Book project
Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance. A book co-authored with Michael Rothberg. Under contract with Fordham University Press.
Remembrance of the Holocaust has been central to Germany’s national self-understanding in the decades since the genocide. Yet, in the last fifty years, the population of Germany has been significantly transformed by migrations of guestworkers and refugees, many from Muslim countries. Muslim immigrants in particular are often described as unwilling to “integrate” into German society and uninterested in Germany history and the Holocaust. However, much evidence exists to complicate this picture. Drawing on the complementary scholarly expertise of its collaborators in Holocaust studies, migration studies, and memory studies, this project assembles and analyzes examples of immigrants grappling with the history of Nazism and the Holocaust in a variety of arenas, including community activism, novels, essays, performances, and songs. The book that explores the effects of transnational migration on cultural memory, demonstrates the ways many immigrants take on the histories of their adopted societies, and interrogates the presumption of Muslim anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
This project has been supported by an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
This project has been supported by an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.