Helene J. Sinnreich

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 April 5, 2017.
  2. ^ "Journal of Jewish Identities - Editorial Board". Archived from the original on February 17, 2007. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  3. ^ "The Visiting Scholars Program | Fellows". Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  4. ^ "Judaic and Holocaust Studies - Youngstown State University". Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History". Archived from the original on March 6, 2010.
  6. ^ "Youngstown News, Helene Sinnreich, W.E. Johnson Jr. To wed Oct. 10". Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
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  8. ^ "Nine-month-old Nathan Maxwell Johnson of Youngstown, Ohio - President Obama fan - pics - Democratic Underground Forums". www.democraticunderground.com.
  9. ^ "Another Idea on X". Twitter. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
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