Ofer Ashkenazi is Associate Professor of History and the director of the Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published books and articles on various aspects of modern German and German-Jewish history. His most recent monograph, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (2020), considers the influence of Jewish filmmakers on the German concept of "Homeland" between 1918 and 1968. His current research project focuses on private photography in the interwar years.

Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes

• Ashkenazi, Ofer, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossman and Shira Miron. Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press (2024).
• Ashkenazi, Ofer and Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan (eds.). Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography (forthcoming 2025, SUNY).
• Ashkenazi, Ofer, David Jünger and Bjoern Siegel (eds.). "Place and Space in German-Jewish History," Special Issue of Jewish Culture and History 25.2 (April 2024).
• Bergbauer, Knut, Nora M. Kissling, Beate Lehmann, Ulrike Pilarczyk and Ofer Ashkenazi (eds.). Jüdische Jugend im Übergang – Jewish Youth in Transit (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024)

Articles in Refereed Journals:

• Ofer Ashkenazi, David Jünger, Bjoern Siegel (eds.). "Space and Place in the German-Jewish Experience of the 1930s – Introduction" Jewish Culture and History 25.2 (April 2024): 205-213.