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The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
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Bashir Bashir (PhD, Political Theory, London School of Economics) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is the coeditor (with Goldberg) of The Holocaust and the Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Arab-Jewish Partnership (Van Leer, 2015; in Hebrew) and (with Will Kymlicka) of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Oxford, 2008).Goldberg Amos :

Amos Goldberg (PhD, History, Hebrew University) is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of (in Hebrew) Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Ben Gurion University Press, 2012) and the coeditor (with Haim Hazan) of Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (Bergahn, 2015).Khoury Elias :

Elias Khoury (PhD, Sociology and History, University of Paris) is Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Better known as a literary critic and novelist, he has published 12 works of fiction, including Gate of the Sun (Picador, 2007), Broken Mirrors (Archipelago, 2016), and White Masks (Archipelago, 2010), four works of criticism, and three plays and has also served as Director and Editor-in-Chief of Mulhak, the weekly literary supplement of the An-Nahar Daily in Beirut.Rose Jacqueline :

Jacqueline Rose (PhD, Literature, University of London) is Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is the author of many books, including The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Virago, 2013), The Last Resistance (Verso, 2013), and The Question of Zion (Princeton, 2005).Abu-Remaileh Refqa :

Refqa Abu-Remaileh is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Forum Transregionale Studien, Freie Universität Berlin, and Marburg University. She received her PhD in Oriental Studies and MSt in modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford (2010, 2004) and her BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia (2002). Her academic research revolves around the intersections between modern Arabic literature and film. For a number of years after completing her PhD, Abu-Remaileh worked with the Oxford Research Group (ORG) as Middle East Programme Manager and is now a consultant on the Palestine-Israel tracks.Anidjar Gil :

Gil Anidjar(PhD, comparative literature, UC Berkeley) is professor (and chair) of religion, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford, 2003), Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford, 2008), and, most recently, Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia, 2014). His interests include political theology, monotheistic religions, and continental philosophy.Bartov Omer :

Omer Bartov is John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Professor of German Studies at Brown University. Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony''s College, Oxford, Omer Bartov''s early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, and Hitler''s Army. He then turned to the links between total war and genocide, discussed in his books Murder in Our Midst, Mirrors of Destruction, and Germany''s War and the Holocaust. Bartov''s interest in representation also led to his study, The "Jew" in Cinema, which examines the recycling of antisemitic stereotypes in film. His last monograph, Erased, investigates interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe. As a framework for this research, he led a multi-year collaborative project at the Watson Institute, culminating in the co-edited volume, Shatterzone of Empires. Bartov''s new book, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, will be published by Simon and Schuster in January 2018.Ben-Yehuda Omri :

Omri Ben-Yehuda is Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for German Philology at Freie Universität Berlin and the head of the research group Gaza: Towards the Landscape of an Israeli Hetrotopia at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His work focuses on Jewish literatures in German and Hebrew, Mizrahi Israeli literature and postcolonial studies. His postcolonial reading of Kafka''s "A Hunger Artist" will be published in the next issue of Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, his examination of Kafka and Agnon''s dialogism will be published at Kafka after Kafka (forthcoming, Camden House Publishing) and his cultural reading of Kafka and Buster Keaton''s filmography was published in Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image. He also published extensively on Mizrahi literature, S.Y. Agnon and Ch.N. Bialik. His book The Speech Act of Kafka and Agnon will appear in 2018 in Mossad Bialik Publishing House.Ben-Zvi Tal :

Tal Ben-Zvi is a curator and scholar of contemporary art. For the past 15 years, she has worked as curator and scholar of Israeli and Palestinian art. In her work as curator of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Gallery, Tel Aviv and Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa, she has generated and promoted a unique, pathbreaking discourse on the work of Palestinian artists, graduates of art schools in Israel. She received the Ministry of Culture Prize for Curatorship and Design in 2008. She was the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2013-2015). Prior to her work at Bezalel Academy, Dr. Ben-Zvi served (among other things) as Head of the School of Arts at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv (2009-2012) and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010-2011). She received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2010; her dissertation is titled "Representations of the Nakba in the Palestinian Art of the 1970s and 1980s, as Reflected in the Work of Artists Belonging to the Palestinian Minority in Israel." Dr. Ben-Zvi is currently engaged in interdisciplinary research on multiculturalism in contemporary Israeli art.Confino Alon :

Alon Confino is a Professor of History at the Department of History at the University of UMass Amherst and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. The focus of his work revolves around areas of research and theory where the historical method meets ethnography, literature, anthropology, and cultural studies. In his writings over the years, he has sought to craft narratives weaving together story telling with critical analysis. He is the author of The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 (1997); Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (2006); Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012);, and A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014), which won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. His current research focuses on forced migrations in the 1940s in Central and Eastern Europe, India/Pakistan, and Palestine/Israel, focusing on issues of local history, memory, and human rights.Fischer Yochi :

Yochi Fischer is an historian. She is the director of the Advanced Studies unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and a senior research fellow. She taught history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her research interests include History and memory in the Israeli society, and religion and secularization in historical and comparative perspectives. Her Publications include: "The concepts of "Religion" and "Secularism" in the Hebrew language and their manifestations in L.Hölscher and M.Eggert (eds.), Transformation and Transfers of Religious Discourses in Religion and Secularity, Leiden: Brill 2013; G.Motzkin and Y.Fischer (eds.), Religion and Democracy in Contemporary Europe: Alliance, London, 2008; Y. Fischer, Secularization and Secularity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Hakibuz Hameochad 2015 (in Hebrew); "The Original Bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and Seventeenth Century English Practices", In Journal of Social History, Spring, 2002.Ghanim Honaida :

Honaida Ghanim is a Palestinian Sociologist. She published various articles and studies in the fields of political and cultural sociology and gender studies. Her book Reinventing the Nation: Palestinian intellectuals and persons of pen in Israel 1948-2000 (Heb) was published by the Hebrew University in 2009. She was the editor of On recognition of the Jewish state (Eng), published by the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies. Dr. Ghanim was awarded her PhD in 2004 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with distinction (Suma Cum Laude), and she was a lecturer in different universities in Palestine.Hever Hannan :

Hannan Hever is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale University and a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute. He is teaching at Yale in Comparative Literature Department and affiliated with the Program of Judaic Studies. He has published extensively about Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture and Theory of Literature and Culture from political, post-national and post-colonial perspectives. He taught at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Northwestern University, Ann Arbor University and Columbia University. Among his books are Suddenly the Sight of War: Nationalism and Violence in the Hebrew Poetry of the 1940s (2001, Heb. And forthcoming by Stanford UP), Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon, Nation Building and Minority Discourse (2002), Beautiful Motherla