Dr. Iris Nachum

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I am a historian of Central Europe in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, with a special interest in compensation and restitution; liberalism and nationalism; ethnic conflict and expulsion. My research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary, covering history, political theory, and law.

Since 2020, I have been serving as Senior Lecturer at the History Department and as Deputy Director of the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the academic year 2023-4, I co-organized the international Research Group "Paying for the Past: Reparations after the Holocaust in Global Context" at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies.

My recent book is titled Nationalbesitzstand und “Wiedergutmachung”. Zur historischen Semantik sudetendeutscher Kampfbegriffe (National Ownership and “Wiedergutmachung”. Historical Semantics of Sudeten German Combat Terms). The study explores the Sudeten German discourse on compensation in interwar Czechoslovakia, which I trace back to the national conflict between ethnic Germans and Czechs in the post-1848 Habsburg monarchy. The monograph appeared in 2021 and is part of the series "Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum".