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I am a productive scholar of 19th and 20th century Central and Eastern European History with an emphasis on transnational and interdisciplinary approaches. In my research I combine the theories and methods of Holocaust studies, communication studies, History of Knowledge and migration studies with German, Jewish, Polish and Global History. I am currently preparing a source edition on Yiddish travelogues through Nazi Germany, which will be published by Yad Vashem in 2022. Additionally, I am working on a new book project, where I examine the role, function and networks of Eastern European Jewish landsmanshaftn (hometown associations) as a means of migrant self-help during and after the Shoah. This transnational study connects populations in regions and countries spanning from Eastern Europe to Western Europe and North America, as well as from Latin America to Israel. My dissertation on the Yiddish press of Warsaw and its struggle against Nazi Germany during the 1930s and early 1940s was published as a book with De Gruyter in October 2021.