Lisa Silverman
Associate Professor
Office: Holton 331
Phone: (414) 229-3968
e-mail: silverld@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf 119kb
Degree(s):
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
B.A., Yale University
Research Interests:
Modern German and Austrian Jewish History
Jewish Cultural Studies
Holocaust History and Representation
Teaching Areas:
Jewish History from Antiquity to the Present
Modern European Jewish history and culture
Holocaust History and Representation
Courses Offered:
Hist 358: The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture
Hist 364: History of the Holocaust
Hist 379: Introduction to Jewish History
Hist 398: Challenges in Holocaust History and Representation
Hist 850: German Jewish Cultural History
Other Activities:
Center for Jewish Studies, UWM – Faculty Advisory Committee and Programming
Religious Studies Program – Faculty Advisory Committee
Selected Publications
Books:
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity, ed. and introduction with Deborah Holmes. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009.
Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City, ed. and introduction with Arijit Sen (under contract with Indiana University Press).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
"Beyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German-Jewish Cultural History," in Nexus: The Duke Journal of German Jewish Studies 1(2011): 27-45.
"Reconsidering the Margins: Jewishness as an Analytical Framework," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8:1 (2009), 103-120.
"Zwischenzeit and Zwischenort: Veza Canetti, Else Feldmann, and Jewish Writing in Interwar Vienna," Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 26:1-2 (2006), 29-52.
"Repossessing the Past? Property, Memory and Austrian Jewish Narrative Histories," Austrian Studies 11 (2003), 138-53.
"Der Richtige Riecher: The Reconfiguration of Jewish and Austrian Identities in the Work of Doron Rabinovici," German Quarterly 72:3 (1999), 252-264.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
"Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938," in Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City, ed. Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman. Indiana University Press (forthcoming).
"The Power of Collaboration: Madame d’Ora and Ella Zirner-Zwieback fashion Vienna’s New Woman," in Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce, ed. Leonard Greenspoon. Purdue University Press (forthcoming).
"Max Reinhardt between Yiddish Theatre and the Salzburg Festival," in Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre, ed. Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2010, 197-218.
"Wiener Kreise: Jewishness, Politics, and Culture in Red Vienna," with Wolfgang Maderthaner, in Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman, eds., Interwar Vienna. Culture between Tradition and Modernity. Camden: Camden House, 2009, 59-80.
"Elias and Veza Canetti: German Writing, Sephardic Heritage," in William Donahue and Julian Preece, eds., The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 151-170.
"Jewish Intellectual Women and the Public Sphere in Interwar Vienna," in Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyongür, eds., Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture, and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 155-169.