Bettine Rau

Research Interests

Research on Antisemitism and Antigypsyism, History of National Socialism and the Shoah, Gender history

Biography

Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Research on Anti-Semitism from the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Haifa, Israel. Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and at the chair of Prof. Monika Schwarz-Friesel, TU Berlin. Since 2026, researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute for Social Research in the project The Post-Nazi Society. The ›Group Experiment‹ of the Institute for Social Research: Cataloguing, Edition, Research.

Publications (selection)

Rau, Bettine 2026, Decree against Fortune-Telling, in: in: Karola Fings (Hg.): Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe. Research Centre on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University: Heidelberg.

Rau, Bettine 2024: Der antisemitische Witz und seine Funktion im Nationalsozialismus, in: Luca Zarbock et al. (eds.): Antisemitismus zwischen Latenz und Leidenschaft. Kommunikations- und Äußerungsformen des Judenhasses im Wandel, Verlag Barbara Budrich: Opladen, 51-70.

The Post-Nazi Society. The ›Group Experiment‹ of the Institute for Social Research: Cataloguing, Edition, Research.

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