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Dora Apel

Dora Apel is an author and an art historian who teaches at Wayne State University. Among her books are Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (Rutgers University Press, 2002) and Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (Rutgers University Press, 2004). She is currently working on a book about contemporary images of war.

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The allure of Nazi imagery in Russia

An image on a vodka bottle takes Dora Apel on a disturbing journey through the reviving currents of chauvinist, anti-semitic and even Nazi sentiment in modern Russia.