Overview
A cutting-edge peer-review academic journal of Holocaust research using interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Holocaust and its aftermath.Yad Vashem Studies is an academic journal featuring articles on the cutting edge of research and reflection on the Holocaust. Yad Vashem Studies is a must for any serious library seeking to offer the essential texts on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Beginning with volume 35, Yad Vashem Studies has come out twice annually, in spring and fall, making our contributors’ important research available to our readers more quickly and more readily. Our rigorous high standards remain unchanged.
Author Bio
Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen is the Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Studies and the Director of the Eli and Diana Zborowski Center for the Study of the Holocaust and its Aftermath at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research. She was the former Director of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. She holds a PhD from Hebrew University in the field of Holocaust Studies. She has published numerous articles relating to the postwar lives of Holocaust survivors and rehabilitation after trauma.
Yad Vashem Studies is a bi-annual, peer reviewed journal committed to a multi-faceted and thorough examination of all aspects of the Holocaust. Since its inception in 1957, Yad Vashem Studies has featured ground-breaking and thought-provoking articles about the Holocaust, by the leading researchers and thinkers on the subject in the world. Yad Vashem Studies is a forum for scholarly discussion and exchange of ideas in a wide range of disciplines, among them: history, philosophy, literature, the social sciences, and more. As the Holocaust continues to shake the foundations of modern civilization, it reiterate its commitment to examine and grapple with this terrible rupture in the history of the Jewish people and of all humanity.
