Wolf Gruner, PhD
Founding Director, Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Originally from Germany, Wolf Gruner is a specialist for the research of the Holocaust and Central European Jewish history, topics on which he published ten books and around 70 articles and book chapters by now. Most recently, he published a prizewinning book on the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. He just finished an exciting decade-long research project on forgotten acts of individual defiance and protest of German and Austrian Jews in Nazi Germany. The soon to be published book will fundamentally revise our understanding of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Additional areas of research include the comparative history of mass violence and its resistance on a global scale, as well as racial and state discrimination against Indigenous and other minority populations, especially in Latin America. Since 2008, he is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California. In 2014, Professor Gruner became the founding director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (previously the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research). He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and co-founder of the National Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies.
gruner@usc.edu Publications
Gruner, Wolf/Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan (Ed.).
Petitions Resisting Persecution. Negotiating Self-Determination and Survival of European Jews.
New York: Berghahn Books.
2020
Gruner, Wolf
Anti-Jewish Persecution in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Local Initiatives, Central Decisions, Jewish Responses.
New York: Berghahn Books.
2019
Gruner, Wolf; Steve Ross (Ed.).
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison.
West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press.
2019
Gruner, Wolf (Ed.).
The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, Vol. 1: German Reich 1933–1937.
Munich: DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG.
2019
Gruner, Wolf
Die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. Lokale Initiativen, zentrale Entscheidungen, jüdische Antworten 1939-1945.
Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag.
2016
Gruner, Wolf
Parias de la Patria. El mito de la liberación de las Indígenas en la República de Bolivia 1825-1890 (Parias de la Patria. The myth of the liberation of the indigenous people in the Republic of Bolivia).
La Paz: Plural Editores.
2015
Gruner, Wolf and Joerg Osterloh (Ed.)
THE GREATER GERMAN REICH AND THE JEWS. Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945.
New York: Berghahn Books.
2015
Gruner, Wolf
The Persecution of the Jews in Berlin 1933-1945 A Chronology of Measures by the Authorities in the German Capital.
Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Berlin
2014
Gruner, Wolf
Gedenkort Rosenstraße 2-4: Internierung and Protest im NS-Staat (Memorial. Rosenstrasse 2-4. Internment and Protest in the Nazi state).
Berlin: Hentrich and Hentrich.
2013
Gruner, Wolf and Osterloh, Jörg (Ed.)
Das „Großdeutsche Reich" und die Juden. Nationalsozialistische Verfolgungspolitik in den angegliederten Gebieten.
Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag.
2010
Gruner, Wolf
Judenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945. Eine Chronologie der Behördenmaßnahmen in der Reichshauptstadt (The Persecution of the Berlin Jews. A Chronology).
Berlin: Topographie des Terrors.
2009
Gruner, Wolf
Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Racial Aims (1938-1944)
Revised Paperback edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2008
Gruner, Wolf (Ed.).
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945, part I, Vol 1: Das Deutsche Reich 1933 bis 1937 (Collection of primary Holocaust documents on Germany 1933-1937).
Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag.
2008
Gruner, Wolf
Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Racial Aims (1938-1944).
New York: Cambridge University Press.
2006
Gruner, Wolf
Widerstand in der Rosenstraße. Die Fabrik-Aktion und die Verfolgung der „Mischehen" 1943 (Resistance in the Rosenstrasse. The Factory Raid and the Persecution of the „Mixed Marriages").
Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer-Verlag.
2005
Gruner, Wolf
Öffentliche Wohlfahrt und Judenverfolgung. Wechselwirkungen lokaler und zentraler Politik im NS-Staat (1933-1942) (Public Welfare and the Persecution of Jews. Local vs. Centralized Policy-making in the Nazi State).
Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag.
2002
Gruner, Wolf and Nolzen, Armin (Ed.).
Bürokratien: Initiative und Effizienz (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Bd. 17 (: Bureaucracy: Initiative and Efficiency. Essays on the History of National Socialism, vol. 17 ).
Berlin: Assoziation a.
2001
Gruner, Wolf
Zwangsarbeit und Verfolgung. Österreichische Juden im NS-Staat 1938-1945 (Forced Labor and the Persecution of Austrian Jews 1938-1945).
Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich: Studien-Verlag.
2000
Gruner, Wolf
Der Geschlossene Arbeitseinsatz deutscher Juden. Zwangsarbeit als ein Element der Verfolgung 1938-1943 (The Compulsory Labor Project for German Jews. Forced Labor as an Element of Persecution 1938-1943).
Berlin: Metropol-Verlag.
1997
Gruner, Wolf
Judenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945. Eine Chronologie der Behördenmaßnahmen in der Reichshauptstadt (The Persecution of the Berlin Jews. A Chronology).
Berlin: Hentrich.
1996