Global and International Studies Building 4019
355 N Jordan Ave
Bloomington, IN 47405
355 N Jordan Ave
Bloomington, IN 47405
About Irit Dekel
Irit Dekel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dekel is a sociologist of culture and studies memory politics, ethnic and religious inequality in Germany and Israel. She has published on Israeli collectivism and Israeli migration to Berlin, as well as on home museums, their atmosphere and gender exhibition in Israel and Germany. Her book Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2013) analyzed the variety of visitors' engagement at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and moral transformation surrounding Holocaust memory in the 21st Century.