Simon Wiesenthal Lecture // Pieter Judson: Jewish Neighbors in Habsburg Central Europe.
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Pieter M. Judson: Jewish Neighbors in Habsburg Central Europe: Culture, Nation, and Race, 1848–1923
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📆 Thursday, [DD Month 2026], 6 pm
📍 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge, Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna
🎟 Please register: https://museum.vwi.ac.at/events/events-detail/SWL-Peter-Judson
💬 English
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How did local communities engage with Habsburg imperial institutions, administrative practices, and above all with the political pressures of democratization, to forge group solidarities in the Habsburg Monarchy? Citizens' activism within the Habsburg state transformed its character, created new understandings of the state's obligations to its citizens, and forged fateful understandings of the political and social implications of "cultural difference." The lecture explores these dynamics through the case of Israel Kohn, a Jewish lawyer who lived and worked in Budweis/České Budějovice.
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Pieter M. Judson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Senior Fellow in the History Department of the European University Institute in Florence, and currently holds a fellowship with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has authored five books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe, including The Habsburg Empire. A New History (2016) and, with Tara Zahra, The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (2025).
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Pieter M. Judson: Jewish Neighbors in Habsburg Central Europe: Culture, Nation, and Race, 1848–1923
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📆 Thursday, [DD Month 2026], 6 pm
📍 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge, Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna
🎟 Please register: https://museum.vwi.ac.at/events/events-detail/SWL-Peter-Judson
💬 English
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How did local communities engage with Habsburg imperial institutions, administrative practices, and above all with the political pressures of democratization, to forge group solidarities in the Habsburg Monarchy? Citizens' activism within the Habsburg state transformed its character, created new understandings of the state's obligations to its citizens, and forged fateful understandings of the political and social implications of "cultural difference." The lecture explores these dynamics through the case of Israel Kohn, a Jewish lawyer who lived and worked in Budweis/České Budějovice.
▪️ Lecture
Pieter M. Judson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Senior Fellow in the History Department of the European University Institute in Florence, and currently holds a fellowship with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has authored five books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe, including The Habsburg Empire. A New History (2016) and, with Tara Zahra, The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe (2025).
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By participating in this event, you consent to the publication of photos, video and audio recordings that are made during the event.
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Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien, Austria, Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich, Wien, Austria
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Host or PublisherWiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust Studien - VWI
