Jacob Robinson Institute
@robinsoninst.bsky.social
Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights. Founded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation, located in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. robinson.huji.ac.il
#CallForPapers now open!
Submit your abstract and bio to Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) at tom.eshed@mail.huji.ac.il by January 15, 2026.
For more details, see the attached flyer👇
Submit your abstract and bio to Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) at tom.eshed@mail.huji.ac.il by January 15, 2026.
For more details, see the attached flyer👇
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#CallForPapers now open!
Submit your abstract and bio to Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) at tom.eshed@mail.huji.ac.il by January 15, 2026.
For more details, see the attached flyer👇
Submit your abstract and bio to Dr. Tom Eshed (@tomeshed.bsky.social) at tom.eshed@mail.huji.ac.il by January 15, 2026.
For more details, see the attached flyer👇
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
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
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
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
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." 🎓
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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...
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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...
📖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....
@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....
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📖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....
@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...
Full article:
law.tau.ac.il/sites/law.ta...
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📖 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...
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 wish you and your family a better year filled with peace, health and prosperity.
May all our hostages return safely home soon.🎗️
September 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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 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.
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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.
📸 Highlights from the international workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement” which took place in Sde-Boker.
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📸 Highlights from the international workshop “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement” which took place in Sde-Boker.
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...
Full conference program: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
September 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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...
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...
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
September 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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...
Full Program:
robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
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! ⭐
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! ⭐
August 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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! ⭐
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...
July 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
July 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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...
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
July 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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...
Proud of you Asaf! 👏
For the full poster: robinson.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...
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
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
July 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
Best of luck, Jonathan!
For more details: wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home
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
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
July 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
📍 U of Toronto | 10-12.7.2025
🔗 www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/events/legal...
📸 Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
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!
June 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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! 🗺️
June 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
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
June 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
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...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1369...
June 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
🎉 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...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1369...