Michala Jandák Lônčíková

MICHALA JANDÁK LÔNČÍKOVÁ is a historian specialising in modern Jewish history of the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on the Holocaust in Slovakia and its aftermath. Her doctoral dissertation provided a comparative analysis of anti-Semitic propaganda in Slovakia and the Independent State of Croatia. She has contributed to several international research projects, such as “Pogroms in East and East Central Europe: Collective Violence and Popular Culture” (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) and “Genocide, Postwar Migration and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews” (GAČR, EXPRO). Currently, she is a researcher at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, where she works on the Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (CoRe) project, and at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. She regularly participates in educational projects for high school students and co-organises the annual commemoration of the Holocaust victims in Slovakia. One of her recent academic contributions is a book chapter titled “ZWISCHEN »RASSE« UND KONFESSION. Die jüdische Bevölkerung in der Slowakei 1938 bis 1945”, published in Martin Zückert’s edited volume Handbuch der Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der Slowakei im 20. Jahrhundert (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024).

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