Warm congratulations to Dor Correct for winning the Dean's Award for Excellence in Studies. As a research assistant at the Institute, Dor conducts research on minority rights, nationalism, religion, and law in the Habsburg Monarchy and in interwar Austria.
Well done and good luck, Dor!
The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights is pleased to announce a new podcast series in collaboration with Tel Aviv Review Podcast and its host Gilad Halpern. The series features six in-depth interviews with our scholars, focusing on central topics of the Institute: minority politics, collective rights and human rights, compensation and forced displacement, humanitarianism and international law, Zionist diplomacy, and Israel-Diaspora relations.
Association for Israel Studies (AIS-EAIS) 40th Annual Conference, Charles University.
Lecture by Dr. Eran Shlomi titled "Petitioning against an Ally: Zionist International Politics at the League of Nations Following the 1929 Riots in Palestine.”
1-3.07.2024, Prague, Czech Republic.
For the full program, click here.
Warm congratulations to Liel Greenberg for winning the Dean's Award for Excellence in Studies.
Liel is a BA Student with a double major in Sociology, Anthropology, and Education, and also serving as the Social Media & Content Manager at the institute.
Well done and good luck, Liel!
Congratulations to our Post-Doctoral Fellow, Timo Aava for being awarded an Emerging Scholars Grant!
Timo will use the grant to fund a research stay at Harvard, where he will continue working on his book on the theory and practice of non-territorial autonomy in Estonia.
Soraya Antonius (1932–2017) was the author of two notable novels depicting British-ruled Palestine from the 1910s to 1948: “The Lord” (1986) and “Where the Jinn Consult” (1987). A recent article published by our postdoctoral fellow Eli Osheroff, together with Eitan Bar-Yosef (BGU), delves into her literary career and family legacy. As the daughter of preeminent Arab historian George Antonius and social-political activist Katy Nimr, Antonius wrote her novels as a form of cultural mediation and anti-colonial discourse, presenting the Palestinian case to the West.
In his review, Dr. Aava dives into a recent monograph exploring the history of national minorities in Finland and Lithuania. You can find the review published online on H-Soz-Kult website here
Association For the Study of Nationalities (ASN) 28th Annual World Convention.
Lecture by Dr. Timo Aava about Minority Rights in Interwar Estonias.
16-18.5.2024, New York City.
For the full conference program, click here.
Our Post-Doctoral Fellow Timo Aava collaborated with the Estonian History Museum in preparing an exhibition on the multi-ethnic history of Estonia. Marking the centenary of passing the Law on Cultural Self-Government, it offers a critical insight into the cultural autonomy model and a platform for discussion. Drawing on Timo Aava's research, it explores topics such as the theory of cultural autonomy, minority self-governments and schooling and cultural life of minorities. The exhibition was opened in April 2024 and will remain open until March 2025.
