Photography, Migration and Identity

Maiken Umbach is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has published widely on German regional identities and bourgeois culture, the nature of ideologies, and private life in Nazi Germany. She is currently directing a large research project on ‘Photography as Political Practice during National Socialism’.  Scott Sulzener is a PhD Candidate in Modern European History at the University of Iowa, USA. In addition to his research on German migrations, he has received fellowships for his work on the gender and social history of the German Empire. He is currently finishing his dissertation on the Imperial history of Protestant monasticism in the border regions of Schleswig-Holstein.

• 1. Introduction: Picturing Global Threads.- 2. Jewish Identities and Photography.- 3.  Jewish Photography and the Pictorial Culture of Nazi Germany.- 4.  Picturing Emigration.- 5. Photography, Identity, and Longing in the United States.- 6. Exile, Memory, and Irony.

“The book is a fascinating contribution to the study of migration, photography, and the ways in which German-Jewish self-understanding was practiced and, critically, how it changed overtime. … Sulzener’s book remains an important piece of scholarship for students and scholars interested in migration and Holocaust history. The work also serves as a clear case for the importance of using vernacular photography as a source in its own right.” (SarahWobick-Segev, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, October 9, 2020)