Steven
J. Ross is a professor of history at USC. Ross received his BA from Columbia
University, a bachelor of philosophy from Oxford University, and a PhD from
Princeton University. Ross has written extensively in the areas of
working-class history, social history, film history, and political history. Ross's
most recent book, Hitler in Los Angeles:
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (Bloomsbury
Press), was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018 and has
been featured on the Los Angeles Times
best-seller list. Ross directs the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish
Role in American Life. He is also the cofounder and former codirector of the
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC.

Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and a professor of history
at USC. He is a specialist for Holocaust and German-Jewish history, topics on
which he has published eleven books and around 60 articles and book chapters.
Currently, he is conducting research on forgotten acts of individual resistance
of German and Austrian Jews during the Holocaust. Additional areas of research
include the comparative history of mass violence as well as state discrimination
against indigenous populations, especially in Latin America. In 2014, he became
the founding director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide
Research. His latest book on the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia received the Sybil
Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize of the German Studies Association 2017 for
the best book in Holocaust Studies in 2015-2016 and was a finalist for
the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in Holocaust Research for the best book
in 2015 and 2016.

FOREWORD
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Kristallnacht-Pogrom-State Terror: A Terminological Reflection, by Ulrich Baumann and François Guesnet
CHAPTER 2: "Worse Than Vandals." The Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes and Jewish Responses during the 1938 Pogrom, by Wolf Gruner
CHAPTER 3: A Question of Gender! Spaces of Violence and Reactions to Kristallnacht in Jewish-Gentile Families, by Maximilian Strnad
CHAPTER 4: Social Relations and Bystander Responses to Violence: Kristallnacht November 1938, by Mary Fulbrook
CHAPTER 5: A Scream, Then Silence. Kristallnacht and the American Journalists in Nazi Germany: The "Night of Broken Glass" as an Unwanted Transnational Media Event, by Norman Domeier
CHAPTER 6: Journalism as a Weapon: Jewish Journalists from Warsaw and the Production of Knowledge during Hitler's Rise to Power in 1933 and the November Pogroms in 1938, by Anne-Christin Klotz
CHAPTER 7: What Did Soviet Jews Make of Kristallnacht? The Nazi Threat in the Soviet Press, by Jeffrey Koerber
CHAPTER 8: The Absence of "Kristallnacht" and Its Aftermath in BBC German-language Broadcasts during 1938-1939, by Stephanie Seul
CHAPTER 9: Orthodox Jewish Reflective Responses to Kristallnacht, by Gershon Greenberg
CHAPTER 10: 1938: American Jews Respond to a Very Bad Year, by Hasia Diner
CHAPTER 11: The Ambiguous Legacy of Kristallnacht: Nazis, Jewish Resistors, and Anti-Semitism in Los Angeles, by Steven J. Ross
CHAPTER 12: Jewish Anti-Fascism? "Kristallnacht" Remembrance in the GDR between Propaganda and Jewish Self-Assertion, by Alexander Walther
CHAPTER 13: "Kristallnacht in Tel Aviv": Nazi Associations in the Contemporary Israeli Socio-Political Debate, by Liat Steir-Livny
CHAPTER 14: The Kristallnacht Paradigm in Narratives by Survivors of the Rwandan and Rohingya Genocides, by Nathalie Ségeral
CHAPTER 15: The Long Shadow of the "Kristallnacht" on the "Gujarat Pogrom" in India? A Comparative Analysis, by Baijayanti Roy
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