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Scott Spector: A Czernowitzer Challah: Jews and the Austro-Hungarian Empire around 1900

Tryntje Helfferich: Polyphemus’ Supper: Surviving War in 17th-Century Europe

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Marc Landry: Europe’s Battery: The Alps in the Fossil Fuel Age

Jane King Hession Nominated for a Minnesota Book Award

Suzanne Marchand: Central European Porcelain Between Mercantilism and the "Free" Market

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April 13, 2021

Vanishing Vienna: Reflections on Absence after Genocide

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This talk will examine the experiences and repertoires of Jewish popular performers who returned to Vienna from far-flung places of exile after 1945.

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