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Shirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London and Director of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre. She is a historian of modern Jewish life, with particular interest in the Holocaust and its legacies; Jewish refugees in Africa; Jews, racism, and colonialism; and Jews in South Africa. She obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her publications include Music in the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2005), From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2017) and, with Avril Alba, Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (Wayne State University Press, 2019). She is editor-in-chief of the journal Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry (UCL Press) and is currently completing, with Roni Mikel-Arieli, The Holocaust and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Documentary History (Brill, 2026).