Ruth Wittlinger was an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK. She had published extensively on memory and identity in post-unification Germany and Europe, inter alia the monograph German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Different Republic After All?  - Her research has been published in a number of journals including West European Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, German Politics and German Politics and Society. In 2017, she was awarded a Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and spent her time at the Koebner Minerva Center as a research guest. - Ruth Wittlinger passed away in February 2020. She is deeply missed by her colleagues in Jerusalem.