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Transnational Holocaust Studies in History and Memory book cover

1st Edition

Transnational Holocaust Studies in History and Memory

Edited By Barnabas Balint, Charlie Knight Copyright 2027
134 Pages
by Routledge

Place is one of the core building blocks of our understanding of history, providing—along with time—the fundamental framework for how we perceive of the past. Historical research has often relied upon place—alongside myriad social and physical categories of analysis—to tell stories that revolve around certain locations and the events that take place within them, be they histories of villages,... Read more

Preface

Barnabas Balint and Charlie Knight

 

Introduction: Transnational Holocaust studies in history and memory

Barnabas Balint and Charlie Knight

 

1. Relief, rescue and reconstruction: Shanghai’s Jewish child refugees in JDC photography

Niamh Hanrahan

 

2. Beyond Nazism: the impact of native persecution dynamics on the genocide of the Roma

and Sinti

Catharine Aretakis

 

3. ‘In Cuba I began my career as a cook’: the intersection between food, class and the German-Jewish female experience of prewar emigration

Julie Fitzpatrick

 

4. Echoes of the Shoah: British Jewry and the Bosnian War

Luke Summers

 

5. ‘I’m massively into swastikas’: Jojo Rabbit as a counter-protest to Trump-era nationalist extremism

Cailee Davis

Biography

Barnabas Balint is a historian of the Holocaust, specializing in the history of Jewish responses to persecution in Hungary and France. He completed his doctorate in History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Zoë Waxman.

Charlie Knight is an Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. His research centres on German-Jewish migration, letter writing during the Holocaust, and familial memory.

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