מקום: אוניברסיטת טורונטו, קנדה
מועד: 22-26.6.26
The Holocaust, World War II, and Iranian Studies
Research Workshop
June 22–26, 2026
Toronto, Canada
Applications due January 12, 2026, and must be submitted online in English via our application form.
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in cooperation with the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto, invite applications for a research workshop on the connections between Iran, the Holocaust, and World War II. Arash Azizi, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Yale University; Jennifer L. Jenkins, Department of History, University of Toronto; and Lior B. Sternfeld, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, will serve as co-convenors for the program, which will be held June 22–26, 2026, at the Mir-Djalali Institute at the University of Toronto.
This workshop will bring together scholars working at the intersection of Iranian history and Holocaust studies to share their research and to lay the groundwork for a collective publication featuring the participants’ papers.
We seek to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on Iran in the 1930s and ‘40s, which highlights the country’s role as a site of refuge, transit, and multifaceted political, social, and cultural exchange. Iran served as the most important non-combatant theater of World War II, and the Anglo-Soviet occupation of the country in 1941 fundamentally altered the trajectory of both the war and Iranian history, creating what some have termed a “lost decade” in the country's national development. During the war years, Iran became a haven for hundreds of thousands of European refugees, including thousands ofEuropean Jews, mostly from Poland, who ……
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