Lara has several forthcoming publications in 2026, including contributions to the Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe and an edited volume on compensation and restitution after Nazi injustice.
Welcome to the team, Lara! 💙
Photo credit: Anna-Maria Lück
Her PhD project examines West German trials for crimes committed against Sinti and Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau, tracing these legal proceedings against the backdrop of broader societal changes from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Her research focuses on the history of National Socialism, Nazi war crimes trials, and the persecution of Sinti and Roma, including their "second persecution" after 1945.
Lara is a PhD candidate at the Chair for Research into the History and Impact of the Holocaust at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and holds an MA and BA in History from Humboldt University, Berlin.
We are happy to welcome Lara Raabe as a Guest PhD Fellow! 🎉
Due to the ongoing war, we regret to announce that the opening event has been postponed. We will share the updated date as soon as it is confirmed, and we look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition.
✨ 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
📸 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 💫
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.
🌍 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
📢 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
📆 Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | 12:30-14:00
📍Jacob Robinson Institute, Building 41, 5th Floor, Mount Scopus Campus
📧 RSVP: inballev@savion.huji.ac.il
🌟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 👇
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.
📣 #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 👇
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
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! 🌟
📌 For the full workshop program & more details: en-cenlib.tau.ac.il/wiener/event...
📷 Image credit: Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
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...
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...
📖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....
📖 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...
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.🎗️
More details about the panel are available here: t.ly/Y8j93
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.
📸 Highlights from the international workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement” which took place in Sde-Boker.