Cornelia Aust
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)
austc [-at-] sas.upenn.edu
Education
Leipzig University; Hebrew University Jerusalem; Free University Berlin (Magistra Artium, 2003), Warsaw University; UPenn (ABD, 2006)
Fields
Polish-Jewish History 18th century; European Jewish History, Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe, Imperial Russia
Dissertation Topic
Between Warsaw and Amsterdam: Networks of Jewish Merchants in Central and East Central Europe (1740s to 1820s)
Advising Committee
Personal Statement
Before coming to Penn in 2004, I studied in Leipzig, Jerusalem, Berlin and Warsaw. My research interest is social, economic and cultural history of Jews in Poland and Central Europe. I will try to bring together these interests in my dissertation on networks of Jewish merchants and their families who lived in Warsaw during the second half of the eighteenth century. Moreover, I am interested in narratives of the East (Russia, Poland, Eastern European Jews) in Western Europe.
Publications
"Aschkenasim." In: Friedrich Jäger (ed.): Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, vol.1, J.B. Metzler. Stuttgart 2005, 695-697.
"Tod und Beerdigung im polnischen Judentum." In: Wolfgang Klein, Klaus Matußek (eds.): Polen - der unbekannte Nachbar. Dimensionen deutsch-polnischer Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Universität Paderborn 2005, 149-163.
"Narrative jüdischer Wirtschaftsgeschichte in Osteuropa" [Narratives of Jewish Economic History in Eastern Europe]. In: François Guesnet (ed.): Zwischen Graetz und Dubnow. Jüdische Historiographie in Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Leipziger Akademische Verlagsanstalt: Leipzig 2008 (forthcoming).
Outside Fellowships
IDRF fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and Dissertation Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (10/2006-08/2007)
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia (09/2008-05/2009)
Conferences
Participant of the International Forum of Young Scholars of East European Jewry, University College London (July 2007)
Annual AJS Conference, Toronto (December 2007) - paper title: "Commercial Networks and Agency: A Jewish Merchant Family in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Warsaw"
Fourth International Conference in Jewish Studies, Vilnius (March 2008) - paper title: "Jewish Commercial Networks During the Partitions of Poland"
