Author: Alexis Hofmeister

Alina Gromova studied Jewish studies and English studies in Berlin, Potsdam, and Melbourne. In 2013, she completed her doctoral thesis on Russian-speaking Jews in Berlin, for which she received the Humboldt Award in the field of Judaism/antisemitism. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a guide at the Jewish Museum Berlin and helped to establish a foundation for the promotion of Jewish women. Sebastian Voigt lives in Munich and Leipzig and is a research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich. He studied history, German, philosophy, and pedagogy in Freiburg im Breisgau, Amherst/Massachusetts, and Leipzig. From 2003 to 2012, Voigt held a position at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture of the University of Leipzig. From 2009 to 2012, he was a doctoral fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation, and in 2013, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the topic Zwischen Résistance und Holocaust. Zur Erfahrungsgeschichte von Pierre Goldman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit und André Glucksmann im Nachkriegsfrankreich [Between the Résistance and the Holocaust. On the Experiences of Pierre Goldman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and André Glucksmann in Post-War France]. Currently he is researching the origins and evolution of European knowledge societies. He is coeditor of the series Relationen. Essays zur Gegenwart [Relations. Essays on the Present], published by Neofelis.