PD Dr. Martha Keil, scientific management
Studied history and Jewish studies in Vienna and Berlin, Master's degree in 1988, doctorate in 1998 on the Jewish community of Wiener Neustadt in the late Middle Ages. Since 1988 at the Institute for Jewish History in Austria, deputy director from 1995 to 2004. In 2004, she took on the role of Director of the Institute. 2007 postdoctoral lecturing qualification for Austrian History. Since 2016 Senior Scientist at the |Institute für Austrian Historical Research|, University of Vienna, entrusted with the direction of Injoest. Since October 2022, Martha Keil holds the scientific management of the Institute.
Project management (selection)
- 2004-2006 Conex II-Project |Business Life and Women's rights|
- 2013-2014 |The End of (My) Childhood? Kindertransporte (Refugee Children Movement) for the Rescue of Jewish Children an Youth 1938-1941|
- since 2008 |Hebrew Fragments and Manuscripts in Austrian Libraries|
- 2015-2016 |„De-registered“. The forces displacement ot the Jews of St. Pölten to collection flats in Vienna, 1938–1942|
- 2017 |Our expelled neighbours. Jews in Central Lower Austria – Research and Commemorative Culture |(Top Citizen Science Project)
- 2017-2019 |„Closed“ Institution?The Psychiatric Hospital Mauer-Öhling (Lower Austria) during National Socialism and in Collective Memory| (Sparkling Science-Projekt)
- 2019-2020 |Names, Graves and Memory. The Psychiatric Hospital Mauer-Öhling (Lower Austria) during National Socialism| (Top Citizen Science Project)
- 2019-2022 Mobile Dinge, Menschen und Ideen. Eine mobile Geschichte Niederösterreichs (Mobile things, people and ideas. A mobile history of Lower Austria - in German only: look at |Abgeschlossene Projekte|)
- Since 2022 |NS-„Volksgemeinschaft” and Camps in the Central Region of Lower Austria. History – Contact Zones – Memory|
Exhibitions
- |„Mit ohne Juden. Bucklige Welt und Wechselland“| (With or without Jews. Buckliche Welt and Wechselland), Museum für Zeitgeschichte im Hacker Haus, Bad Erlach, since April 2019
- |Verwischte Grenzen. Jüdische Verortungen nach 1918|. (Blurred Borders. Jewish Identities after 1918) concept and curator; Ehemalige Synagoge St. Pölten, 17.5. – 6.10.2018
- |„Gott und Kaiser. 100 Jahre ehemalige Synagoge St. Pölten“| (God an Emperor. 100 years former Synagogue St. Pölten), concept and curator; Stadtmuseum St. Pölten, 13.11.2013 – 30. 4. 2014
- Permanent exhibition about the medieval jewish history of Austria at the Jewish Museum Vienna - Judenplatz (together with Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek); since Dec. 2010
- |„Bei uns war ein wirklich jüdisches Leben“. Die Kultusgemeinde St. Pölten und ihre Vernichtung.| („There were such nice people there … the destroyed Jewish Community St. Pölten”), permanent exhibition in the former synagogue St. Pölten, since Sept. 2008
Further functions
- Member of the advisory board of the „Gesellschaft für die Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden“ (|GEGJ|)
- Member of the scientific advisory board |Jüdisches Erbe Erfurt |
- Member of the scientific advisory board for the |Haus der Geschichte Niederösterreich|
- Member of the Kultursenats des Landes NÖ
- Spokesperson of Forschungsnetzwerkes Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (|first)
- Member of the advisory board of the Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Member of the advisory board of the „Samuel Steinherz-Stiftung” (Brünn)
- Member of the advisory board of Aschkenas – Magazine for History and Culture of the Jews
- Member of the advisory board of Chilufim. Magazine for jewish Cultural History
- Member of the advisory board of the „Historische Kommission Krems”
- Member of the Nationalen Forum gegen Antisemitismus der Stabstelle Österreichisch-Jüdisches Kulturerbe im Bundeskanzleramt
- Member of the National Forum against Anti-Semitism of the Office Austrian-Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Federal Chancellery
- Member of the Military Commission for Monuments of the Federal Ministry of Defence
Acknowledgements
- Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Bundesland Niederösterreich 2020
- „Leopold“ für Wissenschaft der Niederösterreichischen Nachrichten 2020
Research focus: cultural and social history of the Jews in medieval Ashkenaz, history of women and gender studies in the premodern era, jewish history of Austria.
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