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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:

Jewish Studies 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 internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of …
Jewish Studies June 13, 2022

If This Is a Woman

Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

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 the “XX. Century Conference: If …
Jewish Studies 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 consumption in Jewish lives and the roles Jews played in …
Jewish Studies May 27, 2022

The Venice Ghetto

A Memory Space That Travels

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 first ghetto and …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

Unsettled Heritage

Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust

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 to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

So They Remember

A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine

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 beyond those notorious sites. In the …
Jewish Studies May 25, 2022

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959)

History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival

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. Polish Jews in the Soviet …
Jewish Studies 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, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe and the …
Jewish Studies May 2, 2022

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man

German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941

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 Man (U Toronto Press, 2022) focuses …
Eastern European Studies March 1, 2022

Stalinism at War

The Soviet Union in World War II

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 with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia …
Jewish Studies 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 to arrive at a startling conclusion …
Eastern European Studies December 14, 2021

Three Cities After Hitler

Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders

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 decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes …
Jewish Studies December 7, 2021

It Could Lead to Dancing

Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity

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 Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo …
Jewish Studies October 26, 2021

Is Superman Circumcised?

The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero

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. They based their hero’s …