Oparnica Željka
Željka Oparnica is a research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. She has a BA in History from Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2014) and MA in Comparative History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe from Central European University (2016). She has obtained a PhD in History from Birkbeck College, University of London where she graduated with thesis „Sephardi politics in the Balkans, 1900–1940.“ During her studies, she won scholarships from Centre for Young Talents (Republic of Serbia), Central European University, Birkbeck College, Leo Baeck Foundation (German Academic Foundation). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London (2021–2023) and Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome (2023–2024). Her research focuses on political organising of Jewish and other minorities in Europe and the Mediterranean in the first half of the twentieth century.
Latest publications
- (2023) “Serbo-Croatian as a Language of Sephardic Literature: The Cases of Isak Samokovlija and Jacques Confino”, European Journal of Jewish Studies 17(1). str. 38–60. ISSN 1025–9996, E-ISSN 1872–471X.
- (2023) “Judeo-Spanish pasts and futures – the question of language in Sarajevo Sephardi political thought between 1900-1930”, u: Yael Attia, Jonathan Hirsch, and Kathleen Samson (prir.), Minor Perspectives on modernity beyond Europe. An Encounter between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Thought, Nomos: Baden-Baden. str. 29–52. ISBN 978-3-95650-971-1.