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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Richard S Levy DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY (M/C 198) 913 UNIVERSITY HALL/601 S MORGAN CHICAGO, IL 60607-7109 PHONE: (312) 413-9356 (voice mail) (773) 248-3791 () (773 )525-8740 (FAX) EMAIL: [email protected] September 22, 2017

Degrees:

Yale University Ph.D. 1969 M.A. 1964 U. of Chicago B.A. 1962

University Appointments:

Adjunct Professor of German Studies in the Department of Germanic and Literature at Duke University 2011-- U. of Ill./Chicago Full Prof. 2005-- U. of Ill./Chicago Assistant/Associate Prof. 1971--2005 U. Mass./Amherst Instructor/Assistant Prof. 1967-71

Honors:

Silver Circle Award 2004 [Outstanding UIC Teacher ] Shirley Bill Award for Outstanding History Teacher 1999, 2009 Humanities Institute Fellow 1992-93 Phi Beta Kappa 1961

Grants/Fellowships:

Humanities Laboratory Seed Money Grant (May 2003) Fulbright Senior Professor Sant’Anna Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari de Perfezionamento, Pisa Italy February-May 2001 Seminar for Professors of College-Level Holocaust Courses sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies U.S. Holocaust Memorial , June 1-June 18,1999 Fulbright-Kommission German Studies Seminar: and Jewish Studies Today, June 18- July 10, 1996 American Philosophical Society (1977) 2

UIC Research Board (1976) Yale Research fellowship 1965, 1966 Fellow 1962

Scholarship:

Books:

THE DOWNFALL OF THE ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICAL PARTIES IN IMPERIAL GERMANY (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1975), pp. 335 + ix.

Edited Books:

ANTISEMITISM: A HISTORY (London: , 2010) with Albert S. Lindemann. pp. 288 + xii

ANTISEMITISM: HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AND . 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005) pp. 828 + xxxiv

A AND A LIBEL: THE HISTORY OF THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION (U. of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 148 + xv

ANTISEMITISM IN THE MODERN WORLD. ANTHOLOGY OF TEXTS (Lexington, MA.: D.C. Heath, 1990), pp. 260 + vi

Articles in refereed journals/chapters in books:

“Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1890-1933: How Popular Was It?” in Alan Steinweis and Susan Schraftstetter (eds.), The and : Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the (Berghahn Books, 2015), pp. 17-39

“Antisemitism in Germany, 1890-1933: How Popular Was It?” in Anderseits: Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies, 4 (June 2015), pp. 99-118. [Revised version of above] Available at: . Date accessed: 14 Jun. 2015.

“Setting the Record Straight Regarding The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Fool’s Errand?” Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014), 2:43-61

“Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hostility,” in Alan Levenson (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 441-57.

“Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion und ihre Entlarvung: Ein vergebliches Unterfangen?” in Eva Horn and Michael Hagemeister (eds.), Die Fiktion von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung 3

(Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012), 208-30.

“Antisemitism,” in Peter Hayes and John K. Roth, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 23-38.

“Political Antisemitism in Germany and Austria, 1848-1914,” in Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy (eds.), Antisemitism: A History (London: Oxford University Press, 2010), 121- 35.

“Conclusion: Not the Last Word,” in Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy (eds.), Antisemitism: A History (London: Oxford University Press, 2010), 250-63.

“The Migration of Discredited Myths: The Wandering Protocols,” in Michael Berenbaum (ed.), Not Your Father’s Antisemitism: of the Jews in the 21st Century (St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2008), 169-81

“Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Germany, 1819-1938,” in Christhard Hoffmann, et al. (eds.), Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (U. , Press, 2002), pp. 185-202. Review at: http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewstr64.htm http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=50951077492130

“A Lie and a Libel: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Recent History," in L. J. Greenspoon (ed.), Representations of Jews Through the Ages (Omaha: Creighton U. Press, 1996), pp. 231-43.

"Wien 1910," Film & History, XV, no. 3 (Sep 1986), pp. 65-68

"1848 and the Discovery of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany," Consortium on Europe, 11 (1982): 255-64.

"'s Theory and Practice of History," Journal of Thought, 1970: 141-56

Miscellany: “Forget Webster,” German Studies Review 29/1(Feb 2006), 145-46. [Hard to know where to place this. It is what the Germans call a Miszelle, what we would call, perhaps, an op-ed piece. I was invited to write it by the editor and his board of editors.]

Encyclopedia Articles (29):

“Ahlwardt, Hermann (1846-1914),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:7-8

“Antisemites’ Petition (1880-1881),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:20-21 4

“Antisemitic Correspondence [Antisemitische-Korrespondenz],” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:21-22

“Antisemitic Political Parties (Germany, 1879-1914),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:22-23

“Antisemitism, Etymology of,” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:24-25

“Antizionism,” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:25-26

“Böckel, Otto (1859-1923),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:75-76

“Fritsch, Theodor (1852-1933),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:249-50

“Glagau, Otto (1834-1892),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:276

“Introduction,” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1: xxix-xxxiv

“Judaism as an Alien Phenomenon (1862-1863),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 1:385-86

“Liebermann von Sonnenberg, Max Hugo (1848-1911),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:422

“Marr, Wilhelm (1819-1904),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:445-46

“Mirror to the Jews, A (Der Judenspiegel),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:466-67

“Our Demands on Modern Jewry,” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:525-26

“Victory of Jewry over Germandom, The,” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:741-42

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“Word about Our Jews, A (1880),” Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005), 2:774-75

“De Lagarde, Paul,” Encyclopedia Judaica. (2nd ed., 2006), 12:436 [250 words]

“Marr, Wilhelm,” Encyclopedia Judaica. (2nd ed., 2006), 13:558 [400 words]

Review Articles:

"Conspiracy Theorist," review of Moshe Zimmermann, Wilhelm Marr: the Patriarch of Antisemitism (New York, 1986) in COMMENTARY (April 1987): 71-74

"Redemption from Without," review of H. I. Bach, The German Jew (1984) in COMMENTARY (Jan 1986): 72-74; (April 1986): 12.

"Abandoned" review of Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews (l984); Penkower, The Jews Were Expendable (1984); Shepherd, A Refuge from Darkness (1984) in COMMENTARY (Apr 1985): 70-75

"Dealing with the Devil" review of Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement (1984) in COMMENTARY (Sep. 1984): 68-71.

"Germans, Poles, and Jews" with John Kulczycki in EAST EUROPEAN QUARTERLY (Sep 1984): 365-74

Translations and Edited Texts:

Thomas W. Gaehtgens, "The Galerie des Batailles in the Historical Museum at Versailles as a Lieu-Souvenir [Place of Remembrance]," Trans. by Richard S. Levy in David Jordan (ed.), Les Lieux de Mémoire. 3 vols. (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2001ff)

G-Text. A Project of the Electronic Discussion Forum, H-German. 1995, 2002 (consisting of translated, annotated, and edited texts to be used for college and high school instructional purposes): http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/index.html

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung Opinion Poll (1899) Bismarck and the Polish Question (1886) Bismarck's Fall (1890) Heinrich Class, If I Were the Kaiser (1912) Die Internationale (1888) General Friedrich von Bernhardi, The Next War (1914) General Ludendorff, On Overcoming the Consequences of the Lost War (1922) 6

Hitler, on Antisemitism in , from (1925) Hitler's First Antisemitic Writing (1919) Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder) on War (1880) Ludwig Windthorst Speaks in the Prussian Parliament (1873) (Kulturkampf) Rosa Luxemburg, the Junius Pamphlet (1916) Wilhelm II Speaks to New Army Recruits (1891) Wilhelm II and the German Interest in (1900)

Articles (65) all translations are from Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005)

Rainer Kampling, “Adversus Iudaeos” 1:3-4 Klaus Holz, “Anti- in the USSR” 1:26-28 Brigitte Mohok, “Antonescu Ion” 1:29 Jens Rybak, “Arndt, Ernst Moritz” 1:39 Matthias Brosch, “Bayreuth Circle” 1:62-63 Fritz Petrick, “Werner Best” 1:67-68 Tzvetan Tzvetanov, “Bulgaria, Holocaust in” 1:89-91 Rainer Kampling, “Capistrano, John of” 1:96-97 Gregor Hufenreuter, “Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith” 1:111-113 Rainer Kampling, “Chrysostom, John” 1:121-122 Krista Zach, “Codreanu, Corneliu Zelea” 1:131-132 Dirk Walter, Culture-Antisemitism or -Antisemitism? 1:156-157 Krista Zach, “Cuza, A. C. ” 1:157-158 Tzvetan Tzvetanov, “Dahn, Felix” 1:159-160 Rainer Kampling, “Deicide” 1:168-169 Dirk Walter, “ of Cemeteries and Synagogues in Germany since 1919” 1:170-172 Rainer Kampling, “Dialogue with Trypho” 1:174-175 Matthias Brosch, “Dinter, Artur” 1:180 Birgitta Mogge-Stubbe, “Dühring, Eugen” 1:192-193 Helmut Reinalter, “” 1:244-246 Clemens Vollnhals, “Gemlich Letter” 1:255-256 Matthias Brosch, “German Racial Freedom Party” 1:264-266 Dirk Walter, “German Racial League for Defense and Defiance” 1:266 Krista Zach, “Goga, Octavian” 1:278-279 Alfred Kube, “Göring, Hermann” 1:279-280 Matthias Brosch, “Handbook of the (Antisemite’s Catechism)” 1:289-291 Clemens Vollnhals, “Hitler’s Speeches (Early)” 1:307-308 Clemens Volnhals, “Hitler’s Table Talk” 1:308-309 Manfred Deselaers, “Höss, Rudolf” 1:324-325 Rainer Kampling, “Iconography, Christian” 1:339-342 Christoph Knüppel, “Imperial Hammer League” 1:344-345 Rita Haub, “Jesuit Order” 1:369-370 Klaus Holz, “‘Jewish’ Press” 1:375-377 7

Birgitta Mogge-Stubbe, “Jewish Question as a Racial, Moral, and Cultural Problem, The” 1:381-382 Matthias Brosch, “Jews and the German State, The” 1:382-383 Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein, “Judeo-Bolshevism” 1:389-391 Gaby Coldewey, “LANC-National Christian Defense League” 2:410-411 Horst Weigelt, “Lavater, Johann Kaspar” 2:414-415 Gregor Hufenreuter, “League against Antisemitism” 2-416-417 Michael Hagemeister, “Liutostanskii, Ippolit” 2:430-431 Albrecht Dümling, “Music, Nazi of Jewish Influence in” 2:475-477 Matthias Brosch, “Myth of the Twentieth Century, The” 2:480-481 Michael Hagemeister, “Nilus, Sergei” 2:508-510 Ludger Heid, “Ostjuden” 2:522-524 Edith Wenzel, “Passion Plays, Medieval” 2:534-536 Ellen Martin, “Pfefferkorn, Johannes” 2:543-544 Charlotte Schönbeck, “Physics, ‘German’ and ‘Jewish’” 2:545-548 Michael Hagemeister, “Pranaitis, Justinas” 2:564-565 Michael Hagemeister, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” 2:567-569 Dirk Walter, “Pudor, Heinrich” 2:575 Klaus Holz, “, Soviet” 2:580-581 William Totok, “Romania” 2:617-618 Brigitte Mohok, “Romania, Holocaust in” 2:618-619 William Totok, “Romania, Post-Soviet” 2:619-621 Dirk Walter, “Scheunenviertel Pogrom” 2:641 Micha Brumlik, “Schopenhauer, Arthur” 2:643-644 Christoph Knüppel, “Settlement Heimland” 2:650-651 Matthias Brosch, “Sin against the Blood” 2:658-659 Gregor Hufenreiter, “Stauff, Georg” 2:681-682 Hermann Glaser, “Theater, Nazi Purge of Jewish Influence in” 2:702-703 Matthias Messmer, “Ukraine, Post-Soviet” 2:717-718 Boris Barth, “Versailles Treaty” 2:736-738 Matthias Brosch, “Yellow Star” 2:779-781 Andreas Winnecken, “Youth Movement (German)” 2:784-785 Karl Zieger, “Emile Zola” 2:788-789

TRANSLATIONS FOR German Historical Institute translation project:

July 11, 2008: Emancipation of Jews in Westphalia http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document_s.cfm?document_id=3651

Emancipation of Jews in Baden http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document_s.cfm?document_id=3652

Emancipation of Jews in Prussia 8

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document_s.cfm?document_id=3650

August 6, 2008: Open Letter to Deacon Lavater of Zurich from [3400 words] http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3646

WRITING OF CAPTIONS FOR GHI TRANSLATION PROJECT

July 28, 2008: 1. Hep-Hep Riot (1819) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=429

2. Certificate Requesting the Payment of Protection Money (1833) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=571

3. "Citizenship Certificate" for a Jewish resident of (1841) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=570

4. Gabriel Riesser (c. 1856) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=294

Translations July 2015--present for the Online Source Edition published by Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (): “Key documents of German- from the Early Modern Era to the Present” [„Schlüsseldokumente zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte von der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart“] went on line in 2017. See project description: http://juedische-geschichte- online.net/

Source texts and their accompanying introductions, descriptions, and interpretations: Testament of Jitte [Glückstadt] Judenreglement [Imperial Regulations for Jews of 1710] Judenspiegel [A Mirror to the Jews by Wilhelm Marr] “Toller Spuk” [satirical poem, “Mad Spook of a Summer Night’s Dream”]

“The Testament of Jitte, Daughter of Matthias Glückstadt, Altona, April 8, 1774,” (translated by Richard S. Levy), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, http://jewish-history- online.net/source/jgo:source-42 [March 31, 2017].

“New Decree for the Jewish Population of Hamburg/ Both the Portuguese and the High German Nation,” from the Date 7 September in the Year 1710. Hamburg (the so-called Judenreglement) (translated by Richard S. Levy), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, http://jewish-history-online.net/source/jgo:source-29 [March 31, 2017].

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“Julius Stettenheim, The Jew-Eater. Hope You Like It!,” Hamburg 1862 (translated by Richard S. Levy), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, http://jewish-history- online.net/source/jgo:source-120 [March 31, 2017].

“Wilhelm Marr, A Mirror to the Jews,” Hamburg 1862 (5th edition), (translated by Richard S. Levy), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, http://jewish-history- online.net/source/jgo:source-102 [March 31, 2017].

and 12 more in process

Stolpersteine Project [http://www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?MAIN_ID=26]

79 brief biographies of victims of the Third Reich, May 2017--present] [see story in the NYTimes describing the origins of the project: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/29/arts/plaques-for-nazi-victims-offer-a-personal-impact.html]

Conference papers/chair/comment:

Plenary speaker at Duke University, German-Jewish Studies Workshop, February 11, 2013: “Taking the Measure of Antisemitism in Germany, 1890-1930”

Moderator/chair for panel: “Narrating the Holocaust” at IV International Polish Studies Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago, October 15-18, 2012 (Chopin Theatre)

Paper delivered at the Sixth Miller Symposium Sunday, April 22, 2012, University of Vermont (Burlington): The Popularity of Antisemitism in Germany, 1890-1933

Moderator for panel: “On the Front Lines in the Aftermath: American Jewish Chaplains and Jewish Life in Postwar Germany,” German Studies Association, September 23, 2011, Louisville, KY Moderator for panel: German Universities Alliance conference on “Race, Ethnicity and – a Transatlantic Perspective on Civil Society,“ November 14 - 15, 2008, Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago Commentator for panel: “Transatlantic Antisemitism on the Eve of the Holocaust” 10th Biennial “Lessons and Legacies” Conference on the Holocaust. Northwestern University. Nov 2, 2008

Paper: “The Price of Success: Antisemitism and the Rise of the Jews” Jewish Studies Symposium: “Migration, the Emergence of the Jewish Bourgeoisie, and the Role of Women in 19.Century Central European Jewry,” UIC, September 25, 2007]

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Moderator: “Diplomacy and Memory in Postwar ,” 29th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI. September 30, 2005

Commentator: “Localism, Landscape, and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany” Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 12-14 May 2005

Chair and commentator: 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL Dec 21, 2004: “Loving the Jews: Philosemitism’s Multiple Orientations in Modern Times”

Paper: “The Migration of Discredited Myths: the Wandering Protocols,” University of Judaism Conference Center, Bel Air, CA. “Antisemitism and the Contemporary Jewish Condition” October 18, 2004

Chair and commentator: Midwest Jewish Studies Association/16th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium in Omaha, NE. September 14, 2004: “Questions of Identity and Definition in the Study of Eastern European Jewry”

Panelist: Hillel, UIC: “Resurgence of European Antisemitism?” October 17, 2002

Session Moderator: “Race, Identity and Antisemitism.” Midwest Jewish Studies Association Conference. Spertus College, Chicago. October 29, 2001

Session Moderator: “Elias Canetti and the Crisis of Culture and .” Goethe Institute/Department of German UIC, July 27, 2001.

Commentator: “The Divergent Problems of Mischehen and Mischlinge under National Socialism, 1933-1945” at German Studies Association Conference, Houston, TX. October 8, 2000.

Symposium Moderator: "Art, Memory, and Politics in Post-Shoah Germany and Austria," November 11, 1998 UIC

Commentator and Moderator: "New Perspectives on the Holocaust," at the German Studies Association Conference in Salt Lake City, October 10, 1998

Paper: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Warrant for ?" San Diego conference of the AHA-Pacific Coast Branch, August 7, 1998

Paper: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: ?" San Diego conference of the AHA-Pacific Coast Branch, August 7, 1998

Paper: "Culture, Cultural History, and the Atlantic Divide--Is It Good for the Jewish People?" Midwest German Historians' Workshop, University of Michigan, 8-9 November 1997 11

Commentator for "Ideology and Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History," German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C. September 26, 1997

Paper: "A Lie and a Libel: the History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion since the Holocaust": Keynote address at the Eighth Klutznick Symposium, "Representations of Jews through the Ages." Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska. September 17-18, 1995.

Paper: "Historicizing the Holocaust," German Studies Association Conference, Washington, D. C., October 9, 1993

NEH-funded "Concepts of History in German Cinema: an International Conference," October 27- 30, 1988. UIC. Organizing Committee member. Chairman of the session: "Prussian Films in German Cinema," October 27, 1988.

Paper: "Wilhelm Marr, The Victory of Jewry over Germandom, and the Meaning of Antisemitism," before the Fifth McMaster Colloquium on German Literature: Tragedy of Inwardness? Antirationalism in German Culture, 1870-1933. Hamilton, Ontario. October 7-10, 1987.

Comment: "New Light on and Propaganda in Nazi Film," Comment at AHA Conference, Chicago, December 29, 1984.

Paper: "1848 and the Discovery of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany," before the 11th Consortium on Revolutionary Europe in Huntsville, Ala., February 28, 1981.

Paper: "Wilhelm Marr: the Making of an Anti-Semite," before the Western Conference of the American Historical Association, San Diego, August 1976

Invited Papers [sole speaker] including popular lectures/discussions:

Speaker/Moderator for film showing: “Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today” Music Box Theater, May 8, 2011

“What Did the Germans Know? When Did They Know It? What Did They Do about What They Knew?” Lecture/Discussion given at Duke University, March 15, 2011

“A Film Unfinished” [discovered footage for a Nazi propaganda film shot in the ghetto but never finished] for Chicago Filmmakers, August 2, 2010

“Antisemitism: Used or New?” Jewish Studies Program/The Annual Henry and Gretl Wald Lecture U. of Nebraska/Lincoln March 23, 2006

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“: two generations later,” UIC/Hillel November 9, 2005 (symposium)

American Jewish Committee, “Anti-Semitism: From Ancient to Modern : The Making of an Encyclopedia on Prejudice and Persecution” Chicago, June 22, 2005

Northeastern Illinois University Phi Alpha Theta Banquet, April 3, 2004. “The Latest Take on the REAL Hoax of the Twentieth Century: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Today.”

American Jewish Committee Guest Speaker, March 21, 2004. “Defending against a Hoax: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Today”

“The Bombing of Dresden: Atrocity, Propaganda, and the Truth” to Undergraduate English Organization session at UIC, April 3, 2003

Guest Lecture: American Jewish Committee’s Anti-Semitism 2003 Lecture Series. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The REAL Hoax of the Twentieth Century,” March 21, 2003

Guest Lecture, German Department, : “What did the Germans Know?” Sep 30, 2002

“Collective Anti-Jewish Violence in Germany, 1819-1938: Lessons Learned and Ignored” Chicago Jewish Studies Scholars Forum, Spertus College, Nov 15, 2001

“Collective Anti-Jewish Violence before The Holocaust, 1819-1938: a report on the state of the research” Northwestern University/Holocaust Foundation Summer Institute June 21, 2001

“I Decide Who is an Antisemite: the history of a term” invited paper for the Jewish Studies Program, SUNY/New Paltz September 28, 2000

"Anti-Jewish Violence in Germany before the Holocaust," to the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame University, April 17, 2000.

"Collective Anti-Jewish Violence before The Holocaust, 1819-1938." Invited lecture to Foundation seminar, Northwestern University. June 24, 1999

Lecture/discussion: “Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners,” Hillel UIC. April 14, 1999

"I Decide Who Is an Antisemite! meaning and history of a term" Invited lecture to Holocaust Studies Seminar, Northwestern University/Holocaust Education Foundation. July 15, 1997

"The Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Paper 13

sponsored by the Schusterman/Josey Chair of Judaic Studies, U. of Oklahoma, February 20, 1997

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Origins and Functions," a faculty seminar held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., October 25, 1996.

"The REAL Hoax of the Twentieth Century: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Paper delivered to the Jewish Studies Program of the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., October 24, 1996.

Lecture/Seminar on the , for the Lichtenberg Committee of the American Jewish Committee, Chicago March 6, 27, 1996

"A Lie and a Libel: the Political Career of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion," for Purdue Lectures in Jewish Studies, October 26, 1994.

"Hitler in the Context of the German Antisemitic Movement," for Facing History and Ourselves workshop, Highland Pk., Il. April 20, 1993.

"Three Antisemites. The Meaning of Antisemitism. Institute for the Humanities, November 4, 1992

"Antisemitism in America" at Hillel-UIC, October 8, 1991.

"Antisemitism since the Holocaust" at Bentley College Symposium, Waltham, MA. April 8, 1991

"An Historical Definition of Antisemitism," OSSR Seminar Series, UIC, February 12, 1991

Keynote address at American Jewish Committee Conference: Toward a New Definition of Antisemitism. Evanston, Illinois September 9, 1990

"I Decide Who Is an Anti-Semite! Toward an historically derived definition of Anti-Semitism," Purdue University Jewish Studies Program, February 8, 1989.

"Starting Toward Freedom: the German Experience 1945-1950," introductory lecture to a workshop on period documentary films, February 17-18, 1988 at UIC [sponsored by Department of German and the Goethe Institute]

"Toward a Working Definition of Antisemitism," at the Harvard European Studies Center. Cambridge, MA. November 5, 1987.

"The Origins of Political Antisemitism," Bentley College (Night Division), Waltham, MA. November 5, 1987.

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"The Meaning of Antisemitism: a Literary Critical Approach," Bentley College, Waltham, MA. November 5, 1987.

"The Weimar Context," Paper at: THE BAUHAUS, MYTH AND REALITY. University of Illinois at Chicago, May 26, 1987. Symposium sponsored by History of Art and Architecture Department, School of Art and Design, School of Architecture, Institute for the Humanities, Goethe Institute

"The First Anti-Semite--Wilhelm Marr," before the Colloquium in Jewish History and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. February 18, 1987.

"An Oral Guide to the Exhibit, `The Jews of Germany under Prussian Rule,'" at the American Jewish Committee headquarters, January 11, 1985.

"Germandom and Jewry: Jewish Participation in Weimar Culture," at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center, January 8, 1985.

"The Transfer Agreement," at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center, June 28, 1984.

Editorial work:

Nomos Verlag (a publishing house in Baden-Baden; see www.nomos.de) One of a six-member international supervisory board, overseeing: "Interdisziplinäre Antisemitismusforschung" ("Interdisciplinary Studies on Antisemitism"). Primary function would be to advise on submitted manuscripts addressing specialized topics. May 1913--

Editorial Board of SHOFAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (publ. by Midwest Jewish Studies Association) 1996-2011

Founder and Editor of H-Antisemitism (1993-2004) Co-editor of H-Holocaust (1993--) Board of Directors: H-German (1994-97), H-Holocaust (1993-2004), H-Antisemitism (1993- 2004)

Reviews: 40. Brian Crim, Antisemitism in the German military community and the Jewish response, 1914– 1938 in First World War Studies 1:1 on line at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWj4MC4knZuAnIjaFMs7/full [July 17, 2017]

39. Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans (eds.), Racial Science in Hitler’s Europe, 1938-1945 Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29/1 (April 2015): 129-131

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38. David J. Fine, Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War Berlin and (Boston: De Gruyter, 2012) Central European History 46/3 (September 2013), 661-63

37. Klaus Gensicke, The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years. Trans. Alexander Fraser Gunn (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011), Holocaust and Genocide Studies 26/1 (Spring 2012), 154-56

36. Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman, Jewish Responses to Persecution. Vol. 1. 1933-1938. (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press in association with the Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010), Central European History 45/3 (September 2012), 586-88

35. William I. Brustein, Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY, 28/3 (2005): 203-04

34. Jay Howard Geller, Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945–1953. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 111/1 (Feb 2006), 271

33. Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. Antisemitism. Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2002. Association of Jewish Studies Review, 29/1 (April 2005): 185-86

32. Christoph Nonn, Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder: Gerücht, Gewalt und Antisemitismus im Kaiserreich (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002). Central European History, 38/1 (2005), 140-43

31. Alan T. Levenson. Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defense of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. H-German Jan 18, 2005. Available at http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h- german&month=0501&week=c&msg=Crc6T9uW2Lec43cpX1399w&user=&pw=

30. Andreas Gotzmann, Rainer Liedtke, and Till van Rahden. Juden, Buerger, Deutsche: Zur Geschichte von Vielfalt und Differenz 1800-1933. H-German Sep 2004. Available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=31301096633345

29. Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002) H-Antisemitism, Dec 19, 2002 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=278141043567312

28. Steven Heller and Jeff Roth, The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? (New York, 2000) in Design Issues, 17 (Summer 2001), pp. 91-92

27. Till van Rahden, Juden und andere Breslauer. Die Beziehungen zwischen Juden, 16

Protestanten und Katholiken in einer deutschen Grossstadt von 1860 bis 1925 (Göttingen, 2000) H-German April 21, 2001 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=180711006202336

26. Olaf Blaschke, Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich (Göttingen, 1997), AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, (February 2001), pp. 278-79

25. Stephen Eric Bronner, A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (New York, 2000), SHOFAR 20 (2001): 151-53

24. Dirk Walter, Antisemitische Kriminalität und Gewalt: Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik (Bonn, 1999), JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 72 (December 2000), pp. 1060-62

23. Michael Brenner, The Renaissance of in Weimar Germany (Yale, 1996) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 70 (September 1998): 747-48

22. David Blackbourn, The Long Nineteenth Century: A , 1780-1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). H-German September 9, 1998 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5761907272207

21. Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse in (W. W. Norton, 1997) H-German and H-Holocaust, June 18, 1997. http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h- holocaust&month=9706&week=c&msg=5ygBmhUwGo3vLJnVhRdddg&user=&pw=

20. Alan Steinweis, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 1993) GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW, 18 (1995): 176-77

19. Bauer, Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (New Haven and London, 1994). H-Ethnic, H-German, and H-Holocaust. January 24, 1996. http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewsh2.htm=

18. David E. Fishman, Russia's First Modern Jews: the Jews of Shklov (New York: New York University Press, 1995) in THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, [page numbers unavailable]

17. Frank Felsenstein, Anti-Semitic : A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). in THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [page numbers unavailable]

16 Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (1993), Chicago Tribune, January 17, 1994

15 Modernity within Tradition: the Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany. Mordechai Breuer. Translated by Elizabeth Petuchowski (New York: Columbia University Press, 17

1992. The Historian, 56/2 (1994): 360-61

14 Germany, 1770-1866 (1990). James Sheehan. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [page numbers unavailable]

13 Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830. (1990). Mary Lindemann. (1990) THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [page numbers unavailable]

12. and Antisemitism in Modern Europe, 1815-1945. (1991) Shmuel Almog. JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 34 (Winter 1992): 146-48

11. German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924 (1986). Robert G. Moeller. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 60/4 (Dec 1988): 806-07

10. Staat und Synagoge, 1918-1933: eine Geschichte des preussischen Landesverbandes jüdischer Gemeinden (1981). M. Birnbaum. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 88/2 (Apr 1983): 422

9. Die Judenfrage: Biographie eines Weltproblem (1981). A. Bein. RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW 9/2 (Apr 1983): 186

8. From Prejudice to Destruction. Antisemitism, 1700-1933 (1979). J. Katz. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 54/1 (Mar 1982): 78-80

7. Germans, Poles, and Jews (1980). W. Hagen. RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW 7/2 (Apr 1981): 173

6. The Jews in Weimar Germany (1980). Donald L. Niewyk. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 86 (1981): 609

5. Wählerbewegung in der deutschen Geschichte (1978). O. Büsch. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 52/2 (June 1980): 357-58

4. Toward the : a History of European Racism (1978). G. Mosse. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 81/4 (1979): 958-60

3. On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars (1977). C. Heller. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 50/3 (Sep 1978): 576-77

2. Zionism in Germany, 1897-1933 (1977). S. Poppel. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 83/1 (Feb 1978): 190

1. Jewish Reactions to German Anti-Semitism (1972). I. Schorsch. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 45/3 (Sep 1973): 524

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0. Bismarck and the French Nation (1971). A. Mitchell. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY 45/2 (Jun 1973): 324

Public Service:

Since 1974 I have been a regular reviewer for CHOICE, a librarians' journal, averaging four or five reviews a year on German political, military, diplomatic, and social history, the women's movement, and Jewish question. I list those I have records or reprints of (1980ff):

1. Filip Müller, Eyewitness Auschwitz (1979). Jan 1980

2. T. G. von Hippel, On Improving the Status of Women (1979). May 1980

3. Benjamin Ferencz, Less than Slaves (1979). Jun 1980

4. Gertrude Schneider, Journey into Terror (1979). Sep 1980

5. Philip Friedman, Roads to Extinction (1980). Mar 1981

6. Pierre Ayçoberry, The Nazi Question (1981). Sep 1981

7. Fred Weinstein, The Dynamics of (1980). May 1981

8. Brook-Shepherd, November 1918 (1981). Jun 1982

9. E. Staudinger, The Inner Nazi (1981). Jul 1982

10. Arad et al., Documents of the Holocaust (1982). Dec 1982

11. Levy-Hass, Inside Belsen (1982). Jan 1983

12. Dennis Showalter, Little Man, what now? Der Stürmer in the Weimar Republic (1982). Apr 1983

13. Vera Laska, Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust (1983). Sep 1983

14. J. H. Grill, The Nazi Movement in Baden (1983). Sep 1983.

15. Samuel Mitcham, Rommel's Last Battle (1983). Jan 1984

16. James Lucas, War in the Desert (1983). Jan 1984

17. Alan Aberbach, The Ideas of (1984). May 1985

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18. David Spires, Image and Reality: the Making of the German Officer, 1921-1933 (1984). May 1985

19. Hans Bach, The German Jew (1984). Jul-Aug 1985

20. Christopher Duffy, The Military Life of Frederick the Great (1986). May 1986.

21. William Patch, The Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic (1985). Dec 1985

22. S. J. Lewis, Forgotten Legions (1985). Jun 1986.

23. R. B. Joeres & M. J. Maynes (eds.), German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1986). Jul-Aug 1986.

24. G. Hirschfeld (ed.), The Policies of Genocide (1986). Dec 1986.

25. M. Weinberg, Because They Were Jews: a (Greenwood, 1986). May 1987.

26. Moshe Zimmermann, Wilhelm Marr, the Patriarch of Anti-Semitism (Oxford, 1987). Sep 1987.

27. Stephanie Orfali, A Jewish Girl in the Weimar Republic (Ronin, 1987). Dec 1987.

28. Michael Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London, 1987). Apr 1988.

29. George Berkley, Vienna and its Jews (Lanham, 1987). Dec. 1988.

30. Renata Fritsch-Bournazel, Confronting the German Question (1988). Dec 1988.

31. Harold James, A German Identity, 1770-1990 (1989) Dec. 1989.

32. Steven Beller, Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938 (1989) Apr 1990.

33. Jay Berkovitz, The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France (1990) Jul/Aug 1990.

34. George L. Mosse, Fallen Soldiers: reshaping the memory of the World Wars (1990) Oct 1990.

35. Jon Bridgman, The End of the Holocaust: the Liberation of the Camps (1990) Nov 1990.

36. W. L. Guttsman, Workers' Culture in Weimar Germany (1990) Jan 1991

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37. James Sheehan, German History, 1770-1866 (1990) Feb 1991

38. Aaron Hass, In the Shadow of the Holocaust (1990) Mar 1991

39. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: the Fate of European Jewry (1990) May 1991.

40. Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies (1991) Sep 1991

41. Hagen Schulze, The Course of German Nationalism (1991) Dec 1991

42. Hilde Spiel, Fanny von Arnstein (1991) Feb 1992

43. et al., Germany and the Second World War: Vol. 1. The Buildup of German Aggression (1991) Sep 1992 44. Klaus A. Maier et al., Germany and the Second World War: Vol. 2. Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe (1991) Sep 1992

45. Elaine G. Spencer, Police and the Social Order in German Cities (1992) Jan 1993

46. Hsi-Huey Liang, The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System (1992) Jul/Aug 1993

47. Ruth R. Linden, Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust (1993) Nov 1993

48. Alison Owings, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (1993) Feb 1994

49. Geneviève Fraisse and Michelle Perrot (eds.), A History of Women in the West: vol. 4: Emerging from to World War (1993) May 1994

50. Raoul Wallenberg, Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944 (1995) Jul-Aug 1995

51. Dan Bar-On, Fear and Hope: Three Generations of the Holocaust (1995) Dec 1995

52. Nancy R. Reagin, A German Women's Movement: Class and in , 1880-1933 (1995) Feb 1996

53. Gerhard Schreiber et al., Germany and the Second World War: vol. 3: The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941 (1995) Jul-Aug 1996

54. Dagmar Herzog, Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden (1996) Sep 1996

55. Roy Douglas, The Great War, 1914-1918: the cartoonists' vision (1995) Jun 1997 21

56. Kate Lacey, Feminine Frequencies: gender, German radio, and the public sphere, 1923- 1945 (1996) Jun 1997

57. August 20, 1996 interview on NPR: A Lie and a Libel

58. Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: the Life of a Jewess (New Edition, 1997) May 1998

59. Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust (1998) Sep 1998

60. Michael Berenbaum and Abraham Peck (eds.), The Holocaust and History: the Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1998) Feb 1999

61. Keith Pickus, Constructing Modern Identities: Jewish University Students in Germany, 1815-1914 (1999) Jan 2000

62. B. R. McFarland-Icke, Nurses in Nazi Germany: moral choice in history (1999) June 2000

63. Guenter Lewy, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (2000) Jun 2000

64 Victor Klemperer, “I Shall Bear Witness to the End”: the War-time Diaries of Victor Klemperer (New York: Random House, 1999) Aug 2000

65. V. G. Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in (Cambridge, 2000) Feb 2001

66. C. M. Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Longman, 2000) Apr 2001

67. Avi Beker (ed.), The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust (New York, 2001) CHOICE (Jan 2002)

68. Annika Mombauer, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (Cambridge, 2001) CHOICE (Feb 2002)

69. Arden Bucholz, Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871 (Palgrave, 2001) CHOICE (Feb 2002)

70. Harold Marcuse, Legacies of Dachau: the Uses and of a Concentration Camp, 1933- 2001 (Cambridge, 2001) CHOICE (Apr 2002)

71. Nazi and East German Propaganda Website: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htim CHOICE (Jul 2002)

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72. Howard Sachar, Dreamland: European Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War (Knopf, 2000) CHOICE (Jan 2003)

73. Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (Norton, 2002) Reviewed for H-Antisemitism (December 2002)

74. Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002) Apr 2003

75. Robert Foley (ed.), Alfred von Schlieffen’s Military Writings (2003) Jul 2003

76. Jonathan Hess, Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity (2002) Jul 2003

77. John Weiss, The Politics of Hate: Anti-Semitism, History, and the Holocaust in Modern Europe (2003) Dec 2003

78. Pierre-André Taguieff, Rising from the Muck: the New Anti-Semitism in Europe (2004) Feb 2005

79. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: The Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim (2004) Jul 2005

80. Isabel V. Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005) Dec 2005

81. Internet Resource, The Nizkor Project. URL: http://www.nizkor.org/. Dec 2005

82. Marion A. Kaplan (ed.), Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (2005) Apr 2006

83. R. Blobaum, (ed.), Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (2005) Jul 2006

84. S. Vokov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation (Cambridge, 2006) Jun 2007

85. Jeremy Cohen, Killers: the Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (2007) Nov 2007

86. Ehrenreich, The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007) Nov 2008

87. Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (CUP, 2008) Apr 2009

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88. Andrei Oisteanu, Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and other Central- East European Cultures (Lincoln, NE: U. Nebraska Press, 2009)

89. Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946 (New York: Norton, 2009) Jan 2010

90. Charles Stephenson, Germany’s Asia-Pacific Empire: Colonialism and Naval Policy, 1885- 1914 (Boydell Press, 2009) Aug 2010

91. Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Anti-Semitism (Stroud-Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009)

92. Olaf Blaschke, Offenders or Victims? German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism (Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska Press for Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, 2009)

93. Michael Brenner, A Short History of the Jews. Trans. Jeremiah Riemer (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2010) originally C. H. Beck. December 2010

94. Ruth Harris, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010) December 2010

95. Bob Moore, Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-occupied Western Europe (OUP, 2010) July 2011

96. Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Einstein before : Zionist icon or iconoclast? (Princeton, 2011) Feb 2012

97. Phyllis Goldstein, A Convenient Hatred: the History of Antisemitism (Facing History and Ourselves, 2012) Jun 2012

98. Christian S. Davis, Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany (Ann Arbor: U of M press, 2012) Aug 2012

99. Tim Grady, The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011) Aug 2012

100. Peter Collar, The propaganda war in the Rhineland: Weimar Germany, race and occupation after World War I (Tauris, 2013) Dec 2013

101. Derek J. Penslar, Jews and the Military: a History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013) Mar 2014

102. Jens Gieseke, The History of The : 's Secret Police, 1945-1990. tr. by 24

David Burnett. (Berghahn Books, 2014) Oct 2014

103. Patrick Henry (ed.), Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis (Catholic University Press of America, 2014) Dec 2014

104. Goetz Aly, Why the Germans? why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust, tr. by Jefferson Chase. Jan 2015

105. David Motadel, and Nazi Germany's War (Belknap, Harvard, 2014). Mar 2015

106. John C. G. Röhl, Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941: a concise life, tr. by Sheila de Bellaigue. (Cambridge, 2014) July 2015

107. Günther Jikeli, European Muslim antisemitism: why young urban males say they don't like Jews. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015) August 2015

108. Daniel Allen Butler, Field Marshal: the Life and Death of (Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2015) Dec 2015

109. Despina Stratigakos, Hitler at Home (Yale, 2015) Feb 2016

110. Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning (New York, 2015) March 2016

111. Kenneth L. Marcus, The Definition of Anti-Semitism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) April 2016

112. Steven Beller, Antisemitism: a very short introduction. 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2015) Aug 2016

113. Christian Gerlach, The Extermination of the European Jews (Cambridge, 2016) Oct 2016

114. Ben H. Shepherd, Hitler's Soldiers: the German Army in the Third Reich (New Haven: Yale, 2016) Jan 2017

115. Jeremy Black, The Holocaust: History and Memory (Bloomington, IN: U of Indiana Press, 2016) Apr 2017

116. Cynthia M. Baker, Jew (London: Routledge, 2017) May 2017

117. James Q. Whitman, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017) Sep 2017

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Media appearances:

Expert witness for documentary on “‘Self-Help’”--German Jews of Chicago Welcome Holocaust Survivors” Shown June 3, 2012, Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie, IL. See Consulting

I was video interviewed for 2 hours for a USHolocaust Museum exhibition on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, February 28, 2006

NPR's Odyssey with Gretchen Helferich, February 4, 2002, to talk about the renaissance of antisemitism

Featured talking head on “A Deadly Deception,” a one-hour program devoted to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, shown nationally on the History Channel, May 11, 1999 (and periodically re- broadcast)

Interview on NPR (broadcast nationally) on A Lie and a Libel August 20, 1996

Consulting (in scholarly capacity):

Expert witness for Documentary on “‘Self-Help’”--German Jews of Chicago Welcome Holocaust Survivors” September 2011. Talking Head/Reviewing Script/Recruiting other experts [see media appearances]

American Jewish Committee [Chicago] programming consultant [2003--]

Consultant for NEH-funded planning groups regarding formation of a Midwestern Jewish Studies Association, Purdue U. [1983]

Consultant to Austrian Cultural Project [1982], a federation of 16-17 Austrian-American organizations in the Chicago area

consultant and selector in the area of modern Germany, BOOKS FOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES: A CORE COLLECTION (CHOICE) [1975-76]

Referee work:

Israel Science Foundation grant proposal eval. [Avraham Doron, “Nationalization of the Jewish Question, 1830-1876”] May 2016

Proposal evaluation for Palgrave Macmillan: Jonathan Judaken, Judeophobia: A primary source reader from its origins to the present. May 3, 2016

Article for Nexus: The Poetics of the Polis: “Remarks on the Latency of the Literary in Hannah 26

Arendt’s Concept of Public Space” Submitted May 16, 2015

Vascik, The Stab-in-the-Back Myth. The End of the Great War and the Poisoning of Political Culture in Weimar Germany. Project referee for Bloomsbury Academic July 2015

Herf & McElligott, “Antisemitism and Holocaust : Contexts and Recent Perspectives” for Palgrave Macmillan, February 27, 2015

David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of in Europe for Random House June 25, 2013

Refereed scholarly article "“Believing in “Inner Truth:” The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Nazi Propaganda: 1933 - 1945.” for Holocaust and Genocide Studies May 2013

Mark Stein, et al. (eds.), “: The Life and Memory of Mendel Beilis.” Book mss (self-published) [work of one of our former students]

Albert Lindemann, “EUROPE 1815-1989 FROM WATERLOO TO THE END OF THE COLD WAR. for Wiley-Blackwell, book mss, 500pp. August 8, 2011

Article for Jewish Quarterly Review: “An Agency of International Anti-Semitism, the Welt- Dienst,” August 10, 2011 34pp

Referee: Gervais Phillips, “Persecution: A History” book project review for Routledge, April 2011

Referee: V. S. Woeste, “Henry Ford’s War: Law, Antisemitism, and Speech in the Tribal 1920s” for Stanford University Press, Book mss 670pp (August, 2010)

Referee: for consideration of the Council of Graduate Schools annual award, which will go to a historian who has written the best first book: (the Arlt Award): Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

Referee: evaluation of research project for the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. “THE DYNAMICS OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM IN A GLOBALISING CONTEXT - “The Jew” as a framing model in the Netherlands, Morocco, Poland and Turkey.” March 13, 2009

Referee: Book manuscript by Richard Weikart, , “Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress.” Palgrave Macmillan November 23, 2008.

Referee anthology mss: New York University Press, The Paranoid Apocalypse: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ed. Stephen Katz. May 1, 2008 27

Tenure evaluation, Alan T. Levenson, University of Oklahoma, May 2008

Referee article manuscript “Mass Politics or Collapsing Rural Turnout in the 1890s: Anti- Semitism, Radical Agrarianism and the Liberal Narrative Revisited” For Central European History March 28, 2006 and a second time May 1, 2006

Referee edited book mss S. Gigliotti/Earl, eds., “Contesting the Holocaust” for Blackwell Publishers May 2006

Referee book mss Lars Fischer, “Beating the Life out of Liberal Philosemitism: The Socialist Response to Antisemitism Revisited.” Oxford University Press, Feb 19, 2006

Referee book proposal “Varieties of Jewish Self-Hatred: Reading Antisemitic Discourse in German-Jewish Culture”: by Paul Reitter for Princeton University Press, April 8, 2003

Referee book mss in Blackwell series on Antisemitism by Albert Lindemann, February 5, 2003

Referee book proposal on Holocaust scholarship by Simone Gigliotti for Blackwell, Nov 11, 2002

Referee reader on the Holocaust by Simone Gigliotti for Blackwell Publishers, Aug 15, 2002

Referee book A World Aflame: Essays on Nazism and Its Legacy. Edited by Alan Steinweis and Daniel Rogers [U. of Nebraska Press, June 2001]

Referee mss for Northwestern University Press: Ronald Smelser (ed.), Lessons and Legacies. VOLUME IV: LAW, EVIDENCE AND CONTEXT September 25, 2000

Referee book manuscript, October 1, 1998: David Crowe, The Holocaust; Roots, History, and Aftermath for Westview Press (Harper Collins).

Referee article for JMH, May 11, 1998: Till van Rahden, "Rethinking the Social History of German Antisemitism--Breslau, 1870-1914"

Referee article for SHOFAR Scholars Contending with Delusional Ideology: Historians, Antisemitic Lore, and The Protocols" December 1997

Referee Lynne Hunt et al., Challenge of the West (western civilization text) for Bedford Books (div. of St. Martin's Press) March 1997

Referee article for SHOFAR, "The Dilemma of German-Jewish Youths" August 1997.

Referee article Robert Wistrich, "Between Nationalism and Antisemitism" collected essays for U. of Nebraska Press, April 1996.

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Referee: David Crowe, A History of the Holocaust. Book proposal for Westview Press, Boulder Colorado, March 7, 1995.

Referee article "A Rhetorical Analysis of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: the Rabbi's Speech" for Shofar, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. November 20, 1994.

Career evaluation James Harris, mss on Bavarian petition movement against , 1850. And his other published works for his promotion consideration, University of Maryland. September 1993

Manuscript evaluation: Zaller/Greaves, Brief Civilizations of the West (Harper Collins), , 1992

Manuscript evaluation Western Civ. textbook. D. C. Heath, July 29, 1991

Manuscript evaluation: TIKKUN anthology. UI Press. July 16, 1991.

Project evaluation: TIKKUN anthology. UI Press. February 26, 1991

Book evaluation: Robert Melson, Revolution and Genocide (U. of Chicago Press, 1992), Dec 1990

Project evaluation The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation for D. C. Heath and Company, October 21, 1990.

Book evaluation Gröning and Wolschke-Bulmahn, Die Liebe zur Landschaft. Teil III (1987) for U. of Illinois Press. August 2, 1990

Referee article "The Leipzig Working Class and World War I," for HISTORICAL METHODS May 2, 1990.

Grant Application Evaluation for Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada: Robert Gellately, "Nazi Racism in World War II: the fate of Polish workers." January 11, 1989

Referee article mss for the AHR "German Antisemitism and Russian Judeophobia in the 1880s" [August 7, 1988]

Grant application evaluation for Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada: Jacques Korngold, "Theodor Herzl: the Road to Zionism." February 23, 1988

Referee SUNY Press book mss Richard Geehr, Karl Lueger, Biography of a Tradition [1987]

NEH Grant Proposal Evaluator Change of Epochs: Berlin between Enlightenment and Romanticism, 1785-1815 [1986] 29

Referee mss for the U. of Chicago Press John Boyer, Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna (Chicago, 1981) [1979]

Grant Evaluator for Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada (2 projects) [1978]

Referee mss for Greenwood Press: Marion Kaplan, The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany (Westport, 1979) [1977]

Referee for JMH article: Michael Marrus, "European Jewry and the Politics of Assimilation: Assessment and Reassessment [1976]

Administrative Service:

1. Department Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1994-- Chair or member of Undergraduate Advisory Committee (most years since 1980) Ombudsman, 1994-- Newberry Seminar Selection committee 2004 Jurkowitz tenure committee, chair 2004

Graduate Advisory (reform) Committee 2001 (also 1991) Medieval German search committee, 1999 Russian History search committee, 1992 Undergraduate Curriculum committee (semesterization) 1989 Modern Europe search committee (1983) Director of Graduate Studies, 1983-85 History Department Executive Committee, 1971-75, 1978-80, 1982-84, 1999, 2002 Goodman Prize Committee (most years since 1985)

2. University

Graduate College Awards Committee, 1983-85 Review panel for Jewish Studies Program at UIC (chairman), 1983 Liaison committee member Spertus College of Judaica/UIC, 1982-83 Review panel Spertus College-UIC, chair 1988-89 Chancellor's Supplemental Graduate Research Fellowship Program [proposal reviewer], 2011

Jewish Studies Program Faculty Advisory Committee, 1992-- Liaison committee for competition to bring DAAD Center in the Midwest to UIC, 2000 UIC representative to the IAI History Major Panel charged with the task of course articulation (so undergraduates at 2 year institutions do not duplicate course work), 2000-2002 LAS committee to design Jewish Studies Program at UIC, 1990-92 30

Jewish Studies Search Committee, 1994, 1998, 2001 Mentor in the Student Research Opportunity Program [SROP] 1989 (supervising research projects undertaken by minority students interested in grad school)

Faculty Senate, 1982-1983

3. The Profession

PBK selection committee, UIC 2005

Fulbright awards regional selection panel, Dec 1998

Teaching:

Silver Circle Award 2004 [finalist: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1988, 2008] Shirley Bill Award for Outstanding History Teacher 1999, 2009

Courses taught:

102 Western Civ (formerly 108) 102 Jewish Studies [as overload] 111 Topics in European History (4 versions, 1 honors course) 114 Understanding the Holocaust [now 117] 117 Understanding the Holocaust [JST 117] 215 Europe 1870-1914 219 Germany 1648-1848 220 Germany 1848-1945 258 Topics in Intellectual History: From Utopia to Nightmare 300 Senior Seminar--Nazi Propaganda 318a Germany 1740-1848 [now 418] 318b Germany 1848-1918 [now 418] 318c Germany 1918-1945 [now 418] 411 European Antisemitism [now 511] 411 German History Colloquium [now 511] 418a Topics in German History, 1740-1890 418b Topics in German History, 1890-1945 511 Graduate Colloquium: Nazi Propaganda 512 Graduate Seminar: The Radical Right in Germany, 1879-1945

average of 3 independent study courses (299, 399, 498, 596) per year since 1971

Graduate Student Advising and Supervision. 31

Completed dissertations (mentor):

James Kollenbroich 2005 (Miller Fellow) Keith Green, 2005 (Fulbright) Karl Wood 2004, (DAAD) Frederick Kopp, 2001 (Miller Fellow) John Abbott, 2000 (University Fellow, Fulbright) Tadszeus Debski, 1998 (Kocziusko Prize) Karen Friedman, 1994 Michaela Tomaschewsky, 1993 (w/ Miller) Jared Clark, 1990 (Fulbright) Andrew Sarvis, 1989 (SSRC)

In process: Benn Williams (fellowships and grants too numerous to list; University Fellowship 2006) Laura Higgins Nicole Butz (Fulbright)

Ph.D. Committees (member): Michal Kwiecien (2013) Nye, Bruce (2009) Vera Pollina (German) 2008 Rie Sumitani (German) 2006 Scott Lingenfelter (2005) Marek Szusko (2004) Annette Chapman (2004) Ralph Ashby (2003) Lee Baker (2002) Justin Coffey (2002) Nancy Turpin (2001) David Laudenback (2001) Steven Brown (1999) Virgil Krapauskas (1998) Phyllis Soybel (1997) Neal McCrillis (1995) David Vervaet (1995) James Kollros (1992) Rita Rhodes (1986) Christian Nokkentved (1984) Stanley Gallas (1982) Francis Feinerman (1981) Ghada Talhami (1975)

Guest Teaching:

Fulbright Senior Professor Sant'Anna School of University Studies and Doctoral Research, Pisa, Italy February-May 2001

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Northwestern University/Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute: taught 3 90-minute sessions on June 27, 2002