Books, Articles, Reviews

Books

Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory since the Holocaust (FORTHCOMING: New Haven, 2011).

Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past [co-edited with Paul Jaskot], (Ann Arbor, 2008).

The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge, UK, 2005).

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

Architektur und Gedächtnis: München und Nationalsozialismus, Strategien des Vergessens [Translated and revised edition of Munich and Memory] (Munich, 2004).

Scholarly Articles

The "What Ifs?" of Nazism: Recent Alternate Histories of the Third Reich," in: Maartje Abbenhuis and Sara Buttsworth, eds., Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-War Popular Culture (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010), pp. 1-28.

“Postwar Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust," in: Rose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd, eds., Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation (Boston, 2009). pp. 285-302.

"A Looming Crash or a Soft Landing? Forecasting the Future of the Memory 'Industry,'" The Journal of Modern History, March, 2009, pp. 122-158.

“Urban Space and the Nazi Past in Postwar Germany,” [with Paul B. Jaskot], in Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot, eds., Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Ann Arbor, 2008), pp. 1-24.

"Memory and the Museum: Munich's Struggle to Build a Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism,” in Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot, eds., Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Ann Arbor, 2008), pp. 163-185.

“A Flawed Prophecy? Zakhor, the Memory Boom, and the Holocaust,” The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Fall, 2007), pp. 508–520.

" The Normalization of Memory: Saul Friedländer’s Reflections of Nazism Twenty Years Later," in Dagmar Herzog, ed., Lessons and Legacies: The Holocaust in International Perspective, Volume VII (Chicago, 2006), pp. 400-410.

“Alternate Holocausts and the Mistrust of Memory,” in: Jonathan Petropolous and John Roth, editors, Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (New York, 2005), pp. 240-251.

“A Mastered Past? Prussia in Postwar German Memory," German History, Volume 2, Nr. 4, Fall, 2004, pp. 506-535.

“Alternate History and Memory: A Response to Richard Evans,” Historically Speaking, March, 2004, pp. 22-23. 

" München leuchtet? Der Versuch einer Außensicht," in: Angelika Baumann, ed., Ein NS-Dokumentationszentrum für München (Munich, 2003). pp. 50-57.

            “Why Do We Ask ‘What If?’ Reflections on the Function of Alternate History,” History and Theory, December, 2002, pp. 90-103.

"The Controversy that Isn't: The Debate over Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners in Comparative Perspective," Contemporary European History, Volume 8, Nr. 2, 1999, pp. 249-273.

"The Politics of Uniqueness: Reflections on the Recent Polemical Turn in Holocaust and Genocide Scholarship," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nr. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 28-61.

“Architecture and the Memory of Nazism in Postwar Munich," German Politics and Society, Nr. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 140-159.

"Monuments and the Politics of Memory: Commemorating Kurt Eisner and the Bavarian Revolutions of 1918-1919 in Postwar Munich," Central European History, Volume 30, Nr. 2, 1997, pp. 221-251.

"The Architects' Debate: Architectural Discourse and the Memory of Nazism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1977-1997," in Geulie Ne'eman Arad, ed., Passing into History: Nazism and the Holocaust Beyond Memory, special issue of History & Memory, Nr. 1/2, Fall, 1997, pp. 189-225.

"The Reception of William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in the United States and West Germany, 1960-1962," Journal of Contemporary History, January, 1994, pp. 95-129.

"Defining 'Jewish Art' in Ost und West, 1900-1907: A Study in the Nationalisation of Jewish Culture," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1994, pp. 83-113.

Encyclopedia Entries:

Biographical essay on Saul Friedländer, in: Encyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition (2006), Volume 7, pp. 275-76.

Biographical essays on Wilhelm Bacher, Adolf Buechler, David Kaufmann, and Moritz Lazarus, in: Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds., (Oxford, 1997), pp. 95, 142, 394,

Review Essays:

The Historian as Judge: A Review of Daniel J. Goldhagen’s A Moral Reckoning," The Jewish Quarterly, The Jewish Quarterly Review, Spring, 2004, pp. 376-385.

Book Reviews:

Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945, FORTHCOMING, in Central European History.

Susan Solomon, “Toward a Jewish Architecture?,” Review of Susan Solomon, Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue, The Forward, November, 6, 2009.

Ralf Georg Reuth, Hitlers Judenhass: Klischee und Wirklichkeit, FORTHCOMING, in Central European History.

Neil Gregor, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past, in Central European History, December, 2009, pp. 791-94.

Leif Jerram, Germany's Other Modernity: Munich and the Making of Metropolis, 1895-1930, in Modernism/Modernity, September, 2009, pp. 625-27.

Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, in The New Leader, September/October, 2008, pp. 15-17.

Mark Godfrey, Abstraction and the Holocaust, in Central European History, December 2008, pp. 725-28.

Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Winter, 2007, pp. 522-524.

Alan E. Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, in Central European History, March, 2007, pp. 178-81.

Gerhard L. Weinberg, Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders, The English Historical Review, June, 2006, pp. 967-68.

Carolyn Dean, The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 20.1, 2006, 138-141.

Anthony D. Kauders, Democratiziation and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965, Central European History, Nr. 3, 2005, pp. 534-36.

Klaus Berghahn, Jürgen Fohrmann, and Helmut J. Schneider, eds., Kulturelle Repräsentationen des Holocaust in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten, Central European History, Nr. 3, 2004, pp. 480-82.

Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg, 1940-45, in: German Studies Review, February, 2004, pp. 184-85.

Eric Weitz, A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, in: The New Leader, May/June 2003, pp. 17-18.

Dan Michman, ed., Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000: German Strategies and Jewish Responses, in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Winter 2003, pp. 498-501.

Bill Niven, Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich, in: German Studies Review, February, 2003, pp. 237-39.

Aleida Assmann and Ute Frevert, Geschichtsvergessenheit, Geschichtsversessenheit: Vom Umgang mit deutschen Vergangenheiten nach 1945, in: German Studies Review, October, 2002, pp. 635-36.

Richard Rhodes, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust, in: The New Leader, May/June, 2002, pp. 25-27.

Nicola Lambourne, War Damage in Western Europe: The Destruction of Historic Monuments During the Second World War, in: The International History Review, Number 1, March, 2002, pp. 190-92.

James Young, At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, in: German Studies Review, February, 2001, pp. 241-42.

Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust, in: German Studies Review, October, 2000, pp. 631-32.

Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget: The Holocaust Through the Camera Eye, in: German Studies Review, February, 2000, pp. 171-72.

Lynn Rapaport, Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations, in: German Studies Review, May, 1999, pp. 323-24.

David Clay Large, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich, in: German Studies Review, May, 1998, pp. 374-75.

Andrew Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: The Missing Center, in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September, 1997, pp. 215-16.