New Perspectives on Kristallnacht

StevenJ. Ross is a professor of history at USC. Ross received his BA from ColumbiaUniversity, a bachelor of philosophy from Oxford University, and a PhD fromPrinceton University. Ross has written extensively in the areas ofworking-class history, social history, film history, and political history. Ross'smost recent book, Hitler in Los Angeles:How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (BloomsburyPress), was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018 and hasbeen featured on the Los Angeles Timesbest-seller list. Ross directs the Casden Institute for the Study of the JewishRole in American Life. He is also the cofounder and former codirector of theLos Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC.Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and a professor of historyat USC. He is a specialist for Holocaust and German-Jewish history, topics onwhich he has published eleven books and around 60 articles and book chapters.Currently, he is conducting research on forgotten acts of individual resistanceof German and Austrian Jews during the Holocaust. Additional areas of researchinclude the comparative history of mass violence as well as state discriminationagainst indigenous populations, especially in Latin America. In 2014, he becamethe founding director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced GenocideResearch. His latest book on the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia received the SybilHalpern Milton Memorial Book Prize of the German Studies Association 2017 forthe best book in Holocaust Studies in 2015-2016 and was a finalist forthe Yad Vashem International Book Prize in Holocaust Research for the best bookin 2015 and 2016.