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Russia Gathers Her Jews (1986) and an expanded Russian version (2001); Imperial
Russia’s Jewish Question, 1855–1881 (1996); and Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in
Modern Russian History (editor, with S. Lambroza, 1992).
Christopher Kobrak has been Associate Professor of Finance, ESCP-EAP,
European School of Management since 1991. His publications include ‘The
Politics of Corporate Governance in the Third Reich: The Case of Schering AG’
(forthcoming); ‘The Foreign-Exchange Dimension of Corporate Control in the
Third Reich’, Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (2000); ‘Foreign-Currency
Transactions and the Recovery of German Industry in the Aftermath of World
War One’, Accounting, Business & Financial History (2002); ‘Home-Country Political
Risk: The Case of the German Chemical Industry’, European International
Business Academy (EIBA) Conference Proceedings (1998); and (with M.-J. Oesterle)
‘International Issues in Corporate Governance: The Case of Daimler-Benz’,
European International Business Academy Conference Proceedings (1997).
Tony Kushner is Marcus Sieff Professor in the Department of History and
Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University
of Southampton. Amongst his recent books are Refugees in an Age of Genocide:
Global, National and Local Perspectives During the Twentieth Century (with K. Knox,
1999) and Disraeli’s Jewishness (editor with T. Endelman, 2002). He is completing
a study of the social anthropological organisation, Mass-Observation.
Florin Lobont is Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Psychological
Studies and Research, West University, Timisoara, and Visiting Research Fellow
at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is contributing editor of Probleme
teoretice de filosofia istoriei (2002) and co-editor of the periodicals Political Science
Forum: Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe and Quaestiones disputatae. His
publications include: ‘Noua metafizica engleza’: o regretabila necunoscuta [‘New
English Metaphysics’: an Unfortunate Unknown] (2002) and Hermeneutics of
Madness: The Holocaust Before Historical Re-enactment (forthcoming). He is currently
writing (with Dan Stone) a history of antisemitism in modern Romania.
Jürgen Matthäus has been a historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
since 1994. He has held guest professorships in Germany, Australia and the
United States. His numerous publications on Nazi and German-Jewish history
include Ausbildungsziel Judenmord? ‘Weltanschauliche Erziehung’ von SS, Polizei und
Waffen-SS im Rahmen der ‘Endlösung’ (2003).
Dan Michman is Professor of Modern Jewish History and Chairman of the
Institutes of Holocaust Research and of Research on Diaspora Jewry in Modern
Times at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Since 2000 he has also served as Chief