Sven-Erik Rose

Sven-Erik Rose is an associate professor of German and Comparative Literature, and an affiliate of the Program in Jewish Studies, at the University of California, Davis. His book Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848 (Brandeis University Press) was awarded the Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for the category of Philosophy & Jewish Thought. His current book project, Making and Unmaking Literature in Nazi Ghettos in Poland, explores how Jews confined to ghettos deployed the resources of literature to grapple with the extreme persecution, destitution and, ultimately, genocide they experienced as the chaotic events of what we now call the Holocaust were still unfolding.