Current qualification work at the Elie Wiesel Research Center
Marion Eichelsdörfer
Elie Wiesel's „...un di velt hot geshvign“ 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.
Moritz Sacherer
Elie Wiesel's ethics of remembrance in the context of contemporary memory culture and anti-Semitism prevention [working title]
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.
Other qualification works
Dissertations
Baert-Knoll, Valesca (2024): 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 of the self under extreme trauma, The Wright Institution.
Schober, Christiane (2003): Die Gottesrede nach der Shoah: Theodizeemotive in jüdisch-französischen Texten, Universität Salzburg.
Lagrandeur, Katherine Annette (2003): Poétique de la parte dans l’oeuvre autobiographique d’Elie Wiesel, Queen’s University.
Bussie, Jacqueline Aileen (2003): Laughter, language, and hope : risibility as resistance in Elie Wiesel's Gates of the forest, Shusaku Endo's Silence, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, University of Virginia.
Popkin, Suzanne Julie (2002): Passing on trauma: The witnessing of the Holocaust, University of California, Berkeley.
Van den Berg, Gandula (2000): Gebrochene Variationen : Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zu Figuren der Hebräischen Bibel in der Rezeption von Elie Wiesel, Universität Paderborn.
Weissman, Gary Seth (1999): Fantasies of witnessing: Experiencing the Holocaust in American intellectual culture, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Nissen, Jordana L. (1999): Memory and remembrance in selected nonfiction works of Elie Wiesel, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Ames, Deborah Lee (1999): Passages of annihilation: Holocaust survivors' autobiographies as Midrash, Oklahoma State University.
Boone, Susan Livingston (1998): The appearance of shame in Holocaust witness, Syracuse University.
Chmiel, Mark J. (1997): If the world remains silent: A political reading of Elie Wiesel as a public intellectual in the United States, Graduate Theological Union.
Rosner, Anna Jill (1996): Le phenomene de dedoublement dans l'oeuvre d'Elie Wiesel, The University of Western Ontario.
Dienberg, Thomas (1996): “Ihre Tränen sind wie Gebete“ (Elie Wiesel): das „Gebet nach Auchschwitz“ in Theologie und Literatur, Universität Wien.
Zylberstein, Janet (1994): Elie Wiesel's midrashim: A search for meaning in a post-Holocaust world, Carleton University.
Boschki, Reinhold (1994): Der Schrei. Gott und Mensch im Werk von Elie Wiesel, Universität Münster.
Cooper, Linda Laurance (1994): The Book of Job: foundation for testimony in the writings of Gustavo Gutierrez, Elie Wiesel, Archibald Macleish and Karl Gustav Jung, University of Oxford.
Wakine, Monique (1993): Désespoir et révolte dans l’oeuvre d’Elie Wiesel, Emory University.
Toledano, Dorith (1993): L'ecriture et le silence chez Elie Wiesel, McGill University.
Markham, John (1992): The novels of Elie Wiesel: a study in the literary representation of history, University of Oxford.
Engel, Vincent (1991): Question du père, question au père: réflexions théoriques et analyse des romans d'Elie Wiesel, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Mizrahi, Yvette (1990): Elie Wiesel et la litterature de temoignage, McGill University.
Downing, Frederick Lee (1990): Autobiography, Fiction, and Faith: The Literary and Religious Pilgrimage of Elie Wiesel, Emory University.
Controneo, Maria (1990): 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 (Québec).
Landau, Anne (1989): The Camusian Element in the Early Novels of Elie Wiesel, Northwestern University.
Golencer-Schroeter, Helene (1989): Albert Cohen, Albert Memmi, and Elie Wiesel and the Dilemma of Jewish Identity in French Literature and Culture, The University of Utah.
Afchar, Karima (1987): Des lambeaux de silence variations sur un thème dans trois romans d'Elie Wiesel, University of Alberta.
Walker, Graham Brown Jr. (1986): Elie Wiesel: A Challenge to Contemporary Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Silbelman, S.P. (1986): A time to keep silent, and a time to speak: the evolution and exercise of the theme of silence in the novels of Elie Wiesel, University of London, King's College.
Schaneman, Judith-Clark (1986): The Force of Memory in Elie Wiesel’s Novels: A Survivor’s Tale, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Jauchen, John Stephen (1986): The Messianic Ideal in Ludwig Lewisohn and Elie Wiesel (Judaism), Baylor University.
Cohen, Carolyn (1985): Raising the Sparks: An Approach toward the Work of Elie Wiesel, Syracuse University.
Modini, Robert Joseph (1984): Longing in Exile: The Dialogue with Despair in the Fiction of Walker Percy and Elie Wiesel (Louisiana, France), Syracuse University.
Horowitz, Sara Reva (1984): Linguistic Displacement in Fictional Responses to the Holocaust: Kosinski, Wiesel, Lind, and Tournier, Brandeis University.
Frost, Christopher J. (1984): Some issues of approach and method involved in relating psychological and religious studies, as exemplified in a study of Elie Wiesel and his Hasidic masters, Boston University.
Cedars, Marie-Meisel (1984): Speaking through Silence: The Art of Elie Wiesel, The University of Texas at Arlington.
French, Ellen Merritt Brown (1981): Archetype and Metaphor: An Approach to the Early Novels of Elie Wiesel, Middle Tennessee State University.
Frankel, Sylvia H. Weisz (1981): Jewish Sources in Elie Wiesel’s Work, University of Oregon.
Fine, Ellen Sydney (1979): Elie Wiesel: The Theme of “Le Temoin.”, New York University.
Berenbaum, Mihael Gary (1979): Elie Wiesel: Theologian of the Void, The Florida State University.
Leizman, Reva Bialosky (1977): The road towards regeneration and salvation in the novels of Elie Wiesel, Case Western Reserve University.
Baker, Marilyn Joyce (1977): Against Humanism: Alienation in the Works of Elie Wiesel, Guenter Grass, and Kurt Vonnegut, University of Southern California.
Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven (1976): The Holocaust in Literature: A Comparative Study of Modes of Literary Response to the Holocaust, Brandeis University.
Christ, Carol Patrice (1974): Elie Wiesel’s Stories: Still the Dialogue, Yale University.