Corpses of the Holocaust: A New Approach to the Destruction and its Aftermath

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is reader in Holocaust studies at University of Manchester and was a director of the European Research Council’s Corpses of Mass Genocide and Violence Program. He won the 2018 – 2019 Center Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Dreyfus has written about the anthropology of genocide, the history of the Jews in 19th- and 20th-century France, the politics of memory and forensic Holocaust studies. He has received research fellowships from many institutions, including the Harvard University Center for European Studies, Centre Marc-Bloch in Berlin, Yad Vashem Center for International Holocaust Studies and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He has published more than 60 manuscripts, including seven monographs. He has co-edited numerous volumes, including the groundbreaking Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches (2017) and Dictionary of the Holocaust (2009).

Related events

• Asperger’s Nazi Science: A Conversation with Herwig Czech and Edith Sheffer, October 4, 2018
• Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz: Coexistence and Violence in an Eastern European Town, October 23, 2018
• Holocaust Testimony and Maya Testimony in Post-Genocide Guatemala, November 29, 2018
• The Third Reich in the United States: Uncovering Hitler’s American Supporters, February 14, 2019
• Uprooting, Criminality and Machination: Jews and Nazis in Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, March 12, 2019
• Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust, May 7, 2019

Co-sponsors

• Holocaust Center of San Francisco (a division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services)
• Anthropology Department

Links

• Jean-Marc Dreyfus
• Holocaust Center of San Francisco, a division of Jewish Family and Children’s Services
• Department of Jewish Studies
• Anthropology Department

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