What Is, and to What End do We Study, queer Jewish history?
As Jewish studies move towards anti-hegemonial narratives, one emerging field is queer Jewish history. Far from a marginal footnote, queer Jewish studies engage with key arguments in the discipline: the Talmud, gender, history of the body, Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism, or military history. This talk will introduce several of the topics in queer Jewish history, from rabbinic literature to Anne Frank.
About the Speaker:
Dr Anna Hájková is Reader for modern European continental history at the University of Warwick, where she co-directs the Centre for Global Jewish Studies. Her first book, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt, came out in 2020 with Oxford University Press. Her second book People Without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press, 2025) was awarded the National Jewish Book Award 2026. She is a pioneer of queer Holocaust history and her work has been awarded the 2020 Orfeo Iris Prize.
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