- Holocaust Studies, Second World War, Refugee Studies, Poland, Soviet History, Modern European Jewish History, and 17 moreHistory of Holocaust Survivors In the Aftermath of World War II, Jewish Responses to the Holocaust, Central Asian Studies, Central Asia, European History, Social History, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, History of the USSR, Tajikistan, East European studies, Jewish History, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Polish History, Digital Humanities, and HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalismedit
- Post Doctoral Fellow at the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My current project, "Remapping Wandering Routes: Exile and Nomadism amon... morePost Doctoral Fellow at the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My current project, "Remapping Wandering Routes: Exile and Nomadism among Polish-Jewish Refugees during World War II," focuses on flight patterns among Polish Jews at the beginning of WWII by using DH methods.
My doctoral dissertation (HUJI, April 2022) was dedicated to the Polish-Jewish refugees who spent the years of World War II in the Soviet Union and to the contacts they held during those years with Jewish communities outside the Soviet Union. The focus of the dissertation is the bounds between the Holocaust and World War II and, through this, other topics such as the search for missing relatives, material aid, and migration.edit
The largest group of Polish Jews to survive the Holocaust was comprised of those who escaped to or were exiled to the Soviet Union. A main characteristic of this group was that they were refugees, uprooted from the very beginning of the... more
The largest group of Polish Jews to survive the Holocaust was comprised of those who escaped to or were exiled to the Soviet Union. A main characteristic of this group was that they were refugees, uprooted from the very beginning of the war until after it ended. This unique characteristic defined them for nearly ten years, as they migrated across vast geographic distances: from Poland eastward to the furthest areas of the Soviet Union, back to Poland and then westward to Germany and Austria, temporarily residing there in Displaced Persons camps while waiting to immigrate and settle permanently, at last. This article illuminates the experience of wandering as a crucial component in those refugees’ lives following the war. After their arrival at the DP camps, this characteristic distinguished them from other groups of Holocaust survivors who resided during that time in the camps.
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Based on my MA thesis, this article focuses on the lives of the majority of the Jewish DP population: The Polish-Jews who spent the World War II years in the Soviet Union. In comparision to the known DPs, those who lived under the Nazi... more
Based on my MA thesis, this article focuses on the lives of the majority of the Jewish DP population: The Polish-Jews who spent the World War II years in the Soviet Union. In comparision to the known DPs, those who lived under the Nazi occupation, they had a unique character and their arrival to the camps during the summer of 1946 caused significant changes at the camps in various fields.
Moreshet 14, 2017
Moreshet 14, 2017
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M.A. Thesis, Hebrew
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ביקורת על ספרה של לאה פרייס "עקורים בביתם: פליטים במארג החיים היהודיים בוורשה, ספטמבר 1939 - יולי 1942", ירושלים תשפ"א