The first scholarly account of the literature written in the
ghettos that takes it seriously as literature. The consequences for
our understanding of the ghettos as a historical phenomenon, of
the lives lived there, and of the way that these lives have been
remembered, memorialized, and understood, are profound.
Sven-Erik Rose
Sven-Erik Rose is an Associate Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German and Russian at UC Davis. He has published in venues such as Jewish Social Studies, French Studies, Postmodern Culture, and New German Critique on topics including Jewish masculinity in the cinema of Mathieu Kassovitz; Holocaust postmemory in the work of Patrick Modiano; the 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher Lazarus Bendavid’s Kantian fantasies of Jewish decapitation; and Cold War controversies around a text by Yehoshue Perle that was unearthed as part of the Warsaw Ghetto “Oyneg Shabes” archive. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany 1789-1848, was published by Brandeis University Press in the Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry. The book was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Philosophy and Jewish Thought.
