Dr Hannah Holtschneider  MPhil, PhD

Dr Hannah Holtschneider: Lecturer in Modern Judaism
H.Holtschneider@ed.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 650 8933

Introduction

• Lecturer in Modern Judaism

My main research interests are at the interface of religion, culture and identity, focusing on Jewish-non-Jewish relations, in particular in Germany, and Holocaust representation in the Western world.

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• On leave January - December 2009

General (Teaching) Competence

• Holocaust Studies
  
• Modern Jewish thought and history
  
• Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations

Research Areas

• Holocaust representation and memorialisation
  
• Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust
  
• Jewish-non-Jewish relations

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome applications/inquiries from research students in all areas of Holocaust Studies, particularly in the areas of Holocaust and religion, and representation of the Holocaust and ethics; further areas include Jewish-non-Jewish relations; modern Jewish history, specifically in German speaking lands; and contemporary Jewish religious thought and practice.

Additional Academic Interests

• Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Editor.
  
• British Association for Jewish Studies, Web Editor.
  
• European Association for Jewish Studies.
  
• Association for Jewish Studies.
  
• The Stephen S. Weinstein Symposium on the Holocaust, held biannually at Wroxton College, Fairleigh Dickinson University (since 2002).
  
• British Association for the Study of Religions.
  
• The Higher Education Academy, Fellow.

Selected Publications

• German Protestants Remember the Holocaust: Theology and the Construction of Collective Memory, Fundamentaltheologische Studien 24, Lit. Verlag, Muenster, 2001.
  REVIEWED in:
  Reviews in Religion and Theology 9:3, 2002 (by Sarah K. Pinnock).
  Newsletter of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians 10:9, 2004 (by Mark Lindsay).
  Holocaust and Genocide Studies 20:1, 2006 (by Matthew Hockenos).
  
  
• 'Jews', in Religions in Focus: New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices, ed. Graham Harvey, Equinox, London (2009).
  
  
• 'Wie "jüdisch" sind die Opfer des Holocaust? Beobachtungen in der Holocaust Ausstellung im Imperial War Museum London', Theologisch-politische Vergewisserungen: Ein Arbeitsbuch aus dem Schüler- und Freundeskreis von Johann Baptist Metz, Fundamentaltheologische Studien 48, Lit.Verlag, Münster, 2008, 274-287.
  
  
• 'Zwischen Ausgrenzung und Umarmung: Christliche Theologie im Umgang mit dem Judentum', in Politische Theologie gegengelesen, eds Jürgen Manemann und Bernd Wacker, Jahrbuch Politische Theologie 5, Lit. Verlag, Münster, 2008, 66-79.
  
  
• 'Verhältnisbestimmung zwischen Juden und Christen in Deutschland: Auf dem Weg zu einer "realistischen und unbefangenen Beziehung zwischen Juden und Christen"?' theologie.geschichte 2007.
  
  
• 'Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders? Witnessing, Remembering and the Ethics of Representation in Museums of the Holocaust', Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 13:1, 2007, pp. 84-104.
  
  
• 'Jean Amery Cultural exile, homelessness and Jewish solidarity', in For the Sake of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Clemens Nathan, eds Alan Stephens and Raphael Walden, Martinus Nijhoff (An Imprint of Brill), 2006, pp. 135-144.
  
  
• 'Dabru Emet und juedische Interpretationen des Christentums', Dialog - DuSiach 62, January 2006, pp. 18-41.
  
  
• 'Jean Amery Memories of Evil and Consequences for Jewish Identity in a Non-Jewish World or Accounting for Evil Without God: The Challenge of an Existentialist Jew to Jewish Self-Understanding', in Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust, Pastora Goldner Series, eds David Patterson and John K. Roth, University of Washington Press, 2005, pp. 34-45.
  
  
• 'Christians, Jews and the Holocaust', in Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Coexistence, ed. John Wolffe, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2005, pp. 217-248.
  
  
• '"Redet die Wahrheit" (Dabru Emet): Zur Zukunft des christlich-juedischen Dialogs', Orientierung 68:13/14, 2004, pp. 150-154.
  
  
• 'Juedische Holocausttheologien - Ueber- und Ausblick', Orientierung 68:1, 2004, pp. 3-7.
  
  
• 'The Shadow of the Holocaust: A Review Essay', Journal of Religion and Society 5, 2003.
  
  
• The 1980 Statement of the Rhineland Synod: A Landmark in Christian-Jewish Relations in Germany, Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations, CJCR, Cambridge, 2002.
  
  
• 'Der Holocaust und die Verhaeltnisbestimmung von ChristInnen und JuedInnen in Deutschland: Eine kritische Untersuchung der Theologie Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardts', in: Kellenbach, Katharina von/Krondorfer, Bjoern/Reck, Norbert (eds), Von Gott reden im Land der Taeter? Theologische Perspektiven der Dritten Generation nach Auschwitz, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2001, pp. 123-142.
  
  
• Entries on Jean Amery in Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, Riggs, Thomas et al. (eds), St. James Press, Detroit, 2002.
  14 entries in A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Kessler, Edward/Wenborn, Neil (eds), Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  'Holocaust' and 'Judaism and Christianity' in New Dictionary of Theology, Inter-Varsity Press, Leicester (forthcoming).