Margarete Myers Feinstein
Research Scholar since 2009
mfeinstein@ucla.edu

Ph.D. in Modern European History, University of California at Davis
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Reed College

Interested in the legacies of Nazism, Feinstein has written about postwar German national identity and Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps.

Before moving to L.A., Feinstein was assistant professor of history at Indiana University South Bend.  She is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and the Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

Memberships
American Historical Association
Association for Jewish Studies
German Studies Association

The reintegration of German concentration camp survivors, both Jewish and non-Jewish, into German society and the implications for postwar gender relations and German national identity.

Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957 (Cambridge University Press, in press)

State Symbols: The Quest for Legitimacy in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (Brill, 2002)

“Absent Fathers, Present Mothers: Images of Parenthood in Holocaust Survivor Narratives,” Nashim (Spring 2007)