Under the Rubble, History and Memory in Israel-Palestine and Germany

He left the house to buy some bread for his kids.
News of his death made it home,
but not the bread.
No bread.
--Under the Rubble, by Mosab Abu Toha

Guest panelists

Rebecca Wittmann is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the Holocaust and postwar Germany, trials of Nazi perpetrators and terrorists, and German legal history. Her book, Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her edited volume, The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, has recently been published with the University of Toronto Press. She is currently working on her second monograph entitled Guilt and Shame through the Generations: Confronting the Past in Postwar Germany.

Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. Parting Gifts of Empire, his book on Palestine, India, and the intellectual history of decolonization, is forthcoming next year from the University of California Press. Elhalaby has held postdoctoral fellowships at UC Davis and NYU Abu Dhabi.

Omer Bartov was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. His early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (1985), and Hitler's Army (1991). Bartov's new book, Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis, has just come out. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.