Team

Mira Yacine

doctoral researcher

Holocaust Studies, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Academic CV

 Working as a Doctoral Researcher at the International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond” at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Leipzig University, funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation.

Studied Cultural Theory and History and Ethnography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Basel. Completed MA degree in 2023. From 2020 to 2024 Research Assistant at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin.

Research Interests

  • Trans-Mediterranean Jewish history (20th–21st century)
  • Jewish memory in postcolonial France
  • Literary archives

Research Project

  • “Mes poumons comme les rouleaux de la Thora” – Towards a Poetics of the Trace: Jewishness, Exile, and Writing in the Work of Hélène Cixous

Publications

Yacine, Mira, Dominik Biewer, and Ricarda Rivoir. “Widerspenstige Aufmerksamkeit.” In Nach der Natur – After Nature: das Laborbuch zur Ausstellung im Humboldt Labor, edited by Heide Barrenechea, Bastian Herbst, and Max Illner. Diaphanes, 2024.

 

Yacine, Mira. “Multidirektionale Erinnerung – Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Bildungsarbeit.” In Holocaust und Kolonialismus - Deutungskämpfe um das Erinnern? Erich-Zeigner-Haus e.V., 2024.