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Lisa Silverman
Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, scholar of modern European Jewish history and culture, and author of The Postwar Antisemite (Oxford University Press, 2025).
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Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Lisa Silverman, a Professor of History and Jewish Studies, dives into her new book exploring the notion of the 'postwar Antisemite.' She discusses how Germans and Austrians used the constructed figure of the Antisemite to navigate their changed realities after World War II. Silverman compares cultural responses in West and East Germany and Austria, and analyzes how gender shapes antisemitic narratives. She also connects the persistence of antisemitism to contemporary political debates, highlighting urgent themes of complicity and identity.
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