Yaron Jean, Ph.D. – studied European history and political science at the universities of Tel Aviv, Munich, Cologne and the Hebrew University where he received his PhD., in 2006. Yaron teaches modern history and communication at the Sapir College, Negev and his present research focuses on the transnational impacts of World War II on the post war de-colonisation movements. Yaron is the author of Noises of Modernity. Hearing Experiences in Germany 1914-1945 (Heb.), (Tel Aviv, 2011) and Portable Identities: Travel Documents and the Question of Stateless Refugees in Europe between the Two World Wars, (Göttingen/Bristol, Conn., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming 2018) [Eng.] . His recent publications further including “The Soundmindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses” in: Feiereisen Florence and Hill M. Alexandra (ed.) Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century. An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012); “Silenced Power: Warfare Technology and the Changing Role of Sounds in Twentieth-Century Europe” in: Studies in Contemporary History, 8, 2011; “Droning Airplanes and Reversed Memories: The Historiosonic Vocabulary of the Air War Over Europe in the Second World War” in: Meier R. (ed.) Acoustic Memory and the Second World War, forward by Aleida Assman (Göttingen/Bristol, Conn., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2010); Reisepapiere und jüdische Mobilitätserfahrung. Geschichte eine negativen Symbiose im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit, in: Dachs Gisela (Hg.) Grenzen, Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag; Made in Germany“ Hanna Reitsch and the Political Legacy of Motroless Aviation Outside Germany , in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, Bd. 44; Destruction out of Silence: Non-Diegetic Sounds, Drones and the Natural History of Aerial Warfare in: Bründel Stephen and Frank Estelmann (ed.) Disasters of Violence, War and Extermisim 1813-2015, Transcript Verlag, 2018; Invisibility, Concealment and Asymmetric Warfare: Some Reflections on the History of Camouflage, CEIW, forthcoming 2018; Disruptive Silence: Air Raid Sirens and Holocaust Remembrance in Israel, Liminalities, 2018; Cold Proximity: Air Power in the First World War and the Transitive Role of the Battlefront as a Theatre, Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2018.