Hillel J. Kieval is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. During the Spring semester 2022, he has been a visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. His research interests range from pathways of Jewish acculturation and integration to the impact of national conflict on modern Jewish identities, and from cross-cultural interactions to the discursive practices of modern antisemitism. Among his major publications are Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe’s Fin de Siècle, which just appeared this year; Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands (2000); and The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia (1988).

This session will take place via zoom only, please find the link below. The zoom meeting will be open from 4 p.m., the talk will commence at 4:15 p.m.

Access-link: https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/96053875982?pwd=NEtHNHlwUTVtejN5T3ZraEtWVEh4QT09
Meeting-ID: 960 5387 5982
Kenncode: 637658