NC Jewish Studies Seminar Welcomes Lisa Silverman

Lisa Silverman, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, discusses a portion of her forthcoming work, The Postwar Antisemite.

Lisa Silverman received a BA in political science from Yale University, an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in German Studies from Yale University. In 2022 she served as Michael Hauck Visiting Professor for Interdisciplinary Holocaust Research at the Fritz Bauer Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. She specializes in modern German and Austrian Jewish cultural history, with a focus on gender, visual culture, and antisemitism. She is author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford, 2012) and co-author with Daniel H. Magilow of Holocaust Representations in History: an Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2015; 2nd ed. 2019). Her next book, The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity after the Holocaust, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.