Dr. Christin Zühlke is the inaugural Chaiken Postdoctoral Researcher in Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on Jewish experiences and responses to the Holocaust, with a specific emphasis on Yiddish, gender, and religious aspects. Her research interests also address Holocaust memory, Yiddish, Jewish and Holocaust Museums, Modern Jewish Thought, Pop Culture, and Practical Ethics.
From 2023 until 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She holds a Ph.D. from the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Her Ph.D. project analyzed the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau with an emphasis on Jewish Cultural Studies and Jewish as well as Holocaust Literature.
She is an Associate Co-Editor of the "Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature" and co-edits "New Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Literature." She co-edits the "Elie Wiesel Research Series" as well as the annotated 24-volume edition of "Elie Wiesel Werke" ("Works of Elie Wiesel.") Further, she co-edits the special issues “In the Void – (Non-)Representations of the Gas Chambers” with Dominic Williams, Holocaust Studies and “Agency and Absence. Zooming in on Men as Gendered Beings during the Holocaust” with Björn Krondorfer, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
She studied Jewish Studies, Philosophy, and German Studies and was a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, the University of California, Berkeley, and the German Historical Institute (Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley).

• New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust, co-edited with Frédéric Bonnesoeur and Hannah Wilson, de Gruyter, 2023, 380p.
• Die Nacht, new, annotated German translation of La Nuit by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel Research Center, Herder Publisher, 2022, 192p.
• “‘Shultsloze Ferpeynikte Neshomes’ – ‘Vulnerable, Tormented Souls’: Gendered Wounds, Sexualized Violence, and Jewish Masculinity in the Yiddish Testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau”, in: The Journal of Holocaust Research (2024), Special issue: Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust, 19p.
• “Elie Wiesel and A Legacy of (Post-)Witnessing”, in: Modern Judaism (2023), 16p.
• “Witnessing, Gazing and (Non)Actions as Modus Operandi of Violence in Elie Wiesel’s Writings”, in: Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext [Journal for Christian-Jewish Encounter in Context] (2/3/2022), 220-226 (German)
• “More than Meets the Eye – The Intricate Relationship between Selfies at Holocaust Memorial Sites and their Subsequent Shaming”, in: Eastern European Holocaust Studies (2022), co-authored with Samantha Hinckley, 18p.
• “Religious Aspects of the Testimonies of the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau” in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte [Journal for the History of Religion and Intellectual History] (74.2), 174-178 (German)
• “The Yiddish Voices of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau” in: rabs. religionsunterricht an berufsbildenden schulen [rabs. religious education in vocational schools] (2/2021 and 3/2021), 4-7 (in each vol.) (German)
• “Frauen als Opfer von sexualisierter Gewalt aus der Perspektive des Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau” [“Women as Victims of Sexualized Violence from the Perspective of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau”], Nationalsozialistische Konzentrationslager. Geschichte und Erinnerung [National Nazi Concentration Camps. History and Memory], ed. Axel Drecoll and Michael Wildt, Metropol Verlag, 2024, 234-240 (German)
• “Sexualized Violence in Auschwitz-Birkenau – The Perspective of the Sonderkommando Prisoners”, in: New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust, de Gruyter, 2023, 221-236.
• “The Bystander in Elie Wiesel’s ‘The Town Beyond the Wall’” in: The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel’s Literary Works, ed. Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith, SUNY Press, 2019, 97-112