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Yfaat Weiss

Yfaat Weiss is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa and Head of the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society. She is the author of Wadi Salib: A Confiscated Memory, Tel-Aviv 2007 [Hebrew]; She co-edited numerous books on German and Israeli topics: (ed. With Raphael Gross) Jüdische Geschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte, Göttingen 2006; (ed., with Gilad Margalit), Memory and Amnesia – the Holocaust in Germany, Tel-Aviv 2005 [Hebrew]; (ed., with Daniel Levy), Challenging Ethnic Citizenship. German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration, New York 2002; She writes extensively on Ethnicity, Race, Citizenship and Migration, for example her book Ethnicity and Citizenship: German and Polish Jews between 1933-1940, Jerusalem, 2000, as well as few articels: Identity and Essentialism. Race, Racism, and the Jews at the Fin de Siécle, in: Neil Gregor/Nils Roemer/Mark Rosemen (eds.), German History from the Margins, Indiana University Press 2006, 49-69 as well as Central European Ethnonationalism and Zionist Bi-Nationalism, in: Jewish Social Studies, New Series 11, 1 (Fall, 2004), 93-117.