Christin Zühlke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Her research focuses on Jewish experiences and responses to the Holocaust, with a specific emphasis on Yiddish, gender, and religious aspects. Her research interests also address Holocaust memory, Yiddish, Jewish and Holocaust Museums, Modern Jewish Thought, Pop Culture, and Practical Ethics.
In her postdoctoral research, she comprehensively studies Jewish masculinities in Elie Wiesel's writings. She holds a Ph.D. from the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Her Ph.D. project analyzed the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau with an emphasis on Jewish Cultural Studies and Jewish as well as Holocaust Literature.
She co-published 2023 "New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust" and 2022 "Die Nacht," a new, annotated German translation of "La Nuit" by Elie Wiesel with the Elie Wiesel Research Center. She is an Associate Co-Editor of the "Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature" and co-edits "New Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Literature." She co-edits the "Elie Wiesel Research Series" as well as the annotated 24-volume edition of "Elie Wiesel Werke" ("Works of Elie Wiesel.")
She studied Jewish Studies, Philosophy, and German Studies and was a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, the University of California, Berkeley, and the German Historical Institute (Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley).
Supervisors: Erin McGlothlin