I am a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Gender, Commemoration, and Israel Studies and teach at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. I am also the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan. I’m  married to Prof. Joshua Schwartz and together we have a blended family of five children and a growing number of grandchildren.