Guest: Prof. Jonathan Brent.
Host: Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė.

In the second episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, Violeta Davoliūtė talks with Jonathan Brent, CEO and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. They cover the relevance of the past to the present, ideologies of hate and hope in public history, and the critical role of archives in the historiography of the Cold War.

In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. It investigates the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.