Oskar Czendze

Oskar Czendze is a cultural and social historian of the modern Jewish experience in East Central Europe and North America. His research focuses on global histories of migration and travel, with a particular interest in cross-cultural encounters and questions of memory, belonging, and place in the modern era. Before joining the University of Toronto, he earned his doctorate in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2025. As the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, Czendze is currently working on his first monograph, “Galicia on the Hudson,” exploring Jewish New York and the continuity of regional belonging to the Habsburg province of Galicia beyond the impacts of World War I and Americanization in the immigrant community before the Holocaust.