Fascism, Extremism, and Extermination

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Notes on contributors

Ishay Landa is an Associate Professor of modern history at the Israeli Open University, in Ra’anana. His research interests include political theory – especially fascism, Marxism, and liberalism – and popular culture. He has written four books: The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture (Lexington, 2007), The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism (Brill, 2010), The Roots of European Fascism: 1789–1945 (in Hebrew, the Open University Press, 2015), and Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848–1945 (Routledge, 2018). His essays and lectures deal with diverse topics such as fascism, consumerism, religion and atheism, and take on different writers and thinkers, for example, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, or J. R. R. Tolkien. He has won several scholarships, among them a Post-doc fellowship with distinction: “Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt Minerva Fellowship,” for a research conducted at TU Braunschweig, Germany (2006-2008), and, more recently, the Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers, awarded by the Council of Higher Education, Israel (2009–2012).

Michal Aharony is the Deputy Editor of The Journal of Holocaust Research, and a teaching fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests include history of political ideas in modern political thought and Holocaust studies. She is the author of the book Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality and Resistance (Routledge, 2015). Her recent articles include “Nihilism and Antisemitism: The Reception of Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night in Israel,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 19, no. 1 (2015); “Über das Lager - die Vernichtung des Menschen als Menschen in der totalen Herrschaft,” in: Julia Schulze Wessel, Christian Volk, und Samuel Salzborn (Hrsg.), Ambivalenzen der Ordnung - Der Staat im Denken Hannah Arendts, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2013; and “Hannah Arendt and the Idea of Total Domination,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 24 (2) (2010): 193–224.