How the Holocaust Looks Now

WOLFGANG BENZ Professor of Antisemitism Research, Technical University of Berlin, Germany BOAZ COHEN Researcher, Bar Ilan University, Israel JOHAN DIETSCH Doctoral Student, Lund University, Sweden MARIA ECKER Doctoral Student, University of Salzburg, Austria JOCHEN FUCHS Professor at the Fachhochschule Magdeburg, Germany KRISTIAN GERNER Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden EVELINE GOODMAN-THAU Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria PETER GRAVES Senior Lecturer and Head of German, University of Leicester, UK MATTHIAS HASS Director of the US Program of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Philadelphia, USA ESTHER HERTZOG Senior Lecturer and Head of Social Science Department and Anthropology Studies, Beit Berl College, Israel OLAF JENSEN Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, University of Leicester, UK KLAS-GA-RAN KARLSSON Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden SIMONE LA SSIG Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA KAROLIN MACHTANS Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, USA ISSABELLA MATAUSCHEK Lecturer in Intercultural Communication and Cultural Studies, Johannes Kepler University, Austria AUBREY NEWMAN Emeritus Professor of History, University of Leicester, UK KARL HEINRICH POHL Professor of History and Historical Didactics, University of Kiel, Germany RAINER SCHULZE Head of Modern European History, University of Essex, UK BARBARA TA-RNQUIST PLEWA Professor of East and Central European Studies, Lund University, Sweden TATIANA WEISER Doctoral Student, Institute of Advance Humanities Research, Russian State Humanitarian University, Moscow, Russia MIRJAM WENZEL Research Assistant, Institute for German Literature, Ludwig Maximilan University, Munich, Germany RENAe WOLF Doctoral Student, Royal Holloway University of London, UK VERONIKA ZANGL Academic Researcher ULF ZANDER Research Associate, Lund University, Sweden

This collection offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought.This collection offers a series of essays that explore the historical culture the holocaust has engendered in Europe, Israel and the USA, the politics of its reception and representation, the motivations for and effectiveness of commemorating it, and the creative and didactic practices it has generated in contemporary literature, art, and thought.