Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience

The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena is an Institute of Advanced Studies, with a thematic focus on the history, culture and societies of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

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Featured Article

The “Skopje 2014 project” at its Tenth Anniversary

A Story of Resilience

by Naum Trajanovski

In September 2023, Skopje was named the 2028 European Capital of Culture alongside Bourges and České Budějovice. The news renewed a debate within North Macedonia about the capital city’s past, present, and potential futures. Common to all positions in the debate was that they referred, in one way or another, to the Skopje 2014 project. This article maps the latest critical events pertaining to this project and discusses its legacy after nearly fifteen years.

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New Publications

Investigating, Punishing, Agitating

Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc

The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the history of criminal trials on National Socialist crimes in Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union after the "thaw" and ask about the preconditions and peculiarities of these proceedings.

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 Investigating, Punishing, Agitating

The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts.

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Cover Image The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
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Fellows

Dr Nataliia Zalietok

Nataliia Zalietok works in the fields of Women’s and Gender History, Comparative History, and Archival Science.

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Dr Nataliia Zalietok

Dr Anastasia Felcher

Anastasia Felcher is an academic specializing in historical research, cultural heritage studies, and archival work.

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Dr Anastasia Felcher

Dr Kateryna Burkush

Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.

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Dr Kateryna Burkush

Dr Irina Shcherbakova

Irina Shcherbakova is a historian and human rights activist. She is a founding member of Memorial, where she is the director of the youth and education programms and a member of the International Memo...

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Dr Irina Shcherbakova