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Dirk Rupnow

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

E-mail: Dirk.Rupnow@Dartmouth.EDU