Ayana Sassoon

Ayana  Sassoon
Ayana
Sassoon
Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Subject: Food in the Period of the Holocaust in Germany and the Nethterlands.

Supervisor: Prof. Amos Goldberg.

Abstract: My research will examine the food perspective in the period of the holocaust in Germany and the Netherlands. I’m especially interested in materialistic, social and symbolic questions regarding food. The main sources will be diaries and letters written by Jews during this period of scarcity and hunger.

Graduate of the Honors Program for Outstanding MA Students, 2016–2018