FELLOW 2024/25
Aurélia Kalisky is a French scholar specializing in comparative literature. For many years, she worked in Berlin at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research and the Centre Marc Bloch, where she took part in and co-led DFG-funded projects on the cultural history of testimony and the scholarly practices and writing methods of Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust. She has been a guest scholar at several institutes across Europe, including the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) in Amsterdam, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), and the Moses Mendelssohn Center (MMZ) in Potsdam. Her research focuses on testimonial works born out of historical catastrophes caused by extreme political violence, as well as on the ways in which memory is shaped and history is written in the aftermath of such events. She seeks to bridge academic research with a form of public engagement, notably through her participation in investigative commissions examining the complicity of the French state in Rwanda and by organizing an exhibition in Austria this year on the experiences of children during and after the Tutsi genocide.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “Une offrande pour apaiser nos tourments: La série documentaire Rwanda 1999: revivre à tout prix de Madeleine Mukamabano”. Komodo 21, no. 19 (2024). https://komodo21.numerev.com/articles/revue-19/3732-une-offrande-pour-apaiser-nos-tourments-la-serie-documentaire-rwanda-1999-revivre-a-tout-prix-de-madeleine-mukamabano.
- “Sharing a Fruitful Silence: Hans Keilson and Listening to Jewish War Orphans as a Psychoanalyst and Survivor”. In Overcoming the Darkness. Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period, edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen et al. Yad Vashem, 2023.
- “Jüdische Sprachkritik nach dem Holocaust”. Issue of: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 2 (2023). Edited with Nicolas Berg and Elisabeth Gallas. https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2023.
- “L’‘archivité’ d’un savant survivant: Joseph Wulf et ses archives (Cracovie–Paris–Berlin-Ouest)”. Archives de la Diaspora – Diaspora des archives. Edited by Patrick Farges et al. Special Edition of: Tsafon. Revue d’ Études Juives du Nord 11 (2023): 1–18.
- “Charlie im Lumbung-Haus”. Soziopolis, 14 June 2023. https://www.soziopolis.de/charlie-im-lumbung-haus.html.
- Edited. Salmen Gradowski. Die Zertrennung: Aufzeichnungen eines Mitglieds des Sonderkommandos. Suhrkamp, 2019.
