Kerry Wallach
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Room 14
In Professor Wallach's courses, students learn about Germans, Jews, literature, history, film, art, and visual culture. Several of her courses deal with antisemitism and the Holocaust. At Gettysburg, she is an Affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program and also contributes to WGS and Cinema & Media Studies.
Kerry Wallach's research focuses on twentieth-century Germany and German-Jewish culture. She is the author of Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit (Penn State University Press, March 2024) and Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2017), and co-editor of German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations (with Aya Elyada; Berghahn Books, 2023).
She is pleased to serve on the editorial board of the German Jewish Cultures book series published by Indiana University Press.
Her research has been supported by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Association for Jewish Studies, and the Leo Baeck Institute New York.
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Professor Kerry Wallach delivered the inaugural Edith Balas Memorial Lecture, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Jewish Studies Program and Carnegie Mellon's Buncher Chair in Jewish Studies. The talk, titled “Recovering the Lost Worlds of Jewish Artist Rahel Szalit,” focused on her recent book.