K. Hannah Holtschneider

Dr K. Hannah Holtschneider

Lecturer in Modern Judaism, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, h.holtschneider[at]ed.ac.uk

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• 2000 PhD, University of Birmingham, UK
  ‘German Protestants Remember the Holocaust: Theology and the Construction of Collective Memory’
  Supervisor: Dr Isabel Wollaston; Examiners: Dr Karen Kilby, Professor Martin Forward
• 1996 Postgraduate Diploma in Jewish Studies, Oxford University, UK
• 1995 M Phil, Trinity College Dublin, Éire
• 1991-4 Protestant Theology in Wuppertal & Bochum, Germany

LANGUAGES: native German, near native English; reading Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Latin & Classical Greek.

EMPLOYMENT

• since April 2005 Lecturer in Modern Judaism at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.
  January-August 2009 Visiting Scholar, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
  January-March 2009 Gastwissenschaftlerin, Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften und historisch-politische Bildung, Technische Universität Berlin.
  September-December 2009 AHRC Research Leave.
• 2004-2005 Visiting Fellow with Teaching Responsibilities at the Faculty of Divinity at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
• 2002-2004 Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR) Cambridge;
• Supervising on the Divinity Tripos and for colleges in Cambridge;
• Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Theological Studies published by Oxford University Press.
• 2000-2002 Junior Research Fellow at the CJCR.
• 2001-2002 Research Associate within the Faculty of Divinity’s Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies at the University of Cambridge.

PUBLICATIONS

See Publications

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

• 2009 September – December: AHRC Research Leave.
• 2009 January – August: Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
• 2009 January – March: Gastwissenschaftlerin (Senior Research Fellow), Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften und historisch-politische Bildung, Technische Universität Berlin; funded by the Moray Endowment Fund and The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
• 1996-99 Full scholarship for PhD from Futures for Theology Initiative at the University of Birmingham.
• 1995-96 Full scholarship for Postgraduate Diploma in Jewish Studies from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
• 1995 Herbert Frankel Scholarship in Jewish Studies.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Review Editor (2006-)
• British Association for Jewish Studies, Committee Member (2006-2009), Web Officer (2008 -)
• European Association for Jewish Studies (2007-)
• Association for Jewish Studies (2007-)
• The Stehen S. Weinstein Symposium, held biannually at Wroxton College, Fairleigh Dickinson University (2002-)
• British Association for the Study of Religions (2006-)
• The Higher Education Academy (2003-)

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED

2009

• a) ‘Musealising the Holocaust: Reflections on the representation of religion in European Holocaust exhibitions’, Plenary Lecture, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, 4 March.
• b) ‘Representations of Jewishness and atrocity in the Imperial War Museum London and the Jewish Museum Berlin’, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
• c) ‘Representations of Jews in Two European Exhibitions on the Holocaust: Imperial War Museum and Jewish Museum Berlin’, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, Gonda Education Center.
• d) ‘Representations of Jewishness and atrocity in the Imperial War Museum London and the Jewish Museum Berlin’, Heritage Research Group, University of Cambridge.
• e) ‘Representing religion in Holocaust exhibitions’, Glasgow Council of Christians and Jews, Glasgow, 12 May.
• f) ‘Now you see it, now you don’t: Representations of Jewishness in the Jewish Museum Berlin’, Jewish Studies Seminar, University of Manchester, 29 October.

2008

• a) ‘Are Holocaust victims Jewish? Looking at photographs in British Holocaust exhibitions’, British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Manchester, 22 July.
• b) ‘Regarding the Pain of Others – reflections on the use of photography in Holocaust museums’, Memory in a Memory-Less Age: Jewish-Christian Relations Today, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations’ 10th Anniversary Conference, Cambridge, 7-9 September.
• c) ‘Are Holocaust victims Jewish? Looking at photographs in the Holocaust exhibition in the Imperial War Museum’, German Studies Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 3 October.
• d) ‘“His parents kept a kosher home”: The religious alternative of secular Judaism’, The New Atheism Symposium, New College, University of Edinburgh, 12 November.
• e) ‘Looking at photographs in the Holocaust exhibition in the Imperial War Museum’, German Studies Seminar, Newcastle University, 11 December.

2007

• ‘Verhältnisbestimmung zwischen Juden und Christen in Deutschland: Auf dem Weg zu einer “realistischen und unbefangenen Beziehung zwischen Juden und Christen”?’, Conference at the Akademie Stuttgart-Hohenheim, 18 May.
• ‘Holocaust representation in museums: a closer look at the use of photographs’, Graduate Seminar Series, Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, St Andrew’s University, 12 October.
• ‘Displaying Photographs in Holocaust Museums: Issues and Controversies’, Looking at the Holocaust: Reflections on the Uses of Photographs, Conference at the Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights, Copenhagen, 11 December.