Jonathan Zisook is a sociologist of religion and a scholar of the Holocaust and its aftermath in East Central Europe. Jonathan is the co-editor of From Centre to Periphery and Beyond: The History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites (2024) and the Modern Judaism editor of Religious Studies Review. He is currently completing a monograph on the politics of Holocaust memory in contemporary Poland and co-authoring a work on Holocaust museums and Jewish identity in the United States.
Jonathan’s research has been supported by the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He received a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York and an MA in Modern Jewish History from Yeshiva University.
