Doctoral students sought for a proposed workshop on "Jews and the Law in Modern Germany.”

We are proposing a workshop on the theme of Jews and the law in Modern Germany at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC for late July or early August, 2011. The likely topics will include the Jewish investment in law as a vehicle of emancipation and self-defense, antisemitism in the German justice system in the Weimar and Nazi eras, and efforts at restitution and justice through German courts in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Participants will be a mix of junior and senior scholars from the United States and Germany who specialize in German legal and/or Jewish history, along with two or three doctoral students with related research interests. We are especially eager to find students who will be able to make use of the Holocaust Museum’s extensive archival and library holdings while in Washington.

If our proposal is accepted, the museum will provide all participants with stipends to offset travel, lodging, and incidental costs.

If interested in attending the workshop, please send a cv and short description of your research interests before January 5 to rosenblum@fas.harvard.edu.