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20. May 2026 13:00
VWI invites/goes to...What’s New in Holocaust Studies?
VWI invites Documention Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)   Chairs: Éva Kovács (VWI), Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (DÖW) 13:00-13:40Nina Valbousquet, Jewish-Catholic Odysseys: ‘Non-Aryan’ Refugees, the Holocaust, and Pius XII’s Vatican (1930s-1950s)My current project sheds li...Weiterlesen...
28. May 2026 18:30
Simon Wiesenthal LectureHolly Case: The Holocaust and the System. Historical Trauma and the Writing of History
In 2019, historian of the Holocaust Christopher Browning called for a shift away from thinking in terms of "systematic genocide" towards a conception of "systemic genocide." The talk will consider how and why historical reflections around traumatic events – with special emphasis on th...Weiterlesen...
02. June 2026 10:00
InterventionStadtspaziergang und Symposium: Raul Hilberg zum 100. Geburtstag / In Memory of Raul Hilberg on His 100th Birthday
Stadtspaziergang (live) und Symposium (hybrid) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82993488325?pwd=m9kbRy2cSbKJFfwuTWZnHObcqHXvfb.1  Schlaglichter auf Leben, Werk und Wirkung eines Holocaustforschers aus Wien Highlights of the Life, Work, and Legacy of a Holocaust Scholar from Vienna ...Weiterlesen...
09. June 2026 18:30
BuchpräsentationLisa Silverman: The Postwar Antisemite. Culture and Complicity after the Holocaust
In Anti-Semite and Jew, Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote, “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” With this claim, Sartre suggested that the Antisemite alone – a figure seemingly separate from both the writer and his audience – is responsible for creating and perp...Weiterlesen...

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Current Publications

 

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SIMON-03-2025

 

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