Position:

University Research Lecturer; Research Fellow in Modern Jewish History, St. Antony's College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / St Antony's College

Email:

david.rechter@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

My research interests are in central and eastern European Jewry in the modern period. My particular focus is Habsburg Austrian Jewry: I worked first on Viennese Jewry, and I am currently writing a history of the Jews of Habsburg Bukovina from the late-18th century to the First World War.

Current Projects:

• History of the Jews of Habsburg Bukovina

Courses Taught:

• The Jews of Europe, 1789-1945
• Modern Jewish History
• Jewish Politics and the Jewish Question, 1840-1945
• Modern Jewish Politics and Ideologies

Recent Publications:

• The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. London: Littman, 2001.
• (joint ed.) Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.
• "The Jews: A European Minority." In Stefan Berger, ed., A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, pp. 274-287.
• “A Nationalism of Small Things: Jewish Autonomy in Late Habsburg Austria.” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, vol. 52 (2007): 87-109.
• “Geography is Destiny: Region, Nation and Empire in Habsburg Jewish Bukovina.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 7/3 (2008): 325-37.
• "Nationalism at the Edge: The Jüdische Volksrat of Habsburg Bukovina.” Aschkenas: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, vol. 18/19 (2008/09): 59-89.
• “A Jewish El Dorado? Myth and Politics in Habsburg Czernowitz.” In Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry, eds. Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman. London: Littman Library, 2010, 207-20.
• "The Jewish Public Sphere in Habsburg Czernowitz." In Presselandschaft in der Bukovina und den Nachbarregionen: Akteure-Inhalte-Ereignisse (1900-1945), ed. Markus Winkler. Munich, IKGS Verlag, 2011, 49-65.