Natan Sznaider

Research field cultural memory in Israel, Europe and Latin America
Institution Tel-Aviv-Yaffo Academic College
Position professor of sociology
Theme Uses and misuses of memory

Biography

Natan Sznaider is Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. He has taught at the University of Columbia in New York and the University of Munich in Germany. He is part of an international research team that is working on cultural memory in Israel, Europe and Latin America.

Publications

Sznaider, Natan. “Culture and Memory: The Role of Jewish Cultural Property.” In Kwartalnik Historii Żydów, 2013:227–35, 2013.
Sznaider, Natan, and Agustín Cosovschi. La memoria judía y el orden cosmopolita. Buenos Aires: Capital Intelectual, 2012.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age.” TPB, 2012.
Sznaider, Natan. “European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan.” In Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe, edited by Uilleam Blacker, Alexander Etkind, and Julie Fedor, 59–78. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013.
Sznaider, Natan. “Cosmopolitan Hope. A Comment.” In Futures of ModernityChallenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice, edited by Michael Heinlein, Cordula Kropp, and Judith Neumer, 1. Aufl., 33–36. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2012.
Sznaider, Natan, Andrzej Diniejko, and Elżbieta Osiecka-Kleiber. Pamięć żydowska i kosmopolityczny ład: Hannah Arendt i kondycja żydowska / Jewish memory and the cosmopolitan order. Warszawa: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan. “Hannah Arendt: Jew and Cosmopolitan.” Socio. La Nouvelle Revue Des Sciences Sociales, no. 4 (2015): 197–221.
Sznaider, Natan, and Ulrich Beck. “New Cosmopolitanism in the Social Sciences.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, edited by Bryan S Turner and R. J Holton. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. “Exil und keine Rückkehr.” In Exil, Literatur, Judentum, edited by Doerte Bischoff. München: Edition Text + Kritik, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan, Ulrich Beck, and Daniel Levy. “Cosmopolitanisation of Memory : The Politics of Forgiveness and Restitution.” In Cosmopolitanism in Practice, edited by Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco. London: Routledge, 2016.
Abend, Gabriel, Mark Cooney, Jacek Hołówka, Krzysztof Kiciński, Natan Sznaider, Magdalena Środa, Steven Hitlin, and Jacek Kurczewski. “Ossowska’s Foundations of Science of Morality 70 Years After.” Societas Communitas : Półrocznik Instytutu Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 2016 (2016): 37–88.
Poferl, Angelika, and Natan Sznaider. Ulrich Becks kosmopolitisches Projekt Auf dem Weg in eine andere Soziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019.
Beck, Ulrich, Natan Sznaider, and Internationale Konferenz Global America? Globales Amerika? Die kulturellen Folgen der Globalisierung. Cultural Studies 4. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan, and Alejandro Baer. “Antigone in León: The Drama of Trauma Politics.” In Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies, edited by Anna Lisa Tota, 1st ed., 203–14. Routledge, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan, and Alejandro Baer. Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again. London: Routledge, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. “Does European Memory Exist?” In Die Zwischengesellschaft : Aufbrüche Zwischen Tradition Und Moderne?, edited by Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha, 111–18. Kulturwissenschaft Interdisziplinär 10. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. “Memory of Evil : Cosmopolitanism and the European Project.” In Safe and Free, Democratic Security and Human Rights: Democratic Security Debates at the Council of Europe 2015-2017, edited by Matjaž Gruden, Thorbjørn Jagland, and Council of Europe, 76–88. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2018.
Ümit Üngör, Uğur, Matthew Kott, Larry Ray, and Natan Sznaider. “Book Reviews.” Holocaust Studies 14, no. 3 (2008): 163–73.
Sznaider, Natan. “Book Review : Jewish Journeys: From Philo to Hip Hop.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 34, no. 9 (2011): 1624.
Sznaider, Natan. “Review : The Other Frankfurt School.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 2018, 1–9.
Sznaider, Natan. “The Sociology of Compassion: A Study in the Sociology of Morals.” Journal for Cultural Research 2, no. 1 (1998): 117–39.
Sznaider, Natan. “Money and Justice: Toward a Social Analysis of Reparations.” Human Rights Review 3, no. 2 (2002): 104–10.
Baer, Alejandro, and Natan Sznaider. “Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s Mass Graves: Cosmopolitan Memories and the Politics of ‘Never Again.’” Memory Studies 8, no. 3 (2015): 328–44.
Sznaider, Natan. “Beck, Ulrich (1944–2015).” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Georges Ritzer. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
Sznaider, Natan. “Israel: Ethnischer Staat Und Pluralistische Gesellschaft.” Internationale Politik Und Gesellschaft : IPG. 2003, no. 1 (2003): 123–38.
Sznaider, Natan, and Daniel Levy. “Holocaust.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Georges Ritzer, 1:378–81. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
Sznaider, Natan. “Beck, Ulrich.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Georges Ritzer, 1:41–42. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
Beck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. “Cosmopolitan Sociology.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by Georges Ritzer, 1:157–61. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.
Sznaider, Natan. “Book Review: Joachim Radkau, Max Weber: A Biography. Cambridge: Polity, 2009. 700 Pp. $35.00. ISBN13: 978-0745641478 (Hbk).” Journal of Classical Sociology 10, no. 2 (2010): 159–60.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Memories of Universal Victimhood: The Case of Ethnic German Expellees.” German Politics and Society 23, no. 2 (2005): 1–27.
Sznaider, Natan. “Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Cosmopolitanism.” European Journal of Social Theory 10, no. 1 (2007): 112–22.
Ackerman, John Wolfe, Bonnie Honig, Grit Straßenberger, Barbara Hahn, Moritz Rinn, Sabine Hark, Étienne Tassin, et al. “Rezeptionsdiskurse.” In Arendt-Handbuch, edited by Wolfgang Heuer, Bernd Heiter, and Stefanie Rosenmüller, 341–85. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2011.
Sznaider, Natan. “The Sociology of Compassion: A Study in the Sociology of Morals.” Cultural Values 2, no. 1 (1998): 117–39.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion or Rights: The Case of Child Abuse.” New Political Science 18, no. 2–3 (1996): 69–87.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion or Rights: The Case of Child Abuse.” New Political Science 18, no. 2–3 (1996): 69–87.
Sznaider, Natan. “Terrorism and the Social Contract.” Irish Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (2006): 7–23.
Sznaider, Natan. “Consumerism as a Civilizing Process: Israel and Judaism in the Second Age of Modernity.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 14, no. 2 (2000): 247–314.
Sznaider, Natan. “Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust , by BrusteinWilliam I.. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 384 Pp. $70.00 Cloth. ISBN: 0-521-77308-3. $25.00 Paper. ISBN: 0-521-77478-0.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 34, no. 6 (2005): 642–43.
Beck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. “A Literature on Cosmopolitanism: An Overview.” The British Journal of Sociology 57, no. 1 (2006): 153–64.
Beck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. “Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda: Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences.” The British Journal of Sociology 61 (2006): 381–403.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Sovereignty Transformed: A Sociology of Human Rights.” The British Journal of Sociology 57, no. 4 (2006): 657–76.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Morality: The Holocaust and Human Rights.” Journal of Human Rights 3, no. 2 (2010): 143–57.
Sznaider, Natan. “Rewriting the Persian Letters: Rewriting the Persian Letters.” The British Journal of Sociology 61, no. 3 (2010): 627–33.
Beck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. “Self-Limitation of Modernity? The Theory of Reflexive Taboos.” Theory and Society 40, no. 4 (2011): 417–36.
Sznaider, Natan. “Ulrich Beck and Classical Sociological Theory.” Journal of Classical Sociology 15, no. 2 (2015): 220–25.
Heinlein, Michael, Daniel Levy, and Natan Sznaider. “Kosmopolitische Erinnerung Und Reflexive Modernisierung: Der Politische Diskurs Der Zwangsarbeitsentschädigung.” Soziale Welt 56, no. 2–3 (2005): 225–46.
Sznaider, Natan. “Die Amerikanisierung Des Holocaust.” In Globales Amerika?, edited by Ulrich Beck, Natan Sznaider, and Rainer Winter. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2003.
Beck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. “Cosmopolitan Sociology.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, by George Ritzer. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Memory and Human Rights.” In Handbook of Human Rights, 9 p. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Sznaider, Natan, and Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale. Die “Zwischengesellschaft”: Tradition Und Moderne Im Widerspruch Jüdische Erinnerung Und Die Kosmopolitische Ordnung, 23.02.2013. 17. Karlsruher Gespräche, 2013.02.23 [5]. Karlsruhe: KIT-Bibliothek Süd, 2013.
Sznaider, Natan. Gedachtnisraum Europa : Die Visionen Des Europäischen Kosmopolitismus. Eine Jüdische Perspektive. [S.l.]: Transcript-Verlag, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan. “The sociology of public compassion.” Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992.
Sznaider, Natan. “The Consumption of Democracy or Democratic Consumption: Toward New Civil Values.” Internationale Politik Und Gesellschaft, no. 4 (1999): 392–401.
Sznaider, Natan, and Ilan Talmud. “Moral Sentiments and the Social Organization of Public Compassion: The Case of Child Abuse in Israel.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 35, no. 1 (1998): 14–27.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. Erinnerung im globalen Zeitalter: der Holocaust. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001.
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider, and Tim May. “Rom Harré on Social Structure and Social Change.” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no. 1 (2002): 107–48.
Sznaider, Natan. “The Gap between Perception and Reality. An Answer to Shlomo Avineri.” Internationale Politik Und Gesellschaft, no. 2 (2003): 184–85.
Colonomos, Ariel, John Torpey, Daniel Levy, and Natan Sznaider. “World Civility.” Journal of Human Rights 3, no. 2 (2004): 139–263.
Levy, Daniel, Natan Sznaider, and Jackie Feldman. “Cosmopolitan versus National Rememberance. A Discussion between Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider and Jackie Feldman.” Mittelweg 36 15, no. 1 (2006): 102–7.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “The Cosmpolitanization of Holocaust Memory: From Jewish to Human Experience.” In Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas, edited by Judith M Gerson, 313–30. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2007.
Sznaider, Natan. “Review Essay on: Dov Schidorsky, Burning Scrolls and Flying Letters: A History of Book Collection and Libraries in Mandatory Palestine and of Book Salvaging Efforts in Europe after the Holocaust. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2008 (Hebrew), 552 Pages.” Yad Vashem Studies 37, no. 2 (2009).
Sznaider, Natan. “Saving the Books. Hannah Arendt in Munich (1949-50).” Mittelweg 36 18, no. 2 (2009): 61–76.
Sznaider, Natan. “Moralischer Universalismus Als Judisches Projekt.” Erwägen, Wissen, Ethik 20, no. 3 (2009): 471.
Beck, Ulrich, Norman Braun, Armin Nassehi, Michael Heinlein, Daniel Levy, and Natan Sznaider. “Kosmopolitische Erinnerung und reflexive Modernisierung: Der politische Diskurs der Zwangsarbeitsentschädigung.” SozW Soziale Welt 56, no. 2–3 (2005): 225–46.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. CD-R. Johanneshov: TPB, 2012.
Reinke, Andreas, Barbara Strenge, Bernd Braun, Natan Sznaider, Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, and Reinhard Rürup. Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer Band 1, Band 1,. München; New Providence; Paris: K.G. Saur, 1996.
Sznaider, Natan, Gabriel Abend, Mark Cooney, Jacek Hołówka, Krzysztof Kiciński, Magdalena Środa, Steven Hitlin, and Jacek Kurczewski. “Ossowska’s Foundations of Science of Morality 70 Years After.” Societas Communitas : Półrocznik Instytutu Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 2016, no. 2 (2016): 37–88.
Avın̂erı, ̂ Selomo, and Natan Sznaider. “Natan Sznaider: Die Kluft Zwischen Wahrnehmung Und Realität. Antwort Auf Shlomo Avineri.” Internationale Politik Und Gesellschaft Online 2003, no. 2 (2003): 184–85.
Sznaider, Natan. “Exil und Diaspora.” In Grenzen, edited by Gisela Dachs. Jüdischer Almanach des Leo Baeck Instituts. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan. “From Citizen Warrior to Citiezn Shopper and Back : New Modes of Cosmopolitan Citizenship.” In Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration, edited by Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss, 253–67. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
Speck, Ulrich, and Natan Sznaider. Empire Amerika: Perspektiven einer neuen Weltordnung. München: Dt. Verl.-Anst., 2003.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. Erinnerung im globalen Zeitalter: der Holocaust. Frankfurt a.M: Suhrkamp, 2007.
Sznaider, Natan, and Daniel Levy. “The Politics of Commemoration : The Holocaust, Memory and Trauma.” In The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory : The Holocaust, Memory and Trauma, edited by Gerard Delanty, 289–97. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rabinovici, Doron, Ulrich Speck, and Natan Sznaider. Neuer Antisemitismus?: eine globale Debatte. Edition suhrkamp 2386. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005.
Sznaider, Natan. “Democracy and Child Welfare.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 11, no. 2 (1997): 325–50.
Sznaider, Natan. “Terrorism and the Social Contract.” Irish Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (2006): 7–23.
Sznaider, Natan. “Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life.” Jewish History 14, no. 2 (2000): 245–51.
Sznaider, Natan. “Vom Wehrbürger zum Einkaufsbürger: Nationalismus und Konsum in Israel.” sozialewelt Soziale Welt 49, no. 1 (1998): 43–56.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion and Control.” Childhood 4, no. 2 (2016): 223–40.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Memories of Universal Victimhood: The Case of Ethnic German Expellees.” German Politics and Society 23, no. 2 (2005): 1–27.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion, Cruelty, and Human Rights.” In World Suffering and Quality of Life, 55–64. Social Indicators Research Series. Springer, Dordrecht, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan. “Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life.” Jewish History 14, no. 2 (2000): 245–51.
Sznaider, Natan. “Consumerism as a Civilizing Process: Israel and Judaism in the Second Age of Modernity.” Intejpolicultsoc International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 14, no. 2 (2000): 297–314.
Poferl, Angelika, and Natan Sznaider. Ulrich Becks kosmopolitisches Projekt: auf dem Weg in eine andere Soziologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004.
Baer, Alejandro, and Natan Sznaider. Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again. Memory Studies (London, England). Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. “Diaspora-Nationalismus : Jüdische Erfahrungen Und Universale Lehren.” In Lebensmodell Diaspora : Über Moderne Nomaden, edited by Isolde Charim and Gertraud Auer Borea, 185–93. Kultur Und Soziale Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2012.
Sznaider, Natan. Jüdische Erinnerung Und Die Kosmopolitische Ordnung. 17. Karlsruher Gespräche : Die ‚Zwischengesellschaft‘: Tradition Und Moderne Im Widerspruch ; 22. - 24. Februar 2013 : The ‘In-Between Society’: Tradition and Modernism in Conflict. KIT-Bibliothek, 2013.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Remembering a Sociology of Human Rights.” Culture & History Digital Journal 3, no. 2 (2014): e013.
Sznaider, Natan, and Rainer Winter. “Einleitung.” In Globales Amerika?, 4:7–22. transcript Verlag, 2015.
Sznaider, Natan. “Terrorism and the Social Contract.” Irish Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (2006): 7–23.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion and Control: Children in Civil Society.” Childhood 4, no. 2 (1997): 223–40.
Sznaider, Natan. “Der Konsum der Demokratie oder der demokratische Konsum für eine neue Bürgerlichkeit.” Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft : IPG., no. 4 (1999): 392–401.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion and Cruelty in Modern Society: The Case of the Holocaust.” Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 26, no. 4 (1999): 487–506.
Sznaider, Natan. Über das Mitleid im Kapitalismus. Wien [etc.: Edition München, 2002.
Sznaider, Natan. “Compassion and Cruelty.” Societas Communitas : Półrocznik Instytutu Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 2016, no. 2 (2016): 11–20.
Sznaider, Natan. Über das Mitleid im Kapitalismus. Wien: Bibliothek der Provinz, 2005.
Sznaider, Natan. Gesellschaften in Israel: Eine Einführung in zehn Bildern. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 2017.
Sznaider, Natan. “Pain and Cruelty in Socio-Historical Perspective.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 10, no. 2 (1996): 331–54.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Morality: The Holocaust and Human Rights.” Journal of Human Rights 3, no. 2 (2004): 143–57.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. Erinnerung Im Globalen Zeitalter: Der Holocaust. 1st ed. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch ; 3870 : Suhrkamp Globalisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007.
Baer, Alejandro, and Natan Sznaider. “Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s Mass Graves: Cosmopolitan Memories and the Politics of ‘Never Again.’” Memory Studies 8, no. 3 (2015): 328–44.
Sznaider, Natan. The Compassionate Temperament: Care and Cruelty in Modern Society. Postmodern Social Futures. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. Human Rights and Memory. Essays on Human Rights. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age. English ed. Politics, History, and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.
Sznaider, Natan. Compassion and Cruelty in Modern Society. The Case of the Holocaust. Amsterdam: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 1999.
Sznaider, Natan. “Hannah Arendt and the Sociology of Antisemitism.” Austrian Journal of Political Science 39, no. 4 (2010): 421–34.
Baer, Alejandro, and Natan Sznaider. “Los Desaparecidos Del Holocausto Español". Memorias Transnacionales y Políticas Del" Nunca Más.” In Las Víctimas Como Precio Necesario, 85–100. Trotta, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. Gedächtnisraum Europa: die Visionen des europäischen Kosmopolitismus : eine jüdische Perspektive. Xtexte. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008.
Levy, Daniel, and Natan Sznaider. “Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory.” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no. 1 (2002): 87–106.
Poferl, Angelika, Natan Sznaider, and John Urry. Risks and mobilities. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2004.
Rabinovici, Doron, and Natan Sznaider. Herzl reloaded: kein Märchen. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2016.
Sznaider, Natan. La memoria judía y el orden cosmopolita. Buenos Aires: Capital Intelectual, 2012.