Michael Rothberg

Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Illinois. His most recent book is <i>Multidirectional Memory: Re

Neo-Nazi terror and Germany’s racism problem

A failed bank robbery on November 4 this year, exposed a cell in eastern Germany calling itself the “National Socialist Underground”, apparently responsible for the murder of at least ten people, most of them immigrants, among other acts of violence over the last decade. Together with the murder o

By Michael Rothberg

/ 16 Dec 2011

The spectre of the "second Holocaust"

A few months ago, the Washington Post published a story recounting the attempts of the African American political theorist Danielle Allen to get to the bottom of the false claim

By Michael Rothberg

/ 31 Oct 2008