Program

Thursday, February 18

15:00-15:45: Welcome and Introduction

Welcome by the IfZ directorate
Introductory remarks
PD Dr. Frank Bajohr (Center for Holocaust Studies, IfZ, Munich)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Pohl (Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt)
The Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935-1941: Origins, Characteristics and Trans-national Perception

15:45-16:00: Coffee Break

16:00-17:30: Nazi Germany and the international network of Antisemitism

Nazi Germany and its links to Antisemitic Congresses and the International Movement of Antisemitism
PD Dr. Magnus Brechtken (IfZ, Munich)

“For Europe, the Jewish question will only be solved when the last Jew has left the European continent.” Alfred Rosenberg and Antisemitic politics after 1933
PD Dr. Frank Bajohr (Center for Holocaust Studies, IfZ, Munich)

Boris Petrovich Tödtli: An International Broker of Anti-Semitism
Dr. Susanne Hohler (Universität Heidelberg)

17:45-19:00: Attendant Circumstances of Antisemitism in the 1930s

The international refugee crisis 1938
PD Susanne Heim, (IfZ, Project VEJ)

Anti-Semitism and the Civil War in Spain
Dr. Bernd Rother (Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin)

19:00 Reception at the Institute for Contemporary History

Friday February 19

9:15-12:00: Antisemitism in Central Europe

‘A World Without Jews’ Reconsidered: An Eastern European Contribution, Polish Part.
Dr. Grzegorz Krzywiec (Instytut Historii PAN, Warsaw)

Fear or fascination. Nazi Germany in “Prosto z mostu” weekly
Dr. Małgorzata Domagalska (University of Lodz, Poland)

Between Activism and Legalism. The “Jewish question” in Slovakia, 1935–1940
Dr. Miloslav Szabó, Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

Anti-Semitism on the Radio Waves:
Slovak Broadcasting of the Reich Transmitter in Vienna
Michala Lônčíková (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Anti-Semitic activities of the National Democracy in the Upper Silesia during the 1930's
Tereza Valihrachová (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)

12:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:15: Antisemitism in Hungary and Romania as prospective Allies of Nazi Germany

Indigenous Roots and Transnational Embeddedness. On the Upsurge of Hungarian Antisemitism, 1938-1941
Dr. Ferenc Laczó (Maastricht University) Netherlands

“We cannot judge them by the same principles and same laws that we create for our own blood”: Antisemitism in Gödöllö in the 1930s
Borbála Klacsmann (Gödöllö, Hungary)

Antisemitism in Romania and the Goga/Cuza Government
Dr. Paul Shapiro (Director of Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington)

Purity, Totality and Organic Community in Legionary Ideology
Mihai Murariu (WWU Münster)

16:15-16:35: Coffee break

16:35-18:50: Antisemitism and Western Democracies

Fighting ‘International Jewry’ in the Third Reich and the ‘Golden Land’: Radical Antisemitism in Germany and the United States during the 1930s
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Frankel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Antisemitism in France
Tal Bruttmann (Grenoble)

Fascism, Imperial Decline and Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory in Britain,
1935-1940
Paul Stocker (Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies at Teesside University, Middlesbrough, England)

The British perception of German and Italian Antisemitism in 1938
Dr. Kilian Bartikowski (Lancaster, Great Britain)

Saturday February 20

9:00-10:45: Jewish and International Responses

A comparison of Jewish migrant responses to anti-Semitism in Paris and London in the late
1930s
Dr. Gerben Zaagsma, Georg-August Universität Göttingen

The action of the International League against Antisemitism (LICA) against anti-Jewish resurgence during the 1930s
Dr. Emmanuel Debono (École normale supérieure de Lyon) France

Fascist jurists and the question of race. The racist juridical thought and the Jewish reactions in Italy (1930-1940)
Dr. Ilaria Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy)

11:00-13:30 Austria, the Balcans and the Baltics

Political crisis and 'Jewish question' in Yugoslavia (1934-1941)
Dr. Milan Koljanin (Serbian Academy of Sciences)

“The Law for the Defense of the Nation” and the reactions to it in Bulgaria (1940-1941)
Bartłomiej Rusin (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

»Homegrown » or import from Germany? Anti-Semitic tendencies in Turkey during the 1930s
Dr. Corry Guttstadt (Berlin)

Antisemitism in Lithuania
Dr. Christoph Dieckmann (Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Frankfurt)

Antisemitism under Austrofascism: Vienna University 1933-1938
Linda Erker (Universität Wien)

13:30-13:45: Concluding Remarks

13:45 End of the conference