Jaclyn Granick: Jewish Country Houses and the Holocaust in History and Memory
Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI), Research Lounge, 3rd Floor
Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien
Jaclyn Granick is co-investigating a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project on Jewish Country Houses, and leading its Holocaust research dimension. She will speak about different entry points the new research field of Jewish country house studies has opened up in relation to Holocaust and memory research, as well as in relation to heritage and educational practices. Stately houses associated with aristocracy and their legacy are a central feature of European heritage infrastructure today, but typically interpreted within national frameworks shaped by Christianity. Wealthy, emancipated Jews began acquiring these houses in the 19th century, entering aristocratic sociability as Europe began shifting towards republican forms of governance. Granick will discuss the fate of these families, their homes, and their relationship to other Jews during the Holocaust, and how the project is working with historic houses across Europe to tell Jewish stories after genocide.
Jaclyn Granick is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at Cardiff University. Her book International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge University Press, 2021) has won the National Jewish Book Award. Currently she is working on the project Jewish Country Houses.
