Lida Dodou

Fortunoff Fellow (02/2025-08/2026)

Unlocking Ladino Testimony

As Fortunoff Fellow, Lida Dodou works on a critical edition of a Ladino testimony and she is involved in efforts to disseminate these testimonies and their wealth of information. Her research further explores the contexts of their production and their intersection with broader questions, including the gender aspect in survivors’ experiences.

Lida Dodou is a historian who specialises on Salonika's Jews during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has also worked as an educator and editor and she has collaborated with cultural institutions. Her research focuses on eras of transition and the impact on Jewish Salonika. Various fellowships have taken her across Europe, and she has worked and published on a variety of subjects, from early 19th century Salonikan Jewish business networks, to Jewish migration from Salonika to the Habsburg Empire and its successor states and antisemitism as a decision-making factor.

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