Actual qualification work/thesis
Current dissertation projects at the research center
Elie Wiesel's "...un di welt hot geschwign" was translated into German and introduced with scholarly commentary and editorial note (working title).
Elie Wiesel's survival report Night is based on an early version of the novel written in Yiddish ...un di welt hot geschwign. Within this dissertation project, the Yiddish text is analyzed and subjected to a synoptic text comparison with post-edited versions of Night. In pursuit of this project, ...un di welt hot geschwign was entirely translated into German for the first time.
The dissertation topic is primarily devoted to the analysis of Elie Wiesel's essay work in the context of memory culture and anti-semitism prevention. The aim is to examine Wiesel's writings for his ethics of remembrance and to outline them for current remembrance culture and educational approaches to the prevention of anti-semitism.
It addresses how Wiesel's literary and autobiographical œuvre builds a bridge between individual experience and universal moral obligations in order to combat hatred, prejudice, and indifference to violations of human rights and dignity. Particular emphasis is placed on the ethical dimension of Wiesel's work of remembrance and the transfer of his messages to current social challenges, as well as the role of remembrance.
Further international qualification papers
Theses
Eichelsdörfer, Marion (actuell): Elie Wiesels "...un die welt hot geschwign" ins Deutsche übersetzt und eingeleitet mit wissenschaftlicher Kommentierung sowie editorischer Notiz, Universität Tübingen.
Baert-Knoll, Valesca (2023): Ambivalenz im Werk Elie Wiesels. Eine Perspektivierung in religionspädagogischer Absicht, Universität Tübingen
Neuwirth, Sherri (2019): Genocide Prevention: Risk Assessment, Early Warning, and Non-military Interventions, Kean University.
Alemany Navarri, Pedro (2019): "Jüdisch in Abwehr": ambivalencia, otredad y judeidad germana en la auto-escritura ensayística contemporánea, Universidad de Sevilla.
Grimalt, Esther (2019): La mise en fiction de la Shoah dans la Danse de Gengis Cohn de Romain GARY, Inglourious Basterds de Quentin TARANTINO et The Passenger de Mieczyslaw WEINBERG Fictionalization of Shoah, In Romain Gary's Gengis Cohn's dance, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious basterds and Mieczyslaw Weinberg's The Passenger, Université d'Avignon.
Colgrove, Nick (2019): Resistance: Its Nature, Virtues, and Application to Matters of Faith, Baylor University.
Villalba, Anna-Tatum (2018): L'enfance dans la Shoah: exil et identité, Universitat de València.
Katz, Doran A. (2018): A Case of Teaching and Learning the Holocaust in Secondary School History Class: An Exercise in Historical Thinking with Primary Sources, The George Washington University.
Harrison, Mary (2018): Reconceptualizing hospital chaplaincy in an age of "spirituality", Boston University.
Kromjak, Laura (2017): Witnesses to Balkan killing fields : identity, trauma, and remembrance in anglophone testimonies of Bosnian Americans, Universität Graz.
FitzGerald, Gerald T. (2017): The European State and Minority Religious Groups: Exploring Patterns of Engagement and Access, George Mason University.
Kijowski, Jenny Young (2015): Gender and Trauma from World War I to the War in Iraq: Narrative in the Aftermath of Loss, City University of New York.
Wilson, Paul Wayne (2014): Collective Traumatic Memory and Its Theatrical Models: Case Studies in Elie Wiesel and Aeschylus, University of Pittsburgh.
Jeffra Adams, Zoë Clare Janine (2014): The Translation of French Language Holocaust Writing: A Case Study of Elie Wiesel’s La Nuit, University of Exeter.
Wender, Irina Vladi L (2014): And the Wound Speaks: Language, Trauma, Topography and Uncreation, University of California.
Mbanda Bakolosso, Davy Gildas (2014): Ecriture et barbarie postmoderne. Lecture poétique de la disgrâce dans « Disgrace » et « Waiting for the Barbarians » de J.M. Coetzee, « Les Ecailles du ciel » et « L’Aîné des orphelins » de Tierno Monénembo et « L’Aube » et « Le cas Sonderberg » d’Elie Wiesel, Université Paris-Est.
Knapp, John Cortney (2014): Was psyche present at Auschwitz? The Holocaust in psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Anderson, Ingrid Lisabeth (2014): Making ethics “First Philosophy”: ethics and suffering in Emmanuel Levinas, Elie Wiesel, and Richard Rubenstein, Boston University.
Shilliday, Moleen A. (2013): Ecriture é/veillée: le traumatisme et la deuxiéme guerre mondiale dans le roman français contemporain, University of British Columbia.
Cotroneo, Maria (2013): Entre fiction et témoignage : les enjeux théoriques de la pratique testimoniale et la présence du doute dans les récits de la Shoah d'Elie Wiesel et d'Imre Kertész, Université Laval.
Cohen, Sara Simcha (2013): Hearth of Darkness: The Familiar, the Familial, and the Zombie, University of California.
Childrens, Matthew Glenn (2013): The impact of Bal Taschit in the writings of Anne Frank, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel, East Carolina University.
Šimečková, Tereza (2012): Holokaust očima dítěte / The Holocaust through child's eyes, Karls-Universität Tschechien.
Reagan, Juliana (2012): Historical Trauma in Native American and Jewish Literatures, East Carolina University.
Baboric, Antonia (2012): Holocaust - Realität, Fiktion, Imagination : vom Geschehen zur Erzählung ; Literarisierung von KZ-Erlebnissen am Beispiel zweier autobiografischer Texte, Universität Graz.
Þorkelsson, Oddur Bjarni (2011): Réttarhöldin yfir Guði. „Hvar er Guð núna?“ „Hann? Hann hangir þarna í gálganum“ (úr Nótt), University of Iceland.
Nesfield, Victoria Lee (2011): Enduring identities: Jewish identity in the Holocaust literature of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, University of Leeds.
Hopkins, Sandra Kay (2011): Inspiring moral identity within the imaginal realm of classic literature, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Cohen, Daniel Maurice (2011): Historical Narratives in Tension: Holocaust Educators' Perceptions of Victimhood, Northwestern University.
Lamourex, Desiree (2010): La construction de l'espace dans les romans concentrationnaires de Jorge Semprun, d'Elie Wiesel et de Primo Levi, University of Ottawa.
Einhauer, Barbara (2010): NachgeSCHLAGene SCHLÄGE : Folter in literarischen Beispielen, Universität Klagenfurt.
Shenker, Noah (2009): Embodied memory: The formation of archived audiovisual Holocaust testimony in the United States, University of Southern California.
Zöchmeister, Markus (2008): Vom Leben danach : Erinnerungen an die Shoah und ihre transgenerationelle Weitergabe, Universität Klagenfurt.
Reis, Diana Cohen (2008): The immigration of Jews from France to Montreal: An investigation of the changes in a complex Jewish identity, University of Ottawa.
Kessous, Guilia Clara (2008): Theatre and the Sacred: Analysis of a Dramatic Cross-Cultural Dimension in the Theatrical Works of P. Claudel and Elie Wiesel, Boston University.
Bodger, Gwyneth (2008): Critical comparative approaches to testimonial literature emergent from the Holocaust and the atomic bombings, University of Sheffield.
Yanow, Wendy B. (2007): Autobiography as counter-narrative: An empirical study of how race enters and structures the stories of our lives, National-Louis University.
Louwagie, Fransiska (2007): Le témoignage francophone sur les camps de concentration nazis (1945-2004) : une étude générique et discursive, KU Leuven.
Danglmaier, Nadja (2007): "Seine erste Liebe vergisst man nicht...": vom Heimatgefühl aus Österreich vertriebener Jüdinnen und Juden und deren Nachkommen in Israel, Universität Klagenfurt.
Conroy, Joyce (2007): Prescience and premonition as found in the Holocaust narratives [dissertation], Drew University.
Brodie, Mark (2007): ‘From Darwin to the Death Camps’:A Collage of Holocaust Representation Focusing on Perpetrator Atrocity Discourse in Literature, Drama, and Film, Auburn University.
Ferreira, Catherine Louise (2005): Peering into the void: An exploration into the faith