This project »Shifting Knowledge. The Impact and Repercussion of Emigration from Eastern Europe on Jewish Studies since the 1960s« was dedicated to Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union and other East Central and Eastern European countries between the 1960s and the 1990s and the impact and repercussion these waves of migration had on Jewish studies in the USA, Israel, and Germany.
Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe had a decisive influence on the change that the study and documentation of Eastern European Jewish history and culture underwent in the second half of the twentieth century. The project examined among other things the question of what impulses the emigrant scholars triggered in their destination countries as well as countries of origin since the 1960s. It moreover analyzed their scholarly impact, which led to the emergence of new research institutions dedicated to Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe following the political turn of 1989/1990.
Contemporary HistorioNeueste jüdische Geschichte und Gegenwart im wiedervereinigten Deutschlandgraphy on East European Jews and their Material Culture seen in a Personal Perspective of Physical and Intellectual Migration
with Sergey Lagodinsky (Berlin/Brüssel)
7th January 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
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