Contributors
- Contributors
Elizabeth R. Baer is Professor of English and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Dr. Baer held the Ida E. King Distinguished Chair of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College in New Jersey in 2004.
Her scholarly work on the Holocaust includes The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, co-edited with Hester Baer, and Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust (2003), co-edited with Myrna Goldenberg. Her current scholarly project is a study of the intertextual appropriation of the golem legend in contemporary fiction about the Holocaust.
Tim Cole is Senior Lecturer in Social History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Selling the Holocaust (1999) and Holocaust City (2003). He is currently completing a social history of the Holocaust in Hungary, and plans to work on a book on Holocaust Landscapes.
Stephen Feinstein was the founder and director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. A world-renowned teacher, proponent of social justice, and humanitarian, he is remembered for his profound scholarship of the Holocaust, and as a leading activist on behalf of the movement to free Soviet Jews during the Cold War. An art historian, he curated many exhibits that focused on art about the Holocaust and genocide.
Irena Kohn is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. She will be defending her thesis on material culture from the Lodz Ghetto in August, 2008. This translation and analysis of Yankele Herszkowicz songs is based on a chapter of her doctoral dissertation, which also analyzes presentation albums and photographs from the Lodz Ghetto, and considers how they might challenge us think about the past of Eastern European Jewry differently.
Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Prof. of Holocaust Studies at the Abraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published six books in Hebrew and English as well as numerous articles on the history of the Holocaust, immigration to the state of Israel, and the memory of the Holocaust in Israel. Her book Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the land of Israel received the Jewish Book Award, and the Hebrew edition received the Ben Zvi Award. Most recently, together with Paula Hyman, she was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Women.
Lisa Pine is Senior Lecturer in History at London South Bank University. She is author of Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (Oxford, 1997) and Hitler's 'National Community': Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (London, 2007). [End Page 13]
Joseph Robert White is a research assistant at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. His doctoral work was completed in 2000 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. To date he has contributed nearly ninety articles to the forthcoming, seven-volume United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, including the entries on the Munich Ettstrasse and Munich Stadelheim early camps. He teaches courses on Twentieth-Century Europe, Modern Germany, and the Holocaust at the University of Maryland University College. [End Page 14]
