Due to a production error, some of the links in “Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust” by Jan Grabowski and Shira Klein are broken or incorrect. The errors are of technical sort and are not the fault of the authors. We are working together with the publisher to fix them as soon as possible. Until the issue is resolved, you may find all correct Wikipedia below. Apologies for the inconvenience. Read full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939 Footnote #1: “Wikipedia:List of academic studies about Wikipedia,” revision from 0 ..read more

The Journal of Holocaust Research is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for an upcoming Special Issue: Transformations of Holocaust Memory in Light of Contemporary European Anxieties Guest Editors: Dr. Nurit Novis-Deutsch and Dr. Tracy Adams Assistant Editor: Prof. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Click here to view/download this Call for Papers as PDF The Journal of Holocaust Research is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for an upcoming special issue: The Transformation of Holocaust Memory in the Age of European Anxiety. The issue will focus on the various shifts that have taken place in Holo ..read more

The Journal of Holocaust Research is pleased to announce a Call For Papers for an upcoming Special Issue: Sexuality and the Holocaust Editors: Dr. Michal Aharony, with Dr. Dorota Glowacka and Dr. Regina Muehlhaeuser (Guest Editors) Click here to view/download this Call for Papers as PDF Sexual practices were pervasive during the Holocaust—violent and non-violent, consensual and non-consensual, commercial and non-commercial, heterosexual and non-heterosexual. Studying the topic is imperative, yet doing so requires us to address a series of complicated methodological, ethical, and political ques ..read more

The Journal of Holocaust Research is pleased to announce a Call For Papers for an upcoming Special Issue: Exhibiting the Holocaust in the Immediate Postwar Period: Histories, Practices and Politics. Dr. Rachel Perry, Weiss Livnat International Program in Holocaust Studies, University of Haifa, and and Dr. Agata Pietrasik will serve as guest editors for this Special Issue. Exhibitions were a crucial medium of Holocaust memory in the immediate postwar period. Between 1944-1950, hundreds of exhibitions were mounted across war torn Europe and the United States that sought to tell the story of Wor ..read more

Now that the debate over Dirk Moses’s essay, “The German Catechism,” appears to have crested, it is possible to take stock of its results.[1]  In this short commentary, I do not directly address Moses’s specific arguments in detail; plenty of insightful observers have already done so.  Like many of them, I support some of Moses’s assertions and reject others.  Instead, I reflect on some of the claims that have been made about the debate’s significance for contemporary Holocaust memory.  In so doing, I have identified four areas where, from my perspective, commentators have ..read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRms_U8nozA&t=8s&ab_channel=HaifaHolocaustStudies A recording of the virtual roundtable event held on April 29, 2021, with the authors of the Journal of Holocaust Research’s special issue, Confronting Hatred: Antisemitism, Neo-Nazism, and Holocaust Studies Today (35:2) To read the issue – https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdap2… Overview: The authors of this special issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research, “Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today,” draw attention to the ways in which the racism that ferments contemporar ..read more

Michelle Kahn’s article The American Influence on German Neo-Nazism: An Entangled History of Hate, 1970s–1990s “takes a transatlantic approach to the history of the Far Right by examining the American influence on German neo-Nazism from the 1970s through the 1990s.” Kahn offers a literal trail of evidence for how neo-Nazism first gained a foothold in West Germany’s postwar years. Effectively casting doubt on the typical triumphalist heralding of the de-Nazification and democracy-building narrative of the Allied Occupation of West Germany, Kahn instead reveals it to be a tale of inadvertent&nbs ..read more

The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites, by Prof. David N. Meyers, discusses how the Trump presidency years were marked by a rapid rise of hate speech in public discourse and violence against minorities. Between 2016-2018, there was a “100% increase in reports of antisemitic incidents in the United States… That period coincides, and not by accident, with the presidency of Donald Trump.” Noting that the Anti-Defamation League’s 2019 audit of antisemitic acts in the U.S. found “the highest number on record since ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979,” Pr ..read more

The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Professor Robert D. Tobin focuses on Italian fascist intellectual, antisemite, and conspiracy theorist, Julius Evola, who died in 1974, but whose influence has been growing ever since the Second World War. In his article, Professor Tobin examines the ways Julius Evola’s writings have inspired identity politics not only in Italy but around the world, including the United States, where current revivals of his work have found a home in the American Alt-right. Interest in Evola’s writings is not limited to the fringe ..read more