University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London
Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
Foster Court
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/people/academic-staff/prof-francois-guesnet
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
12: Medieval: T
Early Modern: 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
Local (e.g. the Jews of Canterbury, the Jews of Kovno, etc): TR
20: Historiography: T
21: Biographical Studies: T
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
22: Jewish religion - general: T
Hasidism: TR
Reform Judaism: TR
Orthodox Judaism: TR
Comparative Religion: TR
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
Interfaith studies (including Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish-Muslim relations): TR
Sociology (including population studies): TR
Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): TR
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: T
78: Teaching and Study of Judaism: T
79: Bibliography: T
85: On-line resources: T
11. Digital Humanities: T
86: Digital humanities: T
Description
François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. He holds a PhD in Modern History from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, and specializes in the early modern and 19th century history of Eastern European, and more specifically, Polish Jews. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, chairman of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies (IPJS) and serves on the Executive Committee of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS). He held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Leipzig University, the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Potsdam University, the University of Oxford, and at Dartmouth College.
His book publications include Polnische Juden im 19. Jahrhundert: Lebensbedingungen, Rechtsnormen und Organisation im Wandel (1998), Der Fremde als Nachbar. Polnische Positionen zur jüdischen Präsenz in Polen. Texte seit 1800 (2009), and, with Gwenyth Jones, Antisemitism in an Era of Transition: The Case of Post-Communist Eastern Central Europe (2014). Together with Glenn Dynner he published Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Studies in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (2015, paperback 2017) and the volume Negotiating Religion. Cross-disciplinary perspectives, co-edited with Cécile Laborde and Lois Lee (2017). He contributed numerous articles to the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and chapters to the Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. VII (2018) and to vol. 3 of Polen in der europäischen Geschichte. He co-edited vols. 31, 32, 33 of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry. Most recently, he co-edited vol. 34 on Jewish Self-Government in Eastern Europe (with Antony Polonsky, Liverpool UP 2022) and the collected volume Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from its Inception to the Present (with Jerzy Tomaszewski, Brill Academic Publishers 2022).
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