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Gabriel Finder Associate Professor (General Faculty) |
Education
Brandeis University, B.A., 1978, in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
University of Pennsylvania, J.D., 1984.
University of Chicago, M.A., 1990, Ph.D., 1997, in Modern European History.
Research Interests
I am fascinated by how survivors reassembled their lives in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. My book in progress deals with the legacy of the Holocaust and its impact on Polish-Jewish relations in communist Poland from 1945 to 1968.
Courses taught in Jewish Studies
HIEU 210: Modern Jewish History
HIEU 213: Jews of Poland
HIEU 348: The Holocaust
HIEU 353: Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe
HIST 322: Zionism and the Creation of the State of Israel
HIST 401: The Holocaust and the Law
HIUS 371: American Jewish History
LAW 4734: The Holocaust and the Law
YIDD 105: Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture
YIDD 106: Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture
YIDD 205: Intermediate Yiddish Language and Culture
YIDD 210: Intermediate Yiddish Language and Culture
Recent Fellowships and Honors
American Council of Learned Societies, East European Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-1.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000-1.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship, 2007-8.
Publications
Book Project
Aftermath: Jews, Poles, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, 1945-1968 (estimated date of completion, 2008).
Journal Contributing Guest Coeditor
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 20 ("Making Holocaust Memory"), ed. Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun, Antony Polonsky, and Jan Schwarz (2008).
Published Articles and Book Chapters
Jewish History
"Collaboration in Eastern Galicia: The Ukrainian Police and the Holocaust," coauthor with Alexander Prusin, East European Jewish Affairs 34, no. 2 (2004): 95-118.
"Jewish Prisoner Labour in Warsaw After the Ghetto Uprising, 1943-1944," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 17 (2004): 325-51.
"'Sweep out Evil from Your Midst': The Jewish People's Court in Postwar Poland," in Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution (Proceedings of the International Conference, London, 29-31 January 2003), ed. Johannes-Dieter Steinert and Inge Weber-Newth (Osnabrueck, Germany: Secolo Verlag, 2005): 269-79.
"The Trial of Shepsl Rotholc and the Politics of Retribution in the Aftermath of the Holocaust," Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry 20 (2006): 63-89 (English section).
"Proces Szepsla Rotholca a polityka kary w nastepstwie Zaglady," Zaglada Zydow: Studia i materialy 2 (2006): 221-41 (Polish translation of "The Trial of Shepsl Rotholc and the Politics of Retribution in the Aftermath of the Holocaust").
"Introduction" to Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 20 ("Making Holocaust Memory"), ed. Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun, Antony Polonsky, and Jan Schwarz (2008): 3-52.
"Memento Mori: Photographs from the Grave," coauthor with Judith R. Cohen, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 20 ("Making Holocaust Memory"), ed. Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun, Antony Polonsky, and Jan Schwarz (2008): 55-73.
"Jewish Collaborators on Trial in Poland, 1944-1956," coauthor with Alexander Prusin, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 20 ("Making Holocaust Memory"), ed. Gabriel N. Finder, Natalia Aleksiun, Antony Polonsky, and Jan Schwarz (2008): 122-48.
European History
"Der Fall Vukobrankovics: Begutachtung und Verturteilung einer Verbrecherin um 1920, " Kriminologisches Journal 26 (1994): 47-69.
"The Criminal and his Analysts: Psychoanalytic Criminology in Weimar Germany and the First Austrian Republic," in Criminals and their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, ed. Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 447-69.
Forthcoming Articles and Book Chapters
Jewish History
"Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany," in Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth- Century Germany, ed. Paul Betts, Alon Confino, and Dirk Schumann (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2008).
"'Boxing for Everyone!' Jewish DPs, Sports, and Boxing," in Jews and Sports (Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual 23), ed. Ezra Mendelsohn (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008).
European History
"The Medicalization of Wilhelmine and Weimar Juvenile Justice Reconsidered," in Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany, 1870-1960, ed. Richard F. Wetzell (New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2008).
Forthcoming Encyclopedia Entries
"Honor Courts," in the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2008).
"Sportcajtung," in the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2008).
Recent Reviews
"Gunnar S. Paulsson, Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945," in East European Politics and Societies 18, no. 2 (2004): 342-47; 18, no. 3 (2004): 558 (erratum).
"Joshua D. Zimmerman, ed., Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its Aftermath," in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73, no. 1 (2005): 284-87.
"Antony Polonsky and Joanna B. Michlic, eds., The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland," European History Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2006): 327-29.
"Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and its Opponents in Modern Poland," Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry 21 (2007): 179-84 (Hebrew section).
Recent Presentations
"Postwar Polish-Jewish Relations Seen through the Lens of Yizkor Books," presented at "The Burden of History: WWII Memory and Polish-Jewish Reconciliation," Workshop of the Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig in Cooperation with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York, Leipzig, April 2003.
"Retributive Justice in Polish Jewish Life after the Holocaust," presented at the European Social History Conference, Berlin, March 2004.
"'They are worse than the Germans': Testimony from the People's Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, 1946-1949," presented at Lessons and Legacies VIII, Brown University, November 2004.
"Jacob Glatshtein's Yash Novels between Fiction and History," presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, December 2004.
"Jewish Honor Courts and the Politics of Retribution in the Aftermath of the Shoah," Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar conducted by invitation of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for its Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, at the Center for Jewish History, New York, March 10, 2004.
"Sheol on the Vistula: The Return of Jews to Poland after the Holocaust," presented at the workshop "Dreams and Nightmares: Jewish Life and the Experience of Modernity," under the auspices of the Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia, April 13, 2005.
"Night has Fallen over Treblinka: Rachel Auerbach's Oyf di felder fun Treblinke (In the Fields of Treblinka)," presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, December 2005.
"Muscular Judaism after the Shoah: Sports and Jewish DPs," presented at "Beyond Camps and Forced Labour - 60 Years On: Second International Multidisciplinary Conference, Imperial War Museum London, January 2006.
"Undzere Kinder (Our Children): A Yiddish Film from Poland in the Aftermath of the Holocaust," to be presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 2007.
"Together and Apart: Jews and Poles Remember the Holocaust," keybote address presented at "Making Holocaust Memory at Poland," conference held at the Polish Embassy in London under the patronage of the Polish Ambassador, November 29, 2007.
"'Boxing for Everyone!' Jewish Displaced Persons and Boxing after the Shoah," presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, December 2007.