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Jeffrey Herf / 1 Jeffrey Herf Curriculum Vita September 2011 1. Personal Information JEFFREY HERF, Department of History, Current Rank: Professor; Unanimous department vote in favor of promotion of Full Professor , February 2001. Educational Background Ph.D. Brandeis University, Sociology, 1981 M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo, History, 1971 B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969. Phi Betta Kappa. II. Publications A. Books Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Paperback edition, 1986. Italian edition, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1988; Spanish edition, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, 1990; Japanese edition, Iwanami Shoton, Tokyo, 1991; Greek edition, 1996; Portuguese edition in progress. Nominated for the Jabuti Prize in Portugal in 1994. War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (New York: The Free Press, 1991). Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys, Harvard University Press, 1997. Recipient of American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for 1998; co-recipient in September 1996 as unpublished manuscript of Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library in London. German language edition published in September 1998 by Ullstein/Propylaen Verlag in Berlin as Zweierlei Erinnerung: Die NS-Vergangenheit im Geteilten Deutschland. The Jewish Enemy’: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, May 2006). Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for 2006 in the category of works on the Holocaust. Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, forthcoming, (New Haven: Yale University Press, November 2009); Paperback edition, November 2010). Recipient of the 2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize of the German Studies Association for work on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust; and of the 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bronze Book Prize. Italian edition, Propaganda Nazista Per Il Mondo Arabo (Rome: Edizioni dell’ Altana, 2010). Forthcoming in France with Calmann-Levy, and in Japan with Iwanami Shotun. Editor, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective (London: Taylor and Francis, 2006). Jeffrey Herf / 2 B. Chapters in books (1995-2011) "Der nationalsozialistische Technikdiskurs: Die deutschen Eigenheiten des reaktionären Modernismus," in Wolfgang Emmerich and Carl Wege, eds. Der Technikdiskurs in der Hitler-Stalin Ära (Stuttgart, Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 1995), pp.72-93.. "Late Victory of Lost Causes," in Jürgen C. Heß, Hartmut Lehmann and Volker Sellin, eds. Heidelberg 1945 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996). "Divided Memory, Multiple Restorations: West German Political Reflections on the Nazi Past, 1945-1953," in Stephen Brockman and Frank Trommler, eds. Revisiting Zero Hour 1945: The Emergence of Postwar German Culture (Washington, D.C.: American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 1996), pp. 89-102. "Multiple Restorations vs. the Solid South: Continuities and Discontinuities in Germany After 1945 and the American South After 1865," in Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat, eds. Different Restorations: Reconstruction and Wiederaufbau in the United States and Germany, 1865, 1945-1989 (Providence and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996), pp. 46-86. "Reactionary Modernism Reconsidered: Modernity, the West, and the Nazis," in Zeev Sternhell, ed. The Intellectual Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1996), pp. 131-158. "Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys," Working Papers, Center for German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley, February 1997. "Reification as Apologia: Technology and Cultural Pessimism in Postwar West Germany," in Sissel Myklebust, ed., Technology and Democracy: Obstacles to Democratization--Productivism and Technocracy (Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997), pp. 85-96. “Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys,” in Karl G. Kick, Stephan Weingarz and Ulrich Bartosch, eds. Wandel durch Beständigkeit: Studien zur deutschen und internationalen Politik (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1998), pp. 133-50. ‘Reactionary Modernism’ and After: Modernity and Nazi Germany Reconsidered,” in Doris Kaufmann, ed. Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Forschung (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2000), pp. 65-76 “Divided Memory in the Two Germanys: The Founding Generation,” forthcoming [in Hebrew] in Joseph Mali, ed. Wars, Revolutions and Generational Identity, (Tel Aviv: The Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies and Am Oved Publishers, 2001), pp. 55-83. “Traditions of Memory and Belonging: The Holocaust and the Germans Since 1945,” in Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort, eds., The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp. 275-94. “The Emergence and Legacies of Divided Memory: Germany and the Holocaust Since 1945,” in Jan Werner-Muller, ed., Memory and Power in Postwar Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 184-205. "’Hegelianische Momente’: Gewinner und Verlierer in der ostdeutschen Erinnerung an Krieg, Diktatur und Holocaust" Jeffrey Herf / 3 [Hegelian Moments: Winners and Losers in the Official Memory of War, Dictatorship and the Holocaust], in Christoph Cornellissen, Lutz Klinkhammer and Wolfgang Schwentker, eds. Diktaturen und Krieg im kollektiven Gedächtnis, (Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Fischer Verlag, 2003), 198-209 “Historische Erinnerung des Holocaust und die nationale Identität in Ost und West” in Wolfgang Bialas, ed. Die nationale Identität der Deutschen: Philosophische Imaginationen und historische Mentalitäten (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 281-297. “If Hitler Invaded Hell: Distinguishing between Nazism and Communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the Fall of European Communism,” in Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin, eds. The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 182-195. “How and Why Did Holocaust Memory Come to the United States? A Response to Peter Novick’s Challenge,” in Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, ed. Lessons and Legacies, Vol. VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004), pp. 457-474. “‘Der Krieg und die Juden’: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” [The War Against the Jews: Goebbels and the Public Offensive of the Propaganda Ministry” in Jörg Echternkamp, ed. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 9:2 Die Deutsche Kriegsgesellschaft, 1939 bis 1945 (Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005) [Germany and the Second World War: Vol. 9:2 The German Society in War, 1939 to 1945], the Militärgeschichtlichesforschungsamt, (Military History Research Office, Potsdam, Germany), pp. 159-202. “Die neue totaliäre Herausforderung,” in Doron Rabinnovici, Ulrich Speck and Natan Sznaider, eds. Neuer Antisemitismus: Eine globale Debatte (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004), 191-210. “Daniel Bell: An Intellectual and Personal Appreciation,” in Mark Lilla and Leon Wieseltier, eds., For Daniel Bell (2005), pp. 55-62. “Le origini culturali e politiche de nazismo: un bilancio storiografico,” [“Ideological Origins of National Socialism”] in Marina Cattaruzza, Marcello Flores, Simon Levis Sullam, Enzo Traverso, eds., Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa, la distruzione degli ebrei e la memoria del Novecento, (Torino, Italy: UTET, 2005), pp. 295-322. “Sombart’s Anti-Semitism,” in Mark Thompson, ed. Werner Sombart and "American Exceptionalism: Between Socialism and Cultural Pessimism (Münster, Berlin, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2006). “Introduction” and “Convergence, The Classic Case: Nazi Germany, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism during World War II,” in Jeffrey Herf, ed. Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence (London: Taylor and Francis, 2006), pp. 1-19 and 50-70. “Foreward” to Matthias Kuentzel, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (New York: Telos Press, 2007)vii-xvii. "Post-Totalitarian Narratives in Germany: Reflections on Two Dictatorships after 1945 and 1989," Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne, eds., Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth Century Politics: Reckoning with the Past (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 2-27. "What is Old and What is New in the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism," originally and then published in Partisan Review, Winter 2002, was reprinted in Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson, eds., Varieties of Jeffrey Herf / 4 Antisemitism: History, Ideology and Discourse, (University of Delaware Press, 2009) 370-376. “Germany in Part V: Aftereffects,” in Peter Hayes and John Roth, eds., Oxford Handbook on Holocaust Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 635-649. "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World during World War II and the Holocaust: The Diffusion of Anti-Semitism beyond Europe,” invited contribution submitted in August 2010 and forthcoming in German Festschrift for Klaus Michael-Mallmann edited by Andrez Angrick, Martin Cuppers and Jürgen Matthaeus in 2011. B. Articles in Refereed Journals (1995-2011) “Not So Boring After All--Recent Trends in Political History of Twentieth Century Germany“,” in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte XXVIII/1999, pp. 13-31. “Legacies of Divide