Abstract of A FRAGILE INHERITANCE: THE FATE OF YIDDISH IN ARGENTINA, 1930-1970, by AMY K. KERNER, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2019. Mass migrations of ethnic …
Paradoxically, the concept of the rights-bearing human at the core of humanitarian legislation and action developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside …
This dissertation is a history of the roots of local genocide. It tells the story of the surreal familiarity underpinning the dynamics of mass murder …
This dissertation examines the transforming idea in German political thought for a “Middle European” cultural, economic, and political sphere from the late-nineteenth century until the …
This dissertation is a social history of war that examines the origins, wartime experience, and the social, political, and cultural legacies of soldiers in Latvian …
“Performing Vienna: Jewish Presence and Absence in Post-Nazi Central Europe” explores the transformation of Viennese culture and Viennese Jews from the Anschluss of Austria in …
Throughout the twentieth century, Warsaw was a city pulled between dramatic extremes. In 1918, it was named the capital city of the newly founded Polish …