POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2026/2027

The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights promotes high-quality research in the spirit of its namesake, the Jewish jurist of Lithuanian origin Jacob Robinson (1889-1977).
His life and work guide the Institute’s academic activities and define its topics:

Join us for a lecture by Prof. Moritz Föllmer from the University of Amsterdam on "The Quest for Individual Freedom in Twentieth-Century Germany."

Prof. Föllmer challenges the conventional narrative that individual freedom only took root in Germany during the Federal Republic's liberalization around 1960. Instead, he argues that the pursuit of individual freedom spanned Germany's entire twentieth century, manifesting in diverse forms that sometimes paradoxically aligned with National Socialism itself.

Our Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Avital Ginat, presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) on December 14, 2025, in Washington, DC!

Avital delivered a lecture titled "Single By Choice: Practices undertaken by Eastern-European Jewish women to remain alone in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth" as part of the panel "Gender, Care, and the Cultivation of Jewish Identity within the Home and in Institutions Outside of It."

The Jacob Robinson Institute is honored to invite you to the book launch of Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston, "The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Bringing Nazis and Their Collaborators to Justice in the State of Israel."