This post has been adapted from a talk by Joseph Cronin, a former Researcher at the GHIL and now a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, delivered at the Holocaust Research Institute’s New Directions in Holocaust Studies workshop, which was held at Senate House London on 4 November 2021. He would like to thank Sandra Lipner and Kate Ferry-Swainson for giving him the opportunity to speak at this event. The talk was prompted by and reflected on Joseph’s perceptions of the ‘German Catechism’ debate that took place in the summer of 2021.
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Joseph Cronin is Lecturer in Modern German History at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in modern German, Jewish and East European history, particularly Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust, and on Jews who found refuge from Nazi persecution in South Asia. He is also interested in the histories of antisemitism, European socialism and, most broadly, the ways in which political decisions, policies and ideologies affect the lives of ordinary people. His most recent book is Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany’s Jewish Communities, 1990–2005 (2019).