Michael Steinlauf

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Michael C. Steinlauf (born February 19, 1947 in Paris ) teaches Jewish history and culture at the Jewish Gratz College in Philadelphia , USA . Born shortly after the end of World War II, he was the son of Holocaust survivors in France and grew up in Brooklyn , New York. He received his Masters in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a PhD in Jewish Studies from Brandeis University .

Steinlauf is the author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (1997), in which he examines the effects of the Holocaust on post-war Poland . He is co-editor of Volume 16 of Polin: Studium der Polish Juden (2003), which is devoted to Jewish folk culture in Poland past and present, and author of several articles on the Jewish history and culture of Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Steinlauf is the editor in charge of the theater department of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe and as a senior consultant for the planned Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw , which is expected to be completed in 2014.

Publications

  • Michael C. Steinlauf: Bondage to the dead: Poland and the memory of the Holocaust . Syracuse University Press, Syracus New York 1997 ISBN 0815604033 Online (English) Retrieved December 15, 2009
  • Michael C. Steinlauf; Antony Polonsky (Ed.): Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 16: Jewish Popular Culture and Its Afterlife . Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003, (English) ISBN 1874774730
  • Michael C. Steinlauf: Theater: Yiddish Theater . (PDF; 351 kB) In: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (English.) Accessed: January 7, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: Michael C. Steinlauf ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 13, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rrc.edu
  2. ^ The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Editorial Board . Accessed January 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Steinlauf, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinlauf, Michael C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris