Deadline for submitting paper proposals: January 25, 2021

How to measure goals and outcomes when interrupted by a pandemic: A long to-do-list remains after Covid-19 forces a sudden departure from Minneapolis.

While demonstrating the ways in which Jewish history was inextricably linked with the history of Europe as a whole, Hacohen’s narrative also underscores the enduring significance of rabbinic culture and Jewish religious traditions. In so doing, he deftly charts a middle path between cosmopolitan and nationalist narratives of Jewish European history.

This talk examined the relationship between imperial collapse and anti-globalism in interwar Austria, focusing on popular movements that arose on the right and left to achieve greater individual and national self-sufficiency, as well as new forms of internationalism that aimed to re-imagine and revive transnational relationships.