Published on 4 April 2023, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany is an ethnographic study comparing the intents and consequences of education programmes among Turkish- and Arab-background Muslims living in Germany. The book is Professor Esra Özyürek's third monograph, and the first published since she joined the University of Cambridge in autumn 2020.
Praise for Subcontractors of Guilt (courtesy of the publishers, Stanford University Press):
“a path-breaking and much needed book on the multifaceted, constitutive ways by which Turkish- and Arab-background migrants shaped German Holocaust memory and how it shaped their identity in return. . . . rewrit[ing] our understanding of the development of Holocaust memory in Germany”
—Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews
“an essential intervention into . . . debates around migration, Muslim minorities, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust memory. [C]entering the perspectives of young German Muslims, Özyürek’s insightful study offers an important corrective . . .”
—Fatima El-Tayeb, Yale University
“German Holocaust memory culture is often held up as a model for other nations to imitate. [. . . ] the story is much more complicated.”
—Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization
The book is available in paperback, hardcover and eBook editions. Those registering to attend Professor Özyürek's inaugural lecture on 3 May can also purchase the book at a discounted rate. This offer includes those registering for the livestream.
Professor Özyürek will also be discussing the book with a live audience in Hamburg on 27 April.