Lisa Silverman

Lisa Silverman is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A specialist in modern European Jewish history, her interests include German and Austrian Jewish culture, visual culture, antisemitism, and gender.

She is the author of The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2025), Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2012), co-author of Holocaust Representations in History: an Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015; 2nd ed. 2019) and co-editor of Jews, Jewish Difference, and Austrian Culture: Literary and Historical Perspectives (Austrian Studies 24:2016), Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City (Indiana University Press, 2014) and Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity (Camden House, 2009).

She has published numerous scholarly articles, including contributions to the journals Prooftexts, Nexus: Duke Journal of German-Jewish Studies, Austrian Studies, the German Quarterly, and the Journal of Modern Jewish History, as well as essays in collected volumes and anthologies.

Silverman received her Ph.D. and B.A. from Yale University and holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has been awarded several academic fellowships, including terms at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and the International Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, Austria. In 2022 she was Michael Hauck Visiting Professor at the Fritz Bauer Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.