About Amber Nickell

Amber is an Associate Professor of history at Fort Hays State University and a recent graduate of Purdue's Ph.D. program in history. She specializes in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing comparative migration and diaspora, the Holocaust and Genocide, Human Rights, and the spatial humanities.

Amber Nickell is Associate Professor of History at Fort Hays State University, Editor at H-Ukraine, and Host at NBN Jewish Studies, Ukrainian Studies, and Eastern Europe.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Amber:

Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)

October 29, 2023

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf

Marat Grinberg
Hosted by Amber Nickell

In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines (Brandeis UP, 2023), Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where …

Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

June 22, 2022

Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust

Nathan A. Kurz
Hosted by Amber Nickell

In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish in…

Denisa Nesťáková et al., "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

June 13, 2022

If This Is a Woman

Denisa Nesťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik
Hosted by Amber Nickell

If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Academic Studies Press, 2021) contains thirteen articles based on work presented at …

Paul Lerner et al., "Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

June 13, 2022

Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America

Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, and Anne Schenderlein
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) investigates the place and meaning of…

Chiara Camarda et al., "The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space That Travels" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)

May 27, 2022

The Venice Ghetto

Chiara Camarda, Amanda K. Sharick, and Katharine G. Trostel
Hosted by Amber Nickell

The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's fi…

Yechiel Weizman, "Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2022)

May 26, 2022

Unsettled Heritage

Yechiel Weizman
Hosted by Amber Nickell

In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened …

Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)

May 26, 2022

So They Remember

Maksim Goldenshteyn
Hosted by Amber Nickell

When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyon…

K. Friedla and M. Nesselrodt, "Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959): History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)

May 25, 2022

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959)

Katharina Friedla and Markus Nesselrodt
Hosted by Amber Nickell

The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. Poli…

Jaclyn Granick, "International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

May 6, 2022

International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War

Jaclyn Granick
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Today I talked to Jaclyn Granick about her book International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge UP, 2021). In 1914, seve…

Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

May 2, 2022

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man

Sebastian Huebel
Hosted by Amber Nickell

When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family …

Mark Edele, "Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

March 1, 2022

Stalinism at War

Mark Edele
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two.Starting wi…

Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)

January 26, 2022

The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton

Andrew Porwancher
Hosted by Amber Nickell

In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton UP, 2021), Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father …

Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)

December 14, 2021

Three Cities After Hitler

Andrew Demshuk
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) compares how three prewar German cities shared…

Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)

December 7, 2021

It Could Lead to Dancing

Sonia Gollance
Hosted by Amber Nickell

Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prej…

Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)

October 26, 2021

Is Superman Circumcised?

Roy Schwartz
Hosted by Amber Nickell

​Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the sons of immigrants from Eastern Europe. …