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Notes on contributor
Natan Sznaider is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo in Israel. His research interests over the last few years have centred on giving a sociological account of processes of trauma and victimhood. Sznaider’s current research focuses on Jewish politics after the Holocaust through the lens of cosmopolitan memory. His books include The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), Erinnerung im Globalen Zeitalter: Der Holocaust (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, co-authored with Daniel Levy; expanded and translated into English and as The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age, Temple University Press, 2006); Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order (Polity Press, 2011); Herzl Reloaded (with Doron Rabinovici, Surhkamp 2016); Gesellschaften in Israel: Eine Einführung in Zehn Bildern (Suhrkamp 2017); and Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Area (Routledge, 2017, co-authored with Alejandro Baer). He is currently working on a study of Karl Mannheim and his Jewish students in Frankfurt.