LISA MOSES LEFF Department of History American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington DC 20016-8038 (202) 885-6377 [email protected]
POSITION Associate Professor of History, American University 2009- Associate Professor of History, Southwestern University 2006-2009 Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University 2000-2006
EDUCATION Ph.D. History, University of Chicago 2000 M.A. History, University of Chicago 1993 B.A. with High Honors Philosophy and History, Oberlin College 1991
AWARDS Faculty Mellon grants, American University 2010, 2012 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship 2009-2010 Vining-Davis Fellowship, Marcus Center, American Jewish Archives 2009 Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University 2008-09 Sam Taylor Research Grant, United Methodist Higher Education Board 2008 Fellow, University of Chicago Research Center, Paris 2008 Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris 2007 Southwestern University Teaching Award 2007 Cullen International Travel/Research Grants, Southwestern University 2001-06 Finalist, Koret Foundation Jewish Publication Program Award 2004 Brown Fellowship, Southwestern University 2003-04 Southwestern Young Investigator Award (for Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher) 2003
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Bernadotte E. Schmitt Fellowship, American Historical Association 2001 Fellow, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 1999 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 1998-99 University of Chicago Overseas Research Fellowship 1998 Bourse Chateaubriand 1996-97 Fulbright Fellowship, France (declined) 1996-97 Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship 1995 University unendowed fellowship, University of Chicago 1993-96
WORK IN PROGRESS “The Archive Handler: Zosa Szajkowski and the Salvaging of French Jewish History” (in progress)
“Postwar Book Restitutions and the Revival of Republican Franco-Judaism.” Article submitted for inclusion in Steven Katz and Sean Hand, eds., Jews in France/France and the Jews, 1945-55
“The Jewish Oath and the Making of Secularism in Modern France.” Submitted for inclusion in special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook on “Jews and the Law in Modern Europe” (scheduled for January 2013)
Guest co-editor for special double issue of Jewish Culture and History on “The Archive and Jewish Migration,” with Joachim Schlör and James Jordan (in progress)
PUBLISHED BOOKS and VOLUME EDITING Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Guest Co-Editor, “Jewish Racial Self-Fashioning in Comparative Perspective.” Special issue of Jewish History, vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2005).
PUBISHED ARTICLES (Peer-reviewed) “Recue or Theft? Zosa Szajkowski and the Salvaging of French Jewish History.” Jewish Social Studies (forthcoming in vol. 18 no. 2, autumn 2012)
“L’Histoire des juifs de France vue des Etats-Unis.” Archives Juives (March 2010): 126-136.
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“The Impact of the Napoleonic Sanhedrin on French Colonial Policy in Algeria.” CCAR Journal (Winter 2007): 35-54.
“Jews, Liberals, and the Civilizing Mission in Nineteenth-Century France.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 32, 1 (Spring 2006): 105-28.
“Self-Definition and Self-Defense: Jewish Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century France.” Jewish History vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2005): 7-28.
“’Jewish Solidarity’ in Nineteenth-Century France: The Evolution of a Concept.” The Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002): 33-61.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Book Review of Joshua Schreier, Arabs of the Jewish Faith, for Archives Juives (in progress)
Book review of Harry Paul, Henri de Rothschild: between Medicine and Theater for Journal of Modern History (forthcoming, submitted January 2012)
Book Review of Julie Kalman, Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century France for Archives Juives (forthcoming, submitted June 2012)
Book Review of Mitchell B. Hart, ed., Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference for H-Judaic (forthcoming, submitted July 2012)
Entry, “Crémieux Decree” in Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, ed. Dan Diner (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2012) Vol. 2: 77-80.
Book Review of Maurice Samuels, Inventing the Israelite for Archives Juives (2011)
Book Review of Ariela Keysar and Barry Komin, eds., Women, the State and Secularism for Modern Jewish Studies 10, 2 (2011): 310-313.
Book Review of Maurice Samuels, Inventing the Israelite for H-Judaic (published August 2, 2010, URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29436)
Editorial entitled “The Way We Aid,” published in The Forward, June 6, 2010.
Book Review of Jeffrey Haus, Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State and Education in Nineteenth-century France. Archives Juives. (March 2010), 148-149.
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Book Review of Herbert H. Kaplan, Nathan Meyer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty, 1806-1816. Journal of Modern History vol. 80, no. 1 (March 2008): 118-121.
Book Review of Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. National Identities 9, no. 4 (2007): 424.
“French Jewish Racial Identity and the Right to Be Different,” AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Fall 2007): 8-10.
Book Review of Jay R. Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. Journal of Modern History vol. 78, no. 4 (December 2006): 961- 963.
Entries “Eugénie Foa” and “Rachel” in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer, eds. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing (CD-ROM), 2006.
Entries “Infamous Decree”; “Fourier, Charles”; “Toussenel, Alphonse”; “Gougenot des Mousseaux, Henri”; “Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph” and “Veuillot, Louis” in Antisemitism : A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2005.
Book review of William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust. Shofar 24, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 183-85.
Book Review of Ronald Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Journal of Modern History vol. 77, no. 4 (December 2005): 796-98.
Book Review of Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Napoléon et les cultes: les religions de l’Europe à l’aube du XIXe siècle, 1800-1815. Journal of Modern History vol. 77, no. 2 (June 2005): 393-96.
Book Review of Derek Penslar, Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. Journal of Modern History vol. 76, no. 3 (September 2004): 669-70.
Book Review of Diana R. Hallman, Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy's “La Juive”. H-France vol. 4, no. 56 (May 2004).
Book Review of Howard Wettstein, ed., Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Modern Jewish Identity. H-Judaic (June 2003).
Book Review of Frederic Cople Jahar, The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation,
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State Formation and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. American Jewish History vol. 90, no. 4 (December 2002): 464-66.
Book Review of Vicki Caron, Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933- 1942. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions vol. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 2002): 115-19.
French-to-English translation of Pierre Rosanvallon, “Political Rationalism and Democracy in France in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 28, 6 (2002): 687-701.
“Critical Thinking and the Well-Being of Humanity.” Cindy Davies et al., eds., Toward the Well- Being of Humanity (Georgetown, Texas: Southwestern University, 2002), 52-57.
“Français-juif, juif-français: The Ambiguities of ‘Difference’ in Modern France,” in The Chicago Group on Modern France Newsletter (Winter 1995): 1-3.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and INVITED TALKS at UNIVERSITIES Closing Comment, conference on Jewish History after the Imperial Turn 11/12 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Discussant, “Jews, Gender and Citizenship in the French Third Republic” 10/12 Western Society for French History, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“The Origins of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-century France” 9/12 Conference on Jewish Internationalism, Columbia University, New York
“Sacred Remnants for a Secular History: 5/12 Zosa Szajkowski and the Creation of French Jewish History” University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Restituting Books and Rehabilitating Jews after World War II” 3/12 Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Los Angeles, California
“Salvaging French Jewish Archives after World War II” 3/12 History Workshop, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Discussant, Panel on “Statelessness in Modern Europe” 2/12 German Historical Institute, Conference on Statelessness, Washington DC
Roundtable participant, “Rethinking Jewish Internationalism” 12/11 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC
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“Zosa Szajkowski and the Salvaging of French Jewish History” 12/11 George Washington University Jewish Studies Workshop, Washington, DC
“Postwar Book Restitutions and the Return of Republican Franco-Judaism” 10/11 Boston University Judaic Studies conference, “Jews in France/France and the Jews, 1945-1955”
“The Political Meaning and Cultural Crisis of Emancipation” 10/11 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
“Rescue or Theft? Salvaging French Jewish Archives after World War II” 9/11 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
“Promises and Betrayals: Modern France and the Jews” 9/11 George Washington University, Washington DC
“Reconstructing Jewish Culture/Rehabilitating Jews after World War II” 8/11 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Workshop on Jews and the Law
“The Archive Handler: Zosa Szajkowski and the Salvaging of French Jewish History” 4/11 The Archives and Jewish Migration International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
“Zosa Szajkowski and the Salvaging of French Jewish History” 12/10 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
“A Jewish Immigrant in Paris: Szajkowski’s Early Years” 11/10 The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Jewish Studies in the Liberal Arts” 4/10 Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
“Rescue or Theft? Zosa Szajkowski and French Jewish History” 4/10 Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Arizona
“Rescue or Theft? The Postwar Transfer of French-Jewish Archives to the US” 2/10 Institute for French Studies, New York University
“Rescue or Theft? The Postwar Transfer of French-Jewish Archives to the US 10/09 and the Creation of French-Jewish History” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
“Zosa Szajkowski and the French Jewish Archives” 8/09 Marcus Center, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio
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“Jewish Solidarity: Evolution of a Concept” 3/09 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
“Who Owns French Jewish History?” 2/09 Visiting Scholars Seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
“Power, Identity, Archives: the Case of Zosa Szajkowski” 2/09 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Commentator, “Jews at the Periphery of Modern France” 11/08 Western Society for French History Meeting, Quebec City, Canada
“The French Republican Roots of International Jewish Solidarity” 5/08 Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
“L’Histoire des Juifs de France vue des Etats-Unis” 3/08 Keynote address, Annual Meeting of the Commission française des archives juives, Paris
“The Debate over the Elimination of the Jewish Oath in Nineteenth-century France” 3/07 Society for French Historical Studies, Houston “Self-Definition and Self-Defense: Jewish Racial Identity in 19th Century France” 12/02 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
“Race and the Remaking of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth Century France” 4/02 Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto
Panel Chair, Frontiers of Race in the Modern World 1/02 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco
“Jewish Solidarity in Nineteenth Century France” 12/00 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Boston
“Republican Particularism? French Secularism and the Emancipation of Algerian Jews” 1/99 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
“A Race with a Mission: French Jewish Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” 11/98 Social Science History Organization Annual Meeting, Chicago
“The Making of Jewish Solidarity: Jewish Identity in the International Realm” 11/97 The Identity Concept in Social Science Research Conference, Chicago
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“Assimilation and Jewish Solidarity in Eugénie Foa's La Juive” 10/97 Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, Athens, Georgia
COURSES TAUGHT (at American) History 240 Modern European History, 1750-present History 319/619 The Holocaust History 338/638 French History since 1789 History 500-02 Nations and Nationalism in World History History 500-02 Jews and Muslims in Modern Europe History 720 Graduate Colloquium: Nineteenth-century Europe History 721 Graduate Colloquium: Twentieth-century Europe
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT (at Southwestern) Modern European Intellectual History European Imperialism and the Civilizing Mission Modern Jewish History History and Memory
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (at American) Service to the University Steering Committee and Undergraduate Studies Committee Co-chair, 2012-14 Middle States Self-Study Search Committee for Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies 2010-12
Service to the College of Arts and Sciences EPC Curriculum Committee 2010-12 Interim Director, Jewish Studies Program 2010-11 Search Committee for Director of Jewish Studies 2011-12 Search Committee in tenure-track position in French 2011-12 Search Committee for Israel Studies Postdoc 2012 Search Committee for Term faculty in Jewish Studies 2011
History Department Positions and Committees: Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department 2010-
Perscom Committee (2009-present); Graduate Committee 2009-10; Undergraduate Committee (2010- ); Search Committee for term faculty in Early Modern Europe (spring 2011); Search Committee for term faculty in Modern Europe (Spring 2011); Search Committee for tenure-track position in Russian History (Spring 2012); Merit Pay Committee (2009-10, 11-12)
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Member, Editorial Board of Archives Juives: Revue d’histoire des Juifs de France (2008- )
Member, Program Committee of the Association for Jewish Studies (2012-2015)
Board Member, Western Society for French History (2012-2014)
NEH Panel service, Bridging Cultures through Film grant program (September 2011)
Reviewer of manuscripts for Jewish History and Culture (2012); Journal of Modern History (2011); Jewish History (2006, 2007, 2008); Cambridge University Press (2007); Journal of Religious History (2008); Law and History (2008); Stanford University Press (2008; 2011; 2012); University of Toronto Press (2009); CQ Press/SAGE (2010); Jewish Quarterly Review (2010, 2010); Yale University Press (2010)
Outside member of dissertation committee, University of Delaware (2011)
Tenure Reviews: Syracuse University (2011); University of Denver (2011)
Reviewer of applications for Foundation for Jewish Studies Musher grant (2010)
Reviewer for Berkshire Conference for the History of Women Article Prize (2010)
PUBLIC LECTURES and LECTURE SERIES Salasky Lecture, “France and the Jews: History of a Love/Hate Relationship,” at Temple Beth El, Williamsburg, Virginia (5/11)
Three-part adult education course on Jewish Women in France at B’nai Israel, Rockville, Maryland (11/10)
Talk at Beit Aviv, Columbia, MD on “Napoleon and the Jews” (5/10)
Talks at Havurah Shalom, Georgetown, Texas on “Assimilation and Jewish Identity” (12/00) and “Jewish Life at Southwestern, in Georgetown, and in the South” (5/07)
Roundtable discussant on Paris radio program (Radio Chalom) about American scholars of French Jewry (5/97)
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Association for Jewish Studies Society for French Historical Studies
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REFERENCES Dr. Leora Auslander, Professor of History and Jewish Studies University of Chicago (773) 702-7940; [email protected]
Dr. Vicki Caron, Mann Professor of Jewish Studies and History Cornell University (607) 255-4517; [email protected]
Dr. Thomas V. McClendon, Professor and Chair of History Southwestern University (512) 863-1414; [email protected]
Dr. Jan Goldstein, Professor of History University of Chicago (773) 702-8388; [email protected]
Dr. Frances Malino, S. M. Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History Wellesley College (781) 283-2633; [email protected]
Dr. Maud S. Mandel, Associate Professor, History and Judaic Studies Brown University (401) 863-3915; [email protected]
Dr. Aron Rodrigue Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture Stanford University (510) 723-1585; [email protected]
Dr. William Sewell, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History University of Chicago (773) 702-0900; [email protected]
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