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Lisa Silverman, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall 384
Phone: (414) 229-3968
E-mail: silverld@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., Yale University, 2004

Research Interests:
Modern German and Austrian Jewish history
Property, Memory, and Jewish cultural history in Central Europe
Jews and Photography

Current Teaching Interests:
Modern European Jewish history, literature, and culture
Holocaust history and representation
Jewish cultural studies

Other Relevant Activities:
Member, Committee on Jewish Studies

Recent Publications:
"Zwischenzeit und Zwischenort: Veza Canetti, Else Feldmann, and Jewish Writing between the Wars," Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 26:2006.

"Jewish Intellectual Women and the Public Sphere in Interwar Vienna," in Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyoungur, eds., Women in Europe Between the Wars: Culture, Politics and Society (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).

"Jenseits der Bildung: Veza Canetti als jüdische Schriftstellerin," in Ingrid Spörk, ed., Sammelband zu Veza Canetti (Graz: Franz-Nabl-Institut für Literaturforschung, 2005), 74-90.

"Family Business: How Lotte Jacobi's Portrait Photographs Challenge the Limits of Representation," Jewish Quarterly, 195, Autumn 2004, 35-40.

"Repossessing the Past? Property, Memory, and Austrian Jewish Narrative Histories," Austrian Studies, 11:2003, 138-53.

"Elias and Veza Canetti: German Writing, Sephardic Heritage," in William Donahue and Julian Preece, eds., Elias Canetti Centenary Volume. (Cambridge Scholars Press; in preparation)

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