Between Crisis and Coexistence: Jews in Interwar Germany

Irit Bloch, PhD Irit is an interdisciplinary historian working on German and Jewish social and legal history with a focus on judicial prejudices, antisemitism and racism in the twentieth century. Irit is currently working as a research fellow at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at the Graduate Center, and teaching a History of the Holocaust course in this Spring semester at Hunter College CUNY. Irit’s research specializations are modern European history, Jewish History, the Holocaust, Antisemitism, and the German legal system. Her research project will focus on developing a chapter of her dissertation that analyzes the 1926 Magdeburg Affair, as part of her book manuscript.

Christopher Probst, PhD Christopher is a historian in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is an adjunct professor of history at Washington University St. Louis where he teaches The Twentieth Century: Age of Genocide, Jews and Christians in Nazi Germany, and History of the Holocaust. His publications include Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany (Indiana University Press, 2012) and “Race, Religion, and the Genocide of the Jews in Nazi Germany,” in The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide (Routledge, 2022). His scholarship resides on the borders of cultural, intellectual, and religious history. At the center, Christopher will be working on his second book, Purifying the Volk, which focuses on Protestant-Jewish relations in southwest Germany and will fill an important gap in historical research about antisemitism shortly before, during, and after the Shoah.

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