Jonathan Skolnik

Jonathan Skolnik came to UMass in 2007. His areas of research and teaching include German-Jewish Studies, Film Studies, and intellectual history. Skolnik currently serves as Interim Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and he is President of the North American Heine Society. In addition to being core faculty in Film Studies at UMass, he is also affiliated faculty in the Department of History and the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. His book Jewish Pasts, German Fictions (Stanford, 2014), a study of history and memory in historical fiction, has earned positive reviews in journals such as Central European History; Association of Jewish Studies Review; and the Times Literary Supplement. His teaching includes “Representing the Holocaust”;  “Kafka”; and “German, Hebrew, and Yiddish Writers in 1920s Berlin”.