Brandeis Series on the Holocaust and its Aftermath
This series features publications that explore the Holocaust and its aftermath in a global perspective. The impact of the Holocaust has spanned eight decades and has shaped discourse on culture, thought, politics, law, humanitarianism and human rights, science and medical ethics, and questions of representation, truth, and aesthetics. It is therefore imperative that we study both the complex transnational history of the Holocaust as well as its changing global repercussions throughout the postwar decades.
The Brandeis Series on the Holocaust and its Aftermath will appear under the banner of the Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry and will be published by Brandeis University Press.
Editors:
Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University
Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University
Elisabeth Gallas, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow
Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College
Sven-Erik Rose, University of California-Davis
Background
In the current moment, the field of Holocaust studies is facing a set of challenges that make Holocaust research and publications all the more vital. Despite the ubiquitous presence of the Holocaust in public discourse, popular culture, and on social media, the actual historical knowledge of the event and its complexity as a transnational genocide is dwindling, especially, but not only, among millennials and Gen Z. More than ever before, the Holocaust has become subject to distortion and instrumentalization by conspiracy theorists, historical revisionists, ethno-nationalists, populists, religious fundamentalists, and political activists of different nationalities and creeds.
We are about to enter a “post-survivor” age when no more people with first-hand experience of the genocide will be left to speak out against misrepresentation of the past, give testimonies, write memoirs, and produce trial records. With growing distance from the event, the Holocaust is being trivialized through ill-informed—even if at times well-intended—representations in films, fiction, social media posts, and holograms.
Books in the Brandeis Series on the Holocaust and Its Aftermath will challenge common presuppositions and present new ways of understanding enduring themes, including the longue-durée history of Jewish responses to exclusion, persecution, and antisemitism; Holocaust literature and the arts; legal responses to Nazism, the Holocaust, and Nazi war crime trials; medicine, disability, and trauma studies; and Israel and diaspora relations.
For inquiries and to submit a proposal, contact Laura Jockusch, Series Editor, at jockusch@brandeis.edu or Sylvia Fuks Fried, Editorial Director for Jewish Studies, Brandeis University Press, at fuks@brandeis.edu. For proposal guidelines visit Brandeis University Press.
Editors
Alexandra Garbarini is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Williams College. She is the author of Numbered Days: Diary Writing and the Holocaust (2006), and co-author of Jewish Responses to Persecution, volume 2, 1939-1940 (2011).
