 Visiting Lecturer in Jewish Studies
Dirk Rupnow studied History, German literature, Art history and Philosophy
in Berlin and Vienna; 1999 Mag. phil. (M.A.) Vienna (History, German
Literature); 2002 Dr. phil. (Ph.D.) Klagenfurt (History); 1999/2000 Project
researcher with the Historical Commission of the Republic of Austria; 2000/01
Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK,
Vienna; 2003 Visiting Research Fellow at the History Department of Duke
University and at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at
Leipzig University; 2004 Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.; working at
the Institute for Contemporary History at Vienna University, funded by APART
(Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology) of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences.
Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught
JWST37.1/HIST58: History of the Holocaust (with
Susannah Heschel)
(in part)JWST80/HIST95: History of Holocaust Historiography
(with Susannah Heschel)
Interests vis a vis Jewish Studies
Antisemitism, History of the Holocaust, Intellectual History, History and
Memory, History and Theory of Historiography
Publications
Aporien des Gedenkens. Reflexionen über 'Holocaust' und Erinnerung (=
Edition Parabasen, ed. by the International Research Center for Cultural
Studies IFK, Wien), Freiburg/Br. – Berlin (Rombach) 2006
(co-edited with Nicolas Berg and Dan Diner) "Judenforschung" –
Zwischen Wissenschaft und Ideologie, in: Jahrbuch des
Simon-Dubnow-Instituts/Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 5 (2006)
Vernichten und Erinnern. Spuren nationalsozialistischer Gedächtnispolitik,
Göttingen (Wallstein-Verlag) 2005
(co-authored with Gabriele Anderl) Die "Zentralstelle für jüdische
Auswanderung" als Beraubungsinstitution (= Proceedings of the Historical
Commission of the Republic of Austria 20.1), Munich (Oldenbourg) 2004
From Final Depository to Memorial: The History and Significance of the
Jewish Museum in Prague, in: European Judaism 37 (2004)
Die Unbeschreibbarkeit des Beschreibbaren. Anmerkungen zu Heimrad Bäckers
"nachschriften", in: Modern Austrian Literature 36 (2003)
“Ihr müßt sein, auch wenn ihr nicht mehr seid”. The Jewish Central Museum in
Prague and Historical Memory in the Third Reich, in: Holocaust and Genocide
Studies 16 (2002)
Täter-Gedächtnis-Opfer. Das "Jüdische Zentralmuseum" in Prag
1942-1945. With a Preface by Dan Diner, Vienna (Picus) 2000
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