Dr Sonja Weinberg
Historian of modern European Jewish history
Main areas of research
History of anti-Semitism: investigation of anti-Semitic movements, acts of violence and pogroms in the late 19th and 20th century.
Minority Protection: Legal, political, and universalistic frameworks for safeguarding marginalized groups.
Holocaust History: Institutional resistance, compromise, and complex dynamics within WWII concentration and transit camps
Selected Publications and Activities
‘Pogroms and Riots’: Her doctoral thesis, supervised by John Klier, analyses German press coverage of the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881/1882 in Germany and Russia.
‘Bargaining for Survival in a Nazi Camp’: A forthcoming book dealing with the struggle for survival in Nazi camps.
Public Debates: In Switzerland, she also appears as a guest writer (for example, in the Jewish magazine Tachles)
Institutional Affiliations
Since 2025 member of the board of the supportive association (Förderverein) for the Executive Master in Applied History at the University of Zurich (UZH).
Dr Sonja Weinberg is a Zurich-based historian specialising in modern European Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries. She completed her academic training (PhD) at the renowned University College London (UCL).