Mgr. Daniel Baránek, Ph.D.

Research areas

Jewish religious institutions, Jewish associations and Jewish integration between 1848–1939

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2006–2011: Master in History – Hebrew and Jewist Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Židé na Frýdecku a Místecku. Židovské společenství a jeho tvůrci / Jews in Frýdek and Místek Region. Jewish Community and Its Creators

2011–2019: Ph.D. in Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Emancipační židovské komunity na Moravě a ve Slezsku / Emancipatory Jewish Communities in Moravia and Silesia

Foreign internships and scholarships

9–12/2012: University of Vienna, AKTION
4/2013: Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, study stay
11–12/2014: Austrian National Library, National Archives of Austria, Vienna, study stay
11/2019: National Archives of Austria, Vienna, study stay

International grants and projects

2014–2016: Theologies of Conversion to Christianity in Early Modern East-Central European Judaism, guarantor: DPhil. Pawel Maciejko, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, team member

2016–2017: The Belz-Munkatsch Controversy: Jewish Orthodox Fundamentalism in the Inter-War Period, guarantor: Dr. Uriel Gellman, Bar-Ilan University, team member

Domestic grants and major projects

2013–2014: Emancipační židovská společenství na Moravě a ve Slezsku / Emancipatory Jewish Communities in Moravia and Silesia, Charles University Grant Agency, Principal Investigator

2018–2021: Obraz nepřítele. Vizuální projevy antisemitismu v českých zemích od středověku po současnost / The Image of the Enemy. Visual Manifestations of Anti-Semitism in the Czech Lands from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Ministry of Culture, NAKI - Program to Support Applied Research in the Field of National and Cultural identity, ID number: DG18P02OVV039, beneficiary: Institute of Art History of the CAS, team member

Teaching activities

Faculty of Arts, Charles Univerzity (since 2013, 2020)

Membership of editorial boards

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Judaica Bohemiae

Significant awards

2019: Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for the book Jews in the Ostrava Region: The Dynamics and Pluralism of Jewish Society 1832–1942 [Židé na Ostravsku: Dynamika a pluralita židovské společnosti 1832–1942]