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
https://robinson.huji.ac.il/
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📢 Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2026/2027!
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
✨ We're honored to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “In the Beauty Salon of History.“
📅Wednesday, 18.3.2026 🕐12:15
📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal at inballev@savion.huji.ac.il
📅Wednesday, 18.3.2026 🕐12:15
📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal at inballev@savion.huji.ac.il
February 19, 2026 at 7:58 AM
✨ We're honored to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “In the Beauty Salon of History.“
📅Wednesday, 18.3.2026 🕐12:15
📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal at inballev@savion.huji.ac.il
📅Wednesday, 18.3.2026 🕐12:15
📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal at inballev@savion.huji.ac.il
📸 Highlights from our Premium Tasting Tour! Our team enjoyed a wonderful evening exploring Mahane Yehuda & Nachlaot. Starting at Agripas Street, we spent three hours discovering the market's flavors and wandering through the beautiful alleyways of Nachlaot. Good food, good company, great memories 💫
January 28, 2026 at 11:37 AM
📸 Highlights from our Premium Tasting Tour! Our team enjoyed a wonderful evening exploring Mahane Yehuda & Nachlaot. Starting at Agripas Street, we spent three hours discovering the market's flavors and wandering through the beautiful alleyways of Nachlaot. Good food, good company, great memories 💫
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Bei Magnes Press ist auf Hebräisch die Monografie von Yehudit Dori Deston zum Demjanjuk-Prozess erschienen. Eine deutsche Ausgabe des Buches wird derzeit vom Dubnow-Institut vorbereitet und erscheint 2026 in der Reihe »Schriften des Dubnow-Instituts«.
📸 On January 8, 2026, the Jacob Robinson Institute proudly hosted the launch of Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston’s book “The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Nazi Prosecution in Israel”, recently published in Hebrew by The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
January 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Bei Magnes Press ist auf Hebräisch die Monografie von Yehudit Dori Deston zum Demjanjuk-Prozess erschienen. Eine deutsche Ausgabe des Buches wird derzeit vom Dubnow-Institut vorbereitet und erscheint 2026 in der Reihe »Schriften des Dubnow-Instituts«.
📸 On January 8, 2026, the Jacob Robinson Institute proudly hosted the launch of Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston’s book “The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Nazi Prosecution in Israel”, recently published in Hebrew by The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
January 26, 2026 at 7:30 AM
📸 On January 8, 2026, the Jacob Robinson Institute proudly hosted the launch of Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston’s book “The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Nazi Prosecution in Israel”, recently published in Hebrew by The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
🌍 Call for Applications: Visiting PhD Fellowships 2026/2027!
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PhDFellowship
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PhDFellowship
January 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
🌍 Call for Applications: Visiting PhD Fellowships 2026/2027!
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PhDFellowship
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PhDFellowship
📢 Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2026/2027!
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
January 22, 2026 at 2:11 PM
📢 Call for Applications: Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2026/2027!
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
📅 Deadline: February 25th, 2026
For further information, see the flyer below or visit www.robinson.huji.ac.il
#callforapplications #PostdoctoralFellowship
🌟Join us this Wednesday for a lecture by Prof. Moritz Föllmer from the University of Amsterdam on "The Quest for Individual Freedom in Twentieth-Century Germany."
January 18, 2026 at 12:49 PM
🌟Join us this Wednesday for a lecture by Prof. Moritz Föllmer from the University of Amsterdam on "The Quest for Individual Freedom in Twentieth-Century Germany."
📢 Call for Papers! **Extended deadline**
We welcome research from historical, legal, and political perspectives. Submit your abstract (up to 350 words) and bio (up to one page) to Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social at tom.eshed1@mail.huji.ac.il by February 8, 2026.
More info in the attached flyer 👇
We welcome research from historical, legal, and political perspectives. Submit your abstract (up to 350 words) and bio (up to one page) to Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social at tom.eshed1@mail.huji.ac.il by February 8, 2026.
More info in the attached flyer 👇
January 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM
📢 Call for Papers! **Extended deadline**
We welcome research from historical, legal, and political perspectives. Submit your abstract (up to 350 words) and bio (up to one page) to Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social at tom.eshed1@mail.huji.ac.il by February 8, 2026.
More info in the attached flyer 👇
We welcome research from historical, legal, and political perspectives. Submit your abstract (up to 350 words) and bio (up to one page) to Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social at tom.eshed1@mail.huji.ac.il by February 8, 2026.
More info in the attached flyer 👇
The Jacob Robinson Institute is honored to invite you to the launch of the book by Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston, “The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Bringing Nazis and Their Collaborators to Justice in the State of Israel”.
For further details, see the attached flyer.
For further details, see the attached flyer.
January 7, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The Jacob Robinson Institute is honored to invite you to the launch of the book by Judge Dr. Yehudit Dori Deston, “The Last Trial: The Demjanjuk Trial and the End of Bringing Nazis and Their Collaborators to Justice in the State of Israel”.
For further details, see the attached flyer.
For further details, see the attached flyer.
📣 #CALLFORPAPERS
The Jacob Robinson Institute and the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invite proposals for an international conference dedicated to Moshe Sharett (1894–1965).
Mount Scopus campus, Jerusalem | 7–9.9.2026
More details in the flyer below 👇
The Jacob Robinson Institute and the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invite proposals for an international conference dedicated to Moshe Sharett (1894–1965).
Mount Scopus campus, Jerusalem | 7–9.9.2026
More details in the flyer below 👇
January 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
📣 #CALLFORPAPERS
The Jacob Robinson Institute and the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invite proposals for an international conference dedicated to Moshe Sharett (1894–1965).
Mount Scopus campus, Jerusalem | 7–9.9.2026
More details in the flyer below 👇
The Jacob Robinson Institute and the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invite proposals for an international conference dedicated to Moshe Sharett (1894–1965).
Mount Scopus campus, Jerusalem | 7–9.9.2026
More details in the flyer below 👇
New Publication! 🎉
We're happy to share Dr. Tom Eshed's new article just published in the Journal of Israeli History: "Locus standi: the question of Israel's public response to antisemitic incidents in early Israeli diplomacy, 1950–1960"!
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...
@tomeshed.bsky.social
We're happy to share Dr. Tom Eshed's new article just published in the Journal of Israeli History: "Locus standi: the question of Israel's public response to antisemitic incidents in early Israeli diplomacy, 1950–1960"!
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...
@tomeshed.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New Publication! 🎉
We're happy to share Dr. Tom Eshed's new article just published in the Journal of Israeli History: "Locus standi: the question of Israel's public response to antisemitic incidents in early Israeli diplomacy, 1950–1960"!
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...
@tomeshed.bsky.social
We're happy to share Dr. Tom Eshed's new article just published in the Journal of Israeli History: "Locus standi: the question of Israel's public response to antisemitic incidents in early Israeli diplomacy, 1950–1960"!
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1353...
@tomeshed.bsky.social
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! ⭐