Alan E. Steinweis Explained

Alan E. Steinweis (born 1957 in Brooklyn) is an American historian and a professor at the University of Vermont.

Life

Steinweis earned his doctorate in 1988 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Gerhard L. Weinberg. As a PhD student Steinweis was a fellow at the University of Bonn and a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He was a guest professor in 2000 at the Ben Gurion University in Israel, in 2002 at the University of Hannover and in 2003 at the University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he joined the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Nebraska), as the Hyman Rosenberg Professor of Modern European History and Judaic Studies in the Department of History.^[1] In 2011, he was invited for a sabbatical at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. In 2012, Steinweis was appointed Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he also serves as Director of Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.^[2]

Publications

• Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, 2009,^{[3] [4]}
• Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, Harvard University Press, 2006
• Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, University of North Carolina Press, 1993
• Edited with Daniel E. Rogers: The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the Third Reich and Its Legacy, 2003,
• Edited with Philipp Gassert: Coping with the Nazi Past, 2006^{[5] [6]}

His book Studying the Jew was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.^[7] He is editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series published by the University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the state of Israel. He is currently writing a book on the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, which will be published by Harvard University Press.

References

1. Web site: THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE . 20 September 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130105213248/http://www.unomaha.edu/religion/Steinweis.htm . 5 January 2013 .
2. Web site: Three CAS Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships. 20 September 2012.
3. Kuehne . Thomas . Kristallnacht 1938 . Central European History . March 2011 . 44 . 1 . 176 . 10.1017/s0008938910001330 . 41238402 . Book reviews.
4. Schleunes. Karl. Kristallnacht 1938, Alan E. Steinweis (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 214 pp., cloth $23.95 (Book Review). Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2011. 25. 1. 147–149. 10.1093/hgs/dcr010.
5. Raim, Edith, "Philipp Gassert and Alan E. Steinweis, eds., Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955–1975. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. viii 1 339 pp. $34.95 (Review)", Journal of Cold War Studies 2011 13:4, 255-257
6. Web site: Webster . Adam . H-Net Book Review of 'Coping with the Nazi Past' . German Historical Institute, Washington DC, website . 20 September 2012 . 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130522132229/http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=337&Itemid=214 . 22 May 2013 .
7. Review . Jewish Book World . Fall 2008 . 26 . 3 . 14 . 20 September 2012 .

External links

• UVM bio