The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University and the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida announce a call for papers for an upcoming international conference: After the Holocaust: Jewish Communities, Identities, and Intimacies in a Global Perspective
We welcome proposals from scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, religious studies, memory studies, and related fields. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Family formation, marriage, and kinship after the Holocaust
- Emotional lives of survivors: grief, hope, resilience, and belonging
- Community rebuilding in displaced persons camps and beyond
- Jewish life in Europe, the Americas, and the emerging State of Israel
- Transnational networks of aid, memory, and support
- Cultural, religious, and intellectual reconstruction
- Intimacy, and everyday life in postwar contexts
- Comparative and global perspectives on postwar Jewish experiences
- Children and youth after the Holocaust
- Migration, displacement, and the reconstruction of home
- Oral history, memory, and intergenerational transmission
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2026, to conference@jst.ufl.edu
For additional details and submission guidelines, visit https://bit.ly/4wBgZvo