معرفی
Hannah Holtschneider is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. Since joining in 2005, she has led research and teaching in Holocaust studies, Jewish cultural history, and Jewish/non-Jewish relations, while directing research for the School (2021–2024) and co-founding the Edinburgh Jewish Studies Network.
Education
- MPhil, Trinity College Dublin (1995)
- Postgraduate Diploma, University of Oxford (1996)
- PhD, University of Birmingham (2000)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (since 2003)
Research Focus
Her scholarship centres on the cultural history of twentieth-century Jewish life, with particular emphasis on the Holocaust’s long-term impact on families, representations of Jews in museums and memory culture, and the intersections between Jewish identity and majority societies in Germany and the UK. Methodologically, she draws on personal archives, family correspondence, and interdisciplinary collaboration to illuminate individual agency within macro-historical events.
Current Projects
- Personal Archives and Holocaust Historiography – exploring the Dorrith Sim family archive at the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (2024–2026)
- Special-issue co-editorship on personal documents as sources for interdisciplinary Holocaust scholarship, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (2024–2026)
- British Academy/Leverhulme grant on testimonies of female physicians in Auschwitz (2023–2025)
- Co-authored monograph Contemporary Jews and Judaism (under contract with Routledge)
Major Grant
- AHRC, Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces: Jewish Migration to Scotland, 1880–1950 (2015–2018)
Supervision & Mentorship
She welcomes PhD applications in Holocaust history, Jewish migration, and modern Jewish culture. Current and former supervisees span universities and disciplines, reflecting her commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary training.
