Welcome Dr. Laura Jockusch, Rosenberg Senior Scholar
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Laura Jockusch, as a William Rosenberg Senior Scholar, thanks to funding from the Claims Conference.
Dr. Jockusch is associate professor and holds the Albert Abramson Chair in Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. She wrote Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford UP 2012, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and co-winner of the Sybil Milton Book Prize); she edited Khurbn-Forshung: Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland (Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht 2021); co-edited (with Devin Pendas) Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4: Aftermath, Outcomes, and Repercussions (Cambridge University Press forthcoming), and (with Gabriel Finder) Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (Wayne State University 2015) and (with Andreas Kraft and Kim Wünschmann) Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation (The Hebrew University Magnes Press 2016).
Her current research explores Jewish conceptions of post-Holocaust justice; the trials of Stella Goldschlag (aka Kübler-Isaaksohn) in postwar Germany; and revenge during and after the Holocaust.
As Senior Scholar, Dr. Jockusch will produce an annotated critical edition of a testimony for our Critical Edition Series as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.