Education and Experience
I studied Hebrew Studies and History at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (MA, 2011) and Czech History (Ph.D., 2019).
During my doctoral studies, I worked at the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, Department of Issuing Certificates to Participants of the Anti-Communist Resistance (2011–2013) and collaborated on research projects of the National Museum (2013), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014–2016), Bar-Ilan University (2016–2017), and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2018–2021).
I conducted independent research as part of my doctoral studies and employment at the Jewish Museum in Prague (2018–2020) and the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2020–present).
Research Content and Methods
I primarily research Jewish history in the Czech lands from 1848 to 1942, with a special focus on the organizational structure and frameworks of Jewish society.
In addition to traditional methods of historical research, I develop and apply digital humanities techniques. I create machine learning models to extract big data from handwritten historical sources (particularly census records, registries, and old maps). Subsequent analysis, visualization, and interpretation of this big data provide entirely new insights into history and offer a comprehensive picture from a vast array of individual fragments.
I am a member of the European Association for Jewish Studies, the World Union of Jewish Studies, the European Association for Urban History, and the Research Centre for Historical Geography.
Open Knowledge
As a proponent of open knowledge, I have been actively collaborating on open collaborative projects such as Wikimedia (since 2008, particularly the Czech Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata), OpenStreetMap (2012), and OpenHistoricalMap (2018).
I maintain close ties with Wikimedia Czech Republic and communities developing OpenHistoricalMap or Kraken/eScriptorium.