Eglė Bendikaitė

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Eglė Bendikaitė (* 1976 in Žemaičių Naumiestis , Lithuanian SSR ) is a Lithuanian historian and lecturer in Yiddish .

biography

After studying history as well as Yiddish language and literature, Eglė Bendikaitė received her doctorate in 2004 from the Faculty of Humanities at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas ( Lithuania ). phil. in history with the dissertation "Thoughts and Politics of the Zionist Movement in Lithuania 1906-1940". This work was published as a book in 2006 under the title "Sionistinis sąjūdis Lietuvoje" (The Zionist Movement in Lithuania).

Bendikaitė has been researching at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at Leipzig University since 2012 . Since 2001 she has been a lecturer in Yiddish at the Vilnius Institute for Yiddish at the University of Vilnius , and since 2002 academic adviser at the Lithuanian Institute for History in Vilnius .

In 2002 she was a research fellow at the Jewish Scientific Institute ( YIVO ) in New York and in 2005 a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen .

Bendikaitė researches and publishes on the history of Jewish political and cultural movements in Lithuania between the two world wars, on the history of Jewish nationalism, on the history of anti-Semitism in Lithuania and on the history of the migrations of the Jews of Lithuania and the resulting changes in their collective memory.

She was the project leader and coordinator of the international symposium “The Life, Times and Work of Jokūbas Robinzonas - Jacob Robinson”, which was held in Kaunas on October 22, 2007 , and was directed at the international lawyer, politician and historian Jacob Robinson from Lithuania, who works in the USA was dedicated. In 2015, Academia-Verlag in St. Augustin ( ISBN 978-3-89665-633-9 ) published an anthology of contributions on this personality under the same title, edited together with Dirk Roland Haupt.

At the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) of the University of Leipzig, Bendikaitė has been leading the research project “The life, work and work of Shimshon Rosenbaum . Political Biography of a Great Leadership Figure of the Zionist Movement ”.

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personal data
SURNAME Bendikaitė, Eglė
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Žemaičių Naumiestis , Lithuanian SSR