Der Anfang vom Ende einer zweitausendjährigen Geschichte. Zum Exodus der Juden aus dem Irak, in: sans phrase. Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik 20 (2022), 53–6