Jacob Robinson Institute
@robinsoninst.bsky.social
Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights. Founded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation, located in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. robinson.huji.ac.il
Our PhD Fellow, Idan Frisher, has been awarded once again for his excellent MA thesis on compensation in post-1989 Lithuania. Idan has received the prestigious 2025 Israel Gutman Prize for Works on Holocaust Research, awarded by Moreshet.
We are incredibly proud of your achievements, Idan! 🌟
We are incredibly proud of your achievements, Idan! 🌟
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Our PhD Fellow, Idan Frisher, has been awarded once again for his excellent MA thesis on compensation in post-1989 Lithuania. Idan has received the prestigious 2025 Israel Gutman Prize for Works on Holocaust Research, awarded by Moreshet.
We are incredibly proud of your achievements, Idan! 🌟
We are incredibly proud of your achievements, Idan! 🌟
Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social presented his paper "Conflict in the Jewish World over the Study of Antisemitism after the Holocaust" last week at the Minerva-Wiener Workshop: "Antisemitism, Racism, Right-Wing Radicalism: How Current Events Inform Historical Understanding, and Vice Versa." 🎓
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social presented his paper "Conflict in the Jewish World over the Study of Antisemitism after the Holocaust" last week at the Minerva-Wiener Workshop: "Antisemitism, Racism, Right-Wing Radicalism: How Current Events Inform Historical Understanding, and Vice Versa." 🎓
Earlier this month, Dr. Iris Nachum spoke at the @dubnow.bsky.social’s annual conference on Jewish history in post-socialist societies. She presented “Between Property and Memory” on compensation politics and Jewish memory in Czechoslovakia/Czechia; full program: www.dubnow.de/fileadmin/us...
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Earlier this month, Dr. Iris Nachum spoke at the @dubnow.bsky.social’s annual conference on Jewish history in post-socialist societies. She presented “Between Property and Memory” on compensation politics and Jewish memory in Czechoslovakia/Czechia; full program: www.dubnow.de/fileadmin/us...
Dr. @timoaava.bsky.social has published in the Journal of Baltic Studies! "Between the individual and the group: minority rights in interwar Estonia" examines German and Jewish communities navigating collective rights & individual freedoms under 1925 cultural autonomy law.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0162...
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0162...
Between the individual and the group: minority rights in interwar Estonia
This article revisits theoretical debates over group rights and their impact on the individual in a democratic setting by looking at the Estonian example of collective minority self-government in t...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Dr. @timoaava.bsky.social has published in the Journal of Baltic Studies! "Between the individual and the group: minority rights in interwar Estonia" examines German and Jewish communities navigating collective rights & individual freedoms under 1925 cultural autonomy law.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0162...
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0162...
📖We're thrilled to share a new article by Prof. Rotem Giladi
@rgiladi.bsky.social: “Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa” in @jich.bsky.social.
🔗For the full #openaccess article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@rgiladi.bsky.social: “Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa” in @jich.bsky.social.
🔗For the full #openaccess article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📖We're thrilled to share a new article by Prof. Rotem Giladi
@rgiladi.bsky.social: “Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa” in @jich.bsky.social.
🔗For the full #openaccess article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@rgiladi.bsky.social: “Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa” in @jich.bsky.social.
🔗For the full #openaccess article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖 New article by Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston examines how punishment severity shapes judicial reasoning and evidentiary standards, using the 1986 Ivan Demjanjuk trial and Israeli legislation on Nazi war criminals to assess capital punishment in a democracy.
Full article:
law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.ta...
Full article:
law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.ta...
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📖 New article by Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston examines how punishment severity shapes judicial reasoning and evidentiary standards, using the 1986 Ivan Demjanjuk trial and Israeli legislation on Nazi war criminals to assess capital punishment in a democracy.
Full article:
law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.ta...
Full article:
law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.ta...
Happy Rosh Hashana and Chag Sameach from all of us at the Jacob Robinson Institute! 🍎🍯
We wish you and your family a better year filled with peace, health and prosperity.
May all our hostages return safely home soon.🎗️
We wish you and your family a better year filled with peace, health and prosperity.
May all our hostages return safely home soon.🎗️
September 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Happy Rosh Hashana and Chag Sameach from all of us at the Jacob Robinson Institute! 🍎🍯
We wish you and your family a better year filled with peace, health and prosperity.
May all our hostages return safely home soon.🎗️
We wish you and your family a better year filled with peace, health and prosperity.
May all our hostages return safely home soon.🎗️
We’re proud to announce that @arethmann.bsky.social, our Visiting Postdoc, will present at #TheGSA2025. Her talk on Hannah Arendt and the Auschwitz Trials reconsiders the “banality of evil,” the controversies it sparked, and its continued relevance for questions of responsibility and jurisdiction.
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
We’re proud to announce that @arethmann.bsky.social, our Visiting Postdoc, will present at #TheGSA2025. Her talk on Hannah Arendt and the Auschwitz Trials reconsiders the “banality of evil,” the controversies it sparked, and its continued relevance for questions of responsibility and jurisdiction.
🎓Congrats to Dor Correct on completing his M.A.! His thesis, “The Jurist Emil von Hofmannsthal (1884-1971): A Scientific-Intellectual Biography”, reconstructs the legacy of the Austrian-Jewish jurist, focusing on his advocacy for marginalized groups, especially in minority rights & matrimonial law.
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🎓Congrats to Dor Correct on completing his M.A.! His thesis, “The Jurist Emil von Hofmannsthal (1884-1971): A Scientific-Intellectual Biography”, reconstructs the legacy of the Austrian-Jewish jurist, focusing on his advocacy for marginalized groups, especially in minority rights & matrimonial law.
Our fellows, Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) and Dr. Eran Shlomi, will present at the AIS 2025, Israel and the International Community: Challenges and Prospects, taking place at the University of Haifa from September 8–10, 2025.
Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
September 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Our fellows, Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) and Dr. Eran Shlomi, will present at the AIS 2025, Israel and the International Community: Challenges and Prospects, taking place at the University of Haifa from September 8–10, 2025.
Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
We partnered with the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion Uni and the Weidenfeld Institute at the Uni of Sussex, for the intl workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement.”
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
September 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We partnered with the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion Uni and the Weidenfeld Institute at the Uni of Sussex, for the intl workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement.”
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Our PhD fellow, Idan Frisher, has been awarded the 2025 Prize of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry for his M.A. thesis, “Restitution of Property to Jews and Non-Jews in Post-Communist Lithuania: Deserving and Undeserving Victims.” Congratulations, Idan! 🎉
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Our PhD fellow, Idan Frisher, has been awarded the 2025 Prize of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry for his M.A. thesis, “Restitution of Property to Jews and Non-Jews in Post-Communist Lithuania: Deserving and Undeserving Victims.” Congratulations, Idan! 🎉
🎓 Congratulations to Asaf Segal Doron on completing his M.A.! His excellent thesis, “Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference”, explores nineteenth-century debates on legal equality. Well done, Asaf!
August 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🎓 Congratulations to Asaf Segal Doron on completing his M.A.! His excellent thesis, “Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference”, explores nineteenth-century debates on legal equality. Well done, Asaf!
Congratulations to Anne Rethmann (@arethmann.bsky.social)!
Our Visiting PhD Fellow has been awarded her doctorate summa cum laude from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. From Oct 2025, she joins the Martin Buber Society at @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow.
Best of luck Anne! ⭐
Our Visiting PhD Fellow has been awarded her doctorate summa cum laude from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. From Oct 2025, she joins the Martin Buber Society at @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow.
Best of luck Anne! ⭐
August 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Congratulations to Anne Rethmann (@arethmann.bsky.social)!
Our Visiting PhD Fellow has been awarded her doctorate summa cum laude from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. From Oct 2025, she joins the Martin Buber Society at @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow.
Best of luck Anne! ⭐
Our Visiting PhD Fellow has been awarded her doctorate summa cum laude from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. From Oct 2025, she joins the Martin Buber Society at @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow.
Best of luck Anne! ⭐
Dr. Jonathan Grossman and Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social), will present their work at the upcoming 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies, taking place at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus from August 4–8, 2025. Full program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
July 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Dr. Jonathan Grossman and Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social), will present their work at the upcoming 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies, taking place at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus from August 4–8, 2025. Full program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
We are proud to announce that our director, Prof. Dan Diner, will be awarded the 2025 Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose by the German Academy for Language and Literature. The Institute extends its warmest congratulations to Prof. Diner on this exceptional recognition.
July 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
We are proud to announce that our director, Prof. Dan Diner, will be awarded the 2025 Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose by the German Academy for Language and Literature. The Institute extends its warmest congratulations to Prof. Diner on this exceptional recognition.
Our MA student Asaf Segal Doron presented his research "Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference" at the 2025 CEH-C in the University of Vienna! 🇦🇹
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
July 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our MA student Asaf Segal Doron presented his research "Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference" at the 2025 CEH-C in the University of Vienna! 🇦🇹
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
We are pleased to announce that our Deputy Director Dr. Iris Nachum, has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow. Best of luck in this important role Dr. Nachum!
@dubnow.bsky.social @alfredlandecker.bsky.social
@dubnow.bsky.social @alfredlandecker.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are pleased to announce that our Deputy Director Dr. Iris Nachum, has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow. Best of luck in this important role Dr. Nachum!
@dubnow.bsky.social @alfredlandecker.bsky.social
@dubnow.bsky.social @alfredlandecker.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to our Dr. Jonathan Grossman on the publication of his new article, "Extraterritorial Militarism: Emigrants as Soldiers in Israel", in Comparative Migration Studies! The article is free to read, download, and cite via open access 🌟
doi.org/10.1186/s408...
doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Extraterritorial militarism: emigrants as soldiers in Israel - Comparative Migration Studies
Militarism is a discourse that glorifies soldiers and treats military service as a key component of full citizenship. This article contends that states can project militaristic discourse onto citizens...
doi.org
July 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🎉 Congratulations to our Dr. Jonathan Grossman on the publication of his new article, "Extraterritorial Militarism: Emigrants as Soldiers in Israel", in Comparative Migration Studies! The article is free to read, download, and cite via open access 🌟
doi.org/10.1186/s408...
doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Dr. Jonathan Grossman will speak at the at the 28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, July 12–16, on “Transnational Militarism: Seeing Citizens Abroad as Past and Future Soldiers.”
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
July 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Dr. Jonathan Grossman will speak at the at the 28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, July 12–16, on “Transnational Militarism: Seeing Citizens Abroad as Past and Future Soldiers.”
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
We’re pleased to share that our colleagues @tomeshed.bsky.social and @arethmann.bsky.social
will take part in the Antisemitism Research Workshop (July 13–14), hosted by the Van Leer Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon Center(HUJI) and the Stephen Roth Institute (TAU).
See: t.ly/KqOn5
will take part in the Antisemitism Research Workshop (July 13–14), hosted by the Van Leer Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon Center(HUJI) and the Stephen Roth Institute (TAU).
See: t.ly/KqOn5
Antisemitism Research Workshop | At the Institute - מכון ון ליר בירושלים
Antisemitism Research Workshop | At the Institute | مناسبات يجريها معهد فان لير حول مواضيع الدين، والعلمنة، والديانة اليهوديّة، والمجتمع العربيّ، والشرق الأوسط، والفلسفة، والثّقافة، والفنّ، والنسوية و...
vanleer.org.il
July 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
We’re pleased to share that our colleagues @tomeshed.bsky.social and @arethmann.bsky.social
will take part in the Antisemitism Research Workshop (July 13–14), hosted by the Van Leer Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon Center(HUJI) and the Stephen Roth Institute (TAU).
See: t.ly/KqOn5
will take part in the Antisemitism Research Workshop (July 13–14), hosted by the Van Leer Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon Center(HUJI) and the Stephen Roth Institute (TAU).
See: t.ly/KqOn5
Prof. Rotem Giladi will present “Emancipatory Flogging: Jewish Bodies, Corporal Punishment, and the Empire's Political Authority” at the “Legal Histories of Empire: Empires in Touch” conference.
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
July 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Prof. Rotem Giladi will present “Emancipatory Flogging: Jewish Bodies, Corporal Punishment, and the Empire's Political Authority” at the “Legal Histories of Empire: Empires in Touch” conference.
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Tom Eshed has received the Tereza Levinger Prize from the Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa, for his research on Holocaust commemoration in Israeli cultural diplomacy.
Congratulations, Tom! 🎉
Congratulations, Tom! 🎉
July 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Tom Eshed has received the Tereza Levinger Prize from the Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa, for his research on Holocaust commemoration in Israeli cultural diplomacy.
Congratulations, Tom! 🎉
Congratulations, Tom! 🎉
We're excited to welcome Adan Ershied as an Affiliated PhD Fellow at the Jacob Robinson Institute! 🎉 A doctoral candidate in law at the Hebrew University, Adan researches the legal construction of collective rights and promotes diversity in academia. Welcome, Adan!
June 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We're excited to welcome Adan Ershied as an Affiliated PhD Fellow at the Jacob Robinson Institute! 🎉 A doctoral candidate in law at the Hebrew University, Adan researches the legal construction of collective rights and promotes diversity in academia. Welcome, Adan!
Yesterday, in honor of The Hebrew University’s centennial, Dr. Eran Shlomi led us on a unique historical tour of Mount Scopus! we visited the Law Faculty exhibition, Shapell Building, Rothberg Amphitheater, Ussishkin & Pinsker’s tombs, and the Bentwich Cemetery. Thank you Eran! 🗺️
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Yesterday, in honor of The Hebrew University’s centennial, Dr. Eran Shlomi led us on a unique historical tour of Mount Scopus! we visited the Law Faculty exhibition, Shapell Building, Rothberg Amphitheater, Ussishkin & Pinsker’s tombs, and the Bentwich Cemetery. Thank you Eran! 🗺️