The Slánský Trial A New History

Katerina Capková is a historian of East Central Europe at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, specializing in modern Jewish history, in the history of Roma and Sinti, and refugee studies. Her book Czechs, Germans, Jews? won the Outstanding Academic Title. Together with Hillel J. Kieval, she edited Prague and Beyond (2022), a history of Jews in the Bohemian lands, which was also published in German, Hebrew, and Czech. Capková initiated and heads the Prague Center for Romani Histories. Since 2025, she has been the principal investigator of the Advanced ERC grant Inclusive History of East-Central Europe.

Chad Bryant is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Global Studies. He is a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, specializing in the lands of today's Czech Republic, whose research interests include the study of nationalism, the urban experience, and authoritarian regimes. He is the author of Prague: Belonging and the Modern City, co-winner of the Radomír Luza Prize and of Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism, winner of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize.

Diana Dumitru is a historian of Eastern Europe at Georgetown University, specializing in the Holocaust, Stalinism, and modern Jewish history. She is the author of The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, a finalist for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. She is also the author of Soviet Jews under Late Stalinism: A Story from the Western Borderlands. She serves on the editorial boards of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and the Journal of Genocide Research.