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