Eliyana R. Adler is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Program in Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Adler''s first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia received the Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women''s Studies in 2011. She co-edited volume 30 of Polin (2018) as well as Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (2017) and Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (2008). She is completing a project on Polish Jews who survived World War II in the un-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and starting a new one on memorial books. Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College, New York. Her publications include Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944-1950 (in Polish) and numerous articles in Yad Vashem Studies , Polish Review , Dapim , East European Jewish Affairs , Studies in Contemporary Jewry , Polin , Gal Ed , East European Societies and Politics, Nashim and German History . She co-edited volumes 20 and 29 of Polin .

She published a critical edition of Gerszon Taffet''s early Holocaust monograph on the destruction of zÓlkiew Jewry ( Zaglada zydÓw zÓlkiewskich , Warsaw 2019). Her book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (Littman), is forthcoming. She is currently working on a book about the daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust. ViktÓria BÁnyai is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Minority Studies (Center for Jewish Studies), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in History from EÖtvÖs LorÁnd University, Budapest, in 2002. Her research fields are Hungarian Jewish history and culture in pre-modern and modern times, the history of Jewish education, and Jewish cemeteries in Hungary. Volha Bartash is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, Germany where she is working on the project titled ''ROMPAST. Two Paths of a Shared Past: Memory and Representation of the Nazi Genocide of Roma in Belarus and Lithuania''.

It is supported by the European Union''s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship). Volha has been conducting oral history research on the Roma´ experiences and memories of the Nazi genocide in the Belarusian-Lithuanian border region since 2013. Before joining the IOS, Volha held several international fellowships at the institutes for advanced studies including Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Imre KertÉsz Kolleg Jena. Her research received support from the KONE foundation and the Swedish Institute. Katerina capkovÁ is a senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, and teaches at Charles University and at NYU in Prague. Her book Czechs, Germans, Jews? National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia (2012; in Czech in 2005 and 2014) received the Outstanding Academic Title of 2012 from Choice magazine. With Michal Frankl, she co-authored Unsichere Zuflucht (2012; in Czech, in 2008), a book about refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria to Czechoslovakia. With Hillel J.

Kieval she is co-editor of Prague and Beyond. Jews in the Bohemian Lands (forthcoming in English, German, Hebrew and Czech), a collective monograph on history of Jews in the Bohemian Lands from the early modern period up to present times. In 2016 she established Prague Forum for Romani Histories. Currently she is working on a project on entangled history of Jews and Roma in Central Europe in the 20th century. Laura Hobson Faure is professor of Modern Jewish history at the PanthÉon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1. Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life, during and after the Holocaust. She is the author of Un « Plan Marshall Juif »: la prÉsence juive amÉricaine en France aprÈs la Shoah (2013; 2018, forthcoming in English, The Modern Jewish Experience, Indiana University Press) and co-editor of L''oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXÈme siÈcle. PrÉvenir et GuÉrir dans un siÈcle de violences (2014).

She is writing a two-volume study on Jewish child refugees in France and the United States, during and after the Holocaust, exploring the connection between wartime experiences and later activism as Holocaust survivors and has recently completed the first volume, Becoming Refugees: the Migrations of Central European Jewish children through France to the United States, 1938-42. Robin Judd is an Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University. The author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 and a number of articles concerning Jewish history, gender history, and ritual behavior, she is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Loss, Liberation, and Love: Jewish Brides, Solider Husbands, and Strategies for Reconstruction, 1943-1955 . Judd is currently the U.S. Editor of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies . Dalia Ofer is the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emerita). Her book Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel (in Hebrew, 1990; in English:, 1998) received the Ben Zvi Award and the National Jewish Book Award .

She is the co-editor of several volumes including: with Lenore J. Weitzman, Women in the Holocaust (1999); with Paula E. Hyman, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (2007); with FranÇoise S. Ouzan and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities (2012); with Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Eva Fogelman, Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath: Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive (2017). Anja Reuss holds an M.A. in Modern European History and has a focus on National Socialism, Genocide Studies, Migration and the History of Minorities. She has studied abroad in Israel and the United States.

One of her research priorities is the German occupation and annihilation policy in Belarus, 1941-44. From 2011 to 2014, she was the coordinator of a research project at the Humboldt University of Berlin and co-editor of a memorial book on Berlin Jews deported to the Minsk Ghetto. She is a member of the Association for Research on Antigypsyism, and published, in 2015, a study on the continuities of the stigmatization of Sinti and Roma in Germany after World War II. Helena SadÍlkovÁ is head of the Seminar of Romani Studies (Department of Central-European Studies, Charles University, Prague), she teaches mainly Romani language and history. Her major research interests are the post-war history of the Roma in Czechoslovakia, focusing on interaction among members of local Romani communities and the local non-Romani population, including the local authorities. She also works in the field of applied linguistics. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Czech Romani studies journal Romano dzaniben (Prague). Joachim SchlÖr received his Ph.

D. from the University of TÜbingen in 1990, his thesis was published as Nights in the Big City: Berlin, Paris, London 1840-1930 (1998) and his habilitation from the University of Potsdam in 2003 as Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten Über Judentum und UrbanitÄt, 1822-1938 (2005). Since 2006 he has been Professor of Modern Jewish / non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the editor of Jewish Culture and History and co-editor of Mobile Culture Studies . Among his latest publications is ''Liesel, it''s time for you to leave'': Von Heilbronn nach England. Die Flucht der Familie Rosenthal vor nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung (2016) which will come out in an English translation in 2020. Michal Unger is senior lecturer in modern Jewish history, focusing on Holocaust studies, at the Ashkelon Academic College, Israel (emerita). She is the author of: lÓdz The Last Ghetto in Poland (2005).

The book was awarded Yad Vashem''s annual Buchman Memorial Prize, 2005 and the English version is forthcoming. She edited the diaries of Josef Zelkowicz, In Those Terrible Days, Notes from the lÓdz Ghetto (2002); Jakub Poznaoski '' s diary (2010); Rivka Lifshitz, To Write As Long As I Breathe: A Diary of a girl in the Lodz Ghetto (2018). Her current researche projects are: "Marriage in the Ghettos during the Holocaust" and "After an Alibi: Hans Biebow and the Rescue of Three Jewish Groups from the Lodz Ghetto (1944-1945)". Sarah Wobick-Segev is currently a research fellow at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and as of December 2019 will serve as a Research Associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is the author of Homes away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg (2018). She has co-edited The Economy in Jewish History: New Perspectives on the Interrelationship between Ethnicity and Economic Life with Dr. Gideon Reuveni (2011), and the volume Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and O.