Biographies of Contributors

Dan Bar-On is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at BenGurion University. His books include Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors' Families (1995) and The Indescribable and the Undiscussable (1999). He is the Israeli co-director of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) near Beit Jala, PNA, together with Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University. In June 2001, they received the Alexander Langer Prize in Bolzano, Italy, for their efforts in peace-building between Palestinians and Israelis. In June 2003, he was awarded the Eric Maria Remarque Peace Prize in Osnabr¸ck, Germany, together with the Palestinian author Mahmud Darwish.

Julia Chaitin received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Ben-Gurion University. In 1996 and 1998, Dr. Chaitin received awards from Yad Vashem for her doctoral research on the "working-through" process in three generational families of Holocaust survivors. In 2001-2002, she held the Lentz Postdoctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Since 2000, she has been a head researcher and grant writer at PRIME (see above). In 2003 she was a lecturer in the faculty of humanities and social science and co-director of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies at Ben Gurion University.

Rebecca L. Golbert received her D.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2001. She is completing a book, to be published by Berghahn Books, based on her doctoral research into aspects of Jewish youth culture and identity in post-Soviet Ukraine. She has received fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research to support her postdoctoral research on memory and history of the Holocaust in Ukraine.

Tamar Gross received an M.A. in clinical psychology from Ben-Gurion University. Her thesis examined the "working-through" process undergone by teenagers who participate in Holocaust-centered trips to Poland. Ms. Gross is training in clinical psychology at the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel.

Alon Lazar received his Ph.D. in psychology from Ben-Gurion University. His research has focused on attitude change and measurement, and the impact of Holocaust education on young adults. He teaches at the Sapir College, and at Bar-Ilan University is conducting research involving attachment theory.

David Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair in Judaic Studies at The University of Memphis. A winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters on a variety of topics. His books include Along the Edge of Annihilation (1999), Sun Turned to Darkness (1998), When Learned Men Murder (1996), Pilgrimage of a Proselyte (1993), and The Shriek of Silence (1992). He is the editor and translator of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2002) and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (2002).

Paul Williams earned his Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Melbourne. His dissertation examined the production and reception of bicultural history in New Zealand's new National Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa. He specializes in the study of popular memory, historical consciousness, and memorialization, particularly as it relates to conflict and trauma.

Susan Zuccotti holds a Ph.D. in modern European history from Columbia University. She is author of The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival (1987), which received the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, and the Premio Acqui Stori-Primo Lavoro; The Holocaust, the French and the Jews (1993); and Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2000), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations and the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize of the German Studies Association. Dr. Zuccotti has taught at Barnard College and Trinity College.