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Position: Post Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX
United Kingdom
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Modern: TR
15: Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): T
20: Historiography: T
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
State of Israel: TR
Jews in the United States: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
Holocaust Studies: TR
Description
Dr. Nathan Kurz holds a post-doctoral fellowship from the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Between 2015 and 2017, Dr. Kurz held a Pears Early Career Fellowship, and in 2016-17 also served as a visiting fellow at the Oxford Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies: Jews, Liberalism and Antisemitism: The Dialectics of Inclusion. His book manuscript in preparation, Retreat from Humanity: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust, explores how and why, between the 1940s and the 1970s, an array of Jewish organizations and lawyers first embraced and then retreated from the premise that the best protection for Jewish rights in the diaspora was the defense of universal human rights. Dr. Kurz is currently researching a new project, tentatively titled Imperial Zionism: British Jewish Nationalists and the Jewish State, 1917‐1967. Framed as a collective biography of British Zionists between the November 1917 Balfour Declaration and the marking of its 50th anniversary, this work focuses on the vicissitudes of a group of British Jews who sought to position Zionism as a British imperial patriotic duty, entirely in line with their liberal integrationist beliefs. In 2015, Dr. Kurz received his Ph.D from Yale University, where won the Hans Gatzke Prize for best dissertation in European history
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