Rebekka.grossmann@mail.huji.ac.il, Academia.edu
Major scholarly fields of interest:
Jewish History, Israeli History, German History, Visual Culture, Humanitarianism, Postcolonial Studies.
Current Projects:
Moving Worlds: Jews and Humanitarian Activism beyond the Imperial Age
This project traces Jewish responses to the emerging “Third World” discourse of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It investigates how Jewish activists, journalists, and organizations engaged with anti-colonial activism and shaped post-war humanitarian politics. Read more
Education:
2020: PhD, History Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2013: M.Phil, Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford
2011: BA, Modern History, University of Freiburg
Post-Doctoral Research:
2021-2024: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, UCL London (Declined)
2021-2022: Guestprofessorship for Israel Studies, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum for European-Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam (Declined)
2021-2022: Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University (Declined)
July 2021: Guest Scholarship, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF)
2020-2021: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2019-2020: Binational Visiting Fellowship in the History of Migration at the German Historical Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The ‘Colonial’ Vantage Point: Imperial Photography in Mandate Palestine”, Israel Studies 26.3 (2021), 158-178.
“Image Transfer and Visual Friction. Staging Palestine in the National Socialist Spectacle”, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 64.1 (2019), 19-45.
“Negotiating Presences. Palestine and the Weimar German Gaze“, Jewish Social Studies 23.2 (2018), 137-172.
Forthcoming - “Imprints of Fractured Geographies: Jewish Youth and Photography in Nazi Germany”, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Volumes & Anthologies
Forthcoming - “South-East of Berlin. A German-Jewish Photojournalist in India”, Skye Doney & Sunny Yudkoff (eds.), Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Jews, Fascism and Sexuality.
Forthcoming - “Moving Views: Global Routes of Jewish Refuge as Spaces of early Post-Imperial Humanitarian Seeing”, Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (eds), Rethinking Modern Jewish History and Memory Through Photography.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Alice Schalek”, Luce Lebart, Marie Robert (eds), World History of Women Photographers (Paris: Editions Textuel, 2020). 82. English edition forthcoming with Thames & Hudson.
“Mother Borchardt” – a Jewish Shipping Company Owner (in German and English). Key Documents of German-Jewish History. A Digital Source Edition. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden (IDGJ), Hamburg. Jewish-History-Online.net (2018).
“The Henry Jones Lodge. Jewish Self-Confidence and the Path into the Modern Age” (in German and English). Key Documents of German-Jewish History. A Digital Source Edition. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden (IDGJ), Hamburg. Jewish-History-Online.net (2017).
Online Publications
“Displacement in Stills: German-Jewish Photographers on the Move”, Sheer Ganor, Rebekka Grossmann, https://migrantknowledge.org/, Research Blog of the GHI Washington and the GHI Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley (2021).
Manuscripts in Preparation
Book manuscript, “Unsettled Cameras: Photography, Mobility and Nation in Mandate Palestine”.
Book manuscript, Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Shira Miron, Sarah Segev: “Still Lives. Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Preparation
“The Currency of the Cameratic: Photographs in International Rescue Campaigns during World War II”, accepted by Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
“Eye Contact: Jewish Cameras in the Nazi German Street”.
Public Writing
“‘How will I hate?’ Israeli Intellectuals and the German Problem”. Wadham College Journal (Michaelmas Term), 16-20 (2013).
Forthcoming - Rebekka Grossmann, Oded Steinberg: „Thoughts on the Global Visibility of Experiences of Discrimination – Jewish Particular Interests and Universal Humanism in History (in German), Jüdischer Almanach (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2023).
Forthcoming - Zionism in Black and White…? Jewish Photography in Palestine as Commodity, Art and Refuge (in German), Jüdische Geschichte & Kultur. Magazin des Simon Dubnow Instituts (Summer 2022).
Photo Credit: Daniel Hanoch