Germanic Studies alum Anja Nowak (PhD, 2018) will publish a book this year with Indiana University Press.
Violent Space: The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw (release date in November 2023) is based on Dr. Nowak’s dissertation research in Germanic Studies at UBC. Tim Cole, author of Holocaust Landscapes, writes:
“Given its focus on the Warsaw ghetto, Violent Space builds on a number of existing works in important ways through its focus on the topography of the ghetto and the spatial practices of ghetto inhabitants. As the author notes, the destruction of the ghetto means that these places and spaces are no longer present in the contemporary city and the author follows Engelking and Leociak in excavating them and bringing them to life. Here the book will appeal to the general reader given the importance of the Warsaw ghetto within the story of the Holocaust. But Violent Space does more than focus on Warsaw alone and so will be of wider interest to scholars of ghettos and the nascent field of Holocaust geographies, environmental histories of the Holocaust and genocide space.”
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