Eszter Gantner

Eszter Gantner (PhD/History) is currently post-doc researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Europe. She is working on  Urban Heritage with a special focus on Jewish Heritage in the cities of Central and Eastern Europe. She is co-founder of the interdisciplinary research group on Urban Heritage at the  Humboldt University of Berlin.

Research fields: Urban History/ Culture/ Anthropology/heritage in Eastern Europe (18th-21thcentury)

Publications (Selection):

Eszter B. Gantner, Jay (Koby) Oppenheim: Jewish Space Reloaded: An Introduction, In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014. p. 1-10;

Eszter B.Gantner: Interpreting the Jewish Quarter, In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014.
Eszter B. Gantner, Mátyás Kovács: The constructed Jew. A pragmatic approach for defining a collective Central European image of Jews“; In: Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, Larisa Lempertienė (ed.): Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History, 2007 Cambridge, p. 211-225.

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