{"id":29917,"date":"2026-10-07T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:55:52","slug":"tanzers-book-honored-with-prestigious-austrian-and-czechoslovak-history-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/tanzers-book-honored-with-prestigious-austrian-and-czechoslovak-history-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Tanzer receives book prize at German studies conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frances Tanzer, the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish Culture at Clark University, has received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?page_id=8\">Radom\u00edr Lu\u017ea Prize<\/a> for her book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/historians-new-book-explores-jewish-presence-and-absence-in-wartime-vienna\/\">Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City<\/a>.\u201d The prize, given by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance&nbsp;and&nbsp;the German Studies Association,&nbsp;honors outstanding work in the field of Austrian and\/or Czechoslovak history in the 20th century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group alignright boxout has-white-color has-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-2e5fb508388844adc757b36bf5151a7f is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"is-style-intro has-heading-font-family\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/historians-new-book-explores-jewish-presence-and-absence-in-wartime-vienna\/\">Read an interview with Frances Tanzer on ClarkU News \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize is named after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?page_id=66\">Radom\u00edr Lu\u017ea<\/a>\u00a0(1922\u20132009), the first 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