Biography

Laura Jokusch is Albert Abramson Chair in Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, USA. She is the author of Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (2012; winner of the National Jewish Book Award and cowinner of the Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize) and the editor of Khurbn-Forshung: Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland (2022). She is also the co-editor (with Gabriel Finder) of Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (2015; finalist for National Jewish Book Award) and (with Andreas Kraft and Kim Wünschmann) Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation (2016).
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