Mr Mateusz Majman

Mateusz Majman is a doctoral candidate in Jewish history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a research fellow at the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund. His interests include oral history, Holocaust Studies, Caucasology, migration, and transnational history. His dissertation explores how the Mountain Jews as a collective perpetuate the memory of the genocide committed against their nation during the Second World War. His research is based primarily on multi-generational oral history interviews conducted in Russia and Israel. In his work, he analyzes the factors that shape the culture of Holocaust remembrance in two countries where memory takes completely different forms. He presents a community partially excluded from the post-Soviet and Israeli communities of memory while struggling to connect with hegemonic national historical memories.

Before coming to the LMU, Mateusz received a BA in Hebrew Studies from Warsaw University and an MA in Jewish Studies from the University of Heidelberg. He was also a visiting student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Saint Petersburg State University and at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm. This year two of his articles and a chapter in a collective monograph on the history of Caucasian Jews will be published.