Moritz Schmeing

Moritz Schmeing studied History, Cultural Studies, and Political Science at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena, and Kraków between 2012 and 2019. From 2020 to 2026, he pursued his doctoral studies at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, where he completed a dissertation on Jewish members of the Italian Fascist Party. His doctoral research was supported by, among others, the Hans Böckler Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Rome, and the German Study Centre in Venice. In 2025, he also worked as a research assistant in the collaborative project Making the Object the Subject: Communicating Everyday Jewish Culture in Germany.

• Italian Jewish history (19th–20th centuries)
• History of Italian Fascism
• History of the labour movement and the political Left

• Juden in der faschistischen Partei Italiens. Eine Annäherung, in: Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts/Dubnow Institute Yearbook 19 (2020/2021) [2023], 485–516.
• Rezension: Frank Schuhmacher, Benito Mussolini – Konsens durch Mythen. Eine Analyse der faschistischen Rhetorik zwischen 1929 und 1936, in: Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (Hg.) (1898): Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 104. Berlin 2024, 791 f.
• Tagungsbericht: HT 2021: Erfahrung und Erinnerung. Israel, die deutschsprachige Linke und der Holocaust, in: H-Soz-Kult, 11. Dezember 2021.