University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
University College London
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
shirli.gilbert@ucl.ac.uk
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/people/academic-staff/prof-shirli-gilbert
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Modern: TR
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
20: Historiography: T
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
64: State of Israel: T
65: Jews in the United States: T
68: Jewish identity and assimilation: R
69: Anti-Semitism: T
Holocaust Studies: TR
74: Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): R
Description
Shirli Gilbert is a specialist in modern Jewish history, with particular interest in the Holocaust and its legacies, modern Jewish identity, and Jews in South Africa. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Before coming to UCL, she was Karten Professor of Modern History and Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.
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