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Lisa Silverman

  • Professor, History
  • Professor, Jewish Studies

Education

  • PhD, Yale University
  • MA, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • BA, Yale University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
HIST 358-201 The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture No Meeting Pattern
HIST 358G-201 The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture No Meeting Pattern
HIST 850-201 Colloquium on European History: The Holocaust: History and Visual Culture W 7pm-9:40pm
JEWISH 358-201 The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture No Meeting Pattern
JEWISH 358G-201 The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

  • History 358/Jewish 358 - The Jews of Modern Europe: History and Culture
  • History 364 - History of the Holocaust
  • History 379/Jewish 379 - Introduction to Jewish History
  • History 398 - Challenges in Holocaust History and Representation
  • History 950 - Holocaust History and Memory
  • History 850 - Antisemitism after the Holocaust

Teaching Interests

  • Jewish history from antiquity to the present
  • Modern European Jewish history and culture
  • Gender and Jewish history
  • Holocaust history and representation
  • Antisemitism

Research Interests

  • Modern European Jewish history
  • German and Austrian Jewish cultural history
  • Visual culture
  • Antisemitism
  • Gender

Biographical Sketch

Lisa Silverman received a BA in political science from Yale University, an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a PhD in German Studies from Yale University. In 2022 she served as Michael Hauck Visiting Professor for Interdisciplinary Holocaust Research at the Fritz Bauer Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. She specializes in modern German and Austrian Jewish cultural history, with a focus on antisemitism, gender, and visual culture. She is author of The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity after the Holocaust (Oxford, 2025), Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford, 2012), is and co-author with Daniel H. Magilow of Holocaust Representations in History: an Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2015; 2nd ed. 2019). She also serves as Contributing Editor of the and Vice-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board for the .

Books

Silverman, Lisa. . Oxford University Press, 2025.
Silverman, Lisa, and Daniel H. Magilow. Bloomsbury, 2015. 2nd edition 2019.
Silverman, Lisa. . Oxford University Press, 2012. Paperback 2015.
Silverman, Lisa, and Deborah Holmes, ed. and intr. . Austrian Studies 24 (2016).
Silverman, Lisa, and Arijit Sen, ed. and intr. Indiana University Press, 2014.
Silverman, Lisa and Deborah Holmes, ed. and intr. . Camden House, 2009.

Selected Publications

Silverman, Lisa. “ ,” in Rethinking Jewish History and Memory through Photography, ed. Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, 51–68. SUNY Press, 2025.
Silverman, Lisa. Review of Frances Tanzer, in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 24, no. 2 (2025)
Silverman, Lisa. Feminist German Studies 39, no. 1 (2023): 51­–72.
Silverman, Lisa. The Future of the German-Jewish Past: Memory and the Question of Antisemitism, ed. Gideon Reuveni and Diana Franklin, 135–46. Purdue University Press, 2021.
Silverman, Lisa. Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema, ed. Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein, 178–95. Berghahn, 2021.
Silverman, Lisa. Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s, ed. Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi, 217–31. Palgrave, 2020.
Silverman, Lisa. Review of T.S. Kord, in Quest - Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 17 (2020).
Silverman, Lisa. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18, no. 4 (2019): 424–42.
Silverman, Lisa. Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture, and Viennese Modernism, ed. Elana Shapira, 281–96. Böhlau, 2018.
Silverman, Lisa. Review Essay. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 36, no. 1 (2018): 134–60.
Silverman, Lisa. Religions 8, no. 4 (2017).
Silverman, Lisa. Journal of Contemporary History 52, no. 2 (2017): 211–28.  
Silverman, Lisa. Nexus 1: Essays in German Jewish Studies, ed. William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer, 27–46. Camden House, 2011.
Silverman, Lisa. East Central Europe 42, nos. 2-3 (2015): 249–67.
Silverman, Lisa. Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 60 (2015): 173–90.
Silverman, Lisa. H-NET Reviews (2012).
Silverman, Lisa. Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre, ed. Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem, 197–218. University of Iowa Press, 2010.
Silverman, Lisa. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 8, no. 1 (2009): 103–20.
Silverman, Lisa. The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays, ed. William Donahue and Julian Preece, 151–70. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 
Silverman, Lisa. Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 26, nos. 1–2 (2006): 29-52.