The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University and the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida announce a call for papers for an upcoming international conference: After the Holocaust: Jewish Communities, Identities, and Intimacies in a Global Perspective

We welcome proposals from scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, religious studies, memory studies, and related fields. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Family formation, marriage, and kinship after the Holocaust

• Emotional lives of survivors: grief, hope, resilience, and belonging

• Community rebuilding in displaced persons camps and beyond

• Jewish life in Europe, the Americas, and the emerging State of Israel

• Transnational networks of aid, memory, and support

• Cultural, religious, and intellectual reconstruction

• Intimacy, and everyday life in postwar contexts

• Comparative and global perspectives on postwar Jewish experiences

• Children and youth after the Holocaust

• Migration, displacement, and the reconstruction of home

• Oral history, memory, and intergenerational transmission

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2026, to conference@jst.ufl.edu

For additional details and submission guidelines, visit https://bit.ly/4wBgZvo