
Overview
overview
- My main area of interest is Holocaust Studies, and more generally Jewish Cultural Studies, with a special emphasis on the contemporary period and all aspects of present-day Jewish life and thought. My ongoing current research concerns Holocaust memory and representation: I've published two books on this topic: Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), which addresses the roles the contemporary media and modes of cultural mediation play in shaping consciousness of the legacy of the Holocaust, especially in the form of its institutionalized memory, and Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2015), which deals with the historical and memorial contexts of several fundamental images and ideas associated with the Holocaust. For this project I was on leave from January through August 2004 as a fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Other ongoing research interests include Hasidism and South African Judaism, the latter growing out of my experiences living and teaching in Cape Town for three years from 1996-98. I also have an interest in Religion and Violence, and in 2006 I published a co-edited collection of essays on Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (Indiana University Press). I have published academic journal articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Prooftexts, Jewish Social Studies, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and chapters in a number of edited collections. While I am responsible for teaching classes in all areas of Jewish Studies from the rabbinic period onwards, my current teaching leans toward the modern period: current courses include The Holocaust, Holocaust Memorials, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Cinema, Jewish Mysticism, Judaism, Introduction to Jewish Cultures, Jews, Sex, and Gender, and, more generally, courses such as Violence and the Sacred and World Religions. I have taught in the greater Miami community as well, with lectures and adult education courses at local synagogues and at the Miami Art Museum. I also direct the Jewish Studies Certificate, and I am Director of the FIU Holocaust Studies Initiative, which sponsors lectures and funds the creation of online courses. I served as Graduate Program Director in the department of Religious Studies from 2007-2016.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2010Torah and Taboo: Containing Jewish Relics and Jewish Identity at the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumFull Text via DOI: 10.1163/156852710X501360 Web of Science: 000209118600006
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2005Different trains: Holocaust artifacts and the ideologies of remembranceFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci004 Web of Science: 000228658700004
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2004Holocaust survivors report long-term effects on attitudes toward foodFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S1499-4046(06)60233-9 Web of Science: 000222695100006
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2002REVIEW: HOLOCAUST, AMERICAN STYLE: Alan L. Berger. CHILDREN OF JOB: AMERICAN SECOND-GENERATION WITNESSES TO THE HOLOCAUST. and Lawrence L. Langer. PREEMPTING THE HOLOCAUST. and S. Lillian Kremer. WOMEN's HOLOCAUST WRITING: MEMORY AND IMAGINATION. and Hilene Flanzbaum, ED. THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST. and Jeffrey Shandler. WHILE AMERICA WATCHES: TELEVISING THE HOLOCAUST. and Yosefa Loshitzky, ED. SPIELBERG'S HOLOCAUST: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCHINDLER'S LIST. and Norman Finkelstein. THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPLOITATION OF JEWISH SUFFERING.Full Text via DOI: 10.2979/pft.2002.22.3.354
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Book
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Book Chapter
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2016
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Book Review
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2020Judenmord: Art and the Holocaust in Post-war Germany. Ed. 34.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa054 Web of Science: 000606029400011
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2020Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices.. Ed. 44.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0364009419001120 Web of Science: 000525578600026
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2018Geographies of the Holocaust. Ed. 32.Web of Science: 000430702200010
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2018Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944. Ed. 32.Web of Science: 000430702200009
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2012Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust. Ed. 26.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs043 Web of Science: 000308275600012
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2010Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870-1940. Ed. 24.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq061 Web of Science: 000286158500009
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2009Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays. Ed. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp014 Web of Science: 000265177000005
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2007America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe's Cultural Treasures. Ed. 93.Web of Science: 000261009200013
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2007Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler Nuremberg laws, from Patton's trophy to public memorial. Ed. 94.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/25095073 Web of Science: 000255141500116
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2006A child at gunpoint. A case study in the life of a photo. Ed. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl006 Web of Science: 000240213400006
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2005Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust. Ed. 19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci054 Web of Science: 000233370700015
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Review
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2002Holocaust, American style. 354-391.Web of Science: 000181905100005
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Haase, Donald, Self-Referential Features in Sacred Texts 2018
Research
principal investigator on
- Holocaust Testimonies Research awarded by Targum Shlishi Aryeh Raquel Rubin Founda 2016 - 2022
- Developing an Online Holocaust Studies Certificate awarded by Robert Russell Memorial Foundation 2014 - 2018
- Developing an Online Holocaust Studies Certificate awarded by Jack Chester Foundation 2014 - 2018
Contact
full name
- Oren Stier
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