Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry and a fellow at the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; was the institute’s head in the years 2020-2024.Academia.edu page: https://huji.academia.edu/AmosGoldberg
Amos Goldberg’s research focuses primarily on the cultural and literary history of Jews during the Holocaust, the study of trauma, the historiography of the Holocaust and of modern Genocides, and on Holocaust and Genocide memories in the global age.
His book Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017) won the Egit prize for Holocaust research and literature and was listed as an outstanding academic title for 2018 by Choice, the periodical of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Amos’s current research focuses on two major topics: 1) the cultural history of the Warsaw Ghetto—including rumor culture, coffee houses, the ghetto jester, and more; and 2) Holocaust memories in global and local contexts and particularly of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .
His books and articles have been published in English, Hebrew, Polish, French, German, Italian, Czeck, Japanese and Arabic.
He is a research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, serves on the scientific committee of the Van Leer Institute Press.
From 2007 to 2013 Amos was co-editor of the bilingual journal Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust (Taylor and Francis).
He served as a visiting scholar at Cornell University; a visiting lecturer at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; a senior research fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute in the CUNY Graduate Center; as the 2018-2019 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in- Residence Fellow at the Mandel Center at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and as the 2023 Gabriele Rosenthal senior fellow at the Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (IGdJ) in Hamburg.
In the years 2018-2021 he participates in the research group on “Empathy in the Social Sciences, the Humanities and in Culture” at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Center at the Hebrew University.
Goldberg was awarded a research grant from the Israel Science Foundation, and has won numerous prizes and grants.
Selected Publications
Amos Goldberg, And you Shall Remember: Five Critical Readings in Holocaust Memory, Tel Aviv: Resling 2024 (Hebrew, forthcoming)
Amos Goldberg, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Bashir Bashir, and Amos Goldberg (eds.), The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, New York: Columbia University Press. 2018. (was translated to Italian and Japanese and its introduction to Arabic)
Amos Goldberg, “Rumor Culture among Warsaw Jews under Nazi Occupation: A World of Catastrophe Reenchantedand”, Jewish Social Studies, 21(3) Spring Summer 2016, pp, 91-125.