DrMichael Abrahams-Sprod

Current Research Projects

• The history of Zionism in German-speaking Europe
• German-Jewish refugees in Palestine, later the State of Israel
• The school curriculum and educational ethos and experience of young Jews in Nazi Germany
• Between History, Memory and Emotion: The Holocaust Correspondence, Memoirs and Memories of the Herrmann Family
• A Tale of Two Anglo-Sephardi Jewish Sisters: Sophia and Matilda Mendoza and their Lives and Fates in Colonial Australia

Recent Conference Activities

• “Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Teaching and Learning Symposium”, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 6 November 2024. 
• “Group of Eight Antisemitism Training Workshop Pilot”, Monash University, Melbourne, 9 December 2024 (cohosted by the Group of Eight and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne). 
• “Group of Eight Antisemitism Training for University Executive”, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 2 April 2025 (cohosted by The University of Sydney, the Group of Eight and the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne).
• “Holocaust History and Memory: New Research in Australia and Beyond”, Mandelbaum House, The University of Sydney, 9 May 2025 (A Joint Initiative between the Universities of Sydney and Exeter [UK] supported by Mandelbaum House and the ARC Project: The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia).
• “Train-the-Trainers’ Antisemitism Conference”, Monash University, Melbourne, 25-26 June 2025 (hosted by The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne for Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism [ASECA]).
• “2025 Sydney Teaching Symposium”, Education Portfolio, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 23 July 2025.
• “Jewish Educators’ Professional Learning Symposium”, Kesser Torah College, Dover Heights, 30 October 2025 (cohosted by Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, Discipline of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, The University of Sydney and Rabbi Yehuda Spielman, Kesser Torah College, Dover Heights).
• “2025 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Teaching Symposium”, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 12 November 2025.
• “7^th Jewish Educators’ Professional Learning Symposium”, Mount Sinai College, Maroubra, 13 May 2026 (cohosted by Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, Discipline of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, The University of Sydney and Rozanna Pleshet, Michelle Baruch and Shani Guralnek, Mount Sinai College, Maroubra).
• “2026 Sydney Teaching Symposium”, Education Portfolio, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 22 July 2026.

Supervision

Holocaust and German-Jewish History

• German-speaking Jewry
• The Holocaust
• Modern European Jewish history

Zionism and Israel Studies

• Zionism and the State of Israel
• Arab–Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Jewish History (Medieval to Modern)

• Modern Jewish history
• Medieval and early modern Jewish history

Jewish Education

• Jewish education
• Education in the Jewish day school system