Holocaust Literature and Representation: Their Lives, Our Words - Paperback

by Phyllis Lassner (Editor), Kitty Millet (Editor), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (Editor)

Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work they do, but their personal story, their journey to becoming a specialist in Holocaust studies.

What academic, political, cultural, and personal experiences led them to choose Holocaust representation as their subject of research and teaching? What challenges did they face on their journey? What approaches, genres, media, or other forms of Holocaust representation did they choose and why? How and where did they find a scholarly "home" in which to share their work productively? Have political, social, and cultural conditions today affected how they think about their work on Holocaust representation? How do they imagine their work moving forward, including new challenges, responses, and audiences? These are but a few of the questions that the authors in this volume address, showing how a scholar's field of research and resulting writings are not arbitrary, and are often informed by their personal history and professional experiences.

Author Biography

Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita at Northwestern University, USA. She is author of numerous books and articles on World War II and Holocaust literature, art, and film, including as co-editor of Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries and the Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture (2020). She was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship at Southampton University, UK and serves on the Education and Exhibition Committees of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center."

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is Director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Professor in Holocaust Research, the Rabbi Pynchas Brener Professor in Research on the Holocaust of European Jewry, and Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is also editor of several compilations of academic autobiographies, including co-editor of Her Story, My Story? Writing about Women and the Holocaust (2020).