Mark Levene

The First World War was a major watershed in modern Jewish history. Out of it came the Balfour Declaration, a first critical step in the creation of the State of Israel, but also a radical redrafting of the political map of eastern and central Europe, with dramatic and potentially tragic consequences for its dispersed but substantial Jewish minority. Meer

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic exploration. Meer

Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938, particularly focussing on the Balkans, the Great War, and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history. Meer

Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1939 to 1952, particularly focussing on the Second World War, and its aftermath, the Holocaust and it's lasting impact, and the latter part of the Stalinist regime, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history. Meer