Two Judaic Studies Faculty become editors of US Holocaust Museum academic journal

This fall, Daniel H. Magilow, Professor of German, and Helene Sinnreich, director of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies, became the new co-editors-in-chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the academic journal of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

“We are honored to take on a leadership role in our field’s most prestigious academic journal,” Sinnreich said.

Professors Magilow and Sinnreich have extensive experience collaborating on a scholarly journal and bring a unique combination of skills and experience to the role. For fifteen years, they worked together on the Journal of Jewish Identities. Sinnreich served as editor-in-chief. Magilow served as managing editor and book review editor. They have also worked closely with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum throughout their careers, serving as fellows, presenting at conferences, participating in research workshops, and peer-reviewing for Experiencing History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 

“Raising public awareness about the Holocaust and facilitating scholarship are two crucial roles the Museum fulfills in the United States and around the world,” Magilow said. “It speaks highly of UT’s reputation as a research university that the Museum would select two of our faculty to run its flagship academic journal. Serving as co-editors-in-chief is a tremendous opportunity and an important responsibility to advance the Museum’s mission.”

Professors Sinnreich and Magilow bring complementary knowledge to the helm of the journal with perspectives from different disciplines. Daniel H. Magilow’s teaching and research center on photography and film and their intersections with Holocaust Studies, Weimar Germany, and postwar memory. While Helene Sinnreich is a scholar of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and European Jewry. Her research focuses on the experience of Jews in Nazi ghettos.