Alan E. Steinweis

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Alan E. Steinweis (born 1957 in Brooklyn) is an American historian and a professor at the University of Vermont.

Life

Steinweis earned his doctorate in 1988 at the

Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. In 2012, Steinweis was appointed Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he also serves as Director of Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.[2]

Publications

His book Studying the Jew was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.[7] He is editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series published by the University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the state of Israel. He is currently writing a book on the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, which will be published by Harvard University Press.

References

  1. ^ "THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE". Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Three CAS Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships". Retrieved 20 September 2012.
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  5. ^ Raim, Edith, "Philipp Gassert and Alan E. Steinweis, eds., Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955–1975. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. viii 1 339 pp. $34.95 (Review)", Journal of Cold War Studies 2011 13:4, 255-257
  6. ^ Webster, Adam (2008). "H-Net Book Review of 'Coping with the Nazi Past'". German Historical Institute, Washington DC, website. Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Review" (PDF). Jewish Book World. 26 (3): 14. Fall 2008. Retrieved 20 September 2012.[permanent dead link]

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