Dr. Laura Almagor

Biography

Laura Almagor specializes in modern Jewish history, particularly the intersection of Jewish history with issues of migration, colonialism, and postcolonialism. Her teaching and research activities engage with historiographical debates surrounding the Holocaust, Yiddish and Yiddishism, and the development of the scholarly field of Nationalism Studies, including post-1945 (Jewish) refugee issues. Almagor's monograph, 'Zion: The Jewish Territorialist Movement', was published by Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in 2022, and it deals with Jewish Territorialists and their settlement in places across Europe and Palestine, arguing that the Territorialist movement should be understood as part of a larger narrative of Jewish political behavior and within the context of wider geopolitical trends involving migration, colonialism, and population politics. She has co-edited a volume titled 'Global Biographies: Lived History Method' published by Manchester University Press in 2022 and co-leads the Global Biography Research Network (GloBio). Her current project focuses on post-1945 Jewish self-identification processes during the era of decolonization. Almagor received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2015, joined Utrecht University in January 2023, and was previously a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She has held fellowships at institutions such as the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

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