Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Ph.D
          gav
Fields of Interest:
  • Modern Germany
  • The Third Reich
  • The Holocaust
  • Collective Memory
  • Twentieth Century Europe
  • Alternate History
 
  Courses Currently Taught:

  • HI 30: Europe and the World in Transition: 1500-Present 
  • HI 302: History and Memory: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts 
  • HI 304: The Holocaust in History and Memory 
  • HI 212: From Reich to Republic: The History of Modern Germany:1871-Present
  • HI 213: In the Wake of Destruction: Europe Since World War II
  • HI 210: The Third Reich: 1933-1945
  • HI 303: What If? Alternate History and the Historical Imagination 
  • HR 100: Utopia/Dystopia: Mapping the Quest for a More Perfect World 
   Research: 

   My scholarly research focuses on twentieth century Germany, especially the history and memory of the  
   Third Reich and the Holocaust. 

  Publications:
Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Reviews of Munich and Memory

munich

Architektur und Gedächtnis: München und Nationalsozialismus, Strategien des Vergessens
(Munich: Dölling und Galitz Verlag, 2004)


Reviews of Architektur und Gedächtnis

hitler  






THE WORLD HITLER NEVER MADE:
ALTERNATE HISTORY AND THE MEMORY OF NAZISM
(Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Reviews of The World Hitler Never Made

  JUST OUT!!! 

Beyond berlin







BEYOND BERLIN:TWELVE GERMAN CITIES CONFRONT THE NAZI PAST (Ann Arbor, 2008)
[co-edited with Paul Jaskot]

  

  OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

    For a list of publications and other scholarly activity, 
    see brief Curriculum Vitae

 RECENT NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

  "A New Ruin Rising"

"The Appeal of Alternate History"

  "Munich Redux"

 "Munich Evokes the Past in Future Museum"

"What if the Nazis had won?
  One Fantasy iImagines a More Moderate Hitler"
 
"Ground Zero as a Laboratory for 'Jewish Architecture.'

  Related Links:

  U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum         http://www.ushmm.org
   Yad Vashem                                             http://www.yad.vashem.org.il
   Museum of Jewish Heritage/NYC         http://mjhnyc.org
   Simon Wiesenthal Center/LA                 http://www.wiesenthal.com
   YIVO Inst. For Jewish Research/NY     http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/yivoz 
   German history research links                http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/research/links.html
   German Historical Museum (Berlin)      http://www.dhm.de/lemo/home.html