Dr. Rachel Blumenthal is a lawyer and historian. She researches the postwar era and the cataclysmic consequences of the Second World War. Her first book, Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951-1964, based on her dissertation, was published by Lexington Books in 2021 and her second book is a collection of articles that she edited together with Daniel Herskowitz and Kerstin Mayerhofer entitled Constructing and Experiencing Jewish Identity, published by Brill in 2022. In 2022, she was awarded the Leo Baeck Institute (NYC) Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellow and in 2021 she received the Salo Baron Young Scholars Award from the University of Vienna. She is now researching the Austrian model of postwar restorative justice.