Joachim Schlör


Joachim Schlör is a culture scientist and professor at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. Previously, he lectured at the University of Potsdam and was director of the network of Jewish and rabbinical studies. He is the "intellectual father" of the post graduate program there and has contributed to what is called the "spatial turn" in Jewish studies.

Life

Joachim Schlör worked as a volunteer with Andreas Maislinger at the Poland-department of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in the years 1980 and 1981.
From 1993 until 1999 he has been working as scientific worker at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and later as assistant professor for modern history at the University of Potsdam.
In 2006 he received a professorship in Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

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