Brno, Czech Republic | May 10th - 12th, 2023 | Deadline 20 October 2022

Convened by Dr Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff), Professor Cyril Grange (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Professor Abigail Green (Oxford), Petr Svoboda (National Heritage Institute, CZ)

In the UK and continental Europe, the country house has become a powerful symbol of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. The history of these properties is centrally connected to the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust because the families who built, shaped and lived in them formed a group for whom the myths about Jewish wealth, solidarity and power that fed antisemitic conspiracy theories had a particular salience. This did not hinder the numerous acquisitions of such properties by Jewish economic elites, testifying to the prevalence of the model of the aristocratic landlord among a population in search of integration. The Jewish Country Houses Project has held several international conferences to explore various facets of this subject, including the Jewish Bourgeoisie in the Countryside, Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, Jewish Collectors and Patterns of Taste, and Jewish Business Dynasties.

When Were Social Status and Ties Supporting Holocaust Survival Chances?

How Can Statistical Methods of Social Sciences Complement Historical Research?

By using multivariate statistical methods on the database of victims from the Terezín Initiative Institute in Prague, this new Document Blogpost, by Štěpán Jurajda, shows the potential of exploring the Holocaust using statistical analysis. The post looks at the question of how statistical methods seeking to uncover central tendencies - as opposed to trying to understand individual histories - can complement historical research of the Holocaust.

Application Deadline: 11 November 2022

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (The Claims Conference) provides grant funds to European universities for the purposes of teaching Holocaust courses for one year and is currently seeking universities that are interested in creating a partnership for the 2023-2024 academic year.

This new Document Blogpost "Exploratory Topic Modelling in Python", written by Mike Bryant and Maria Dermentzi (KCL), explores a text mining technique called topic modelling in the context of a Holocaust-related archival collection. The post is accompanied by a Jupyter notebook which readers can use to reproduce the results of this experiment or to apply the same technique to other collections.