Mother of three, sister, wife, Holocaust researcher, Doctor in Philosophy (UNED, Madrid, cum laude, 2023), MA in Philosophy (UNED, cum laude, 2015), and Bachelor of Music (Recorder –Early Music– and Education, Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, 2002).
AFFILIATION: Tiergarten 4 Association, Berlin (Holocaust researcher).
AOS: Holocaust studies, Moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion.
AOC: Genocide studies, Political philosophy, Aesthetics of music.
AREAS OF RESEARCH: Holocaust studies, antisemitism, Viktor Frankl, Sartre, Ortega, Hannah Arendt.
LANGUAGES: Mother tongue and Advanced: Spanish, English, French, and Catalan / Medium and Basic: Italian, German, and Hebrew
PUBLICATIONS & WORK IN PROGRESS
–"Nazi Germany and its War Crimes as Seen through the Photographs of Ordinary Germans". With Cameron Munro and Reinald Purmann. Tiergarten 4 Association. 2023–2025.
–"Viktor Frankl: sentido y esperanza (un sí a la vida bajo cualquier circunstancia). Algunos problemas del mensaje frankleano en la Shoah" (forthcoming, Cuadernos judaicos, Universidad de Chile, December 2024).
–"¿Acaso si Dios no existe todo está permitido? La pregunta de Dostoyevski, la moral sartreana, la esperanza frankleana y el recuerdo de las víctimas" (forthcoming, Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, Universidad de Málaga, December 2024).
–"The Holocaust in Film: A Valuable Contribution to the Historiography of the Holocaust and a Glimpse into the Shuttered Voices of the Shoah" (forthcoming, Historiografías, revista de historia y teoría, Universidad de Zaragoza, June 2024).
–"Jewish Resistance in the Shoah: Kiddush Ha-Hayyim and Amidah. Fight, Survival, and Meaning Amidst Extermination" (in progress).
–"Feuerbach: la religión como espejo, la urgente valorización del ser humano y la aceptación de la mortalidad" (in progress).
–"Lectura crítica del Tractatus Theologico–politicus de Spinoza. Fe, análisis, obediencia, teología y razón" (in progress).
–"Stravinsky's Poétique musicale: The composer as Homo faber. Antisemitism, Le Sacre du printemps and Adorno's critique" (under review).
–"Derrida: un hombre de 'parole vive'. Escritura y palabra oral en los envois y las cartas de Gadamer" (under review).
–"Hume: ¿una puerta hacia el ateísmo?" (Éndoxa, UNED, Spain, forthcoming, June 2024).
–"Foucault: rostro de arena, discontinuidad histórica y "jeux de vérité", Cuadernos de Filosofía (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) Nº 39, pp. 65–81, 2021.
LECTURES
–"Viktor Frankl: el sí a la vida a pesar de todo. La búsqueda por el sentido". Centro Sefarad-Israel, Madrid, Spain (May 30, 2023).
–"Primo Levi y Viktor Frankl: testimonio, barbarie y sentido". Centro Sefarad-Israel, Madrid, Spain (February 14, 2024).
Dr. Antonia Tejeda Barros (Barcelona, 1975) holds a PhD in Philosophy (UNED, 2023, cum laude), a MA in Philosophy (UNED, 2015, cum laude) and a Bachelor of Music (Recorder –Early Music– and Education, Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, 2002). Her areas of research are the Holocaust, antisemitism, Viktor Frankl, Sartre, Ortega, and Hannah Arendt. She is a Holocaust researcher at the Tiergarten 4 Association in Berlin and works as volunteer at the Holocaust Museum LA, USA. She is writing a book about Viktor Frankl, Sartre, Auschwitz, and the meaning and meaninglessness of the victims' suffering. She has been invited to give lectures about Viktor Frankl, Primo Levi and the Shoah at the Centro-Sefarad Israel (Madrid, Spain). She currently lives in Madrid, Spain, with her husband and their three amazing children.
