The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies co-publishes, in association with academic presses, monographs and edited volumes that help to advance the field of Holocaust studies. The Mandel Center supports books that represent conversations in workshops and seminars held at the Museum, as well as the work of new scholars whose voices enrich the conversations in the field. Our support enables increased accessibility for high-quality, cutting-edge Holocaust studies scholarship.
For more information, please contact Academic Publications at academicpublications@ushmm.org.
Recent Publications
By Julie R. Keresztes, 2025
Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community examines the role of photography in the construction of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, a racially exclusive community, during the Third Reich.
By Abraham Rubin, 2024
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
By Renia Kukielka, 2023
At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. In her powerful and raw story, she portrays life in the ghettos and her three years of wandering in disguise as a Polish Catholic, trying to escape from the German onslaught.
By Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, translated from the original Polish publication into English by Ewa Wampuszyc, 2023
This meticulously researched new book investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence.
Available open access, read online
Edited by Valerie Hébert, 2023
In this tightly organized book, scholars of history, photography, language, gender, photojournalism, and pedagogy examine the images of the Šķēde atrocity along with other difficult images, giving historical, political, and ethical depth to the acts of looking and interpreting.
Available on Project Muse
By Edward B. Westermann, 2023
In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe.
Available open access, read online
By Katarzyna Person, 2023
Translated by Zygmunt Nowak-Soliński
In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made.
Available open access, read online
Edited by Martin Cüppers, Anne Lepper and Jürgen Matthäus, 2022
With its compilation of unique primary sources and skillful explication, From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor addresses under-researched aspects of Nazi mass violence beyond the Holocaust and offers a rich resource for researching and teaching.
Available open access, read online
By Elizabeth Anthony, 2021
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to reestablish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust.
Available open access, read online
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies requires openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center are their own and do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.
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