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Irit Dekel

Irit Dekel is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. Her research and teaching focus on memory cultures; media and the public sphere; race, ethnicity and belonging; migration and museums. She is the author of Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (Springer 2013) and Witnessing Positions: Jews, Memories and Minorities in Contemporary Germany (forthcoming with University of Indiana in 2027).

Understanding the retreat of democracy with Jeff Goldfarb’s Gray is Beautiful

April 16, 2026

Irit Dekel reflects on how the book's subtitle, Confronting the Retreat of Democracy from the Radical Center, poses the potent tensions that are crucial for attempting... Read more.