Michael Brenner Is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich, the First Such Chair at a German Univer
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CV and Publications Michael Brenner Curriculum Vitae Michael Brenner Department for Jewish History and Culture Ludwig Maximilian University Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 80539 Munich, Germany Phone: 49-89-21805570 Fax: 49-89-21805666 Email: [email protected] Present Positions Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington, D.C. Education 1994 Ph.D. Jewish History (with distinction), M.Phil. 1991, Columbia University, New York 1988 Master of Arts, Jewish Studies at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien and History at University of Heidelberg Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (1985-87) Teaching Appointments 2013- Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University, Washington, D.C. 1997- Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich (Full Professorship) 1994-1997 Brandeis University Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History 1993-1994 Indiana University, Bloomington Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish History Visiting Professor Spring 2011 ETH Zürich (Switzerland) Fall 2009 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Spring 2009 University of Lucerne (Switzerland) Fall 2008 University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007 École des Hautes Études, Paris Spring 2006 Haifa University (Israel) Fall 2002, Fall 2005 Stanford University 1 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Spring 2002, Fall 2004 Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) Fall 1996 University of Mainz (Germany) Invited Research Followships 2011 (February-March) American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington 2010 (March) Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 2007-2008 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington Select University Service Activity 2011- Member of University Senate 2001-2003 Associate Dean of the Faculty of History and Art 2002-2003 Chair of the History Department Election to Academic Positions 2013- International President, Leo Baeck Institute 2012- Fellow of Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, Mantua 2009- Fellow of Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1998-2009 Chairman of Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany Board Member and Advisory Committees Board Member, Association for Israel Studies Board Member, The Israel Institute Member of Advisory Board, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. Chair of Advisory Board, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Jerusalem Member of Advisory Board, DAAD Institute for German Studies, Haifa University Member of Advisory Board, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich-Berlin (2008-2012) Member of Advisory Board, American Jewish Committee Berlin Member of Founding Advisory Committee, Jewish Museum Berlin Member of Advisory Committee, Jewish Museums Vienna, Augsburg and Fuerth Member of Advisory Committee, Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten Editorial Boards AJS Perspectives Jewish Cultural Studies (Littman Library) Jewish Quarterly Review Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Les Cahiers du judaisme Modern Judaism Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 2 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Year Book of the Simon Dubnow Institute Area Editor (Encyclopedias) Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th ed. (eng. edition: Religion, Past and Present), Editor for Judaism (Middle Ages and Modern Periods) Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (all entries concerning Germany and Austria) Editor of Book Series and Journals Jewish History, Culture, and Religion (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag Goettingen) Jewish History and Culture in Bavaria (Oldenbourg Verlag Munich) Editor of Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University Associate Editor of Tauber Book Series (1996-2001) Publications Books (Authored) A Short History of the Jews (Princeton University Press 2010) (German original 2008, Italian 2010, Spanish 2012, Portuguese and Turkish 2013, Denish and Czech 2013) Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History (Princeton University Press 2010) (German original 2006) Zionism: A Brief History (Princeton: Marcus Wiener 2003, 2nd rev. ed. 2012) (German original 2002, 3rd rev. ed. 2008, Italian 2004; Korean 2005) The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale University Press 1996; German 2000, Hebrew 2003) co-author of German-Jewish History in Modern Times, vol. 2: 1780-1871 (Munich: C. H. Beck 1996; New York: Columbia University Press 1997; Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2000) National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History 1997 After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (Princeton University Press 1997) (German original 1995) Am Beispiel Weiden: Jüdischer Alltag im Nationalsozialismus (Würzburg: Arena, 1983) Edited Books Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland von 1945 bis in die Gegenwart (München: C.H. Beck 2012) (English translation under consideration with Columbia University Press) 3 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Der Holocaust in der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft: Bilanz und Perspektiven (Göttingen: Wallstein 2012) (with Maximilian Strnad) Die Juden in Franken (München: Oldenbourg, 2012) (with Daniela Eisenstein) Die Juden in Schwaben (München: Oldenbourg 2012) (with Sabine Ullmann) Die Juden in der Oberpfalz (München: Oldenbourg, 2009) (with Renate Hoepfinger) Mediating Modernity. Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World (Detroit: Wayne State University, 2008) (with Lauren B. Strauss) Jüdisches München. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (München: C.H. Beck, 2006) (with Richard Bauer) Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe (Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2006) (German edition 2006) (with Gideon Reuveni) Wenn Du geschrieben hättest, Josephus: Ungeschriebene Briefe der jüdischen Geschichte (München: C.H. Beck, 2005) Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (Tübingen: Mohr- Siebeck, 2003) (with Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufmann) Jüdische Geschichte lesen: Texte der jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (München: C.H. Beck, 2003) (with Anthony Kauders, Gideon Reuveni and Nils Römer) Jüdische Sprachen in deutscher Umwelt: Hebräisch und Jiddisch von der Aufklärung bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002) Jüdische Geschichtsschreibung heute (München: C.H. Beck, 2002) (English translation fortcoming with University of Wisconsin Press) (with David N. Myers) Wissenschaft vom Judentum: Annäherungen nach dem Holocaust (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2000) (with Stefan Rohrbacher) Two Nations: British and German Jews in Comparative Perspective (Tübingen: Mohr- Siebeck, 1999) (with Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter) Zionistische Utopie - israelische Realität: Religion und Nation in Israel (München: C.H.Beck 1999) (with Yfaat Weiss) In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1998) (with Derek Penslar) Published Lectures From German Wissenschaft to Global Scholarship: Jewish Historiography between the World 4 CV and Publications Michael Brenner Wars (Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 53. New York, 2011) In the Shadow of the Holocaust. The Changing Image of German Jewry after 1945. (Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010). The Same History is not the Same Story: Jewish History and Jewish Politics (Bloomington: Indiana University, 2006). Nichtjüdische Historiker und jüdische Geschichte: Der Wandel in der Wahrnehmung von außen, Franz – Delitzsch – Vorlesung 2005, Münster 2006. Mekomah shel Berlin betoldot yahadut germaniah (Die Rolle Berlins in der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte). Braun Lectures in the History of the Jews in Prussia 5 (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan, 2000) Wie jüdisch waren Deutschlands Juden? Die Renaissance jüdischer Kultur während der Weimarer Republik (Reihe Gesprächskreis Geschichte, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn 2000). Articles 2013 “Der antisemitische Code. Von linken und rechten Antisemiten, guten Juden und bösen Israelis“, in: Armin Nassehi (ed.): Kursbuch 173. Rechte Linke, (2013/1), S. 154-164. “Jüdisches Leben in Bayerisch-Schwaben nach 1945“, in: Michael Brenner und Sabine Ullmann (eds.): Die Juden in Schwaben, (Studien zu Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur in Bayern, Bd. 6) München: Oldenboourg 2013, S. 287-297. “Jüdische Geistesgeschichte zwischen Exil und Heimkehr: Hans-Joachim Schoeps im Kontext der Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in: Monika Boll und Raphael Gross (eds.): „Ich staune, dass Sie in dieser Luft atmen können“. Jüdische Intellektuelle in Deutschland nach 1945, (Schriftenreihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts, Bd. 28) Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH 2013, S. 21-40. “Gemeinschaft und Gemeinde: The Ideological and Institutional Transformation of the Jewish Community“, in: Nils Roemer (ed.): German Jewry. Between Hope and Despair, Boston: Academic Studies Press 2013, S. 191-232. “Between Haskalah and Hashmadah: Hebrew Traces in Germany from Mendelssohn to Eichmann”, Prooftexts (forthcoming) 2012 “Neubeginn mit Fragezeichen: Der Wiederaufbau der jüdischen Gemeinden Frankens”, in: Michael Brenner und Daniela Eisenstein (eds.), Die Juden in Franken, München: Oldenbourg 2012, 265-282. „’Ansonsten macht der klerikale Antisemitismus und Faschismus vor der Prominenz halt - doch sorgt er insgeheim dafür, dass kein jüdischer