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THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE Guest Speaker: Dr. Alan Steinweis |
Dr. Alan Steinweis
He is the author of Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1993; paperback 1996), and Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, 2006; paperback 2008.) The latter book was designated a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. He has co-edited two further volumes: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy, ( University of Nebraska Press, 2003; paperback 2007), and Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates about Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975, (Berghahn Books, 2006, paperback 2007). He has also published several articles addressing the resonance of the Holocaust in American society and culture. 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. Steinweis has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Commission, and the Skirball Foundation. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and has been a visiting fellow at the Free University of Berlin and at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, a "People Who Inspire" award from the Mortar Board National Honor Society, and several teaching recognitions from the University of Nebraska Parents' Association. |
Dr. Alan Steinweis is Hyman Rosenberg Professor of Modern European History and Judaic Studies in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He joined the Department of History at UNL in August 1993. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked under the distinguished historian Gerhard L. Weinberg. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, and teaches courses on those subjects in addition to courses on European history, Jewish history, and historical methodology.