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About Amber Nickell
Amber is an Assistant 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 Assistant Professor of History at Fort Hays State University, Editor at H-Ukraine, and Host at NBN Jewish Studies, Ukrainian Studies, and Eastern Europe.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amber:
March 24, 2024
Exhibitions
What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity (U New Mexico Press, 2023), Jehanne Dubrow interrogates th…
October 29, 2023
The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf
In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines (Brandeis UP, 2023), Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where …
June 22, 2022
Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish in…
June 13, 2022
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) investigates the place and meaning of…
June 13, 2022
If This Is a Woman
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 …
May 27, 2022
The Venice Ghetto
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…
May 26, 2022
So They Remember
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…
May 26, 2022
Unsettled Heritage
In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened …
May 25, 2022
Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959)
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…
May 6, 2022
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
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…
May 2, 2022
Fighter, Worker, and Family Man
When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family …
March 1, 2022
Stalinism at War
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…
January 26, 2022
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton UP, 2021), Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father …
December 14, 2021
Three Cities After Hitler
Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) compares how three prewar German cities shared…
December 7, 2021
It Could Lead to Dancing
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…
October 26, 2021
Is Superman Circumcised?
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. …