photo: unearthing the Jewish cemetery, Gorlice, Poland		 Erica Lehrer

Education

B.A. (with honors), Grinnell College, 1992
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2005
Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Michigan, 2005

 
Selected Publications
Chapters & Articles - Academic
2007 “Bearing false witness? Vicarious Jewish identity and the politics of affinity.”
In: Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust. (Eds.) Dorota Glowacka and Joanna Zylinska. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press: 84-109.

2003 “Repopulating Jewish Poland – In Wood.” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 16: 335-355.
Chapters & Articles - Public
2008 “Unquiet Places: A Second Look at Jewish Poland Today.” Pakn Treger. 56 (Spring): 26-35.

2007 “Jewish? Heritage? In Poland? A Brief Manifesto & an Ethnographic-Design Intervention into Jewish Tourism in Poland.” Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. 12(1)(Fall): 36-41.

2001 “The Only Jewish Bookshop In Poland.” Pakn Treger 36 (Summer): 34-37.
Translations

2006 Difficult Questions in Polish-Jewish Dialogue. (Translated from Polish to English). Kozlowski, Maciej, Andrzej Folwarczny, and Michal Bilewicz, Eds. Warsaw, Poland: Jacek Santorski & Co.
Reviews

2007 Stanislaw Krajewski’s Poland and the Jews: Reflections of a Polish Polish Jew. In: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.

2005 Ruth Gruber’s Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe. In: Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture.

2002 Ronit Kertzner's film The Secret. Program book of the 14th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Other Projects

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Belongings: An Exhibition
Courses Taught

• The Holocaust
• Documenting Mass Violence: Recording, Description, Dissemination
• Europe & The Jews
• Managing the Past: Culture, Memory, & Reconciliation after Mass Trauma
• Social Documentary: Telling Other People’s Stories
• Anthropology of Contemporary Jewish Life
• Doing Anthropology: Finding, Collecting, and Reporting Cultural Stories
• Picturing Memory: Case Studies in Post-War Representation (The Holocaust and Japanese-American Internment)

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