Jan Láníček
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Láníček |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Láníček |
| SIGNATURE | LÁNÍČEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9766-0141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Family Networks in Holocaust Rescue, 1933–1941
The article analyses the role family networks in Australia played in Holocaust rescue before and shortly after the outbreak of World War 2. Working with sources from the official archives as well as private documents, I argue that the networks enabled hundreds of Jewish migrants and refugees to escape Europe. Furthermore, they facilitated the arrival of migrants, who otherwise would most likely have been rejected as unsuitable applicants by the A…
Memory Wars and Emotional Politics
This article analyzes the patriotic turn in Holocaust memory politics, exploring the processes through which the narrative of a morally upright national majority has been pitted against transnational entities such as the European Union. The EU is considered to foster multiculturalism, leading to interpretations of what some perceive as national guilt. The article investigates invocations of shame and pride in Czechia and Slovakia, two countries t…
Convois de la mort au départ d’auschwitz en janvier 1945 à destination du protectorat de Bohême-Moravie
Teaching the Holocaust at UNSW Sydney
The Holocaust must be taught and taught well', conclude
The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89
The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination,1938-89 is the first critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices in both main parts of former Czechoslovakia. The authors identify anti-Jewish prejudices over almost fifty years of the twentieth century, focusing primarily on the post-Munich period and the Second World War (1938–45), the post-war reconstruction (1945–48), as well as the Communist rule with both its thaws and returns to hardli…
Shelter from the Holocaust
Shelter from the Holocaust came to fruition as the result of the opening of formerly classified Soviet and Polish archives, determined efforts to interview the last remaining Holocaust survivors, and the growing interest in the histories of displaced persons and migration. Scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues, will appreciate this overview
Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians
Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory
In Eastern Europe, where the genocide of the Jews became an almost “ordinary”, integral part of life during the war, as well as in Central Europe, removed from the direct proximity of the mass murder, the culpability of the Germans and their principal role in the Holocaust has not been doubted. After all, the Holocaust was an all-German story to tell. Far more complex has been the recognition of the local majority societies' – that is non-Germans…
Vanished history
A Closer Look at Alfred Radok's Film Distant Journey
Daleká cesta (Distant Journey, Czechoslovakia, 1949) is one of the most important and explicit early feature films about the Holocaust. The authors draw upon different versions of the script, censorship records, newspaper clippings in five languages, and other archival records to follow the film's genesis, authorship, production history, distribution, and reception, both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. The story both reflects and elucidates the shi…
How to teach the Holocaust
Anxious Histories is a micro-historical analysis of the ways in which teachers in Jewish day schools in two major urban centres in the western world approach the subject of the Holocaust history in
After the Whirlwind
This article analyses absences encountered by Jews in postwar Czechoslovakia. Based on two first-hand accounts (by Leo Herrmann and Joseph Wechsberg), the author offers insights into how Jewish exiles, who visited Czechoslovakia in the first postwar months, perceived the absences caused by the Shoah and by the efforts of postwar societies to create ethnically and linguistically homogeneous countries, without any distinct minority cultures. In pos…
What did it mean to be Loyal? Jewish Survivors in Post‐War Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective
Around 50,000 Jewish survivors returned to Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. Prewar Czechoslovakia built its image on the reputation of its perceived excellent treatment of minorities, in particular the Jews. Nevertheless, Jewish survivors coming back to Czechoslovakia after the war faced hostilities from the non‐Jewish population and encountered considerable obstacles with their rehabilitation and restitution based on their Jewishness a…
The power(lessness) of Czechoslovak Jews during the Second World War
The article evaluates the perceptions of Jewish power among the Czechoslovak exiles in Britain during the Second World War. The analysis documents the apparent persistence of prejudices against the Jewish minority among the Czechoslovak non-Jewish authorities that eventually formed the government-in-exile (1940–5), under the presidency of Edvard Beneš (1884–1948). The Czechoslovak exiles believed that the Jewish minority, in particular the Jewish…
Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938–48
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Cze
Days of Ruin
Governments-in-exile and the Jews during and after the Second World War
Governments-in-exile, established during the Second World War in London, claimed to represent the populations in countries occupied by Nazi Germany. The essay presents a theoretical framework concerning the responses of the Governments-in-exile to the Nazi persecution of the Jews during the war. It argues that the governments need to be perceived as a special category among the so-called bystanders to the Holocaust and that their policies on Jewi…
The Czech Reader
To Get a Refusal Would Result in an Unfortunate Loss of Prestige’
This article examines the response of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to the persecution of the Jews of Europe during World War II. The first part focuses on the diplomatic negotiations between the Czechoslovak authorities and International Jewish organisations, negotiations which document the Czechoslovaks’ willingness to deal with Jewish issues only when this did not contradict or threaten to contradict other priorities. It also argues tha…
Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory
In Eastern Europe, where the genocide of the Jews became an almost “ordinary”, integral part of life during the war, as well as in Central Europe, removed from the direct proximity of the mass murder, the culpability of the Germans and their principal role in the Holocaust has not been doubted. After all, the Holocaust was an all-German story to tell. Far more complex has been the recognition of the local majority societies' – that is non-Germans…
After the Whirlwind
This article analyses absences encountered by Jews in postwar Czechoslovakia. Based on two first-hand accounts (by Leo Herrmann and Joseph Wechsberg), the author offers insights into how Jewish exiles, who visited Czechoslovakia in the first postwar months, perceived the absences caused by the Shoah and by the efforts of postwar societies to create ethnically and linguistically homogeneous countries, without any distinct minority cultures. In pos…
To Get a Refusal Would Result in an Unfortunate Loss of Prestige’
This article examines the response of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to the persecution of the Jews of Europe during World War II. The first part focuses on the diplomatic negotiations between the Czechoslovak authorities and International Jewish organisations, negotiations which document the Czechoslovaks’ willingness to deal with Jewish issues only when this did not contradict or threaten to contradict other priorities. It also argues tha…
The Czech Reader
Governments-in-exile and the Jews during and after the Second World War
Governments-in-exile, established during the Second World War in London, claimed to represent the populations in countries occupied by Nazi Germany. The essay presents a theoretical framework concerning the responses of the Governments-in-exile to the Nazi persecution of the Jews during the war. It argues that the governments need to be perceived as a special category among the so-called bystanders to the Holocaust and that their policies on Jewi…
Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938–48
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Cze
Days of Ruin
What did it mean to be Loyal? Jewish Survivors in Post‐War Czechoslovakia in a Comparative Perspective
Around 50,000 Jewish survivors returned to Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. Prewar Czechoslovakia built its image on the reputation of its perceived excellent treatment of minorities, in particular the Jews. Nevertheless, Jewish survivors coming back to Czechoslovakia after the war faced hostilities from the non‐Jewish population and encountered considerable obstacles with their rehabilitation and restitution based on their Jewishness a…
The power(lessness) of Czechoslovak Jews during the Second World War
The article evaluates the perceptions of Jewish power among the Czechoslovak exiles in Britain during the Second World War. The analysis documents the apparent persistence of prejudices against the Jewish minority among the Czechoslovak non-Jewish authorities that eventually formed the government-in-exile (1940–5), under the presidency of Edvard Beneš (1884–1948). The Czechoslovak exiles believed that the Jewish minority, in particular the Jewish…
Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory
In Eastern Europe, where the genocide of the Jews became an almost “ordinary”, integral part of life during the war, as well as in Central Europe, removed from the direct proximity of the mass murder, the culpability of the Germans and their principal role in the Holocaust has not been doubted. After all, the Holocaust was an all-German story to tell. Far more complex has been the recognition of the local majority societies' – that is non-Germans…
Vanished history
A Closer Look at Alfred Radok's Film Distant Journey
Daleká cesta (Distant Journey, Czechoslovakia, 1949) is one of the most important and explicit early feature films about the Holocaust. The authors draw upon different versions of the script, censorship records, newspaper clippings in five languages, and other archival records to follow the film's genesis, authorship, production history, distribution, and reception, both in Czechoslovakia and abroad. The story both reflects and elucidates the shi…
How to teach the Holocaust
Anxious Histories is a micro-historical analysis of the ways in which teachers in Jewish day schools in two major urban centres in the western world approach the subject of the Holocaust history in
After the Whirlwind
This article analyses absences encountered by Jews in postwar Czechoslovakia. Based on two first-hand accounts (by Leo Herrmann and Joseph Wechsberg), the author offers insights into how Jewish exiles, who visited Czechoslovakia in the first postwar months, perceived the absences caused by the Shoah and by the efforts of postwar societies to create ethnically and linguistically homogeneous countries, without any distinct minority cultures. In pos…
The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89
The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination,1938-89 is the first critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices in both main parts of former Czechoslovakia. The authors identify anti-Jewish prejudices over almost fifty years of the twentieth century, focusing primarily on the post-Munich period and the Second World War (1938–45), the post-war reconstruction (1945–48), as well as the Communist rule with both its thaws and returns to hardli…
Shelter from the Holocaust
Shelter from the Holocaust came to fruition as the result of the opening of formerly classified Soviet and Polish archives, determined efforts to interview the last remaining Holocaust survivors, and the growing interest in the histories of displaced persons and migration. Scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues, will appreciate this overview
Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians
Convois de la mort au départ d’auschwitz en janvier 1945 à destination du protectorat de Bohême-Moravie
Teaching the Holocaust at UNSW Sydney
The Holocaust must be taught and taught well', conclude
The Role of Family Networks in Holocaust Rescue, 1933–1941
The article analyses the role family networks in Australia played in Holocaust rescue before and shortly after the outbreak of World War 2. Working with sources from the official archives as well as private documents, I argue that the networks enabled hundreds of Jewish migrants and refugees to escape Europe. Furthermore, they facilitated the arrival of migrants, who otherwise would most likely have been rejected as unsuitable applicants by the A…
Memory Wars and Emotional Politics
This article analyzes the patriotic turn in Holocaust memory politics, exploring the processes through which the narrative of a morally upright national majority has been pitted against transnational entities such as the European Union. The EU is considered to foster multiculturalism, leading to interpretations of what some perceive as national guilt. The article investigates invocations of shame and pride in Czechia and Slovakia, two countries t…
Political science (16 works) · History (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · The Holocaust (12 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Politics (9 works)