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

  • HI 30: Europe and the World in Transition: 1500-Present
  • HI 209: Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present (Spring 2009-10)
  • HI 210: The Third Reich: 1933-1945
  • 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 302: History and Memory: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts 
  • HI 303: What If? Alternate History and the Historical Imagination
  • HI 304: The Holocaust in History and Memory
  • 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 Mad
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

  NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

  "Skokie Builds to Remember"

  "The Forgotten Revolutionary"

  "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 Imagines 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