Anna Hájková
Biographic Data
| ID | 126459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Hájková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Hájková |
| SIGNATURE | HÁJKOVÁ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1717-6531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions
This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, the question of whose history we write and teach and whose is seen as marginal is more important than ever, and history is intrinsically linked to Ukraine’s struggle for survival. The forum also suggests how much has wider field of decolonizing history to learn from Eastern Europe, especially in the Weste…
An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996
Anna Müller's new biography of Tonia Lechtman powerfully reminds us why the twentieth century was, as Eric Hobsbawm called it, the era of extremes. Lechtman's path was in many ways related to that of Hobsbawm, as a Jewish, communist, and profoundly transnational biography. But, unlike Hobsbawm, Lechtman lived a leftist life without having studied at university or leading lengthy intellectual debates with fellow communists. As such, and as a woman…
I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening
While perspectives on gendered and sexual experiences, practices, and norms during the\nHolocaust have significantly changed in recent decades, questions remain about how to\nunderstand and represent these topics, particularly gender-based and sexual violence. In this\nconversation, six Holocaust scholars, from varied backgrounds representing different\ngenerations, respond to questions posed by the Special Issue editors, Dorota Glowacka and\nReg…
Rain of Ash
Journal Article Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust Get access Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. By Ari Joskowicz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. 368 pp. $32.00/£28.00 (hardback/e-book). Anna Hájková Anna Hájková University of Warwick, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, ghae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae013 Published: 28 Ma…
Forum
Like other historiographical fields, that of German history has been defined through most of its existence by the things historians argued about. We could go back well over a hundred years to the Methodenstreit over Karl Lamprecht's efforts to write multidisciplinary history, follow the line through the work of Eckart Kehr, Fritz Fischer, Hans Ulrich Wehler, and the Sonderweg debate, and continue on through the Historikerstreit and the Historiker…
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
The Last of the Self-Righteous
There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann's recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own personality, as he would like to be seen himself, onto his material. This is quite problematic, historic…
Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor’s Edge
Journal Article Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos. Get access Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 285. Cloth $70.00. Anna Hájková Anna Hájková University of Warwick, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust
For many Holocaust historians, prostitution is a source of profound discomfort and tends to be interpreted as sexual violence only. This essay presents a historiographical and empirical interventions on why incorporating the notion of sex work as labor sheds new light on our understanding of the society of victims, the agency of the people who bartered sex, and the value of intimacy in these enforced circumstances. The essay presents 15 case stud…
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation
How does queer history contribute to German history more broadly? The past decade has seen a blossoming of scholarship exploring same sex desire and modern Germany. Alongside Robert Beachy’s bestselling Gay Berlin, authors including Jennifer Evans, Norman Domeier, Laurie Marhoefer, Marti Lybeck, Martin Lücke, Katie Sutton and Benno Gammerl have offered a variety of examples showing the advantage of reading German history through a queer lens, whe…
Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub
Eine Untersuchung, die für das Erinnern an queere jüdische Opfer während des Holocausts und für ein Ende der Stigmatisierung eintritt. Queere Geschichte des Holocaust, also die Frage nach gleichgeschlechtlichem Verlangen unter den Holocaustopfern, ist bis in die heutigen Tage eine Leerstelle geblieben. Dies liegt an einer weitreichenden Homophobie der Häftlingsgesellschaft in KZs und Ghettos, was dazu führte, dass die Stimmen dieser Menschen weit…
The Last Ghetto
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Challenging convent…
De quelle sorte de récit relève la déposition juridique
This article examines Theresienstadt survivors who testified repeatedly in legal proceedings connected to the ghetto and how their testimonies changed over time. I also explore why was it only men who were repeatedly asked to testify, and demonstrate how male testimony is constructed as factual, whereas female testimony is portrayed as emotional and harrowing to prove the horrors of the Holocaust. By comparing these legal testimonies to other sel…
Introduction
The two topics of sexuality and Holocaust are connected by profound discomfort but also by immense public interest. Resonating with Elizabeth Heineman’s description of sexuality and Nazism as ‘doubly unspeakable’, these two poles—stigma and fascination—are interconnected, each engendering the other’s power and pull.1 How are we to make sense of this lasting potency? This Special Issue of German History examines how stigma connected to sexuality i…
Between Love and Coercion
In analysing a forced relationship between two women, a German guard and a Jewish Czech prisoner in a Hamburg concentration camp, this article uses queer Holocaust history to explore sexual barter, sexual violence, victim agency, and the rules of prisoner society. It also makes a plea for a departure from normativity in thinking about the Holocaust and for the inclusion of marginalized voices
Kriegsbeziehungen
Maren Röger’s book sets out to explore the everyday history of the German occupation of Poland through the lens of sexuality. Even though the Nazis banned relationships between Poles and Germans, intimate encounters took place, from consensual to violent, from brief encounters to marriages. Röger demonstrates that sexuality was the place where many of the occupation relationships were negotiated, and where the often brutal power of the German occ…
Medicine in Theresienstadt
Illness was a defining experience for prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, and yet their medical history is missing; a startling lacuna, given the extensive research into medicine and the Holocaust. This article studies the medical staff, patients, and diseases in the Theresienstadt ghetto. In examining medical care in extremis, it studies how the Central European Jewish doctors succeeded in providing comparably excellent health car…
Holocaust and the History of Gender and Sexuality
Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake? In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analyt…
Biedermeier desk in Seattle
This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. The authors use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, they show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing transnational history. Their history also shows the interconnectedness of perpetrators an…
Mischlinge“ und „Geltungsjuden“ Alltag und Verfolgungserfahrungen von Frauen und Männern „halbjüdischer“ Herkunft in Wien, 1938–1945
Alltag im Holocaust
Wie gestaltete sich Alltag im Angesicht von Verfolgung und Tod? Die Holocaustforschung nimmt neuerdings verstärkt das jüdische Leben in den Blick. Dieser Band versammelt aktuelle Studien zu den Lebenswelten der Opfer im Großdeutschen Reich, zu ihren Wahrnehmungen, Handlungsspielräumen und Reaktionen, sei es in Berlin, Wien oder Theresienstadt, im Ghetto oder im Versteck. Die verfolgten Juden und "Mischlinge" erscheinen in dieser Perspektive als M…
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide
Conditions in the transit ghetto of Theresienstadt, which existed between 1941 and 1945, generated a system in which female sexual and social favors were deliberately traded for food, protection, and symbolic capital within the inmates’ society. Scholars analyzing the sexuality of Holocaust victims have so far only focused on sexual violence (including forced prostitution) or romantic relationships. Love and sexuality have been understood as eith…
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany
Today, sixty-five years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, one might be tempted to ask where anything new can be found out about them. Surprisingly, however, after some intense early postwar interest, the concentration camps long remained a somewhat marginal topic of scholarship. It is only recently, with the publication of two encyclopedia projects (one by Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel, another by the US Holocaust Museum) f…
Between Love and Coercion
In analysing a forced relationship between two women, a German guard and a Jewish Czech prisoner in a Hamburg concentration camp, this article uses queer Holocaust history to explore sexual barter, sexual violence, victim agency, and the rules of prisoner society. It also makes a plea for a departure from normativity in thinking about the Holocaust and for the inclusion of marginalized voices
Medicine in Theresienstadt
Illness was a defining experience for prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, and yet their medical history is missing; a startling lacuna, given the extensive research into medicine and the Holocaust. This article studies the medical staff, patients, and diseases in the Theresienstadt ghetto. In examining medical care in extremis, it studies how the Central European Jewish doctors succeeded in providing comparably excellent health car…
Forum
Like other historiographical fields, that of German history has been defined through most of its existence by the things historians argued about. We could go back well over a hundred years to the Methodenstreit over Karl Lamprecht's efforts to write multidisciplinary history, follow the line through the work of Eckart Kehr, Fritz Fischer, Hans Ulrich Wehler, and the Sonderweg debate, and continue on through the Historikerstreit and the Historiker…
Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust
For many Holocaust historians, prostitution is a source of profound discomfort and tends to be interpreted as sexual violence only. This essay presents a historiographical and empirical interventions on why incorporating the notion of sex work as labor sheds new light on our understanding of the society of victims, the agency of the people who bartered sex, and the value of intimacy in these enforced circumstances. The essay presents 15 case stud…
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany
Today, sixty-five years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, one might be tempted to ask where anything new can be found out about them. Surprisingly, however, after some intense early postwar interest, the concentration camps long remained a somewhat marginal topic of scholarship. It is only recently, with the publication of two encyclopedia projects (one by Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel, another by the US Holocaust Museum) f…
Mischlinge“ und „Geltungsjuden“ Alltag und Verfolgungserfahrungen von Frauen und Männern „halbjüdischer“ Herkunft in Wien, 1938–1945
Alltag im Holocaust
Wie gestaltete sich Alltag im Angesicht von Verfolgung und Tod? Die Holocaustforschung nimmt neuerdings verstärkt das jüdische Leben in den Blick. Dieser Band versammelt aktuelle Studien zu den Lebenswelten der Opfer im Großdeutschen Reich, zu ihren Wahrnehmungen, Handlungsspielräumen und Reaktionen, sei es in Berlin, Wien oder Theresienstadt, im Ghetto oder im Versteck. Die verfolgten Juden und "Mischlinge" erscheinen in dieser Perspektive als M…
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide
Conditions in the transit ghetto of Theresienstadt, which existed between 1941 and 1945, generated a system in which female sexual and social favors were deliberately traded for food, protection, and symbolic capital within the inmates’ society. Scholars analyzing the sexuality of Holocaust victims have so far only focused on sexual violence (including forced prostitution) or romantic relationships. Love and sexuality have been understood as eith…
Biedermeier desk in Seattle
This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. The authors use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, they show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing transnational history. Their history also shows the interconnectedness of perpetrators an…
Holocaust and the History of Gender and Sexuality
Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake? In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analyt…
Medicine in Theresienstadt
Illness was a defining experience for prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, and yet their medical history is missing; a startling lacuna, given the extensive research into medicine and the Holocaust. This article studies the medical staff, patients, and diseases in the Theresienstadt ghetto. In examining medical care in extremis, it studies how the Central European Jewish doctors succeeded in providing comparably excellent health car…
Kriegsbeziehungen
Maren Röger’s book sets out to explore the everyday history of the German occupation of Poland through the lens of sexuality. Even though the Nazis banned relationships between Poles and Germans, intimate encounters took place, from consensual to violent, from brief encounters to marriages. Röger demonstrates that sexuality was the place where many of the occupation relationships were negotiated, and where the often brutal power of the German occ…
Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub
Eine Untersuchung, die für das Erinnern an queere jüdische Opfer während des Holocausts und für ein Ende der Stigmatisierung eintritt. Queere Geschichte des Holocaust, also die Frage nach gleichgeschlechtlichem Verlangen unter den Holocaustopfern, ist bis in die heutigen Tage eine Leerstelle geblieben. Dies liegt an einer weitreichenden Homophobie der Häftlingsgesellschaft in KZs und Ghettos, was dazu führte, dass die Stimmen dieser Menschen weit…
The Last Ghetto
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Challenging convent…
De quelle sorte de récit relève la déposition juridique
This article examines Theresienstadt survivors who testified repeatedly in legal proceedings connected to the ghetto and how their testimonies changed over time. I also explore why was it only men who were repeatedly asked to testify, and demonstrate how male testimony is constructed as factual, whereas female testimony is portrayed as emotional and harrowing to prove the horrors of the Holocaust. By comparing these legal testimonies to other sel…
Introduction
The two topics of sexuality and Holocaust are connected by profound discomfort but also by immense public interest. Resonating with Elizabeth Heineman’s description of sexuality and Nazism as ‘doubly unspeakable’, these two poles—stigma and fascination—are interconnected, each engendering the other’s power and pull.1 How are we to make sense of this lasting potency? This Special Issue of German History examines how stigma connected to sexuality i…
Between Love and Coercion
In analysing a forced relationship between two women, a German guard and a Jewish Czech prisoner in a Hamburg concentration camp, this article uses queer Holocaust history to explore sexual barter, sexual violence, victim agency, and the rules of prisoner society. It also makes a plea for a departure from normativity in thinking about the Holocaust and for the inclusion of marginalized voices
Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust
For many Holocaust historians, prostitution is a source of profound discomfort and tends to be interpreted as sexual violence only. This essay presents a historiographical and empirical interventions on why incorporating the notion of sex work as labor sheds new light on our understanding of the society of victims, the agency of the people who bartered sex, and the value of intimacy in these enforced circumstances. The essay presents 15 case stud…
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation
How does queer history contribute to German history more broadly? The past decade has seen a blossoming of scholarship exploring same sex desire and modern Germany. Alongside Robert Beachy’s bestselling Gay Berlin, authors including Jennifer Evans, Norman Domeier, Laurie Marhoefer, Marti Lybeck, Martin Lücke, Katie Sutton and Benno Gammerl have offered a variety of examples showing the advantage of reading German history through a queer lens, whe…
The Last of the Self-Righteous
There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann's recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own personality, as he would like to be seen himself, onto his material. This is quite problematic, historic…
Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor’s Edge
Journal Article Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos. Get access Svenja Bethke. Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 285. Cloth $70.00. Anna Hájková Anna Hájková University of Warwick, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening
While perspectives on gendered and sexual experiences, practices, and norms during the\nHolocaust have significantly changed in recent decades, questions remain about how to\nunderstand and represent these topics, particularly gender-based and sexual violence. In this\nconversation, six Holocaust scholars, from varied backgrounds representing different\ngenerations, respond to questions posed by the Special Issue editors, Dorota Glowacka and\nReg…
Rain of Ash
Journal Article Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust Get access Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. By Ari Joskowicz. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. 368 pp. $32.00/£28.00 (hardback/e-book). Anna Hájková Anna Hájková University of Warwick, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, ghae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghae013 Published: 28 Ma…
Forum
Like other historiographical fields, that of German history has been defined through most of its existence by the things historians argued about. We could go back well over a hundred years to the Methodenstreit over Karl Lamprecht's efforts to write multidisciplinary history, follow the line through the work of Eckart Kehr, Fritz Fischer, Hans Ulrich Wehler, and the Sonderweg debate, and continue on through the Historikerstreit and the Historiker…
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions
This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, the question of whose history we write and teach and whose is seen as marginal is more important than ever, and history is intrinsically linked to Ukraine’s struggle for survival. The forum also suggests how much has wider field of decolonizing history to learn from Eastern Europe, especially in the Weste…
An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996
Anna Müller's new biography of Tonia Lechtman powerfully reminds us why the twentieth century was, as Eric Hobsbawm called it, the era of extremes. Lechtman's path was in many ways related to that of Hobsbawm, as a Jewish, communist, and profoundly transnational biography. But, unlike Hobsbawm, Lechtman lived a leftist life without having studied at university or leading lengthy intellectual debates with fellow communists. As such, and as a woman…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · European history and politics (15 works) · History (15 works) · Law (13 works) · The Holocaust (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · German History and Society (8 works)