This seminar introduces students to Central European Jewish history and historiography. The readings and class discussions provide a short overview of the history of the Jews in Europe where we try to understand how the Jews faced permanent challenges from the world around them, and how and to what extent they managed to integrate themselves into various European societies. In addition, the seminars and the readings focus on cultural, social, and theoretical issues, among others, historical memory, nationalism, and national symbols, oral history, modernization, the Holocaust, and representation. During the semester we incorporate the findings of the latest historiographical trends into our work and we use various historical sources. Besides scholarly essays, we analyze memoirs, literary texts, microhistorical studies, visual images, and documentaries. The course combines the grand narratives, the macrohistorical approach with microscopic topics.