Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Current research projects

I currently research and write on the following themes:
Holocaust studies
Genocide studies/anthropology of genocide
History of the Jews in Europe (19th-20th Century)
History of Jews in France (19th-20th Century)
Economic history of France and Germany
Holocaust memory/politics of memory
Modern history of Alsace
Rebuilding post-war societies

Supervision

I am very interested in supervising students working on the following topics:

• - Camps, ghettos and internment in WWII Europe
• - Economic aspects of the Holocaust. Looting of Jewish properties and compensation policies
• - Holocaust memory in Europe and the United States
• - Modern history of Jews.

I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of students in these areas:

• Nicolas Laugel, University of Strasbourg, Alsatian Jews in the Holocaust 
• Robert Kanter, A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK, c.1900-1999, with Daniel Langton
• Caroline David, The looting of Alfred Spitzer’s art collection, with Simone Gigliotti, Royal Holloway; Linda Graul, Financial aryanisation in Luxembourg, University of Luxembourg

Teaching

The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory (y3)
Cultural Theories for Historian (MA)

Public History. Historians and the Public Sphere (MA)

A Transnational History of Europe in the 20th Century (y2)