Our guest in this new episode is Prof. Roni Stauber. He is an Israeli historian of moden Jewish history, an associate professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, a member of the Yad Vashem Scientific Committee, head of the Goldstein-Goren Center for Diaspora Studies, and head of the Certificate Program in Archival and Information Studies. Stauber’s main field is the study of collective memory. He deals with the interplay between politics and diplomacy, and collective memory and historiography with a focus on the formation of Holocaust consciousness in Israel and around the world.

In the past decade, his research has focused primarily on relations between Israel and West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. His book 'The Lesson for a Generation' analyzed the positions...