Our Affiliated PhD Fellow, Adan Ershied, was selected to participate in the 2026 Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop of the Law and Society Association, held in San Francisco. 🌟

How can societies confront historical injustice? The exhibition “In the Beauty Salon of History” at the @robinsoninst.bsky.social explores the legacy of Holocaust reparations and asks questions that remain urgent today: about responsibility, accountability, and democratic values. 📷 © Daniel Hanoch

📸 Highlights from our exhibition opening "In the Beauty Salon of History," held on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at the Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus. "In the beauty salon of history, they know how to comb a forelock, even in the hair of a monster." – Ronny Someck, "Tractors"

On May 10, we had the honor of welcoming the University’s extended leadership - including the President, Rector, Director General, Dean of Humanities, and senior management - to our Institute. It was a wonderful opportunity to share our research and ongoing projects. Thank you for the visit!

Our postdoctoral fellow Dr. @tomeshed.bsky.social was featured in the documentary “The Politics of Memory”, aired on HOT8 on April 14th, Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the film, Tom shares insights from his research on the history of Israeli Holocaust memory. A snippet of Tom from the film 👇

✨ We're honored to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “In the Beauty Salon of History.“ 📅 Tuesday, 12.5.2026 🕐 16:15 📍Max and Iris Stern Little Gallery, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem For campus entry permits, please contact Inbal at [email protected]

We are happy to welcome Lara Raabe as a Guest PhD Fellow! 🎉

📸 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

🌟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 [email protected] 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! 🌟

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.🎗️

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.

Our fellows, Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) and Dr. Eran Shlomi, will present at the AIS 2025, Israel and the International Community: Challenges and Prospects, taking place at the University of Haifa from September 8–10, 2025. Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...

We partnered with the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion Uni and the Weidenfeld Institute at the Uni of Sussex, for the intl workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement.” Full Program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...

Our PhD fellow, Idan Frisher, has been awarded the 2025 Prize of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry for his M.A. thesis, “Restitution of Property to Jews and Non-Jews in Post-Communist Lithuania: Deserving and Undeserving Victims.” Congratulations, Idan! 🎉

🎓 Congratulations to Asaf Segal Doron on completing his M.A.! His excellent thesis, “Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference”, explores nineteenth-century debates on legal equality. Well done, Asaf!

Congratulations to Anne Rethmann (@arethmann.bsky.social)! Our Visiting PhD Fellow has been awarded her doctorate summa cum laude from @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. From Oct 2025, she joins the Martin Buber Society at @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow. Best of luck Anne! ⭐

Dr. Jonathan Grossman and Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social), will present their work at the upcoming 19th World Congress of Jewish Studies, taking place at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus from August 4–8, 2025. Full program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...

We are proud to announce that our director, Prof. Dan Diner, will be awarded the 2025 Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose by the German Academy for Language and Literature. The Institute extends its warmest congratulations to Prof. Diner on this exceptional recognition.

Our MA student Asaf Segal Doron presented his research "Between Tradition and Modernity: Equality Before the Law at the 1861 Hungarian High Judge Conference" at the 2025 CEH-C in the University of Vienna! 🇦🇹 Proud of you Asaf! 👏 For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...

We are pleased to announce that our Deputy Director Dr. Iris Nachum, has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow. Best of luck in this important role Dr. Nachum! @dubnow.bsky.social @alfredlandecker.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to our Dr. Jonathan Grossman on the publication of his new article, "Extraterritorial Militarism: Emigrants as Soldiers in Israel", in Comparative Migration Studies! The article is free to read, download, and cite via open access 🌟 doi.org/10.1186/s408...

Dr. Jonathan Grossman will speak at the at the 28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, July 12–16, on “Transnational Militarism: Seeing Citizens Abroad as Past and Future Soldiers.” Best of luck, Jonathan! For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home

We’re pleased to share that our colleagues @tomeshed.bsky.social and @arethmann.bsky.social will take part in the Antisemitism Research Workshop (July 13–14), hosted by the Van Leer Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon Center(HUJI) and the Stephen Roth Institute (TAU). See: t.ly/KqOn5

Prof. Rotem Giladi will present “Emancipatory Flogging: Jewish Bodies, Corporal Punishment, and the Empire's Political Authority” at the “Legal Histories of Empire: Empires in Touch” conference. 📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025 🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal... 📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo

We’re excited to announce that Dr. Tom Eshed has received the Tereza Levinger Prize from the Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa, for his research on Holocaust commemoration in Israeli cultural diplomacy. Congratulations, Tom! 🎉

We're excited to welcome Adan Ershied as an Affiliated PhD Fellow at the Jacob Robinson Institute! 🎉 A doctoral candidate in law at the Hebrew University, Adan researches the legal construction of collective rights and promotes diversity in academia. Welcome, Adan!

Yesterday, in honor of The Hebrew University’s centennial, Dr. Eran Shlomi led us on a unique historical tour of Mount Scopus! we visited the Law Faculty exhibition, Shapell Building, Rothberg Amphitheater, Ussishkin & Pinsker’s tombs, and the Bentwich Cemetery. Thank you Eran! 🗺️

The conference report on our symposium “Human Rights in Troubled Times” is now published on HSozKult and available on our website. Many thanks to @arethmann.bsky.social for the great organization, and to all speakers and participants for their thoughtful contributions! Read here bit.ly/4dTPVzk

🎉 New article by our own Dr. Jonathan Grossman, with Jason Silverman & Yehonatan Abramson: "‘It’s All Personal’: State-led Mobilisation of Diaspora Individuals", on how Israel engaged U.S. Jewish figures in tailored, trust-based diaspora diplomacy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1369...

We’re happy to share that the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights is now also on BlueSky! 🎉 Follow us for updates on our research, events, and publications.