Laura Almagor: Beyond Zion. The Jewish Territorialist Movement

CEU Jewish Studies Program and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invite you to the discussion and book launch of Beyond Zion. The Jewish Territorialist Movement.

Laura Almagor’s book reconstructs the rich history of the activities and changing ideologies of Jewish Territorialism. Via Uganda, Angola, Madagascar, Australia, and Suriname, this story eventually leads us to questions about yiddishkeit and to forgotten ideas about how to be Jewish in the twentieth century. In reviewing Zionism’s monopoly on territorial Jewishness, it reconsiders a Jewish future beyond both state and exile and re-evaluates strategies of Jewish geopolitics.

Discussion

Laura Almagor, Author, Assistant Professor of Political History, Utrecht University Department of History and Art History

Éva Kovács, Deputy Director (Academic Affairs), Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

Michael L. Miller, Head of the Nationalism Studies Program at CEU and co-founder of its Jewish Studies Program

Reception to follow

Laura Almagor is Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University (Department of History and Art History). Previously she held positions as a lecturer in twentieth-century European history at the University of Sheffield and as a teaching fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has held fellowships at the VWI, at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, and at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

Please register at anmeldung@vwi.ac.at by latest Friday, 1 March 2024, 12.00 am

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