Ari Joskowicz


Ari Joskowicz
is Eugene Greener, Jr. Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt University. He has published numerous articles on the history of Jews, Roma, and the complicated relations between different minorities. His most recent book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2023) won the Ernst Fraenkel Prize of the Wiener Library and the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association. His other interests include the economic history of paperwork, archiving, and memory work. Articles on the subject include “The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship” (American Historical Review 2020) and “Toward an Economic History of Holocaust Memory: Two Cases from Post-War Austria” (S:I.M.O.N. 2023).
a.joskowicz@vanderbilt.edu