The focal theme of the various scholarly activities of the Nevzlin Center since 2018 has been "Jews ans Totalitarian Regimes of Eastern Europe in 20th Century."
Although much has been said about the recent history of the Jewish people under the Soviet and Eastern European communist regimes, a great deal remains to be discovered. Huge archival collections and entire research fields are still waiting for the new generation of scholars to outline new approaches, to ask the important questions, and to find their answers to them.
To that end, the Center organizes conferences and workshops, initiates research projects, provides fellowships to graduate students and post-doctoral scholars at the Hebrew University, supports publications, and encourages the best works published in this field, in cooperation with partners in Israel and abroad.
Conferences:
- Three-day International Conference Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism hosted by the University of Wroclaw, June 28-30,2022.
- Presentation of J-Doc Project, at the ANU-Museum of the Jewish People, March 15, 2022.
- Three-day International Conference Mnemopoetics of the 20th-century Traumas: History and Culture hosted by University of Lausanne, December 6-9, 2021.
- Two-day International Conference Freedom and Unfreedom In Critical Times: Liberalism and Illiberalism In Central, Eastern And Baltic Europe hosted by Tartu Unversity, October 14-15, 2021.
- Zoom Book Launch Event: Journey into the Land of Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin (Oxford University Press), March 22, 2021.
- Three-day International Workshop 1991: Year of Perelom hosted by the European University Institute, Florence, October 23-25, 2019
- Three-day International Conference Patterns of Everyday life in Soviet Society(s) hosted by the Vilnius University on September 16-19, 2019
- Two-day International Conference Totalitarianism in Communist-Era Europe Reconsidered hosted by the Nevzlin Center in Jerusalem, April 10-11, 2019
- Three-day International Conference Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968 hosted by Eisntein Forum in Potsdam on November 11-13, 2018
- Three-day International Workshop Violence, Eastern Europe, the Twentieth Century hosted by the Ukrainian Catholic University in L'viv, May 12-14, 2018
Nevzlin Publication Prize:
In 2018, the Nevzlin Center announced an international competition for theoutstanding academic publications on Jews and Illiberal Regimes in Eastern Europe after 1917.
We received more than 30 submissions in English, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian (both books and articles).
The winners of the international competition were:
Yuri Radchenko for his article "The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Mel’nyk Faction) and the Holocaust: The Case of Ivan Iuriiv", Holocaust and Genocide Studies 31, no. 2 (2017): 215–239.
Kamil Kijek for his book “Dzieci modernizmu. Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w Polsce międzywojennej" (Children of modernism. Socialization, Culture and Political Consciousness of the Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland), Wrocław 2017.
Nevzlin Fellowship:
In 2020, the Nevzlin Center announced a call for a new post-doctoral Nevzlin Fellowship, offered for the 2021-2023 academic years, for original research, to be carried out at the Center, on the theme of “Russian and East-European Jews under and after Communism (1917-2000).”
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