Helene J. Sinnreich

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Helene Julia Sinnreich (born 1975) is the Director of the Fern and Manfred Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee.[1] Sinnreich is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities.[2] She served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.[3] Dr. Sinnreich was a fellow at Yad Vashem in 2009. She is author of The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow Ghettos.

Sinnreich received her Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University in 2004.[4] Her areas of specialization are Holocaust history, Polish-Jewish history, and Nazi ghettoization policy. Her research focuses on the Łódź and Kraków ghettos. Sinnreich also researches rape and the Holocaust.[5]

Personal life

Sinnreich is the daughter of Karen and Simon Sinnreich of Tampa, FL and was married on October 10, 2010, to Wesley Johnson Jr.[6] Dr. Sinnreich is mother to Nathan Maxwell Johnson born October 11, 2011.[7] Nathan was photographed in a widely distributed photograph with President Barack Obama on July 6, 2012.[8] The photograph has subsequently been made into a mural in Houston. She also has another son and two cats.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Department of Religious Studies | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville". religion.utk.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  2. ^ "Journal of Jewish Identities - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  3. ^ "The Visiting Scholars Program | Fellows". Archived from the original on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  4. ^ "Judaic and Holocaust Studies - Youngstown State University". Retrieved 2008-12-15.
  5. ^ ‘And it was something we didn’t talk about’: Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust' in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (14.2). See http://www.vmbooksuk.com/acatalog/Journal_of_Holocaust_Studies.html Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Youngstown News, Helene Sinnreich, W.E. Johnson Jr. To wed Oct. 10". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  7. ^ http://www.templeelemeth.org/Library/.../November_Bulletin_2011.pdf[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Nine-month-old Nathan Maxwell Johnson of Youngstown, Ohio - President Obama fan - pics - Democratic Underground Forums".
  9. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/another_idea. Retrieved 2021-03-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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